Modern Fiction (post 1945)

Beware what waits in the shadows... With one unexpected email from her estranged best friend, Lucy, Mina Murray's carefully curated life is turned upside down. Leaving behind her psychiatric practice...

She left her hometown following a scandal - but family loyalty is dragging her back... Despite their strained relationship, when Gia Rossi's sister Margot begs her to come home to...

Howard (Call me 'Walt') Johnson returns to New England after more than a decade in the Mideastern wilderness in one last almighty attempt to untangle his twisted family tree. He's...

A woman visiting Venice fantasises that she is Mrs Noah. Her Ark, a vast, form shifting construct of the imagination, is a water-bourne library moored somewhere in the Lagoon, repository...

After the extraordinary success of Water for Elephants, with 3 million copies shipped, Sara Gruen returns with another immensely charming, endlessly surprising, and engaging novel in which a family of...

Virgil Mann has broken through the genteel facade of English society to expose the ruthless machine beneath, oiled with sex, money and chemicals. It is no place for the fainthearted....

When Igor accidentally travels back to 1957, he finds out that the past isn't as rosy as it seems. In fact it's positively dangerous Igor is confident his old Soviet...

It is the summer of 1912 in a fishing village on the Danish coast, where visitors while away the long, light-filled days. For twelve-year-old Malte it is a summer of...

A compelling and painfully emotional thriller from the author of international bestseller Star of the Sea. From the bestselling author of Star of the Sea and Shadowplay, a thrilling novel...

Based on true events, this gripping historical novel set in Norway and Sweden in 1940, follows one of the first female US Ministers, Daisy Harriman, and her niece as the...

From the author of Love at First Set , a new irresistible enemies-to-lovers, grumpy/sunshine queer romcom for fans of Delilah Green Doesn't Care , about a wedding-obsessed city girl who...

A ruthless and unflinching examination of American life in the late 1960s, from the author of The Year of Magical Thinking. One thing in my defence, not that it matters:...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2025 DYLAN THOMAS PRIZE A Granta Best Young British Novelist 'A thrilling love for the stuff of language ... Magical' JON McGREGOR 'Poignant and playful' DAILY MAIL...

'It broke my heart' Louise O'Neill 'Hard-hitting' The Time s 'Powerful and bittersweet' Daily Mail 'Beat[s] Normal People at its own game' Harper's Bazaar ______________________________________________________________ Efe and Sam have been...

Ruth Park's Miles Franklin-winning novel brilliantly evokes Australia in the midst of the Great Depression. Growing up in an Australian country town before World War I, Jackie Hanna and Cushie...

On October 3, 1849, Edgar Allan Poe was found mumbling and incoherent, wearing someone else's clothes, and holding a cane with a sword hidden inside that did not belong to...

The Truth in Fiction is a collection of eighteen short stories written and collated over the last ten years. Many of them are stories written about the streets of London,...

Family law judge Kaye Bailey is found murdered in her chambers. Is this the work of a disgruntled complainant? Or an inside job by a jealous colleague? Or is there...

Abandoned by her London boyfriend, Ronnie Kahn, Beatie Bryant became determined to improve herself, and to find her own voice. HONEY opens when she comes out of university with a...

"Pack Up the Moon is a poignant novel about loss, lies and the unbreakable bonds of family, from the author of the bestselling Eliza's Gift and the Cypress Hollow novels."...

From the bestselling author of the Vintner's Luck comes a novel as disturbing as it is beautiful. Brian 'Bad' Phelan is an expert climber and caver and, while on vacation...

Late summer 1946- the Wash on the Fenland coast. Into a suspicious and isolated community comes James Mercer, until recently a serving captain in the Engineers, who is now employed...

" A Widow For One Year will appeal to readers who like old-fashioned storytelling mixed with modern sensitivities. . . . Irving is among the few novelists who can write...

The oldest love story never told...Her name is Dinah. In the Bible her fate is merely hinted at in a brief and violent detour within the verses of the Book...

A mystery unsolved to this day A mystic who confounds the cynics A writer looking for the story that will make his name A ghost ship appears in the mist....

A novel of the friendships and woes of two couples, which tells the story of their lives in lyrical, evocative prose by one of the finest American writers of the...

Sophisticated new reissue of the bestseller's emotional, intriguing novel about a quest to uncover a sister's past Bee Bearhorn had a number-one hit single in 1985 - and was never...

"I found these stories both heartening. . . and terrifying as the expression of a racial hatred that has never ceased to grow and gets no chance to die." --Malcolm...

Eleven Minutes tells the story of Maria, a young girl from a Brazilian village, whose first innocent brushes with love leave her heartbroken. At a tender age, she becomes convinced...

Ein Potpourri literarischer Ideen und Formen: lustig, traurig, fantastisch und realistisch. Die Autoren sinnieren uber das Leben und seinen Sinn, das grosse und kleine Gluck. Sie schwelgen in der Sehnsucht...

Three brothers are forced to confront the quiet, pervasive violence of their family's past and the distances to which they have all carried their father's pain into their own futures....

AUSTRALIAN AUTHOR When Anika Molnar flees her home country of Hungary not long before the break-up of the Soviet Union, she carries only a small suitcase and a beautiful and...

The Nobel Prize-winning novelist and playwright examines the colonial period in his native Nigeria during his father's and grandfather's generations, revealing the human complexities of political oppression.

Shortlisted for the EU Prize for Literature 2021 Shortlisted for the Sveriges Radio Prize for Best Swedish Novel 2021 Bibbs is just about to turn thirty-nine. She has been a...

Mary doesn't know what makes her angrier - the way he doesn't quite reach the laundry basket when he throws his dirty clothes at it (but never walks over and...

The Breakfast Club meets Heathers in the anti-chicklit novel: a fabulously black comedy about identical twins struggling to eighteen in wealthy American suburbia. Chloe and Sue, blonde and beautiful, have...

Another fantastic blockbuster from bestseller, LOUISE BAGSHAWE, combining glamour, thrills and dangerous passion. For fans of Sophie Kinsella. Crossing decades and continents, SPARKLES is the totally compelling story of the...

The second novel written by Alice Walker and preceding The Color Purple is a heartfelt and moving story about one woman's personal revolution as she joins the Civil Rights Movement....

Imprint. A tale of suspense and deception that opens with 12 year-old Alice describing her conviction that her cruel and violent stepfather is about to poison her and her 14...

Alice Day's theory has led to five strangers meeting in a bar to take part in her experiment. But can this one-time bestselling author, now a mother and housewife, follow...

'Chillingly convincing - Myerson leaves us teetering emotionally at the edge of the cliff, without a safety net' Independent On a Monday night in October in a small seaside town...

Three outstanding novellas, depicting with a heart-wrenching honesty the limits of human love. Against setting that range from the alleyways of Paris to the northern plains of Montana and the...