Modern Fiction (post 1945)

As the world moves into the twentieth century, Minke, one of the few European-educated Javanese, optimistically starts a new life in a new town: Betawi. With his enrollment in medical...

Reissued in electric new backlist style, Sabbath's Theater is Philip Roth's astounding masterpiece 'A work of near heroic vitality and cunning' Sunday Telegraph At sixty-four Mickey Sabbath is still defiantly...

Translated by Sandra Smith, with an introduction by Patrick Marnham. In 1929, 26-year-old Irene Nemirovsky shot to fame in France with the publication of her first novel David Golder. At...

A brilliant novel of manners following three twentysomething men struggle with the tribulations of work, sex, relationships - and literary fame. A charming yet scathing portrait of young adulthood at...

The New York Times bestseller and basis for the Tony Award-winning hit musical, soon to be a major motion picture starring Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande. With millions of copies...

It's time for a w(h)ine "God, she's funny" - Jilly Cooper 'Oh, for f*ck's sake' muttered Claire under her breath, as she opened the fridge to see what she could...

Don't miss the next emotionally gripping thriller from Sunday Times bestseller Susan Lewis! THE STORY... The first chapter of a manuscript arrives on Publisher Marina's desk. She assumes it's just...

Doris Lessing, one of England's finest living novelists, invites us to imagine a mythical society free from sexual intrigue, free from jealousy, free from petty rivalries: a society free from...

Combining psychological suspense with elements of the ghost story, Shadow Girls is a literary exploration of girlhood by the Booker Prize-shortlisted author of Jamrach's Menagerie . Manchester, 1960s. Sally, a...

'Thrillingly original' - Naoise Dolan 'Exquisite' - Daily Telegraph Twenty years ago, Oona left the island of Inis for the very first time. A wind-blasted rock of fishing boats and...

If everyone is keeping secrets, how will she know who to trust? FROM THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF HOME TRUTHS AND ONE MINUTE LATER You never forget your first...

A young couple on the trip of a lifetime become trapped in a nightmare when they board a stranger's boat. It was supposed to be the trip of a lifetime......

A novel of love undaunted by obstacles, from the bestselling author of The Secrets of Midwives. "You'll shed a few tears as the women try to forge a new life,...

The mayor of Barcelona is being blackmailed. A sex tape from her student days - one she never knew existed. The price: 300,000 euros and her immediate resignation. A political...

From the master storyteller Jeffrey Archer, Heads You Win is the incredible and thrilling novel from the author of the Clifton Chronicles and Kane and Abel. Leningrad, Russia, 1968. Alexander...

Raised by 'Many Mothers' and an eccentric uncle in a crumbling East Ham home, even Yahya Bas's birth is shrouded in myths which his absent father and distant birth mother...

'Dani Atkins is the undisputed queen of fiction that packs a huge emotional punch' heat 'Have your tissues at the ready for this tear jerker of a read' Closer 'Brings...

An extraordinary tale of love, desire and forgiveness from the number one bestselling author of Songs of love and War. Sofia Solanas grows up on a beautiful ranch in the...

An unforgettable novel about childhood, family, conflict and guilt from America's greatest storyteller John Grisham . Thirty years have passed since eleven-year-old Paul Tracy watched his troubled father, Warren, a...

How far would you go to live forever? Brilliant scientist Joe Messenger believes that people can be made to live for ever. Knowing the human body can be frozen indefinitely,...

'I stayed up late, gripped. An unusual, moving read. I LOVED it!' Marian Keyes 'Haunting, tender and true - this story cast a spell on me' Kirsty Logan 'This haunting...

The tenth adventure featuring the husband-and-wife treasure-hunting team Sam and Remi Fargo. The careers and lives of husband-and-wife team Sam and Remi Fargo are on the line in the thrilling...

Divided between her love of the land and the harshness of farming life, young Chris Guthrie finally decides to stay in the rural community of her childhood. Yet World War...

2002, Australia. When Melissa discovers a postcard addressed to 'Desmond' among her recently deceased father's effects, she is determined to discover this person's identity and his relationship to her father....

Just an innocent invitation... When Sophie Ellis is asked to house-sit at a luxurious Knightsbridge townhouse, it appears to be the offer of a lifetime. Drawn into the glittering circle...

Fresia Castillo's father left Chile smuggled in the boot of a car; her mother crossed the Andes by bus with two small children. Fresia, a photographer, has lived all of...

Three women rent a holiday house in Cornwall for the summer. Each brings with her children, baggage (in every sense) and expectations...Imogen, who organised the holiday, is frighteningly capable and...

How would you feel if your best friend at work betrayed you? Was secretly having an affair with an influential colleague? Did you out of a coveted promotion, then teamed...

With tight breeches and loose morals, the horse trials circuit is a hell-for-leather chase across the magnificent parkland of England's finest country estates. Flirtation is compulsory sport; love is a...

DI Kate Burrows thought she'd never face a killer like the Grantley Ripper again. But she was wrong. One by one, children are being abandoned. Thankfully, they're rescued from harm....

Sally, a successful actress, returns to her house in Goatstown from a European tour, just wanting to rest and to see her husband, Charlie, again. When Charlie announces that he's...

It is the sixties and times are changing. Hemlines are getting shorter, stockings are being discarded and women are doing it for themselves. At the advertising agency of Bofinger, Adams,...

A collection of short stories and poems by members of Scribes Writers. Covering a range of topics this engaging collection brings to life the lives and histories of both the...

Several months into his recovery from a near-fatal illness, thirty-four-year-old novelist Sidney Orr enters a stationery shop in the Cobble Hill section of Brooklyn and buys a blue notebook. It...

'A beautiful, compelling artifice, spun from unspeakably savage facts . . . a fiction that faces the terrible truth about slavery' The Times WINNER OF THE COMMONWEALTH PRIZE FOR FICTION...

A timeless love story set in New York's Russian emigre community from a stunningly gifted young novelist. Vaclav and Lena seem destined for each other. They first meet as children...

'One of the feminist novels of 2018' Stylist ' A pacy dystopian thriller' Red Magazine 'Topical, probing and quietly intense - XX is a phenomenal debut' Skinny 'Fantastic - completely...

Lily's epilepsy means she's used to seeing the world in terms of angles -- you look at every surface, you weigh up every corner, and you think of your head...

This is the story of two sisters haunted by the deaths of their parents and separated by the Cuban revolution. Constancia Aguero lives in Miami with her husband. Her sister...

Family, that slippery word, a star to every wandering bark, and everyone sailing under a different sky. i> fter his mother's death, Richard, a newly remarried hospital consultant, decides to...

The Kilburn Social Club is a Premiership football team of opera singers, academics and South African freedom fighters. It s a dream, a club where no one is more equal...

Meet the Hunter family- Adam, a teacher, his wife Kate, and their children Hal, 17 and Charlotte 13. And Prince their black Labrador. It's Prince who is the narrator and...

Downtown, wartime Auckland. Victoria Park is swamped by a vast American military camp and Ponsonby Road is a sometimes wild place of bars, drunken soldiers and brothels. Peter Sokel is...

Named one of the best books of 2021 by NPR , The Washington Post , and Financial Times "No one states problems more correctly, more astutely, more amusingly and more...

An emotionally wrenching work of fiction about a health-care worker who tenders compassion and love to victims of AIDS, by an author who "strips her language of convention to lay...