Modern Fiction (post 1945)

'A superbly told tale of folklore-infused fantasy, full of rising dread, set in a sharply observed Australian outback town.' Garth Nix Strange what chooses to flourish here. Which plants. Which...

'Brewin reminds us we shouldn't take anything for granted, and that change is always possible.' KYD on Hello, Goodbye Rosie Larson doesn't trust people - and with good reason. Her...

Uplifting, funny and heartwarming- the story of a woman finding herself let down and alone at 40 and deciding to make some of life's big choices on her own terms....

The Frenchman's Love-Child Tabby fell in love with Christien Laroche, but then tragedy struck and Christien wanted nothing more to do with her. How could Tabby confess to the arrogant...

'It never stops being a page-turner . . . a great debut' Colum McCann 'A terrific debut novel, bold and wise, each page lit with wit and with feeling' Jonathan...

This Was a Man is the seventh and final, captivating instalment of the Clifton Chronicles from master storyteller Jeffrey Archer. This Was a Man opens with a shot being fired,...

Maggie Storm promises herself that she will stand up for herself more. She spends her days cleaning houses for people who often have more money than manners. Married to a...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2013. From Subhash's earliest memories, at every point, his brother was there. In the suburban streets of Calcutta where they wandered before dusk and...

Maya is living her dream in Vienna. First violinist with the prestigious Habsburg Philharmonic, her days are filled with music, her nights with wild parties and passionate, no-strings-attached sex with...

Dwight B. Wilmerding is only twenty-eight, but he's having a midlife crisis. He lives a dissolute existence in a tiny apartment with three (sometimes four) slacker roommates, holds a mind-numbing...

Lola has no intention of accepting when her boyfriend Dougie's snobbish mother offers her 10,000 to break up with him. Then she discovers a secret that makes her think again....

Seventeen-year-old Veronica 'Ronnie' Miller's life was turned upside-down when her parents divorced and her father moved from New York City to Wilmington, North Carolina. Three years later, she remains angry...

Emilia and Luzia dos Santos, orphaned when they are children, grow up under the protection of their aunt in the hillside village of Taquaritinga, Brazil. Raised as seamstresses, the sisters...

For the past thirteen years, as England became an increasingly unhappy and fearful place, Prince Charles has been living quietly on a bleak council estate, The Flower Exclusion Zone (known...

The book titled A Tangled Web by the author Judith Michael. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Jenny Porter spends her life sorting out other people's problems. But when one of her clients asks her to go to Scotland to do some hands-on investigation into a woollen...

Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature 'Saturated with sympathy and sense of place, the book charts a boy's journey into manhood and Turkey's into irreversible change' Financial Times 'An...

The book titled The Men and the Girls by the author Joanna Trollope. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Comic apocalyptic satire by the No. 1 bestselling author. SMALL, WELL APPOINTED FUTURE. SEMI DETACHED. If the end of the world is nigh, then surely it's only sensible to make...

Ex-SAS, ex-Black Ops, Nick Stone returns and this time he wants vengeance. At any cost. Betrayed and left for dead high in the Alps, Nick Stone is in trouble. The...

An unforgettable, evocative historical novel where love and fate collide. One life-changing war. A love story that would echo across the decades... On the cusp of the Second World War...

A magical story told with stunning simplicity and power. The time is the 1950s, when life was simpler, people still believed in dreams, and family was, very nearly, everything. The...

Kris Longknife is a daughter of privilege, born to money and power. Her father is the Prime Minister of her home planet, her mother the consummate politician's wife. She's been...

When his daughter, Becky, becomes ill from bacterial poisoning, Dr. Kim Reggis, a cardiac surgeon, is determined to track down the cause, no matter what the cost.

When a plot of land is being developed in Vermont against the will of a local Native American tribe, strange things begin to happen - and Ross Wakeman, a paranormal...

The book titled Desert Rain by the author Elizabeth Lowell. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

'With a dull but awful roar, the Mirage bloomed with dark crimson flame and sooty black smoke, the wind ripped flames outwards in great streamers and pennants that engulfed all...

Melanie Stryder refuses to fade away. The earth has been invaded by a species that take over the minds of their human hosts while leaving their bodies intact, and most...

The Reluctant Fundamentalist is the award-winning international bestseller by Mohsin Hamid. NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING KATE HUDSON AND KIEFER SUTHERLAND SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2007 'Excuse...

Another blockbuster from one of the nation's best-loved storytellers picks up from where the Number One bestseller Belle left off . . . War threatens to take all she has...

New York Times Bestseller - Winner of the Ribalow Prize, awarded by Hadassah Magazine An estranged mother and daughter reunite to confront their family's role in World War II in...

Step into Alliott country . . . 'If I'm being totally honest I had fantasized about Phil dying.' When Poppy Shilling's bike-besotted, Lycra-clad husband is killed in a freak accident,...

A novel, in which Charles Gould returns to South America determined to make a success of the inheritance left to him by his father, the San Tome mine. But his...

From the Sunday Times no.1 bestselling author, a brilliant page-turning new thriller that will keep you gripped and guessing until the very last page. \"Tony Parsons puts you right there...

Another riveting tale from one of the UK's best loved saga writers, Katie Flynn. Spring 1913, and seventeen-year-old Evie Murphy is leaving her native Ireland for the city of Liverpool...

An extraordinary debut novel by a young writer of remarkable gifts **FROM THE AUTHOR OF 2024 BOOKER PRIZE WINNING ORBITAL** It's Jake's birthday. He has lost his wife, his son...

A compelling novel of revenge told with wit and skill. A thrilling novel inspired by the Count of Monte Cristo from British actor, comedian, author, presenter, journalist and national treasure,...

A striking and joyous new look for the novels of one of the greatest storytellers of our time 'Her brilliance in capturing the ripples on the surface of family life...

A novel of ideas - comical, historical, frightening and unputdownable. A mind-bending, time travelling comedy from British actor, comedian, author, presenter, journalist and national treasure, Stephen Fry. _______ Michael Young...

*PRE-ORDER YOUR COPY OF BRIDGET COLLINS' STUNNING NEW NOVEL, THE NAKED LIGHT * The Sunday Times bestseller, from the author of The Binding 'Utterly original... ensnared me from the very...

Another stunning novel by the author of The Alchemist. Aleph marks a return to Paulo Coelho's beginnings. In a frank and surprising personal story, one of the world's most beloved...

Forty years ago, the world was introduced to Emma Harte. Now meet M, a new woman of substance guaranteed to win our hearts all over again. A new era has...

A breathtaking collection of reflections from one of the world's best loved storytellers, Paulo Coelho. In this riveting collection of thoughts and stories, Paulo Coelho, the author of 'The Alchemist',...

A stunning story from a master storyteller, published for the first time in an adult edition. Both a love story and a deeply moving account of the horrors of the...