Modern Fiction (post 1945)

THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'Cosy crime of a superior order' Sunday Times Words can be dangerous. Sometimes they kill... Natalka and Edwin are running a detective agency in Shoreham,...

The Winter Secret is a thrilling mystery from Lulu Taylor, top ten bestselling author of Her Frozen Heart. 'My dear boy, the place is cursed. It always has been and...

The Cast is an irresistible celebration of the strength of women, finding the courage to persevere in life's drama of heartbreak and joy, by the world's favourite storyteller, Danielle Steel....

In this gripping novel, Melvyn Bragg brings an extraordinary episode in English history to fresh, urgent life. At the end of May 1381, the fourteen-year-old King of England had reason...

NO ONE WANTED TO END UP AT MORGATE HOUSE. BUT THE GIRLS HAD NOWHERE ELSE TO GO . . . 'The thrilling, heartbreaking, and shocking story of dark secrets, twisted...

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A captivating story about friendship, making changes, and learning to live life to the fullest from SUNDAY TIMES bestseller Erica James A cherished home, a circle of friends and a...

Ada Howard, the wife of the preacher at Nashville's Full Love Baptist Tabernacle, has a whole lot of people to take care of. There's her husband, of course, and the...

The enthralling new novel from the ten-million-copy, Number One bestselling author Is there a murderer across the street? It's 1964 and twenty-three-year-old Katy Speed is fascinated by Gloria and the...

'A ruthlessly efficient, consistently surprising whodunnit. The depiction of the glowering inferno is so realistic you're surprised to find your eyebrows aren't singed' Mark Sanderson, The Times A town under...

Fired from his job and dumped by his girlfriend, Taiwanese-British photographer Sean flies to Taipei to seek oblivion. Lost in the neon heat of his parents' homeland, though, all he...

In the UK, someone is reported missing every 90 seconds. Just gone. Vanished. In the blink of an eye. DCS Kat Frank knows all about loss. A widowed single mother,...

From the author of international bestseller Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 ''Cho's complex, humane, and by its end utterly transfixing novel shows that it is in community that we find resilience.'...

What is love? Is it s omething spiritual or wholly physical? Can our feelings be explained and quantified? Or are we all actually two halves of a whole? Ask Alice...

HE TRUSTS HIS LAWYER WITH HIS LIFE . . . HE SHOULDN'T. For fans of Steve Cavanagh, Linwood Barclay and Gillian McAllister, this is the latest novel from the master...

*NEW NOVEL RESTLESS DOLLY MAUNDER SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2024* FROM THE BOOKER PRIZE-SHORTLISTED AND WOMEN'S PRIZE-WINNING AUSTRALIAN NOVELIST Sarah is the youngest daughter of William Thornhill,...

India. 1879. Lieutenant John Howard witnesses something so unspeakable it changes him for ever. His subsequent disappearance is never solved. Egypt. Present day. Marine archaeologist Jack Howard makes an astonishing...

Set in an English seaside town, this bracing, funny crime novel begins with the murder of Marilyn Monroe; a beach donkey found with its throat cut. PI Grace Smith is...

The blossom is out in the little Cornish harbour town of St Felix But Poppy Carmichael's spirits aren't lifted by the pretty West Country spring. Inheriting her grandmother's flower shop...

Grace has been best friends with Ella and Flick since university. The late-night chats, shared heartaches and good times have created a bond that has stood the test of time....

A novel about a British philosopher who teams up with a one-armed French convict to rob banks, from Montpellier to Toulon. Tibor Fischer has also written Under the Frog, which...

Set in seventeenth-century rural England, BONE HOUSE is the tale of two women. One is large, voluptuous and charismatic - a prostitute to whom many, not just men, are drawn....

At 44 Amy O'Connell thinks she's seen, heard or done it all. Until her husband Hugh announces he needs a break - from her. He is going backpacking for six...

`Everybody remembers where they were the day they heard that Paddy de Courcy was getting married' Lola has every reason to be interested in who Paddy's marrying - because although...

Adele Talbot is twelve when her younger sister is killed in a road accident in London's Kings Cross, and her mother Rose - so devastated by the loss - begins...

After building an empire that has made her a legend in business, Olivia spends months each year planning a lavish holiday for everyone in her family to enjoy. This summer...

Lovers, colleagues, family - Tilly has always been brilliant at pushing people in and out of her life exactly as it suits her. Then along comes Geoffrey, gentle, compassionate, generous...

A sparkling, life-affirming story that will make you cry like Jojo Moyes and laugh like Dawn French. Here is a truth that can't be escaped- for Mia 'Rabbit' Hayes, life...

Despite her broken heart, when Dilly Gently joins Magnus Olensen's new band, the chemistry between them is explosive. Both impossibly romantic dizzy blondes with the souls of poets, they could...

Assistant DA Nina Frost prosecutes child molesters, and in the course of her everyday work she endures the frustration of seeing too many criminals slip through the system and walk...

A chilling new novel in the award-winning Inspector Banks series. Number 35 The Hill is an ordinary house in an ordinary street, owned by an apparently ordinary young couple. But...

Evie Hamilton has a secret. One she doesn't even know about. Yet . . . She's blissfully unaware that her charmed and happy life is about to be turned upside...

The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters became the publishing phenomenon of 2006 with the release of the Glass Books instalments A SPY. A KILLER. AN IMPOSTER. THREE EXTRAORDINARY HEROES....

A gloriously witty novel from Sebastian Faulks using P.G. Wodehouse's much-loved characters, Jeeves and Wooster, fully authorised by the Wodehouse estate. 'Brings the peerless Jeeves and Wooster barrelling back to...

The compelling new novel from the bestselling author of A French Affair and Missing. Since Susannah Cates's husband was sent to prison three years ago, life has been a constant...