Modern Fiction (post 1945)

It is New Year in paranoid, computer-rich New Tork, and a group of Owners has jet-rotored out to party in O-Zone. In this novel New York is a sealed city...

The discovery of a ten-billion-dollar mountain of platinum in the remote African republic of Zangaro causes Sir James Manson, a smooth, ruthless tycoon, to hire an army of mercenaries, whose...

A moving, powerful and ultimately uplifting story about a family coming to terms with the loss of a child for fans of The Shock of the Fall and Me Before...

Following on from Girl 4 and The Two, Detective Inspector January David is back in a fantastic new thriller. Following on from Girl 4 and The Two, Detective Inspector January...

The new Christmas book from the UK's bestselling saga author It is the autumn of 1945 and identical twins Joy and Gillian Lawrence are on their way home to Liverpool,...

It is six months since Jonathan Ransom foiled the attack on an Israeli jet that threatened to plunge the world into war. He has spent the last six months in...

The wonderful new Liverpool-set saga from the Sunday Times bestselling author Addy and Prue Fairweather live with Nell, their widowed mother, in a flat above her shop on the Scotland...

Imagine a year without Christmas. No crowded shops, no corny office parties, no fruitcakes, no unwanted presents. That's just what Luther and Nora Krank have in mind when they decide...

'Of the novelists who have made their bow since the war she seems to me to be the most remarkable' Raymond Mortimer This is the story of the comic, relentless...

Maurice Bendrix's love affair with his friend's wife, Sarah, had begun in London during the Blitz. One day, inexplicably and without warning, Sarah had broken off the relationship. Two years...

Olivia Giorgiadis has left her English roots behind to find refuge on the tiny Greek island of Halemni. She is married to a Greek man, mother to two small sons....

Daisy Jones and the Six meets Patricia Highsmith in this addictive, intense novel about the brutal and ferocious road to glory, from the award-winning author of My Husband . Ever...

Jane Eyre meets The Thirteenth Tale in this new modern gothic mystery from two-time Mary Higgins Clark Award-winner Carol Goodman, about a reclusive writer who is desperate to rewrite the...

'Inventive, excellent ... a pure pleasure to read' THE TIMES In this compelling debut, an unknowable legacy passes through generations of one family living on the beautiful island of Barbados....

THE NO. 2 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER The Times Popular Fiction Book of the Year 'A heartbreaker of a book' THE TIMES 'Alarmingly relatable' MARIAN KEYES 'Hilarious and profound' DOLLY ALDERTON...

The beloved and bestselling novelist Joanna Trollope's contemporary reworking of Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility launches The Austen Project and is already one of the most talked about books of...

Lose yourself in the magical world of No.1 bestselling author, Cecelia Ahern. Are you taking your life for granted? Lucy Silchester is. She's busied herself with other stuff: friends' lives,...

Everybody's talking - but what's really going on? Rumour has it that Stella Hutton landed her new job thanks to family connections. She's guarded about her past and private about...

The sweep of a century, the hand of history, three women whose lives will never be the same again. As the twentieth century dawns, so begins one of the most...

Love, passion and betrayal will tear one family apart... June 1909, in a large Berlin mansion, cousins Zelda and Vicky are about to meet brothers Berthold and Josef for the...

A fun, feelgood romp of country life from bestselling author Daisy Waugh When the restless, rootless Fanny Flynn lands the job as Head Teacher of Fiddleford Village Primary School it...

The bestselling novel from international literary phenomenon Paulo Coelho, author of The Alchemist . A chance meeting in Rio takes Maria to Geneva, where she dreams of finding fame and...

The country's bestselling saga writer joins HarperCollins with another page-turning drama about struggle and triumph over adversity. The Beachcomber is the story of two people, each with a dream, each...

But nothing in the lives of Rose and her daughters is as it seems, and as plans are made for the party of the decade, the secret heartaches the four...

The battle of the sexes hasn't ended -- it's just moved to suburbia. Now Olivia Goldsmith returns to the trenches in a new novel as unforgettable as The First Wives...

Addressed to Greta is a captivating novel about Greta Jellings, a woman in her thirties trying to find her true self. Working in a pool-chemicals shop since school her dreams...

When an Instagram-famous teenager mysteriously disappears, her mother grapples with the revelation of dark secrets in this twisty, atmospheric thriller-from the author of the "poignant, riveting" (Wendy Walker, author of...

I know that two men are coming up the mountain, at this moment, including the boy from far away. I wonder what my grandson's face will look like.This is a...

In a time of war, what is the shape of love? Saba arrives in an East African refugee camp as a young girl, devastated to have been wrenched from school...

A moving story about survival, forgiveness - and the power of love to heal a wounded spirit. Marine corporal Rick Sudder is home early from Iraq - his tour ended...

'A novel you can read in one sitting that will stay with you forever' Karen Russell 'Very funny, very sad, very sharp, and completely delightful' Elif Batuman The Bradford-Shmulkin family...

You can run from your past, but not from the girls left behind. Nineteen years ago, Ruth-Ann Baker's childhood friend was murdered by convicted killer Ethan Oswald. Haunted by what...

Shortlisted for the Emerging Writer Award, WA Premier's Literary Awards 2025 Shortlisted for the 2025 Ned Kelly Award for Best Debut Crime Fiction Longlisted for Best Designed Commercial Fiction Cover,...

'Brilliant ... So witty and clever.' Elly Griffiths 'Fremlin packs a punch.' Ian Rankin 'Irresistible.' Val McDermid 'Splendid ... Got me hooked.' Ruth Rendell 'A master of suspense.' Janice Hallett...

All the stories in Tales of the Night take place on the night of the 19th March 1929. All show different facets of love -love as violence, love as redemption,...

Four years ago Erin Joyce left Dublin under a cloud and bought a guesthouse in the remote, beautiful village of Dunbarra. The Gatehouse attracts a strange clutch of guests who,...

As he approaches his fortieth birthday, the introverted monk Seido Oda is ordered by his superior to leave behind his peaceful refuge in the remote mountains of Japan and set...

Jack's wife has disappeared. She was in the car when they stopped for gas, he knows that much. He walked back from the counter, and then ? Jack can't remember....

After a car accident Jarred discovers he'll never walk again. Confined to a 'giant roller-skate', he finds himself with neither money nor job, a shoplifting habit, an addiction to painkillers...

A Book of the Decade, 2010-2020 ( Independent ) * One of the New York Times ' '100 Best Books of the 21st Century' A LAUGH-OUT-LOUD SATIRE ABOUT RACE, CLASS...

Long-awaited sequel to the acclaimed A Border Station from the Oscar-nominated screenwriter of My Left Foot. 'The small room was thick with dark blue uniforms. Bull's wool the men called...

The companion novel to Last One Home , International bestselling author brings us another thoughtful and emotional read. How do you move on after your life has fallen apart? When...