Modern Fiction (post 1945)

Two couples for whom love and fate are powerful, irresistible forces Bill is a dedicated young lawyer working in New York. He leaves everything he trained for to follow his...

When her husband Richard is killed in a freak accident, Shelby Pomeroy is devastated. But she soon learns a horrible truth - Richard was a conman and a cheat, and...

In KILLING MONICA Bushnell spoofs and skewers her way through pop culture, celebrity worship, fame and even the meaning of life itself, when a famous writer must resort to faking...

June's first husband was killed in a car crash. Against all the odds, her daughter was uninjured and, in another miracle, June found love again with the policeman who rescued...

Spend This Christmas... with NORA ROBERTS Four festive stories starring the MacGregors Laura, Gwen and Julia are happily focused on their careers as a lawyer, a doctor and a businesswoman,...

Ellie and Dan are living proof that opposites attract. He always follows instructions and she throws the manual away. He loves sports whereas Ellie's allergic to any form of exercise....

The compelling novel from the Sunday Times Top Ten bestselling author of Behind Closed Doors, No Child of Mine and Don't Let Me Go. The compelling novel from the bestselling...

All you need is love. A wonderfully romantic novel from the No. 1 Sunday Times bestselling author of Recipe for Love, A French Affair and The Perfect Match. Have you...

Consumed with grief, driven by vengeance, a man undertakes an unrelenting odyssey across the lawless post-Civil War frontier seeking redemption in this fearless novel from the award-winning and New York...

A GRANTA BEST YOUNG BRITISH NOVELIST 2023 WINNER OF THE JAMES TAIT BLACK PRIZE 2018 'The real inexplicable gorgeous brilliant thing' MAX PORTER 'She has arrived in a class of...

The debut novel from the award-winning screenwriter of 'Bhaji on the Beach'. The story of nine-year-old Meena, growing up in the only Punjabi family in the Black Country mining village...

Back in print and now in hardback, the deeply personal and ingenious literary first novel written under Patrick O'Brian's own name, newly introduced by Nikolai Tolstoy. THREE BEAR WITNESS John...

'A wonderfully hopeful , queer, LA love story' Anita Kelly, author of Something Wild & Wonderful 'Highly relatable, laugh-out-loud funny, and full of hot-bartender sapphic swoon ' Alison Cochrun, author...

'A gloriously uplifting celebration of middle age. I loved it.' Katie Fforde ----------- **Selected as a Waterstones Best Romance Paperback of 2024** Hot Not Bothered is the new hilarious, no-holds-barred...

A powerful story of love, shocking secrets and malignant forces from the No. 1 bestselling author Josephine Cox. All Jack's life, the nightmares had haunted him, dragging him back to...

Step into the magical world of Cecelia Ahern in this heartwarming bestseller. If you could wish for one gift this Christmas, what would it be? Lou Suffern wishes he could...

WELCOME TO JAMAICA, HAVE A NICE BREAKDOWN. A group of 6 friends converge on the fabled island of Jamaica to compete in a marathon relay swim across treacherous water. Most...

This is a coming-of-age novel about growing up black and gay in Southern California. The lead character, Johnnie Ray Rousseau, is a high-school student upset at losing the lead role...

From the greatest living Irish author, a brilliant and moving novel about fame, sexual power, and a daughter's search to understand her mother's hidden truths 'Written with all the ingenuity...

Miss Ona Vitkus has - aside from three months in the summer of 1914 - lived unobtrusively, her secrets fiercely protected. The boy, with his passion for world records, changes...

Under the direction of famed explorer Porter Stone, an archaeological team is secretly attempting to locate the tomb of King Narmer, an ancient pharaoh unlike any other. And Stone is...

A long-lost experiment of unknown intent. . . A hidden room in a vast seaside estate. . . An investigator marked for danger. . . On a sprawling estate on...

'Clever and compulsive' LOUISE CANDLISH 'I loved it' LEE CHILD 'Devoured in three days' SARAH HILARY 'Totally absorbed me' CASS GREEN 'A bold and brilliant new voice in crime fiction'...

'Gripping and authentic' NEW YORK TIMES 'Heartrending . . . An engrossing read' FINANCIAL TIMES SEVENTEEN YEARS AFTER THE FALL OF THE THIRD REICH Max Weill has never forgotten the...

WINNER OF THE RNA's ROMANTIC COMEDY OF THE YEAR AWARD 2017! 'A wonderful setting , characters you care about, a page-turning plot, laugh-out-loud funny . I loved it' Katie Fforde...

There are no accidents. There is only fate. 1981. Jesse Marley calls herself a realist; she is all about the here and now. But in the month before Charles and...

An O: the Oprah Magazine Best Book of 2017 'Khong is a magician ... Brilliant ' Lauren Groff , author of Fates and Furies 'Khong's first novel sneaks up on...

Sometimes a secret is too big to hide... Jen is a trainee journalist working on Chester's local paper, dreaming of something bigger. Her sister, Helen, is beautiful but damaged, and...

Lifelong introvert Quinn Malone was sick of spending her evenings at home, doing crossword puzzles and watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer re-runs. Successful, smart, and funny, 38-year old Quinn embarks...

INAUGURAL LILLY'S LIBRARY BOOK CLUB PICK FROM LILLY SINGH 'I really loved this book' Rumaan Alam, author of Leave the World Behind 'Patel writes with the wisdom and compassion of...

Mr Kato - a curmudgeon and recent retiree - finds his only solace during his daily walks, where he wonders how his life went wrong and daydreams about getting a...

In 1912, the SS Birmingham approaches India. On board is Morgan Forster, novelist and man of letters, who is embarking on a journey of discovery. As Morgan stands on deck,...

Sidi is dying. In the last days of this all-powerful tyrant, his faithful court fool takes stock of the decades he has spent in the king's service. For the many...

Traumatized by memories of his war-ravaged country, and with his son and daughter-in-law dead, Monsieur Linh travels to a foreign land to bring the child in his arms to safety....

The novel traces a massive gold theft from Java during the Indonesian revolution against the Dutch. The story resurfaces in 1995 when the aircraft used in the robbery is accidentally...

Escape with Sunday Times bestseller Tasmina Perry into an intoxicating world where games are played to mask the truth, where there is no one you can trust, and where being...

Jem is a joyful mystery to Alice. She is something to give thanks for. And when she disappears from Alice's life, as suddenly as she entered it, a whirl of...

BBC RADIO 4 EXTRA BOOK AT BEACHTIME i> i>Joan s voice is almost a whisper. Nobody talked about what they did during the war. We all knew we weren t...

Cryptography -- the use of secret codes -- has traditionally been the province of puzzle geeks and government spies. But just in time for the Internet -- which radically alters...

IT S THE CELEBRITY WEDDING OF THE YEAR AND EVERYONE S INVITED! Portia Davenport is officially the luckiest woman in the world. She and her drop-dead gorgeous husband, Andrew, have...

Struggling to make sense of this are Monty, a cynical Whitehall spook, Danny the son of Stevens and Ruth herself.

'If you liked Bridget Jones's Diary , try this' BBC News 'So funny and sharp, yet tender and emotional too. I loved it!' Jill Mansell 'I adored The Last Romeo...

Alejandro Ballesteros, a young Spanish art historian, arrives in a wintry, misty Venice to study Giorgione s painting 'The Tempest', the subject of his thesis and the centre of his...

This collection of essays and articles - taken from the late-1960s onwards - show Chatwin and every twist and turn of his career, from art expert to archaeologist, to journalist...