Modern Fiction (post 1945)

Winner of the 2014 Miles Franklin Award Winner of the 2014 Miles Franklin Award Who or what is watching Jake Whyte from the woods? Jake Whyte is the sole resident...

In The Chemistry of Tears Peter Carey delivers a heartbreakingly beautiful and archly inventive story of love, loss and the birth of the machine age. When her lover dies suddenly,...

Rediscover H.G. Wells - what does he mean to you? A successful author and Liberal MP with a loving and benevolent wife, Richard Remington appears to be a man to...

Brought up in a stifling, emotionless home in the north of England, Clara finds freedom when she wins a scholarship and travels to London. There, she meets Clelia and the...

First time in Modern Classics Claudia Hampton, a beautiful, famous writer, lies dying in hospital. But, as the nurses tend to her with quiet condescension, she is plotting her greatest...

"In a decade marked, much like our own, by simple fears, John Wyndham refused to make simple metaphors". -M John Harrison. A world paralyzed by genetic mutation- Wyndham takes the...

A heartbreaking stunner of a novel from the UK's biggest-selling writer of women's fiction "I employ this thing called The Shovel List." "A shovel...?" "No. A Shovel List. It's more...

The 'invisible man' is the unnamed narrator of Ralph Ellison's blistering, impassioned novel of black lives in 1940s America. Defeated and embittered by a country which treats him as non-being,...

'Junk is not, like alcohol or weed, a means to increased enjoyment of life. Junk is not a kick. It is a way of life.' William Burroughs, legendary drug addict,...

Agnostic theologian Bernard Walsh has a professional interest in heaven. But, when he travels to Hawaii with his father, Jack, it is not in quest of a vacation paradise; it...

"Hey there, Georgy Girl ..." She is young, gregarious and fun. She is also large, self-confessedly ugly and desperate for love. Loyal to her selfish, beautiful flat mate Meredith, Georgy...

It is the Swinging Sixties, and Rosamund Stacey is young and inexperienced at a time when sexual liberation is well on its way. She conceals her ignorance beneath a show...

'The best book I've read about football and working-class culture in Britain in the nineties. Buy, steal or borrow a copy now' Irvine Welsh The Football Factory centres on Tom...

The fully authorised chilling sequel to Susan Hill's bestselling ghost-story, The Woman in Black, released in 2012 as a film featuring Daniel Radcliffe. This is the book the follow-up film...

On the coach, Lev chose a seat near the back and he sat huddled against the window, staring out at the land he was leaving ...' Lev is on his...

The searing new novel from million copy bestseller Robert Goolrick. A heart-stopping tale of obsession and forbidden love. For fans of The Help, Tigers in Red Weather and The Great...

He's coming to get you. The fifth thriller in the compelling Byrne and Balzano series from the Sunday Times bestseller. It is fall in Philadelphia and the mutilated body of...

A wonderful, panoramic novel and an achingly poignant love story from the bestselling author of Suite Fran aise. From the author of the bestselling Suite Fran aise. Ada grows up...

What happens when a psychic tells Lucy that she'll be married within the year? Her flatmates panic! What is going to happen to their blissful existence of eating take-away, drinking...

A striking and joyous new look for the novels of one of the greatest storytellers of our time 'A skilful novel by a writer in full flight from the obvious'...

Pulling a handbag from a pushchair handle, two teenage trouble-makers, Zipp and Andreas, unwittingly commit murder when the baby inside is thrown to the ground. Unaware of what has happened,...

'Bruising and brilliant. This is a great river of a book. Magnificent... Unique' Independent Growing up in sixties Oslo, Barnum lives with an extended, eccentric family and his older half-brother,...

Terrors they are,these lads of the LyceeCondorcet, and make no mistake - the terrors of the Fifth...where the tenebrous instincts of childhood still predominate..." At home, Paul shares a private...

'By any standard this is a considerable novel' Sunday Telegraph From the moment that Gjorg's brother is killed by a neighbour, his own life is forfeit. The code of Kanun...

Murdoch's only historical novel, set in Ireland in 1916 on the eve of the Easter Rebellion in Dublin As the Easter Rebellion looms, tension mounts in the rain-soaked streets of...

The sleepy town of Heartsdale, Georgia, is jolted into panic when Sara Linton, paediatrician and medical examiner, finds Sibyl Adams dead in the local diner. As well as being viciously...

An unmissable compendium and ideal introduction to one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century. The Essential Hemingway is the perfect introduction to the astonishing, wide-ranging body of work...

The third novel in the epic Masters of Rome series. Fortune's Favourites witnesses the power, mastery and cunning of two enigmatic rulers of Rome - Sulla, returning from exile, and...

A witty, elegant comedy of errors to rival any of Shakespeare's Edmund has escaped from his family into a lonely life. Returning for his mother's funeral he finds himself involved...

Bram Stoker's timeless gothic tale, now available as a Harper Perennial Olive Edition. Originally published in 1897, Dracula is one of the most enduring and influential works of literature ever...

Bestselling French author of psychological suspense Karine Giebel makes her American debut with this dark and haunting novel about the unbreakable bond between two brothers, both treated unfairly by the...

"Reading Marcy Dermansky's Bad Marie is like spending a rainy afternoon in a smaller, older movie theater watching a charming French movie with a woman (or a man) you've just...

There's a 5* Christmas mystery unfolding at The Regency Grand Hotel... Full of charm and feel-good festive cheer, The Mistletoe Mystery short story is the perfect stocking-filler this Christmas! ____...