Modern Fiction (post 1945)

'Traces Diana's journey from shy schoolgirl to blushing bride with verve, wit and a dash of foreboding' Daily Mail 'Touching and distinctive' Rachel Hore 'Riveting, revealing, an absolute must-read' Imogen...

Secrets are revealed and forbidden sparks ignited in this sizzling Sunrise Cove tale of enemies to lovers, redemption, missing treasures, and love - by romance superstar and New York Times...

Experimental novel LITTLE BLUE ENCYCLOPEDIA (FOR VIVIAN) tells the unrequited love story of two transwomen. Using humour, meticulous character sketches, memories, and interludes with others who knew Vivian, our narrator...

Steve Honeysuckle has vowed never to marry a non-Christian, but when he realises his attraction to Jillian Davidson, he tries to avoid her but finds himself very involved in her...

It has been nearly two years since the day of the mass disappearances. In one cataclysmic instant, millions all over the globe simply vanished, leaving everything but flesh and bone...

Ria and Marilyn have never met - they live thousands of miles apart, separated by the Atlantic Ocean: one in a big, warm, Victorian house in Tara Road, Dublin, the...

It's almost Christmas. But for Ali the season of good cheer is the anniversary of her baby's death. As she stands at her son's grave, she is poignantly aware of...

On a luxurious Balinese island, the charismatic tycoon Marcus Brand entertains his six godchildren. By the end of the weekend, secrets will be revealed that will change everybody's life, a...

A story of Venice today and Venice in its illustrious past, this novel gives the reader a portrait of the modern-day film world and a clue to the passions behind...

It looks like it is going to be quite a Christmas for Richard Hermes, a Christmas powdered with cocaine and whining with the white noise of urban derangement. Not so...

This satire of Hollywood features King B, an Oscar-winning director who's seen (and filmed) everything, Sid Krassman, a producer who's made a fortune catering to the tastes of the American...

The river can take you home. But the river can also drag you under... 'It's something she learned years ago - the hard way - and that she knows she...

The path to true love doesn't always run smooth - sometimes you have to brave dangerous passions to get there. This collection of stories explores the darker side of love...

Combining her trademark charm with unabashed emotion and side-splitting hilarity, Fannie Flagg takes readers back to Elmwood Springs, Missouri, where the most unlikely and surprising experiences of a high-spirited octogenarian...

By the award-winning author of Team of Rivals and The Bully Pulpit , Wait Till Next Year is Doris Kearns Goodwin's touching memoir of growing up in love with her...

From the acclaimed author of The Worst Thing I've Done and Children and Fire , a stunning story about ordinary people living in extraordinary times--"epic, daring, magnificent, the product of...

The diaryarrived addressed to me, bearing a message: We live forever through ourstories. Tell ours. And so began the author's journeyinto the life and legends of the Naga a forgotten...

"Combine equal parts of Stephen King's Dark Tower series and Chine Mieville's Perdido Street Station, throw in a dash of Aubrey BeardsleyandJ.K. Huysmans, and you'll get some idea of this...

Spring 1915. On a sprawling country estate not far from London a young woman mourns her husband, fallen on a distant battlefield. he isolated and eerie stillness in which she...

Love, tragedy and hope conspire in Paris, when a kiss between two strangers changes everything. Love, tragedy and hope conspire in Paris, when a kiss between two strangers changes everything....

Zola Denise Norwood always knew she'd one day edit her own magazine, but she had no idea it would be so soon. When she spots married media mogul Davis Vincent...

Based on a true story, London Lies Beneath is a compelling historical novel from the award-winning writer Stella Duffy. 'As gloriously alive as the turn of the century south London...

Martin Flint has been hit hard. Two years ago, his young daughter died in an accident, and while he and his wife are learning to cope with the tragedy, it...

So what do you do if you're bored with life? Uproot yourself and move to Japan, land of the rising sun and of opportunity - a country of suspicious-looking food,...

A new holiday classic--six of the most profound Christmas stories by the author of the bestselling Naked and Barrel Fever--is now in a paperback edition perfect for stocking stuffing.

Marnie s schizophrenic father has gone missing.Her sister spends her days sitting on the sofa plucking out her eyelashes, one by one.Something has scared away all the neighbourhood cats and...

At the centre of Tessa Hadley's extraordinary first novel is Clare, a young mother of three, who finds that marriage to a good man no longer satisfies her and embarks...

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER SHORT-LISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE OVER ONE MILLION COPIES SOLD WORLDWIDE The elegant and compelling novel about a Pakistani man's abandonment of his high-flying...

Someday, Someday, Maybe is a story about hopes and dreams, being young in a city, and wanting something deeply, madly, desperately. It's about finding love, finding yourself and, perhaps most...

Lloyd Jones's dazzling novel is set on a Pacific Island ravaged by war. Told through the eyes of young Matilda and drawing on the elusive power of great literature, it...

The Reading Group is the funny, insightful and emotional Number One Bestseller. A must-have story of everywoman, for everywoman . . . A New Year. A New Page. A New...

An entrancing story that is one of the most absorbing examinations of the English in Italy since A Room With A View. Set during one week in springtime Florence, A...

A successful and self-contained novelist, Felix Morsom suddenly gets thrust into the underworld of London's homeless, when a strange woman proclaims him the father of her son and he becomes...