Modern Fiction (post 1945)

'Flanagan's enthralling and powerful novel centres on a Slovenian couple, Bojan and Maria Buloh, and their daughter Sonja. The story begins in 1954, when Sonja is three, and ends in...

The adolescent Christopher and his soulmate Toni had sneered at the stifling ennui of Metroland, their cosy patch of suburbia on the Metropolitan line. They had longed for Life to...

In Before She Met Me Julian Barnes unfolds the history of a strange sexual obsession: that of a man for his wife's past. Graham was an historian: he was meant...

When Boady Sanden first receives the case of Elijah Matthews, he's certain there's not much he can do. Elijah, who believes himself to be a prophet, has been locked up...

TV anchorwoman Eliza Blake has a very close following...close enough to kill. She thought she'd found safety. In front of the camera, as anchorwoman for KEY Evening Headlines, she's savvy,...

Set in an isolated, rundown community in the Peruvian Andes, Vargas Llosa's novel tells the story of a series of mysterious disappearances involving the Shining Path guerrillas and a local...

When Chloe Adams' fiance dumps her - the night before their wedding - two girlfriends from her book group decide a little adventure is in order for the three of...

PART OF BARACK OBAMA'S SUMMER READING LIST: 'Those of you who've been waiting for Obreht's next novel won't be disappointed' 'SPECTACULAR' Guardian 'A WONDER' Daily Mail 'SPARKLING' The Times 'EXQUISITE'...

The Bear Boy is a story specific to time and place, and about the dislocation of time and place too. It is set in 1935 at the only moment in...

The wonderful new novel from Booker Prize winner Penelope Lively The wonderful new novel from Booker Prize winner Penelope Lively When . . . Charlotte is mugged and breaks her...

A razor-sharp, gloriously funny retelling of Nancy Mitford's The Pursuit of Love Marooned in a sprawling farmhouse in Norfolk, teenage Linda Radlett feels herself destined for greater things. She longs...

A blistering political critique wrapped up in a murder mystery - from the bestselling author of MIDDLE ENGLAND Post-university life doesn't suit Phyl. Time passes slowly living back home with...

A mesmerising literary debut interwoven with mythology and legend, from an award-winning new talent When Scottie realises she will never become a mother, she leaves her life behind and flees...

From The New York Times bestselling author of Carry the One, a new novel exploring the consequences of a terrible crime Cate is a stage designer in Chicago, caught up...

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,...

Nareen is out of sync with her world in Rahimgani, where her mother, a progressive poet and a feminist, gave her in marriage. She had hoped to spare her daughter...

Meet Chris StarkaEURO*six-feet-four weighing a healthy 300 poundsaEURO*a former player of American football who as he himself is the first to accept think pretty good but don't talk that great...

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...

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,...

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...