Modern Fiction (post 1945)

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...

A haunting love story set against the grim backdrop of fear and violence in Northern Ireland. Set in the Northern Ireland of the 1980's, Cal tells the story of a...

Bold, touching and very, very funny - a debut novel by a brilliant young woman about the coming-of-age of a brilliant young literary man Nathaniel Piven is a rising star...

A tragicomic picaresque about two basketball players travelling through war-torn Hungary in pursuit of food, sex and adventure. Tibor Fischer's hilarious first novel follows the adventures of two young Hungarian...

What happens when your beloved only daughter's friend turns out to be a destructive cuckoo in the nest? When girlish charm turns to seduction and teenage friendship to manipulation. How...

Family begins with a capital eff. I'm wondering how many more f*cking 'phases' I have to endure before my children become civilised and functioning members of society? It seems like...

If you like The Artist you'll love Daisy Waugh's Last Dance with Valentino. One night. One dance. One love to last a lifetime. 1916. Leaving war-ravaged London, Jenny Doyle sets...

For fans of FIFTY SHADES OF GREY; the author of sensational bestseller THE BRIDE STRIPPED BARE returns with a powerful tale of marriage and desire. Smothered by marriage and family,...

Ambitious, exotic, and a classic book club read, 'The Piano Teacher' is a combination of 'Tenko' meets 'The Remains of the Day'. Sometimes the end of a love affair is...

The magical new novel from the number 1 bestselling author of PS, I Love You, Where Rainbows End and If You Could See Me Now. Ever since the day her...

A kooky, quirky, cheeky US debut. Eliza Naumann, a seemingly unremarkable eleven-year-old, expects never to fit into her gifted family: her father, Saul, absorbed in his study of mysticism; her...

George Washington's slave Caesar escapes to fight for the British against his former master - in this action-packed historical adventure set against the spectacular background of the American Revolution. In...

'A blockbuster...a rich, moving and altogether stunning first novel. Readers will find this compelling and heartbreaking story -- sure to be compared to The Good Mother -- impossible to put...

Brilliant stories from the hyper-real world of Weldonia. Brilliant stories from the hyper-real world of Weldonia, where self-deception rules; where a bully can believe he's a victim; a blackmailer see...

'Let's say I was born when I came over the George Washington Bridge...'This is how we meet unforgettable Tess, the twenty-two-year-old at the heart of this stunning first novel. Shot...

'Watch your step. Keep your wits about you; you will need them . . .' So begins this irresistible voyage into the dark side of Victorian London. Amongst an unforgettable...

When life in the fast lane threatens to implode...Melanie Hunt's job working for the Delta racing team means she is constantly rubbing shoulders with Formula One superstars in glamorous locations...

Charlie Johnson is 13 and in her first year of high school. She loves her family, netball and Liam, the cute guy who sits next to her in Science-but most...

From Australia's favourite storyteller with new novel Arcadia out now. "Rain Music is utterly compelling." West Australian "Morrissey's beautifully crafted story celebrates history and nature." Australian Women's Weekly Rain Music...

"A literary star is born." Australian Women's Weekly 'He found an egg at the park so he incubated it and this tortoise hatched out.' Skye's sixteen, and her mum's got...

From the winner of St Jordi Prize. The perfect combination of literary fiction & feminist journalism. A warm-hearted ode to female friendship. "Set in vibrant, multilingual Barcelona, Ruiz Pala's Wenling's...

The winter of 1799 is falling fast on the small Ohio Territory settlement of Hugh's Lick. Food is scarce, and relations with the Delaware tribe are strained, but things are...

A prehistoric corpse entombed within an Arctic glacier, crying tears of blood. A jungle island overrun by rabid primates - escapees from a research laboratory's Hot Zone. A massive seaplane...

Set during the Second World War in Liverpool, this is a wonderful Maureen Lee tale - written specially for the World Book Day Quick Reads promotion. On 3 September 1939,...

Friendship, a newcomer - and romance ... from the author of THE VILLAGE GREEN AFFAIR. When Seb joins Barleybridge, the last thing on his mind is romance. Keen to settle...

Prep meets The Virgin Suicides in a haunting c oming-of-age story for the digital generation and an examination of the hypocrisy of small town life, where no one quite knows...

Micaela Godfrey's life is thrown into disarray after the death of her unborn child; she loses faith in her God and her marriage falls to apathy and emptiness. What she...

Why did he return to Beirut? Why did Karim leave his wife and children and the life he had built in France to return to a homeland still reeling from...

When Elizabeth and her Italian husband Roberto decide to leave London for romantic Italy and his family business, Elizabeth hopes the change in lifestyle might help boost her chances of...

A gripping novel of passion, intrigue and ambition, set against the backdrop of 1950s Britain in the popular tradition of Kate Morton. Cambridge, 1952. When Ellen Kingsley embarks upon an...

Once a fortnight, the nomadic settlement of Madidima, set deep in the dusty Kenyan desert, awaits the arrival of three camels laden down with panniers of books. This is the...

An Englishman's home is his castle. Or at least it should be. But as Anthony Anscombe surveys Winchford Priory, his beautiful Elizabethan house in Oxfordshire, lurking in the village are...

Ada Williams was once an ambitious woman who believed money and power would bring her happiness. But now, she is all alone in the world except for her greedy, bitter...

Nicholas Spencer, charismatic head of the medical research company Gen-Stone, involved in the development of an anticancer vaccine, suddenly disappears. His private plane crashes, but his body is not found....