Modern Fiction (post 1945)

"Gripping."--Richard Russo, author of Empire Falls " Shetterly's debut achieves a subtle grace, a quality of light and shadow worthy of a Bergman film. "-- Allegra Goodman, New York Times...

"Engrossing... The Pact is compelling reading."-- People In this heart-rending tale of love and friendship, Jodi Picoult brings to life a familiar world, and in a single terrifying moment awakens...

"There is something special about the relationship we all have with our mothers..." Meet Pat McNab, forty-five years old, and about to embark on a homicidal rampage sparked by matricide....

'Sexy, fun and full of heart.' Beth O'Leary, author of The Flatshare 'A charming, uplifting contemporary romance - this is Laura Jane Williams at her best!' Sophie Cousens, author of...

How far would you go to keep your family safe? The gripping new page-turner from the Sunday Times bestselling author of One Minute Later Angie Watts used to have everything....

Liverpool late 1950s. This is a story of three people: a suppressed mother; a father, projectionist at the local cinema which has seen better days; and their daughter Martha. It...

Angels Cry Sometimes is a heartrending novel of discovering happiness again through heartbreak, grief and despair from the No. 1 Sunday Times bestselling storyteller Josephine Cox. The marriage of Marcia...

It's the winter of 1860 when Richard Allen, a young curate, travels to a small hamlet outside Hereford to take up his first position. It's in this quiet place of...

Daniel Ford has thirty-six days to live. Accused of the horrific murder of his best friend Nathan twelve years before, he has exhausted all appeals and now faces the long...

A BIG story about a small boy who sees the world a little differently Milo curled his thumb and forefinger together to make a small hole and held his fingers...

Emily Drummond has just finished her degree and the world is her oyster. She can do anything she wants. So when she marries Andrew, nineteen years her senior, after knowing...

* Playing James won the Parker Romantic Novel of the Year for 2003*Holly Colshannon is a young journalist who thinks her career is about to take a terminal nosedive when...

Luke, a stage director, aged 45, is going through his deceased grandmother's (Constance's) belongings and finds letters from Jessica spanning fifteen years and ending a month previously. Jessica, 45 years...

Sarah Walters is a reluctant Camellia Society debutante. She has always felt ill-fitted to the old-fashioned gentility of Southern womanhood and family life, but in Charleston, established rules and manners...

Lily has grown up believing she accidentally killed her mother when she was four. She not only has her own memory of holding the gun, but her father's account of...

John Jett Gavallan, a former fighter pilot, now the high-flying CEO of Black Jet Securities, is banking on the riskiest gamble of his career. In exactly six days, he will...

Seismic changes are about to take place in Ave Maria's life. Her daughter, Etta, barely eighteen, is married and living in Italy; the health of her husband, the gorgeous and...

A warm-hearted novel about friendship, fresh starts and finding yourself from Top Ten bestselling author Sophie Green Mornington Peninsula, 1999. All Joan ever wanted was to be a painter, but...

Cassidy still has a Visa debt, a crazy pet parrot and a penchant for expensive underwear. And she still has the gorgeous Sam Tasker - he of the tall, dark...

Kathleen Lindley has honest brown hair, parted in the middle, because she finds symmetry soothing. Her mother, an overbearing woman, has hair like a steel trap. Kathleen's father, now long...

A woman's journey to find a special place in the world. Fiery and ambitious, brilliant architect Francey Spinetti is a young woman on her way to the top. When wealthy...

When a headless corpse is found by a prison work gang on a windy Tibetan mountainside, veteran police inspector Shan Tao Yun might seem the perfect man to solve the...

From the image of a small boy entranced by his mother's GI escort, yet still hoping for the return of his father 'missing in action', to the portrait of an...

People who make their own rules when they know they're right...people who get a special pleasure out of doing something well (even if only for themselves)...people who know there's more...

In this brilliant collection of "long short stories, " the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Sophie's Choice returns to the coastal Virginia setting of his first novels. Through the eyes of...

The third sensational adventure featuring that sexy, sassy yet all too human succubus Georgina Kincaid from the bestselling author of the Vampire Academy series, Richelle Mead. Some days, a girl...

Succubus (n.) An alluring, shape-shifting demon who seduces and pleasures mortal men. Pathetic (adj.) A succubus with great shoes and no social life. See- Georgina Kincaid... The first Georgina Kincaid...

A shocking novel of adolescent anger and social disorder. Dragged from the influences he so enjoyed in London, a young boy spies on his sister and father sharing an intimate...

'Watch out, world. Here I come!' For Victoria Dawson , growing up isn't a happy experience. Born to picture-perfect parents, she never feels pretty enough. But when her parents have...

In her forty-first bestselling novel, Danielle Steel creates a spellbinding story that weaves together two centuries and two lives. With a wife he loves and an exciting London-based career, architect...

A powerful novel of three couples who face decisions about having children, which will test them as lovers, partners and friends. Diana Goode and Andrew Douglas are a California couple...