Modern Fiction (post 1945)

Tim Winton's classic novella about the insidious grip of fear. In the Winter Dark is spellbinding. Tim Winton's classic novella about the insidious grip of fear. In the Winter Dark...

**Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature** The brilliant new collection of stories by the winner of the 2009 Man Booker International Prize **Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature**...

An enchanting story about what it means to live in the present, and about the curious equations that can create a family where one before did not exist. He is...

'This book has one of the most charismatic narrators I've ever met' J K Rowling 'This book has one of the most charismatic narrators I've ever met' J K Rowling...

'The last major event in the history of the novel' Italo Calvino In this ingenious book Perec creates an entire microcosm in a Paris apartment block. Serge Valene wants to...

In the sixth book in James Patterson's NYPD Red series, the wedding of the century invites the most brazen kidnapper in New York City to make the bride disappear. At...

A beautiful new Vintage Classics edition to celebrate the 15th anniversary of this wise, blackly funny, radically imaginative novel Discover this wise, blackly funny, radically imaginative novel that has sold...

Woolf's innovative modernist novel Tracing the lives of a group of friends, this novel follows their development from childhood to middle age. While social events, individual achievements and disappointments form...

First published in 1948, Cry The Beloved Country stands as the single most important novel in twentieth-century South African literature. Cry the Beloved Country is the deeply moving story of...

A new hardback edition of Fitzgerald's brilliant and most famous novel Jay Gatsby is the man who has everything. But one thing will always be out of his reach ......

A new classics edition of this enduringly popular novel. It is 1941 and Captain Antonio Corelli, a young Italian officer, is posted to the Greek island of Cephallonia as part...

Introduced by Brenda Niall This remarkable novel, first published to a chorus of acclaim in 1952, is one of the lost classics of Australian literature. Martin Boyd is a deeply...

A magnificent new novel from the bestselling, award-winning author of An American Marriage-a novel about mothers and daughters, about friendship and sisterhood. An Oprah Book Club Pick. New York Times...

A mind-expanding space opera from one of Germany's most acclaimed science-fiction writers In the dusty wastes of a far-flung planet, strange artisans toil. Like their fathers before them, they tie...

'The greatest find in American crime fiction since Raymond Chandler' Sunday Times Jackson's woman has found him a foolproof way to make money - a technique for turning ten dollar...

A classic novel exploring loneliness and the nature of connection, from the bestselling author of Bad Behaviour Dorothy Never - fat - lives alone in New York, spending her days...

Dazzling new short stories from Salman Rushdie that transport us around the world from Bombay neighbourhoods to elite English universities, in his first new fiction since Victory City If old...

Over a hot summer in New York a painter falls for a priest, in this captivating modern love story from the Booker-Prize shortlisted Brandon Taylor Over a hot summer in...

Haruki Murakami's third novel, A Wild Sheep Chase is the mystery hybrid which completes the odyssey begun in Hear the Wind Sing and Pinball, 1973. Haruki Murakami's third novel, A...

The new paperback series- Penguin English Library 'Every night as I gazed up at the window I said softly to myself the word paralysis. It had always sounded strangely in...

Bridget Jones, the world's favourite singleton, is back with a bump in the irresistible Sunday Times bestseller. 'Bridget is a creation of comic genius' NICK HORNBY 8.45 P.M. Realise there...

How do you find the courage to make your own life? An electrifying novel about first love set in 1960s London and Paris from multiple bestseller, Rose Tremain 'Gorgeous' Observer...

THE DESTINATION READ OF THE YEAR. Your paradise awaits ... Travel far enough and you might just find yourself - on the world's most remote tropical island 'I can't think...

A gripping tale of love, betrayal, and two clashing cultures, from the Booker-shortlisted author; now a Penguin Essential 'My mother died twice. I promised myself I would not let her...

A stunning debut novel charting the coming-of-age of a young gay man in 2010s Nigeria, from a young rising star in literary fiction When Obiefuna's father witnesses an intimate moment...

You do not mess with Reacher, in Lee Child's irresistible number one bestseller. You do not mess with Jack Reacher. He is as close to untraceable as a person can...

FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF A GENTLEMAN IN MOSCOW, THE LINCOLN HIGHWAY AND RULES OF CIVILITY THE SUNDAY TIMES AND NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF A...

Submission is the highly-anticipated new novel from the internationally bestselling French writer Michel Houellebecq As the 2022 French Presidential election looms, two candidates emerge as favourites- Marine Le Pen of...

What if what could have been is still to come? MIX TAPE is the novel that's taken the media by storm- 'Fantastic, moving, beautiful' Daily Mail; 'A nostalgic delight' Sunday...

IT WAS NEVER SUPPOSED TO BE MURDER . . . Pensioner Felix Pink is about to find out that it's never too late for life to go horribly wrong. Perfect...

Number One bestselling author Sophie Kinsella's irresistible new standalone- a story of love, empowerment and an IOU that changes everything . . . The irresistible standalone from Sophie Kinsella is...

Red Dog is a West Australian, a lovable friendly red kelpie who found widespread fame as a result of his habit of travelling all over Western Australia, hitching rides over...

This summer, meet Sadie Smith- seductive, cunning and going undercover - the Booker-shortlisted, wickedly entertaining New York Times bestseller This summer, meet Sadie Smith- seductive, cunning and going undercover -...

For fans of The Doll Factory and The Familiars, a gemlike novel set in a Parisian asylum in 1885 about two women - one deemed mad, the other sane -...

From the number one bestselling author of Miss Austen, a powerful and moving novel featuring Jane Austen's closest friend and confidante ... Early evening, 1804- Anne Sharpe arrives at Godmersham...

Explore the life of the eccentric dungeon master and the outcast extraordinaire of Hawkins - Eddie Munson - in this official Stranger Things novel. Two years before the events of...

A bitingly honest, darkly funny debut novel about a toxic relationship and secret female desire, from an emerging star of Irish literature SHORTLISTED FOR THE SUNDAY TIMES YOUNG WRITER OF...

The first of two new interconnected novels from bestselling, Booker Prize-shortlisted author Ali Smith O brave new world, that has such people in't. Once upon a time not very far...

WINNER OF THE 2015 COSTA NOVEL AWARD AND BESTSELLING LITERARY PAPERBACK OF 2016- NOW INCLUDING AN EXCLUSIVE SAMPLE FROM KATE ATKINSON'S NEW NOVEL TRANSCRIPTION. WINNER OF THE 2015 COSTA NOVEL...

The dazzling new novel from the bestselling author of The Boy In The Striped Pyjamas. September 1919- Twenty-year-old Tristan Sadler takes a train from London to Norwich to deliver a...

The Sunday Times bestseller. They raised themselves on stories. Now it's time for them to write their own... This is the story of an old English manor house by the...

The chronicler of contemporary London, acclaimed and bestselling author Zadie Smith, returns with her first historical novel Truth and fiction. Jamaica and Britain. Who gets to tell their story? In...

Newly repackaged edition of the first in the iconic Bernie Gunther Berlin series. Bernhard Gunther is a private eye, specializing in missing persons. And in Hitler's Berlin, he's never short...

First time in Black Classics for Forster's story of Anglo-Indian society under the Raj. Featuring a new introduction by novelist Pankaj Mishra. When Adela and her elderly companion Mrs Moore...

The first novel in the Bernard Samson series is a dazzling return to Deighton's world of Cold War espionage Embattled agent Bernard Samson is used to being passed over for...

A powerfully tender portrait of a single mother in 1970s Tokyo. 'Wonderfully poetic ... extraordinary freshness ... a Virginia Woolf quality' Margaret Drabble Territory of Light is the radiant story...

Evelyn Waugh's hilarious debut novel, with an introduction by Barbara Cooke Sent down from Oxford for indecent behaviour, Paul Pennyfeather is oddly unsurprised to find himself qualifying for the position...

Reissue of the unforgettable novel from Top Ten bestseller Lisa Jewell, with a fabulously refreshed cover perfect for the psych-susp market. ____________________________ You think you have the perfect life. You're...