Modern Fiction (post 1945)

FROM THE VIRAL TIK TOK AUTHOR OF OUT ON A LIMB AND NEXT TO YOU! Two bickering strangers trying to foster their younger siblings team up to create a stable...

'Captures the fierceness of female friendship' BETH O'LEARY | 'The essential book on sisterhood' NIKITA GILLShortlisted for the Diverse Book Awards 2023 Three women. One life-changing friendship. One chance to...

The latest in the hugely popular 44 Scotland Street series from the worldwide bestselling author, Alexander McCall SmithLife for Bertie seems to be moving at a pace that is rather...

The Granta Book of the African Short Story introduces a group of African writers described by its editor, Helon Habila, as 'the post-nationalist generation'. Presenting a diverse and dazzling collection...

"Compassionate and complex" Financial Times"Stridsberg writes with chilling poise" New York Times"A haunting portrait of the starkest meanings of love and family. Stridsberg's literary talent left me awestruck" KATE REED...

The rebels on the other side of the Shadowpass are massing, and refugees are flooding in to the city. Scared, penniless and not exactly welcome, they are desperate for the...

'An extraordinary achievement . . . Every page pulses with mud and magic' Miranda Cowley Heller, author of The Paper Palace'A monumental epic . . . I was spellbound' Nathan...

Call Me By Your Name is the story of a sudden and powerful romance that blooms between seventeen-year-old Elio and his father's house guest Oliver during a restless summer on...

EVERY FAMILY HAS SECRETS. SOME ARE JUST BETTER AT HIDING THEIRS...A TOP 5 BESTSELLER IN IRELAND AND NEW ZEALAND. 'You will fall in love with every one of the Tobin...

'A coming-of-age story filled with music in language and plot: beautiful and devastating'OBSERVER, BOOKS OF THE YEAR'I felt consumed by this book. I loved it, you will love it'DAISY JOHNSON'Will...

What happens when we stop idolising the generations above us? Stop idolising our own parents?What happens when we become frightened of the generations below us? Frightened of our own children?The...

With an Introduction by Gabriel Garca MrquezA new translation by Douglas J. WeatherfordIn this stunning masterpiece of the surreal, Juan Preciado sets out on a strange quest, bound by a...

EVERY FAMILY HAS ITS SECRETS . . .'A beautiful, bewitching, unsettling and unputdownable dream of a book . . . .I genuinely loved this, it will stay with me for...

'Clever and astute ... a cracking read' The Belfast Telegraph'One by one, residents read the books and find their lives changed in unexpected ways' Hello Magazine* * * From the...

"One of Coelho's strongest."-Kirkus Reviews"The book casts a curiously sweet spell."-Entertainment WeeklyFrom the author of beloved international bestseller The Alchemist, a daring novel that explores the sacred nature of sex...

Don't trust this book. Don't trust these people. Don't trust yourself. And whatever you do, don't give away that ending...No.1 Sunday Times bestseller Behind Her Eyes has been called the...

An explosive, contemporary literary thriller from international bestselling author Nikki Gemmell - Wing is Lord of the Flies meets Picnic at Hanging Rock meets Promising Young Woman. Students from an...

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Cape Town, 1914. Where aperson can be whoever they want to be . . .Former tutor Piet Barol and singer Stacey Meadows are making a splash in colonial Cape Town....

'Barnett's well-crafted backlist is big on emotional acuity and this novel is no different, forging from Christina's grief an insistence that we think more creatively when it comes to happiness,...

"In Opportunity Knocks, Sweeney captures the insanity of Hollywood in the perfect blend of fun, intrigue, and romance." -- Portia De Rossi, actress and New York Times bestselling author of...

Author: Patricia WilsonFormat: Paperback, 129mm x 198mm, 315g, 432 pagesPublished: Bonnier Books Ltd, United Kingdom, 2023Daphne, a young Jewish Greek artist, finds her life under threat during the Nazi occupation...

The narrator of Salvage - a woman in her early thirties - has left her hectic Manhattan lifestyle for rural Virginia. Escaping a trauma suffered on the New York subway,...

A literary jeu d'esprit, a modern-day Tristram Shandy, a hilarious satire on false scholarship, Wilson is David Mamet at his best and most mischievous. When the internet - and the...

Author: Liz MooreFormat: Paperback, 153mm x 234mm, 640g, 448 pagesPublished: HarperCollins Publishers, United Kingdom, 2024A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERWINNER OF JIMMY FALLON'S SUMMER READS BOOK CLUBSELECTED FOR BARACK OBAMA'S SUMMER...

Author: Martin KempFormat: Paperback, 153mm x 234mm, 470g, 384 pagesPublished: HarperCollins Publishers, United Kingdom, 2023Sometimes you win. Sometimes you lose ...A British icon delivers a powerful blockbuster in an exhilarating...

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Author: Scott Cawthon Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 A fourth collection of pulse-pounding tales. Horror master Scott Cawthon spins three sinister novella-length stories from different corners of FNAF's canon....

The Lost Time Accidents is a bold and epic saga set against the greatest upheavals of the twentieth century.Haunted by a failed love affair and the darkest of family secrets,...

Author: Soraya PalmerFormat: Paperback, 128mm x 198mm, 240g, 288 pagesPublished: Profile Books Ltd, United Kingdom, 2024'A beautiful ode to the power of storytelling, this novel is steeped in the folklore...

Author: Paul Dalla RosaFormat: Paperback, 128mm x 196mm, 200g, 240 pagesPublished: Profile Books Ltd, United Kingdom, 2023'Curious and unflinching ... deftly executed and cringingly funny' Guardian 'Truly excellent' Brandon Taylor,...

Author: Rajasree Variyar Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 'Oh my goodness. If I could give this book 6 stars out of 5 I would' 'One of those books that...

Author: Desmond Tutu Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 40 With warmth and humor, Archbishop Desmond Tutu distills his philosophy of unity and forgiveness into a picture book for the very...

Author: Lorraine Gregory Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 The second sensational book in a brand-new funny, accessible and action-packed space-adventure series written by the incredible Lorraine Gregory - perfect...

Author: Elle Cosimano Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 'Proves you only need to get mistaken once for a contract killer to solve all your problems' LISA GARDNER on Finlay...

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Author: Ulf Nilsson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 116 Illustrated in full color and packed with character and humor, this is the fifth whodunnit mystery in the awardwinning Detective Gordon...

Author: Cressida McLaughlin Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 Warm and escapist fiction from the bestselling author of the Cornish Cream Tea series 'Stuffed with Cornish sunshine and hope and...

Author: Oriana Ramunno Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 A beautiful, moving detective story set in Auschwitz in the Christmas of 1943. A young Jewish prisoner... Auschwitz, 1943. It's snowing...

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Author: Adrian J Walker Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 464 The Number One Bestseller and featured on Simon Mayo's Radio 2 Book Club A powerful post-apocalyptic thriller, perfect for fans...

Author: Karen Rose Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 592 Perfect for fans of James Patterson and Karin Slaughter, this is the second gripping instalment of the Sacramento series from Sunday...

Author: Kelly Starling Lyons Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 32 Ty makes his I Can Read Comic debut! Featuring a bold comic styling by New York Times bestselling illustrator Nina...

Author: Christobel Kent Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 One wrong step and you're in deep water. Sukie has had enough of not putting herself out there. She has had...

Author: Coral Vass Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 80 When Amanda and her friends find out Eve has the exact same yellow dress as Amanda and is planning to wear...