Modern Fiction (post 1945)

A parole officer in her first month on the job. A convicted murderer. What could go wrong? When she starts her new job as a parole officer, Krissie is happy...

The breath-taking story of a mother's love and a son's gift... Johnny Peterson could light up a room with a word or a smile. He had a future filled with...

A precocious child of the 1970s feels stifled by her dull life in a small English seaside town. The only glamour in her world is Fanny Cradock's weekly TV cookery...

Wild Cat Falling is the story of an Aboriginal youth, a 'bodgie' of the early sixties who grows up on the ragged outskirts of a country town, falls into petty...

A #1 New York Times bestseller by Kim Edwards, The Memory Keeper's Daughter is a brilliantly crafted novel of parallel lives, familial secrets, and the redemptive power of love Kim...

One Friday afternoon Molly Clearwater walks out of her job, smarting from her boss's taunt that she is 'just a stupid secretary'. Twenty-one, a country girl who has lived her...

A captivating, loveable novel of stunning originality and poignancy about a 12-year-old genius mapmaker. Now a major motion picture from the director of 'Amelie', starring Helena Bonham Carter. Dear Spivet...

A tale of choices, displacement and courage, suffused with the richness of the oral story-telling tradition and set against the backdrop of the Antwerp prostitute underworld. Four very different women...

**A NATIONAL BESTSELLER** BEST SUMMER READS OF 2023: The New York Post * Oprah Book Club * Oprah Daily * USA Today * Good Housekeeping * Brit + Co *...

' Subverted my expectations at almost every turn... Jordan shows how the aftermath of violence affects all those who witness it.' New York Times 'Immersive, atmospheric, heart-stopping - I tore...

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This is a story of murder. This is a story of love. This is a story of survival. This is the most unforgettable thriller of the year._________________________ '[a] mesmerising blend...

'My life is a tight knot I would like to undo. And, yes, there's no use crying over spilt milk but, the truth is, I'd rather die than spill any...

Heart Radio x Dreams Bedtime Bookclub April Book of the Month The dazzling, powerful story of a gutsy showgirl who tries to conquer her past amongst the glamour of 1960s...

From the bestselling author of 'Flowers in the Attic' comes the first book in the series centred around the Casteel family and its dark and mysterious past. Repackaged to attract...

Cowrie travels to Hawaii and as she circles the island in an old pick-up truck we discover the tokens of her heritage. Sensual and sexual language brings the earth to...

After surviving a less-than-ideal start as a hot-shot editor in the competitive magazine industry, Nina Morey has picked herself up, shaken herself off and is back, ready to do deals...

Don't miss IT STARTS WITH US , the sequel to IT ENDS WITH US! 'A brave and heartbreaking novel that digs its claws into you and doesn't let go, long...

A New York Times Notable Book A San Francisco Chronicle , San Jose Mercury News , and Los Angeles Times Best Book of the Year "A gripping and resonant novel....

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...

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...

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...

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...

"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...

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....

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...

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....

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...

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...