Modern Fiction (post 1945)

An immersive, kaleidoscopic debut for fans of Homegoing and Pachinko- one family's search for a better life through four continents, four generations and a century of change. THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER...

For fans of THE HANDMAID'S TALE, this is a reissue of a much loved feminist classic 'One of those rare novels that leave us different people at the end than...

Grace Adams is one bad day away from saving her life. Meet Grace Adams- an ordinary wife and mother collecting the cake for her daughter's sixteenth birthday party. But look...

THE QUEEN OF THE REVENGE COMEDY is back with a sharp, funny novel about what a perfect life can look like Iris is happy- decent job, good friends, her own...

It's nobody's affair . . . until it's everybody's. The explosive new novel from the author of international bestseller The Push The whispers started long before the accident on Harlow...

The gripping new psychological thriller from the Sunday Times bestselling author which asks the ultimate question- How far should you go to protect those you love? Frannie, Cathy and Joe...

The beautiful, poignant and utterly compelling romance from the international bestseller One single mum With two jobs and two children, Jess Thomas does her best. But it's hard on your...

'The outstanding Japanese novelist of the century...The Makioka Sisters is his greatest book' Edmund White, New York Times Book Review Tanizaki's masterpiece is the story of four sisters, and the...

The magnificent new novel by the bestselling and award-winning Kate Atkinson- 'Masterpiece' - Telegraph; 'Pageturner' - Evening Standard; 'Wise, funny and paced like a thriller' - Observer The magnificent novel...

A perfect getaway to a beautiful, remote hotel turns deadly in this claustrophobic, pulse-pounding and unputdownable thriller from the No. 1 Sunday Times bestseller, Shari Lapena. THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER...

From one of Britain's best-loved and bestselling writers comes an intimate yet panoramic novel set in the 19th century Born in 1799, Cashel Greville Ross experiences myriad lives- joyous and...

A gripping tale of love, betrayal, and two clashing cultures, from the Booker-shortlisted author; now a Penguin Essential 'My mother died twice. I promised myself I would not let her...

'Compelling, clever and dark . . . you'll gobble it up in one go' Heat Magazine She knew everything about him - but the truth. Alice and Oliver Ryan seem...

The no.1 bestseller's fan favourite Walsh sister novel is back, in a stunning reissue edition Meet Anna Walsh. Lying in her parents' Good Front Room, covered in bandages, Anna dreams...

LONGLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE- An extraordinary, thrilling novel about sex, disability and power LONGLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE 2025 Born with a congenital muscle disorder, Shaka Isawa...

A stunning debut novel charting the coming-of-age of a young gay man in 2010s Nigeria, from a young rising star in literary fiction When Obiefuna's father witnesses an intimate moment...

In his most exhilarating novel yet, Britain's greatest storyteller transports you from the vibrant streets of sixties London, as an accidental spy is drawn into the shadows of espionage and...

An unforgettable portrait of a woman bravely confronting loneliness and despair in her quest for self-determination, from the author of Wide Sargasso Sea Jean Rhys was a talent before her...

Britain's favourite 21st-century literary author returns to her roots - London Zadie Smith's brilliant tragi-comic NW follows four Londoners - Leah, Natalie, Felix and Nathan - after they've left their...

The best of Jeanette Winterson's remarkable, radical and genre-expanding novels, reissued in a bold new look ahead of the publication of her new book, 12 BYTES 'This book is a...

'Like most people I lived for a long time with my mother and father. My father liked to watch the wrestling, my mother liked to wrestle; it didn't matter what'...

'Epic ... Mukherjee allows full life for these characters who are often real enough to remind us of ourselves, even as they betray one another ... even as they betray...

On the heels of his exceptional and white-hot debut novel, The Returned, New York Times bestselling author Jason Mott delivers a spellbinding tale of love, sacrifice and the power of...

Jazzy Lou is back and busier than ever! Queen Bee, her fabulous PR firm, is going from strength to strength with an ever-expanding roster of clients, including the hottest new...

