Modern Fiction (post 1945)

Author: Jack Kerouac Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 Jack Kerouac called Doctor Sax, the enigmatic figure who haunted his boyhood imagination, 'my ghost, personal angel, private shadow,...

Author: Pamela Hart Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 If you devoured THE CROWN you will love this exuberant story of a young Australian actress caught up in...

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Author: Julie Cohen Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 'It's BRILLIANT. I enjoyed it hugely' Marian Keyes ***** Two people. Two lives. One chance to see the same...

Author: Philippe Claudel Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 The Investigator is despatched to a provincial town to find out the truth behind a disturbing spate of suicides...

Author: Peter Golden Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 From the beloved author of Comeback Love and Wherever There Is Light, comes "a sweeping tale full of humor...

Author: Sheila Llewellyn Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 'Daniel stared at the white-ish brain matter clinging to the haft and clogging up the eye of the needle....

Author: Don DeLillo Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 In The Angel Esmeralda, DeLillo finds the freedom to represent the wide range of human experience in contemporary America...

Author: Julianne Pachico Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 The Lucky Ones is Julianne Pachico's haunting debut collection of stories. Set in lush, heady Colombia - and also...

Author: Pamela Redmond Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 'Contains a lot of wisdom between its one-liners. Older explores what happens when a woman rejects societal expectations, embraces...

Author: Anthony Good Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 'Provocative and compelling, it is a spectacular debut' - Daily Mail Michael lost his wife in a terrorist attack...

Author: Alan Burns Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 Babel, Alan Burns's fourth critically acclaimed novel, contains all the hallmarks of the aleatoric style he helped to define...

Author: Rick Gekoski Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 'Its snarky hero is a joy', a Times and Sunday Times Novel of the Year, 2020 'Clever, witty and...

Author: Amy Sackville Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: This is a portrait of Diego Velazquez, from his arrival at the court of King Philip IV of Spain, to...

Author: Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 Written by Brian Azzarello Art and cover by Marcelo Frusin Don't miss this collection featuring issues #1-5 of the Western series...

Author: Mike McCormack Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 McCormack's celebrated debut collection is richly imaginative, bitterly funny, powerful and original. Here we enter a world where the...

Author: Irvine Welsh Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 Detective Sergeant Bruce Robertson wants to wind down to Christmas with a week of sex and drugs in Amsterdam....

Author: Jill Mansell Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 Love is in the air in St Carys, but you'd never know it - the people of this seaside...

Author: Susan Lewis Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 How far would you go to keep your family safe? The gripping new page-turner from the Sunday Times bestselling...

Author: Toby Vieira Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 Goldhaven is after the biggest pink stone in the world. Zog Shikzahl is after Goldhaven. And Boss Macquarie is...

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Author: Emma Jane Unsworth Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 'There's no ceremony for friendship, is there?' 'Believe me, if I could marry you too, Tyler, I would.'...

Author: Sandra Newman Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 New York, 2000. The United Nations has just planted its flag on Mars, and a Green Party senator is...

Author: Anthony Burgess Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 A sharply written satire, Honey for the Bears sends an unassuming antiques dealer, Paul Hussey, to Russia to do...

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Author: Emily Fridlund Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 'A powerhouse of a first story collection notable for its temerity and its skilled combination of humour and insight'...

Author: Penelope Mortimer Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 A mother and her young son arrive at a rental house in rural France only to find themselves locked...

Author: Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 After the death of her father, an exiled Iranian man of letters, the bookish twenty-two-year-old Zebra...

Author: Novuyo Rosa Tshuma Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 Bukhosi has gone missing. His father, Abed, and his mother, Agnes, cling to the hope that he has...

Author: She Lao Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 "Lao She's great novel." -The New York Times A beautiful new translation of the classic Chinese novel from Lao...

Author: Alice McDermott (Johns Hopkins University) Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 181 A Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award It is high summer, the...

Author: D. B. Thorne Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 Are you on a killer date? When Solomon's sister is found drugged and in a coma after an...

Author: Rye Curtis Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2021 DYLAN THOMAS PRIZE The best novel I've read in a long time' Roddy Doyle The...

Author: Bruce Chatwin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 WINNER OF THE WHITBREAD BEST FIRST NOVEL AWARD On the Black Hill is an elegantly written tale of identical...

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Author: Leila Slimani Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 The baby is dead. It took only a few seconds. When Myriam, a French-Moroccan lawyer, decides to return to...

Author: Giuseppe Catozzella Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 A heartbreaking novel, inspired by a true story, about a Somali girl who is willing to sacrifice everything to...

Author: Mike Gayle Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 Tom Hope is broken. Ever since his wife Laura died he hasn't been the same man, and definitely not...

Author: Jenny Gladwell Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 'This novel warmed my soul more than a mug of tea and a round of hot buttered toast' Red...

Author: Willa Cather Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 Marian Forrester brings delight to her husband, an elderly railroad pioneer; to the small town of Sweet Water where...

Author: John McGhie Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 Kenya, 1952, a colony on the edge. Settlers drink sundowners on the veranda but the servants can't be trusted....

Author: Susie Steiner Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 LONGLISTED FOR THE THEAKSTON OLD PECULIAR CRIME NOVEL OF THE YEAR AN UNMISSABLE NEW NOVEL FROM THE SUNDAY TIMES...

Author: Lionel Davidson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 The award-winning debut thriller from the bestselling author of Kolymsky Heights. In London, young Nicholas Whistler leads a disappointing...

Author: Vicky Pattison Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 'Sassy and romantic' Heat on All that Glitters. Perfect for fans of Lindsey Kelk and Sarah Morgan. For better...

Author: Tash Aw Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 In this stunning new novel, Tash Aw charts the overlapping lives of migrant Malaysian workers, forging lives for themselves...

Author: Robert Stone (SUFFOLK CCC SELDEN) Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 500 "A stunning novel by a great American writer."--Washington Post Jerusalem: home to seekers, heretics, hustlers, and...

Author: Norbert Gstrein Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 A poignant novel of political-religious awakening by one of Germany's literary stars An anonymous phone call, an unattended bag...