Modern Fiction (post 1945)

"This powerful novel should join classics like Ernest J. Gaines's The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman , Helena Maria Viramontes's Under the Feet of Jesus , and Harper Lee's To...

A hilarious and heartwarming read perfect for fans of Judy Leigh, Caroline James and Maddie Please! As Margaret Adams buries her late husband she comes to a shocking realisation -...

'Luminously written ... page-turningly enjoyable, this is a profound novel about love from a highly regarded, Pulitzer-winning novelist' Sunday Times Walking through Central Park, Barrett Meeks sees a translucent light...

A dazzling urban satire of modern relationships? An ironic, tragic insight into the demise of the nuclear family? Or the confused ramblings of a pissed thirty-something? Two diaries, two enduring...

With GLOW, Ned Beauman has reinvented the international conspiracy thriller for a new generation. A hostage exchange outside a police station in Pakistan. A botched defection in an airport hotel...

A award-winning, psychological post-Cold War novel-adapted as a TNT series starring Sean Bean-Legends is the next blockbuster spy novel from Robert Littell. Martin Odum is a onetime CIA field agent...

It's been two years since disgraced Illinois governor Ray Perry disappeared from a federal courthouse in Chicago moments after being sentenced to thirty-eight years in prison on corruption charges. PI...

When Rachel is pregnant with Lola, she imagines motherhood will involve pushing her sleeping infant in a pram through sun-dappled parks, suffused with the purest love she has ever felt....

"Janet Kelly's 'The Colour of Walls' is a novel of incest and a woman who takes responsibility for her family through barely imaginable injustice and adversity... It describes the aftermath...

An utterly original and compelling novel from "one of our living masters ( McSweeney's ), originally published in 1998 and now re-issued by Grove with a new introduction--a conversation between...

Alice McDermott's masterful novel is a portrait of a working-class American family living through the tumultuous middle decades of the twentieth century. While Michael and Annie Keane taste the alternately...

Fate, in the form of tragedy, has finally caught up with Saira Qader - a free-spirited and rebellious Muslim-American of Indo-Pakistani descent - who finds herself caught in a struggle...

King James or Vernaland, an ex-conchie bashing Special Services hardnut, and Binary Bob, his young companion with a genius for computer hacking and data-harvesting; Peter Jones, a disaffected lifestyle journalist...

THEY COME IN PEACE, BARING GIFTS OF LOVE, HOPE, AND MIRACLES Here are incredible true stories from people whose lives were forever changed by alien encounters. Unlike many of the...

Like an elegantly chilling postscript to The Metamorphosis , this classic of postwar Japanese literature describes a bizarre physical transformation that exposes the duplicities of an entire world. The narrator...

THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER WINNER OF THE 2024 WILLIAM SAROYAN INTERNATIONAL PRIZE FOR WRITING LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2024 LONGLISTED FOR THE 2024 WILBUR SMITH ADVENTURE WRITING PRIZE...

An unforgettable novel about a man's search for meaning.

Two branches of the McAllister family lead very different lives on cattle stations in Central Australia. Rob, a stickler for correctness, manages a wealthy, company-owned property, while his easygoing brother...

From the Booker Prize-winning author of Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha , the follow up to his acclaimed debut novel The Commitments Twenty-year-old Sharon Rabbitte is pregnant. She's also unmarried,...

Georgie Blalock, the acclaimed author of The Other Windsor Girl , delivers an enchantingly reimagined fictional portrait of Wallis Simpson through the lens of her cousin who is engaged to...

Are happy-ever-afters made in Manhattan? Find out in this gorgeous novel, perfect for cold winter nights... Once upon a time an English girl went to New York to live out...

'This year's Eleanor Oliphant' Claire Allan 'Astonishing' Ruth Hogan 'Strikingly brilliant' Sun Jillian Safinova can do many things. She can speak five languages. She can tell when someone is lying...

The summer bestseller from the immensely popular Lindsey Kelk Tess Brookes has always been a Girl with a Plan. But when the Plan goes belly up, she's forced to reconsider....

A sharp, funny and beautifully observed satire about the disturbing influence of the Christian right from one of America's most cherished authors. Ruth Ramsey went too far. She hadn't noticed...

Abraham Nevski is a dedicated and eccentric professor of medicine at the Royal Prince John Hospital. He prides himself on his diagnostic skills and powers of reasoning. On returning to...

A mixture of apocalypse, high-seas adventure, and otherworldliness, Her Death Was Also Water tells the story of seven people trying to survive on a small boat in a world completely...

From the rugged beauty of the Adelaide Hills comes a story of loss, hope and new beginnings... Claire McIntyre has it all: an adoring husband, a bubbly best friend, a...

Be careful what you wish for Holly Grey only took up witchery to keep her friend out of trouble and now she's knee-deep in hassle, in the form of apocalyptic...

"A gloriously indulgent romantic comedy set in the little town of Cypress Hollow. Lucy never forgot 'The Kiss'. Or the bad boy she shared it with. Now, 17 years later,...

Ash Lynch has worked (if you can call it that) in the magazine industry for what feels like forever. But he's at a very loose end - his ambition to...

Do nice guys really finish last? Evan Moore struggles through the breathtaking wilderness of Alaska and a brutal summer job in a salmon cannery to discover that life is not...

Longlisted for the 2015 Man Booker Prize A Bookseller Best Debut of 2015 One to Watch 2015 Huffington Post An Amazon Rising Star A boy stands on the roadside on...

Dating The Italian - Ally Blake Do opposites really attract? Band manager Sutton has heard her parents' love story hundreds of times. Only, when she arrives at the bar where...

In her garden, ensconced in the lush vegetation of the Western Cape, Clare Wald, world-renowned author, mother, critic, takes up her pen and confronts her life. Sam Leroux has returned...

Cathy Scarlet and Tom Feather have decided to create the best catering company in Dublin. They have the perfect premises, heaps of talent, and even a few contacts - but...

In this, the fourth Caper Court novel, the hero and villain, Leo Davies, finally meets his match in both love and work.

'So, what do you do?' Whenever people asked him, Eric Cash used to have a dozen answers. Artist, actor, screenwriter ...But now he's thirty-five years old and he's still living...

Faith Singer has a weakness for the young down-and-outs inhabiting Sydney's Kings Cross, whom she mothers as best she can. As the story unfolds we see how Faith, once a...

After the Civil War, stalwart warriors struggle to keep the Marine Corps alive. Their one hope may lie in Zachary O'Hara, the son of their hero, Paddy. But Zachary is...