Modern Fiction (post 1945)

The stunning new unforgettable novel from the hottest international talent to reach the UK in years Delia Hopkins has led a charmed life. Raised in rural New Hampshire by her...

Sarah Patrick is being forced to take part in a deadly mission by a man who knows enough about her past to ensure her cooperation. John Logan - a man...

Unlike most people Matt Beckford is actually looking forward to turning thirty. After struggling through most of his twenties he thinks his career, finances and love life are finally sorted....

Fourteen years after her last adventure, Thursday Next, literary detective, finds herself in an unusual situation her job policing the fictional characters of the BookWorld has been downgraded since her...

Twenty-five years on from "Less Than Zero", we pick up again with "Clay". In 1985, Bret Easton Ellis shocked, stunned and disturbed with "Less Than Zero", his 'extraordinarily accomplished first...

Who would pay a billion dollars to humiliate America? The year, 1993. The place, Washington DC. Of the adversaries in the Gulf War, the sole survivor is Saddam Hussein. And...

The brilliant new novel by the Booker-shortlisted author of Shroud and The Book of Evidence, John Banville is, quite simply, one of the greatest novelists writing in the English language...

Pat Peoples knows that life doesn't always go according to plan, but he's determined to get his back on track. After a stint in a psychiatric hospital, Pat is staying...

Ellen Kirby is "Liberty" - American idol and ballet superstar. She has fame and fabulous wealth, but the darkness of her past threatens to overwhelm her. To escape the memories...

It had been one of the worst crashes in airline history, killing over 300 people and leaving only one survivor. Now the dead were buried and the town of Eton...

A beautifully crafted story of a Jewish family, reaching back five generations. Using births, deaths and family legends, here are stories of how people meet and fall in love, of...

Things are going well for young film-maker Evan Casher - until he receives an urgent phonecall from his mother, summoning him home. He arrives to find her brutally murdered body...

Since her husband's tragic death fours years before, 29-year-old Julie Barenson had been reluctant to date, but now feels ready to test the waters. Soon, she is being wined and...

After more than 20 years of marriage, Wilson Lewis, son-in-law of Allie and Noah Calhoun (of The Notebook) is forced to admit that the romance has gone out of his...

Norman Stokoe has just been appointed Children's Czar by the new government. He sells his flat and moves up north to take up the position. However before his first salary...

The compelling new novel from the international number 1 bestselling author Coronation Day, 1953. Molly Heywood slips away from the celebrations and makes a shocking discovery- her friend Cassie is...

The New Yorker '20 Under 40' writer's rapturously reviewed comic-tragic novel about a family's search for a home 'Terrific ... Combines comic brilliance with a poignant portrait of a family...

In 'the stifling heat of equatorial Newark', a terrifying epidemic is raging, threatening the children of the New Jersey city with maiming, paralysis, life-long disability, even death. This is the...

When a teenage couple are found murdered in their car, a boy called Adam Sligo is the only suspect. Sligo is missing, and a manhunt begins, but the letter A...

'If you are looking for a charming read, then Darke has written a beauty ... Expect laughter and tears in equal measure.' Herald Sun A captivating, feel-good love story from...

Bold, dark and compelling, The Toymaker is a novel about privilege, fear and the great harm we can do when we are afraid of losing what we hold dear. A...

Isabelle Simpson longs to take over the family farm, but her ailing father won't give her a chance. The stand-off between them threatens to tear the family apart. Handsome neighbour...

This is the second novel, following The Mammy, in the humourous trilogy about Agnes Brown and her seven kids - a working class family living in Dublin's The Jarro tenements....

Primo Levi was among the greatest witnesses to twentieth-century atrocity. In this gripping novel, based on a true story, he reveals the extraordinary lives of the Russian, Polish and Jewish...

At sixteen Edie knows things. She knows that her mother is charming and beautiful, that her sister Stella is the golden girl, and that her father - clumsy, quiet Vic...

Isabel and Nina. Inseparable since childhood. Sisters. Bound together by a tragedy, the knowledge of which could destroy their adult lives. Brought together one burning hot summer, by the birth...

Ruby Lee has left home (a Chinese laundry in Brooklyn) and she hopes to leave behind the ancient disputes and bitter loving of her parents for a brash and sensual...

Beryl Tuke, whiling time away in the Thistle Arms with gin and cheap romances, and Alban Roche at Bassett's Petstore are among the street's dream-ridden survivors. A new arrival, Miss...

Allende is a wonderful teller of tales and through the story of Eva Luna we enter a sweet but sinister world where fact and fiction merge.

From the Nobel Prize-winning author of "One Hundred Years of Solitude" comes a masterly evocation of an unrequited passion so strong that it binds three people's lives together for more...

This brilliantly funny novel revisits some of the characters from Nancy Mitford's earlier stories including Fanny, who is married to bumbling, absent-minded Oxford don, Alfred. Fanny is content in her...

Bob Slocum was a promising executive. He had an attractive wife, three children, a nice house, and as many mistresses as he desired. His life was settled and ordered; he...

Jack Morgan and his Private team face a deadly fight to save the 2016 Olympic Games We will take on any case, solve any crime, uncover any secret. We are...

'A stylish tale about a fatal love triangle in provincial Bohemia' Guardian WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY AUDREY NIFFENEGGER Love is Angela Carter's fifth novel and was first published in 1971....