Modern Fiction (post 1945)

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Author: Coerte V.W. Felske Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 Heyward Hoon is a young screenwriter whose work consistently falls in the honourable category of good-but-not-commercial-enough. About the...

Author: Kate Russo Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 Being lost in a place you know by heart is one of life's most disconcerting feelings Bennett Driscoll is...

Author: David Trueba Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 WINNER OF AN ENGLISH PEN AWARD Dani Mosca is 40 and his father has just died. Fulfilling his father's...

Author: Mary Adkins Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 Carter University: "The Harvard of the South." Annie Stoddard was the smartest girl in her small public high school...

Jeanne is a young woman from rural France. She's a knight who wears men's clothing. The English call her Joan of Arc. Jeanne has led France to victory in epic...

This illustrated who''s who of the goblin wor ld has increased the knowledge of goblins, which hitherto ha d been based upon speculation, thanks to years of painstakin g reconstruction...

Her second semi-autobiographical novel of desire and lust in a new city far from China...According to the author, Marrying Buddha is the continuation of her first novel Shanghai Baby, the...

A radical love story for right now, from 'one of the most gifted writers working today' (New York Times) ***LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2019*** **LONGLISTED FOR THE COMEDY WOMEN...

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 'I can't...

Gaspar is in danger. Only six-years-old, he is frightened he may have inherited the same strange abilities as his father, Juan; a powerful medium who can open locked doors, commune...

Maud Drennan - underpaid carer and unintentional psychic - is the latest in a long line of dogsbodies for the ancient, belligerent Cathal Flood. Yet despite her best efforts, Maud...

Growing up, it was always the three of them: Miller and Olly and Ash. They stuck together, like they were keeping a secret. They needed each other. As teenagers, they...

Meadow Mori and Carrie Wexler grew up together in Los Angeles, and both became filmmakers. Meadow makes documentaries; Carrie makes successful feature films with a feminist slant. They question each...

'A shocking account of extreme violence and its complicated after-effects. It is a vivid and unsettling novel filled with surprises and insights' Ian McGuire, bestselling author of The North Water...

This is the remarkable story of one endearing dog's search for his purpose over the course of several lives. More than just another charming dog story, A Dog's Purpose touches...

Long Island is Colm Toibin's masterpiece: a stunning novel that asks whether it is possible to truly return to the past and reignite a love once thought lost forever. The...

Doors open at 7. The sacrifice is at 9. The dress code is, as usual, black tie. It's the winter solstice in a Philadelphia that has been eroded by extreme...

Jo Morgan's life has been one big preparation for Disaster. As a child she stockpiled baked beans in case of nuclear holocaust - and now every decision she makes is...

India, 1955. As the scars of Partition are beginning to heal, seventeen-year-old Meera sits enraptured: in the spotlight is Dev, singing a song so infused with passion that it arouses...

From the bestselling author of Wimmera comes a compelling literary thriller that shows we all have secrets, but some are deadlier than others. Big city. Deadly secrets. Cities are tough...

After a family tragedy, Laura convinces Terry to take in an African-American foster child. He cautiously enters the Sheldon family circle. Across the street an older couple take Alfred under...

By the end of World War I, in November 1918, Europe's old authoritarian empires had fallen, and new and seemingly democratic governments were rising from the debris. As successor states...

The private letters of Truman Capote, lovingly assembled here for the first time by acclaimed Capote biographer Gerald Clarke, provide an intimate, unvarnished portrait of one of the twentieth century's...

'A TAUT, CLEVER THRILLER THAT LEFT ME UTTERLY BEREFT WHEN I'D FINISHED. IT'S A MASTERPIECE' Louise Jensen, bestselling author of THE SISTER From the author of the million-copy bestseller THE...

A REESE WITHERSPOON BOOK CLUB PICK A BBC 2 BETWEEN THE COVERS BOOK CLUB PICK SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION FUTURES PRIZE AN AMAZON BEST BOOK OF THE...

Daniel tells me that he s always loved me. That I feel the same. That I always have. Not just in this life, but in my last life, and all...

A little girl called Alice. A deaf-mute. A vision. A lady in shimmering white who says she is the immaculate conception. And Alice can suddenly hear and speak, and she...

An unforgettable novel with a fierce, urgent voice, told by an illiterate farmer's daughter in the 1830s 'in this year of our lord eighteen hundred and thirty one i am...

Survivor, genius, perfumer, killer: this is Jean-Baptiste Grenouille. He is abandoned on the filthy streets of Paris as a child, but grows up to discover he has an extraordinary gift:...

With the fierce emotional and intellectual power of such classics as Jean Rhys's Good Morning, Midnight , Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar , and Clarice Lispector's The Hour of the...

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Shipping News, a collection of short stories inspired by the harsh and unforgiving landscape of Wyoming. If he does not force his attention...

A NEW EDITION WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY CLARE MACKINTOSH THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'An utter delight' Sarah Winman 'Quirky, moving and beautifully written' Paula Hawkins 'Vibrant and funny' Guardian Summer,...

A NEW EDITION WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY MAX PORTER WINNER OF THE COSTA BOOK OF THE YEAR 2013 WINNER OF THE SPECSAVERS POPULAR FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR 2014 WINNER...

*GET YOUR COPY OF BRIDGET COLLINS' STUNNING NEW NOVEL, THE SILENCE FACTORY , OUT NOW* LOSE YOURSELF IN THE BREAKOUT SENSATION OF THE YEAR SHORTLISTED FOR WATERSTONES BOOK OF THE...

With more than 30 million copies sold, The Alchemist is one of the best loved and bestselling books in the world. The Zahir, Paulo Coelho's new novel, is a perfect...

A LOVE READING STAR PICK AND BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR 'A gorgeously odd tale about finding yourself again, unexpectedly. If you want a little piece of joy in your...

AVAILABLE NOW FOR PRE-ORDER For the first time since university, James and Roland's paths through life - one drawn in straight lines, the other squiggled and meandering - began to...

In September 1838 a storm blows up on the Indian Ocean and the Ibis, a ship carrying a consignment of convicts and indentured laborers from Calcutta to Mauritius, is caught...

Thursday Next, literary detective and newlywed is back to embark on an adventure that begins, quite literally on her own doorstep. It seems that Landen, her husband of four weeks,...

'A real page turner' SCOTTISH FIELD It's never too late to rewrite your story... Emily Cotton has always dreamed of owning a bookshop, but when her dreams finally become a...