Modern Fiction (post 1945)

Shampoo Planet is the rich and dazzling point where two worlds collide -- those of 1960s parents and their 1990s offspring, "Global Teens." Raised in a hippie commune, Tyler Johnson...

The author describes his career with the Navy's first anti-terrorist unit.

Since their days at Oxford, they've gone their separate ways - but none of them have come to terms with Maggie's acciendental death. She was always the headstrong one, the...

William May returns to London after the horrors of the Crimean War. Scarred and fragile though he is, he lands a job at the heart of Bazalgette's transformation of the...

One act of love will change one family s destiny As a devoted mother, Veronique Parker has dedicated herself to her three daughters, before and since her divorce. Her world...

Gaelle de Barbet is sixteen years old in 1940 when the German army occupies France. In a matter of months, her father and brother are killed, her mother descends into...

Tallie Jones has it all. She's professionally at her peak as a famous film director, and with a loving live-in boyfriend and a well-adjusted teen daughter, she couldn't be happier...

I've lost it. -( The only thing in the world I wasn't supposed to lose. My engagement ring. It's been in Magnus's family for three generations. And now, the very...

Becky Brandon (nee Bloomwood) thought motherhood would be a breeze - but it's trickier than she thought. Two-year-old Minnie is a little tearaway who has created havoc everywhere from Harrods...

Candy - it's the only the name she needs - is blazing her way through Paris, New York and Tokyo as fashion's latest international supermodel... Her sister, Tammy, has a...

A young American aid volunteer, Billy Colenso, is brutally murdered in former Yugoslavia. His grandfather, the Canadian billionaire Steven Edmond, is bent on revenge. The quest to find Billy's murderer...

Bramble House contained a matriarchal empire headed by Emma Funnell. The house had been built for her as a wedding gift by Patrick and, now in her 70s, Emma continued...

A year after his divorce, Jayojit Chatterjee, an economics professor in the American Midwest, travels home to Calcutta with his young son, Bonny, to spend the summer holidays with his...

Khuku, a housewife, is irritated with the Muslims because their call to prayerwakes her up early every morning; her husband, a retired businessman, hasbeen hired to cure a 'sick' sweet...

Winner of the 2016 Costa Book of the Year Winner of the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction 2017 Winner of the Independent Bookshop Week Book Award 2017 Longlisted for...

In 'The Brooklyn Follies' an uncle and nephew accidentally end up living in the same Brooklyn neighbourhood. When a little girl who refuses to speak comes into their lives, there...

Isabel, a young woman in flight from the ravages of the Great War, throws herself headlong into a passionate and dangerous liaison with Sam, an Indian doctor, and Oxford graduate....

An illustrated, first-hand account of a history-making dig in lush and beautiful jungles and caves of North Vietnam, the subject of a November 19899, National Geographic feature and a television...

It is the Edinburgh Festival. People queuing for a lunchtime show witness a road-rage incident - an incident which changes the lives of everyone involved. Jackson Brodie, ex-army, ex-police, ex-private...

He was out of her league. e was out of her depth. On the bookshelf of Miranda Brown's life, romance is always out of reach. In the fast-track of Burnt...

From the world's favourite storyteller, an uplifting story of love, loss and the gifts people pass on that change lives beyond imagination . . . A father's love will change...

A page-turning story of two different families and the life-changing decisions they both have to make. Fiona Carson has proven herself as CEO of a multibillion-dollar high-tech company - a...

Strangers become friends, and friends become a family... THE NUMBER ONE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER Everything is falling to pieces for Francesca Thayer. Her beautiful, old house is full of leaks...

One woman's quest to find her family...and herself. Someday is Brigitte Nicholson's watchword. Someday she and the man she loves, Ted, will clarify their relationship. Someday she'll have children. Someday...

For Alice Pettiford, living near Gloucester in the late 1940s, leaving school as soon as she could and taking a job as a railway secretary in the city made perfect...

In Granny Dan, Danielle Steel's extraordinary forty-sixth bestselling novel, a simple box, filled with mementos from a grandmother, offers the greatest legacy of all- an unexpected gift of a life...

The compelling story of a woman who must struggle to overcome a shattering betrayal, and the cruellest kind of malice. At seventeen, on the night of her mother's funeral, Grace...

"It is impossible not to be impressed by [Grass's] inexhaustible desire to experiment with the novel and by the many good stories and passages of exquisite writing in The Box...

The revelatory, poignant story of Rosemary Kennedy, the eldest and eventually secreted-away Kennedy daughter, and how her life transformed her family, its women especially, and an entire nation. "[Larson] succeeds...

Acclaimed author of biographical and historical fiction Irving Stone turns his magnificent talent to telling America's most colorful and exciting story-the opening of the Far West. Men to Match My...

Begun in the 1980s and worked on until the author's death in 2003, Woes of the True Policeman is Roberto Bolano's last, unfinished novel. The novel follows Oscar Amalfitano--an exiled...

A thrilling, beautifully written, novel about a young man's quest for a lost city in Peru - comparable to Alex Garland's THE BEACH. Invalided out of the army at barely...

Just after sunset, as darkness grips the imagination, is the time when you feel the unexpected creep into the every day. As familiar journeys take a different turn, ordinary objects...

Delia Hopkins has led a charmed life. Raised in rural New Hampshire by her widowed father Andrew, she now has a young daughter, a handsome fianc, and her own Search...

Jack St. Bride was once a beloved teacher and soccer coach at a girls' private school - until a student's crush sparked a powder keg of accusation and robbed him...

What do you when your boyfriend tells you he wants space? You give him six thousand miles of it... Frankie's life is falling apart. In less than a week she's...

When V.I. Warshawski is asked to find a man who's been missing for four decades, a search that she thought would be futile turns lethal. Old skeletons from the city's...