Modern Fiction (post 1945)

A powerful story of love, shocking secrets and malignant forces from the No. 1 bestselling author Josephine Cox. All Jack's life, the nightmares had haunted him, dragging him back to...

Step into the magical world of Cecelia Ahern in this heartwarming bestseller. If you could wish for one gift this Christmas, what would it be? Lou Suffern wishes he could...

WELCOME TO JAMAICA, HAVE A NICE BREAKDOWN. A group of 6 friends converge on the fabled island of Jamaica to compete in a marathon relay swim across treacherous water. Most...

This is a coming-of-age novel about growing up black and gay in Southern California. The lead character, Johnnie Ray Rousseau, is a high-school student upset at losing the lead role...

From the greatest living Irish author, a brilliant and moving novel about fame, sexual power, and a daughter's search to understand her mother's hidden truths 'Written with all the ingenuity...

Miss Ona Vitkus has - aside from three months in the summer of 1914 - lived unobtrusively, her secrets fiercely protected. The boy, with his passion for world records, changes...

Under the direction of famed explorer Porter Stone, an archaeological team is secretly attempting to locate the tomb of King Narmer, an ancient pharaoh unlike any other. And Stone is...

A long-lost experiment of unknown intent. . . A hidden room in a vast seaside estate. . . An investigator marked for danger. . . On a sprawling estate on...

'Clever and compulsive' LOUISE CANDLISH 'I loved it' LEE CHILD 'Devoured in three days' SARAH HILARY 'Totally absorbed me' CASS GREEN 'A bold and brilliant new voice in crime fiction'...

'Gripping and authentic' NEW YORK TIMES 'Heartrending . . . An engrossing read' FINANCIAL TIMES SEVENTEEN YEARS AFTER THE FALL OF THE THIRD REICH Max Weill has never forgotten the...

WINNER OF THE RNA's ROMANTIC COMEDY OF THE YEAR AWARD 2017! 'A wonderful setting , characters you care about, a page-turning plot, laugh-out-loud funny . I loved it' Katie Fforde...

There are no accidents. There is only fate. 1981. Jesse Marley calls herself a realist; she is all about the here and now. But in the month before Charles and...

An O: the Oprah Magazine Best Book of 2017 'Khong is a magician ... Brilliant ' Lauren Groff , author of Fates and Furies 'Khong's first novel sneaks up on...

Sometimes a secret is too big to hide... Jen is a trainee journalist working on Chester's local paper, dreaming of something bigger. Her sister, Helen, is beautiful but damaged, and...

Lifelong introvert Quinn Malone was sick of spending her evenings at home, doing crossword puzzles and watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer re-runs. Successful, smart, and funny, 38-year old Quinn embarks...

Mr Kato - a curmudgeon and recent retiree - finds his only solace during his daily walks, where he wonders how his life went wrong and daydreams about getting a...

In 1912, the SS Birmingham approaches India. On board is Morgan Forster, novelist and man of letters, who is embarking on a journey of discovery. As Morgan stands on deck,...

Traumatized by memories of his war-ravaged country, and with his son and daughter-in-law dead, Monsieur Linh travels to a foreign land to bring the child in his arms to safety....

Escape with Sunday Times bestseller Tasmina Perry into an intoxicating world where games are played to mask the truth, where there is no one you can trust, and where being...

Jem is a joyful mystery to Alice. She is something to give thanks for. And when she disappears from Alice's life, as suddenly as she entered it, a whirl of...

IT S THE CELEBRITY WEDDING OF THE YEAR AND EVERYONE S INVITED! Portia Davenport is officially the luckiest woman in the world. She and her drop-dead gorgeous husband, Andrew, have...

'If you liked Bridget Jones's Diary , try this' BBC News 'So funny and sharp, yet tender and emotional too. I loved it!' Jill Mansell 'I adored The Last Romeo...

