Modern Fiction (post 1945)

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Beautiful Disaster-- now a major motion picture--a gorgeously wrought novella that reveals how Abby Abernathy unexpectedly became Mrs. Maddox. What do...

If she is a monster then what am I? The haunting Sunday Times Top 10 Bestseller. 'I think she pushed him,' I said to you quietly. 'I think she pushed...

*DON'T MISS OUT - STUNNING LIMITED FIRST EDITION WITH JIGSAW PIECE CUT-OUT AVAILABLE FOR A LIMITED TIME ONLY!* THE INSTANT TOP FIVE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER! 'Utterly beautiful. I adored it'...

THE NO.1 SUNDAY TIMES AND NEW YORK TIMES HARDBACK BESTSELLER * A DISCOVERY OF WITCHES is soon to be a major TV series - immerse yourself in the ALL SOULS...

It's been a while, but Lara Carson's back in Bath and lives are set to change as a result. Because Lara left her family and boyfriend Flynn eighteen years ago...

When Ellie Kendall tragically loses her husband she feels her life is over. But eventually she's ready for a new start at work, that is. She doesn't need a new...

Two women from different worlds, betrayed by the same man - they soon discover just how sweet revenge can be . . . Lita and Rebecca's lives couldn't be more...

One woman's search for her true identity - when she discovers there s more to life than manicures and charity balls; there's passion, ambition and revenge Rich and beautiful, Diana...

A stunning new package for this Sunday Times Top Ten bestselling author. Alex, 27, single and bored out of her mind with her mundane job, shares a flat with three...

January 1992. A baby girl is left alone for a moment. Long enough for a mother to dash into a shop. Long enough for a child to be taken. Thirteen...

A deliciously engaging romantic novel from the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Wedding of the Year and Promise Me Nell O'Driscoll has known Marcus Kilburton for years - according...

Sheila O'Flanagan's bestseller BAD BEHAVIOUR is an irresistible tale of friendship, love and sweet revenge, not to be missed by readers of Lisa Jewell and Marian Keyes. Reviewers love Sheila's...

A sweet, funny and romantic novel from the Sunday Times No. 1 bestseller. Lola has no intention of accepting when her boyfriend Dougie's snobbish mother offers her 10,000 to break...

1913. Diaghilev s Ballets Russes premieres Stravinsky s 'Rite of Spring' in Paris. The infamous first-night proves to be an electric experience for one member of the audience, the young...

Set in the aftermath of the Gulf War, Dominique Sigaud's first novel tells the story of an American soldier, a casualty of the war, through a series of linked episodes...

Edinburgh is about to become the home of the first Scottish parliament in nigh on 300 years. As political passions run high, DI John Rebus is charged with liaison, thanks...

THE NEW RECTOR, TALK OF THE VILLAGE and VILLAGE MATTERS are the first three volumes in the Turnham Malpas series. Rebecca Shaw's novels have been described as 'The Archers with...

Life is anxious for the Taylor family, as it is for everyone in Portsmouth during the early days of 1941. The worst happens on January 10th, when the Luftwaffe unleashes...

A rich man dies and leaves all his money in trust for his son and daughter. But one of his trustees is his estranged ex-wife, and to her he leaves...

'Up there with BIG LITTLE LIES and DESPERATE HOUSEWIVES' Claire Allan 'Divinely original . . . this rollicking tale is sure to win Gina LaManna new fans' Publisher's Weekly None...

Ten years ago, intelligence officer Jordan Weiss's life was turned upside down when her college boyfriend Jared drowned. But in a shocking discovery, Jordan realises that she has been lied...

FROM THE MASTER STORYTELLER WHOSE BOOKS HAVE TOUCHED THE HEARTS OF OVER 40 MILLION READERS 'Mitch Albom sees the magical in the ordinary' Cecilia Ahern __________ Banished for centuries, as...

Belfast, the 1960s. When Tess Maguire and her best friend Agnes Quinn get free tickets to see the Rolling Stones, there is nothing that will stop them from going to...

THE BOOK- A woman of fifty-eight, meets an illusionist - the Illusionist - on a train. At first, life is blissfully sweet, but when her first novel turns brings overnight...

As West German society increasingly took on a gloss of economic well-being, Boll's trenchant novesl cut through the sleek outward show to reveal festering fears and suppurating physic states excluding...

On a moonlit night in 1903, a mysterious young woman flees alone across the Canadian wilderness, one quick step ahead of her pursuers. Mary Boulton is nineteen years old, half...

This rich story collection will be a reminder to Nadine Gordimer's countless admirers, and a taster for the uninitiated, of her enduring imaginative power. A woman gauges the state of...

One of the world's most celebrated authors, Margaret Atwood has penned a collection of smart and entertaining fictional essays, in the genre of her popular books "Good Bones" and "Murder...

In occupied Paris, Karl Bazinger, a German officer, has realised that he can no longer ignore the war. An adventurer, traveller, the perfect guest, Karl has always avoided politics for...

A retired English doctor, in solitary widowhood, makes a pilgrimage through the life and art of Gustave Flaubert, whose work he has always venerated. As he meditates on his passion,...

Looking back, it seemed like paradise; lives filled with the blessings of friendship, marriage, children, and career. For twenty years, four friends Chris, Barbara, Susan, and Vicki shared everything through...

Can your guiltiest secret ever be buried? Nathan has never been able to forget the worst night of his life: the party that led to the sudden, shocking death of...

A beautiful book of simple yet powerful wisdom for anyone who loved THE SECRET or THE CELESTINE PROPHECY, by the author of THE ALCHEMIST. 'Only he who gives up is...

Five brilliant and ambitious friends. Where has life taken them twenty years on? Five brilliant and ambitious friends. Where has life taken them 20 years on?Old friendships are expected to...

In a marketplace in Afghanistan, a son watches his father die at the hands of the Taliban. Karis Mazari knows he must flee his homeland if he is to have...

Setagaya ward, Tokyo. Inspector Kosuke Iwata, newly transferred to Tokyo's homicide department, is assigned a new partner and a secondhand case. Blunt, hard as nails and shunned by her colleagues,...

Winner of the 1969 American Library Assoc.'s first Gay Book Award One of the "Best 100 Best Gay and Lesbian Novels of All Time" (Publishing Triangle) Set in the nineteenth...

Missionary Amen Morley arrives on a tropical island to find a community largely untouched by the modern world. A magnet for eccentric characters, the island paradise soon becomes a hotspot...

This is the story of Jamie Ray Griffin, a young black man who by virtue of his talent on the football field, finds himself suddenly thrust into a white world...

One of the sinuous and subtly crafted stories in Tobias Wolff's new collection--his first in eleven years--begins with a man biting a dog. The fact that Wolff is reversing familiar...

To American soldiers in Vietnam, "back in the world" meant America and safety. To Tobias Wolff's characters, Back in the World is where lives that have veered out of control...

This dazzling anthology, edited and introduced by Dermot Bolger, is a splendidly comprehensive and up-to-the-minute collection of the finest recent fiction from a nation of master storytellers. This collection of...