Modern Fiction (post 1945)

Nominated for the 2003 International IMPAC Literary Prize A sparkling novel from an internationally-celebrated New Zealand writer. New Zealand 20 years ago, just before the conformity of the Muldoon years...

When Elsa's father is killed in a tornado, all she wants is to escape - from New York, her job, her boyfriend - to somewhere new, anonymous, set apart. For...

"Cerebral and capacious, Teju Cole's novel asks what it means to roam freely."- The New York Times (One of the 25 Most Significant New York City Novels From the Last...

Hailed by the San Francisco Chronicle as "one of the most revelatory novels in recent memory . . . Cleverly conceived and executed brilliantly," The Children's Hospital is the story...

The heroine of this novel is a tomboy. She loves her Doc Martens, heavy metal, and hanging out with her best friend, Ollie. She may have been born on a...

1984, Suffolk. When 17-year-old Eva goes missing at sea, everyone presumes that she tragically drowned. Her parents' relationship is falling apart, undermined by guilt and grief. But her younger sister,...

On a rainy afternoon on Killiney Hill a young man walking, without his overcoat, happens upon a woman gazing out over Dublin bay, standing perilously close to the edge. From...

THE WIFE is the story of the long and stormy marriage between a world-famous novelist, Joe Castleman, and his wife Joan and the secret they've kept for decades. The novel...

A beautifully-written and acutely-observed novel of relationships, of ordinary lives under extraordinary pressures. Disgraced Tory politician, Max, is unable to shake off the whiff of scandal following the suspicious death...

Imprint. A mesmerising historical novel of art and obsession, centered around the life of painter Oskar Kokoschka, from the author of The Mourners' Bench.

Simone Harlowe isyoung and clever, an Aboriginal lawyer straddling two lives and two cultures while studying at Harvard. Her family life backin Sydney is defined by the complex relationship she...

A sharply hilarious but very human new novel by the author of A Mortality Tale. Morty Hacker hooked himself up to his portable oxygen bottle whenever he left home, which...

The International Bestseller Sara is 28 and has never been outside Sweden - except in the (many) books she reads. When her elderly penfriend Amy invites her to come and...

When the elliptical new drama teacher at Eleanor Roosevelt High School in Stellar Plains, New Jersey, chooses for the school play Lysistrata the Aristophanes comedy where women stop having sex...

Nell McDermot is devastated when her husband's cabin cruiser blows up. Not only is she shattered by Adam's sudden death, but she is wracked with guilt, because the last time...

The Miltons are a powerful old New York family - the kind of family that used to run the world. And in 1935, they still do. Kitty and Ogden Milton...

Set in rural Ireland, John McGahern's second novel is about adolescence and a guilty, yet uncontrollable sexuality that is contorted and twisted bo both puritanical state religion and a strange,...

It is the 1970s and henpecked family man Tom Ripple is happy to wryly watch the world from his perfectly ordinary life in a perfectly ordinary suburb. But when his...

"The Land of Summer" is the brilliant new novel from Transworld's very own Queen of Romance. Spanning two generations this is a love story about overcoming the odds and escaping...

In more than fifty New York Times bestselling novels, Sandra Brown has captivated her millions of readers with stories of charismatic love and tantalizing twists of fate. In more than...

A story of mystery, love and revenge. Bridget Gether's parents had been killed in the wartime blitz and she had lived with the Overmeers at Balderstone, their sprawling property in...

A novel about hope, and change, and daring to be free. Everyone in Washington knows Madeleine and Jack Hunter. Maddy is an award-winning TV anchorwoman, and Jack is the head...

Growing up, Roxanne, Del, and Alice tested the limits of their friendship with cruel and often dangerous games - safe in the knowledge that they were bound together forever. Now,...

Detective Milo Dragovitch spends too much time boozing until he gets caught up in a case involving two-bit criminals and an old lady on the run. His friends call him...

Oliver Gold, the brilliant, ascetic writer and philosopher, has lived quietly and happily for eight years on the outskirts of London as a lodger in 12 Wagner Rise. His sudden...

'A joy to read' Amanda Craig 'Shades of Cold Comfort Farm...Charming' Guardian ENGLISH ANIMALS is a subversive, wry debut that fans of Marina Lewycka's A Short History of Tractors in...

Precious Ramotswe, traditionally built proprietor of the famous No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency, is finally married to Mr J. L. B. Matekoni of Tlokweng Road Speedy Motors, the agency is...

Imagine a world that is one of infinite parallel worlds, that hangs suspended between triumph and catastrophe, the dismantling of the Wall and the fall of the Twin Towers, in...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * Friendship, loyalty, and love lie at the heart of this beautifully written, poignant, and sweeping novel of five women who, over the course of four...

The fantastically inventive, ingenious and hilarious second novel from Ned Beauman, author of the acclaimed and prizewinning BOXER, BEETLE. HISTORY HAPPENED WHILE YOU WERE HUNGOVER When you haven't had sex...

It was not love at first sight. It proved to be not much of a conversation Nothing should have come of it. A passionate but ultimately tragic love affair starts...

B.S. Johnson's funniest and most accessible novel, reissued for the first time in 25 years with a foreword by John Lanchester Christie Malry is a simple person. Born into a...

A tale of murder mystery and Meccano Golden Deeds tells the story of the middle-aged Patrick Mercer, lying unconscious in a hospital bed: of the teenaged Laura Pearse's disappearance and...

"A mesmerizing tale of star-crossed love and of the dark secrets in a fracturing family . . . This novel is so full of wonders that it leaves you haunted,...

Three friends descend upon an art auction in search of some excitement. Mike Mackenzie-retired software mogul, bachelor and fine art enthusiast-wants something that money can't buy. Fellow art-lover Allan Cruickshank...

After teaching and raising her family for most of her life, Agnes Scofield is tired of the routine. But how, at 51, can she establish an identity apart from what...

A romantic comedy with a spiritual twist, Never the Bride will appeal to women readers who enjoy the humorous, girl-in-crisis focused novels of Kristin Billerbeck and Tracey Bateman and classic...

Evelyn is a young woman who has defied convention to become one of the country's pioneer female lawyers. Living at home with her mother, aunt and grandmother, Evelyn is still...

From the international Number One bestselling author of Someone Else's Shoes - thirty years after Lila's father ran away to Hollywood, he's back to wreck - or save - her...

In the very darkest hour, who do you trust, who do you love, and who can be saved? It is 1943 - the height of the Second World War. With...

This is the most extreme and extraordinary read of the year. From one of Britain's most brilliantly talented younger writers comes a novel you will never forget. Savagely funny and...