This collection of essays and articles - taken from the late-1960s onwards - show Chatwin and every twist and turn of his career, from art expert to archaeologist, to journalist...

Depicting the daily struggle of the individual against a tyrannical dictatorship, We the Living shows the terrible impact of a revolution on three people who demand the right to live...

Elissa R. Sloan, author of The Unraveling of Cassidy Holmes , returns with a sweeping drama about two A-list stars-a former star couple-as they cross each other's paths over and...

White Lotus meets The Guest List in international bestselling author S. C. Lalli's next thrilling novel, where two business moguls were set to be married in the biggest event of...

Before Downton Abbey , there was Abingdon Pryory... The third installment in Phillip Rock's trilogy that came alive with The Passing Bells and continued with Circles of Time, begins with...

From the Sunday Times bestseller comes a buzzy new novel about womanhood, winging it, and the wonders of female friendship **AVAILABLE TO PRE-ORDER NOW** 'Funny, relatable and incredibly entertaining, it's...

FYRE FESTIVAL meets ONE OF THE GIRLS in this psychological thriller with twists you'll never see coming. 'It's the hottest ticket in town. But once you're in, there's no getting...

'Playful, moving and wholly remarkable' Guardian 'A small miracle' New Statesman 'Mastery of craft, resonance and deep feeling on every page' Telegraph An introspective young boy, Joseph Coppock squints at...

The gripping new instalment in the William Warwick series, An Eye for an Eye , is available to pre-order now! 24 hours to stop the crime of the century The...

A witty, wry look at contemporary marriage and relationships, from the author of For Matrimonial Purposes. Priya, growing up in a comfortable home in Delhi, is the youngest of four...

From the author of `Oyster' comes a powerful and gripping literary thriller that is as timely and relevant as it is chilling. Lowell feels contagious with doom. A divorced father...

Following City on Fire and City of Dreams , City in Ruins is the explosive, impossible to put down conclusion to New York Times bestselling author Don Winslow's epic, genre-defining...

Nowhere to run, nowhere to hide - an electrifying, heartpounding, truly unputdownable thriller - a bestselling debut from talented newcomer, Gabriel Bergmoser. 'A truly terrifying, breathlessly exciting novel. It gut...

San Francisco, 1876: a stifling heat wave and smallpox epidemic have engulfed the City. Deep in the streets of Chinatown live three former stars of the Parisian circus: Blanche, now...

Ada is a widowed writer, navigating loneliness in Oxford after the death of her husband. She has no children. No grandchildren. She fears she is becoming peripheral, another invisible woman....

Puglia, Italy, 1921. Leandro returns home now a rich man with a glamorous American wife, determined to make his mark. But how did he get so wealthy - and what...

Russell and Corrine Calloway have spent half their lives in the bright lights of New York. Theirs is the generation that flew too close to the sun on wings of...

There has never been any shortage of business at the Tank, a high-profile firm in Copenhagen. There are round-table meetings to attend, circular memos to write, colleagues to indirectly undermine.But...

A haunting novel about the boundaries people will cross to keep their dreams alive. A mysterious stranger shows up at Riccardo's apartment with some news: his grandmother Perihan has died,...

Prue is convinced her handsome and younger boyfriend is meeting another woman, so she decides to tail him. But so is the boyfriend of the woman he's meeting. Her elder...

Simon Fitzroy-Hunt is English to the core, smarter than most and set on attending Oxford University - until his newly remarried mother drags him to Boston. Simon's new school seems...

It is 1895. Robert Wallis, would-be poet, bohemian and impoverished dandy, accepts a commission from coffee merchant Samuel Pinker to categorise the different tastes of coffee - and encounters Pinker...

'"And the name of the girl through to next week is..." says Stina, and I want to kill her for pausing once again. I want to see her bludgeoned to...

Four ageing Braybrook boys make their annual pilgrimage to the Bluestone Hotel on the anniversary of the West Gate Bridge collapse. Even Dianne has scored an invite his time, but...