Modern Fiction (post 1945)

An intriguing tale of guilt, desire and suspense, as people are drawn inexorably together seeking a child that disappears. An intriguing tale of guilt, desire and suspense from the bestselling...

Lexie Sinclair is plotting an extraordinary life for herself. Hedged in by her parents' genteel country life, she plans her escape to London. There, she takes up with Innes Kent,...

Maisie doesn't understand why her mother can't love her, but she knows that her life is hard, and deeply unhappy. When the only person she trusts, her stepfather George, leaves,...

From the author of Unnatural Exposure and Cause of Death comes a new Kay Scarpetta novel that pits Virginia's chief medical examiner against an audacious and wily killer who uses...

This, the first in the splendid series of Jack Aubrey novels, establishes the friendship between Captain Aubrey, R.N., and Stephen Maturin, ship's surgeon and intelligence agent, against a thrilling backdrop...

Shipwrecked on a remote island in the Dutch East Indies, Captain Aubrey, surgeon and secret intelligence agent Stephen Maturin, and the crew of the Diane fashion a schooner from the...

Victor Mancini, a medical-school dropout, is an antihero for our deranged times. Needing to pay elder care for his mother, Victor has devised an ingenious scam: he pretends to choke...

From the flamboyant and unpredictable Maryska, who scandalises the town when she cuts short her golden tresses, to the eccentric Uncle Pepin, who always has to have a ready supply...

Gore Vidal's satirical fantasy, with a new introduction by the author. From his long-time hiding-place in provincial Egypt, Eugene Luther tells the story of John Cave, a former Californian undertaker,...

Dara Flood always says the most interesting thing about her life happened before she was born. Thirteen days before she came into the world, her father walked up the road...

There was a time when love was the most important thing in the world. People would go to the end of the earth to find it. They would tell lies...

Have you ever wished you could walk away from it all? Not for a day, not for a week, but for good. Claire's older brother, Daniel, has disappeared. He leaves...

PEEP SHOW is about the making of a fly on the wall movie, where the cast have no idea that they are being filmed. An LA film crew, led by...

Charlie Marshall is not a man who should be getting married. But the ceremony is in five days' time and it's too late to back out. His future mother-in-law has...

A fairytale for grown-ups. The Zing family lives in a misguided world of spell books, flying beach umbrellas, and state-of-the-art covert surveillance equipment. There's a slippery Zing, a graceful Zing,...

Patty and Walter Berglund were the new pioneers of old St. Paul--the gentrifiers, the hands-on parents, the avant-garde of the Whole Foods generation. Patty was the ideal sort of neighbor,...

Abigail's Amish life has always followed a certain path . . . until an Englisch woman disrupts all she's known to be true. Growing up Amish, Abigail Bontrager often felt...

Set in present-day Cambridge, but entangled with the 17th century, this is at once a ghost story, a love story and a beautifully told history of 17th century Cambridge -...

Coe's brilliantly funny skewering of modern Britain - in the tradition of What a Carve Up! and The Rotters' Club This is a novel about the hundreds of tiny connections...

This is a life told back to front. This is a man who has lied all his life. Roy is a conman living in a leafy English suburb, about to...

A dark, distinctive and addictively compelling novel set in fin-de-siecle Vienna and Nazi Germany - with a dizzying final twist Vienna, 1899. Josef Breuer - celebrated psychoanalyst - is about...

Rural Irish girl Ellie loves living in New York, working as a lady's maid for a wealthy socialite. She tries to persuade her husband, John, to join her but he...

After his last blag, Ged Brennan's had enough. He sees young kids making a name for themselves in Liverpool. Worse still, they're making big money. Ged wants some of that...

Will is a bright, happy five-and-a-half-year-old. The grown-ups - his mother Jody, a photographer, her devoted boyfriend Mel, and Will's father, Wayne, perpetually down on his luck and living with...

The inhabitants of the Half Moon Valley are an idiosyncratic lot. Obsessed by the production of superfine Merino wool they will go to any length to keep the property in...

England was an unhappy and fearful land. In a desperate attempt to prevail over crime and social disorder Jack Barker, the Prime Minister has created Exclusion Zones for all of...

One of Greene's greatest achievements - his anguished story of personal and moral confusion. Scobie - a police officer in a West African colony - is a good man. People...

Liz, Alix and Esther are old friends whose lives continue to cross and uncross. As the years pass, they are more than ever disposed to question, to re-evaluate, to examine...

Over half of the short stories written during this century have been writen by women. This book is an anthology of British women's short stories and authors represented include Rebecca...

The son of one of New York's wealthiest families is snatched off the street and held hostage. His parents can't save him, because this kidnapper isn't demanding money. Instead, he...

A young English biographer is working on a book about the late writer, John Coetzee. He plans to focus on a period in the seventies when, the biographer senses, Coetzee...