Modern Fiction (post 1945)

An uplifting novel about finding the courage to let someone you love fly free. It is Christmas, 1940, and Kate is making her debut in New York society. Joe, the...

Written in 1997 when this remarkable author was nearing the end of her life. The woman who presented herself at the offices of the respectable firm of London solicitors was,...

John Emmerson was a lonely man. He had a wife, a son, friends, but he was isolated from all the people and events about him by the tragedy of his...

When young Jinnie Howlett's widowed father, a tinker man, died a pauper, she was indeed fortunate already to be an inmate of a northern workhouse, for with no other relatives,...

A woman coming of age during World War II becomes involved in anti-Nazi espionage--Provided by publisher.

Ninety-nine years of colonial rule are ending as the British prepare to hand over Hong Kong to China. For Betty Mullard and her son, Bunt, it doesn't concern them -...

In the hilarious new novel in the best-selling Detective Varg series, Ulf Varg will need to resolve both a sensitive crime and his own delicate dilemma in the hopes of...

Shortlisted for the Booker Prize Named 'one of the greatest novels of all time' by the Observer With a new introduction by Amanda Craig Freda and Brenda are friends spending...

31st December 1942. In the middle of the North Atlantic, the deadly 'gap' where aircraft cannot protect them, a destroyer and 4 corvettes are shepherding a convoy of ships from...

Eleven-year-old Isabelle hasn't spoken in nine months, and as December begins the situation is getting desperate. Her mother has stopped work to devote herself to her daughter's care. Four psychiatrists...

'Once upon a time, there was a boy who lost his mother . . .' As twelve-year-old David takes refuge from his grief in the myths and fairytales so beloved...

Jane had always lived in somebody's shadow. Escaping a childhood of abuse by marrying oceanographer Oliver Jones, she finds herself taking second place to his increasingly successful career. However, when...

Elfrida Phipps loves her new life in the pretty Hampshire village. She has a tiny cottage, her faithful dog Horace and the friendship of the neighbouring Blundells - particularly Oscar...

When bestselling crime writer Mike Noonan's wife dies, he suffers from writer's block. Until he is drawn from Derry to his lakeside retreat, Sara Laughs - a house once inhabited...

On the day that her youngest child leaves home, Alice Hatton discovers two disturbing truths in a matter of hours. The Empty Nest cliche is absolutely true, and she does...

A compelling look into damaged minds, The Chameleon's Shadow is a psychological thriller from crime queen Minette Walters. When Lieutenant Charles Acland is flown home from Iraq with serious head...

Two friends fall under the spell of a New York beauty - with quite unexpected results. An offhand remark is taken seriously by a Chinese sculptor, and a British diplomat...

We have all witnessed and/or experienced a little of Jay thompson's working life. The clash of personalities, the flirtations, the mundaneness. An office environment under the microscope and at its...

Stoyo Petkanov, the deposed Party leader of a former Soviet satellite country, is on trial. His adversary stands for the new ideals, the leader for the old - or so...

In these parts, he's the law The cowboy code is Matt Granger's trademark as a rancher and law enforcement officer. So when a serial killer targets students in his small...

Cold Case Scandal by Nicole Helm He'll risk everything to keep her safe When Mary Hudson meets Walker Daniels-under gunfire, no less-the cautious cold case investigator becomes entrenched in his...

Closing In On Clues By Julie Anne Lindsey He's the one man she never forgot When her newly sober sister goes missing, Nicole Homes turns to her former lover, PI...

Resolute Investigation By Leslie Marshman His childhood crush is in danger believes that she's innocent-and not just because he's had a crush on her since they were teenagers. As they...

Conard County: Code Adam By Rachel Lee Opposites attract... Newly promoted, Guy Redwing wants Valerie Brighton to stay away from his first case. But the missing child he's searching for...

You didn't mean to do it. It was only once. But someone has to pay . . . In Poppy Page's mind, there are two types of women in this...

Zadie Smith's astonishingly accomplished first novel, available as a Penguin Essential for the first time Early in the morning, late in the century, Cricklewood Broadway One of the most talked...

A writer's epic account of another life, of other choices - of turning fact into extraordinary fiction . . . The fictional narrator of these memoirs, a man of many...

Meet Edith Campbell Berry, the woman all Australian women would like to be. 'Any of Frank Moorhouse's books are rewarding and stimulating. But his trilogy following a young Australian diplomat...

A funny and moving novel based on Lily Brett's time as a rock journalist in London and the States in the sixties. Lola Bensky is a nineteen-year-old rock journalist who...

The year is 1977, and Adrian is nine. He lives with his gran and his uncle Rory; his best friend is Clinton Tull. He loves to draw and he wants...

Daniel Mapplethorpe and Polly Bening are pupils of the enigmatic ballet teacher Romy Lambard. Daniel becomes an internationally acclaimed dancer while Polly chooses to teach Latin. She marries Tim Miller,...

Over the years, readers of Golf magazine have come to know and love Major General (Ret.) Sir Richard Gussett, the raucous imaginary uncle featured in David Feherty's column "Sidespin." In...

One of our most highly regarded Polish writers, Henryk Grynberg, here delivers thirteen authentic tales of the Holocaust, including the riveting title story, which reconstructs the assassination of the celebrated...

Unique novella that captures the mood of Cold war Berlin like no other - worth considering connecting publication in some way with 9th November anniversary of fall of the Berlin...

In her opulent novel, Eva Luna, Isabel Allende uses exquisite prose to describe the survival of a young Latin American woman whose powers as a storyteller bring her friendship and...

1995, Scotland. The prison of Cornton Vale. Laura Brannigan is in jail for murder. For two years she's been battling for justic - insisting that she didn't kill her best...

Barbara Vine's new novel is about blood - blood in its metaphysical sense as the conductor of an inherited title and blood in its physical sense as the transmitter of...

'We agree that we are overworked, and need a rest - a week on the rolling deep? - George suggests the river -' And with the cooperation of several hampers...

Yakada Yaka is the second part of the Burgher trilogy that began with The Jam Fruit Tree When the conquering British roll out the first railway steam-driven locomotive in Sri...

Who are the Burghers? Descended from the Dutch, the Portuguese, the British and other foreigners who arrived in the island-nation of Sri Lanka (and 'mingled' with the local inhabitants), the...