Everything about them seemed atavistic, elemental-wild hair matted like savages, jutting shoulders and collarbones, sharply angular limbs. The movement and wonder were captured and held in suspense, eternally. And in...

The dress haunts my steps. Flashes of red on the street mesmerise me. I am alive to red cars, red shoes and the red of Suella's lipstick. It is silken...

Winner of the prestigious Prix Goncourt, a timeless story of how war transforms lives in unexpected and often tragic ways as seen through the eyes of three World War I...

Bellwether Award winner Susan Nussbaum's powerful novel invites us into the lives of a group of typical teenagers--alienated, funny, yearning for autonomy--except that they live in an institution for juveniles...

The remarkable debut novel from critically acclaimed writer Huma Qureshi: an engrossing story of art and sisterhood, family, marriage and betrayal 'Poignant and impressionistic . . . highly readable and...

'GORGEOUS and original and captivating' - Marian Keyes, international bestselling author of Grown Ups 'A breathtaking book about relationships, love and human resilience' - Lex Croucher, author of Reputation 'Original,...

FROM THE WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD & THE PEN/FAULKNER AWARD FOR FICTION "Among DeLillo's finest work" Publishers Weekly, starred review "Don DeLillo's extraordinary new novel offers a bracing...

From the number one bestselling author, Peter James, comes I Follow You, a nerve-shredding standalone thriller. To the outside world, suave, charming and confident doctor Marcus Valentine has it all....

Years ago, in the town of Saxon Falls, young Kelsey Willard disappeared and was presumed dead. The tragedy left her family with a fractured life-a mother out to numb the...

'Dazzling . . . [An] engrossing study of a vivacious personality slipping away' THE TIMES 'Rich in detail, elusive in meaning, light in touch' MOSCOW TIMES In a small apartment...

THE NUMBER ONE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER Cartes Postales from Greece is an extraordinary new book from Victoria Hislop, the Sunday Times Number One bestselling author of The Island, The Return,...

York railway station, December, 1925. Detective Inspector Jim Stringer is enjoying a pint in the Parlour Bar before accompanying his wife, Lydia, to a charitable function. But when the couple...

A SUNDAY TIMES SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR LONGLISTED FOR THE WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 2018 'Engaging and enjoyable . . . as probing and as...

John Irving, one of the world's greatest novelists, returns with his first novel in seven years - a ghost story, a love story, and a lifetime of sexual politics. In...

The gorgeously funny, uplifting and entertaining new novel from Rachael Treasure, author of iconic, bestselling and much-loved stories of Australian rural life, including Jillaroo and The Farmer's Wife . Longlisted...

The gorgeously funny, uplifting and entertaining new novel from Rachael Treasure, author of iconic, bestselling and much-loved stories of Australian rural life, including Jillaroo and The Farmer's Wife . Longlisted...

From the author of A Prayer for Owen Meany and The World According to Garp comes "his most daringly political, sexually transgressive, and moving novel in well over a decade"...

You may not have read one of Ted Chapman's books, but you definitely know who he is. His books are the mass-market paperbacks you see at every airport, at every...

Starting at the moment The Swimming-Pool Library ended, The Line of Beauty traces the further history of a decade of change and tragedy. Richly textured, emotionally charged, disarmingly comic, it...

THE #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'A writer the world needs to be reading right now' The Independent 'An apposite and nuanced novel... Picoult writes about an emotive, controversial issue with...

The fourth Little Village School novel. Love is in the air in the little village of Barton-in-the-Dale. Anyone can see that Ashley Underwood and Emmet O'Malley are made for each...

Read what everyone's saying about LEAVING TIME: Jodi Picoult has a new fan. WOW WOW WOW incredible book. Do read it, I don't think you'll be disappointed. Ten years ago,...

THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER Sage Singer has a past that makes her want to hide from the world. Sleeping by day and working in a bakery by night, she kneads...