Modern Fiction (post 1945)

Author: John Mortimer Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 New to Penguin Modern Classics, the very first selection of stories featuring the irrepressible Rumpole. Horace Rumpole, the old...

Author: Raymond Chandler Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 672 Raymond Chandler was America's preeminent writer of detective fiction, and this Penguin Modern Classics edition of The Big Sleep...

Author: Philip Hensher Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 A spectacular treasury of the best British short stories published in the last twenty years. We are living in...

Author: Iain M Banks Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 327 Eighteen-year-old Kit is weird: big, strange, odd, socially disabled, on a spectrum that stretches from "highly gifted" at...

Author: Alice McDermott (Johns Hopkins University) Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 181 A Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award It is high summer, the...

Author: Peter Stamm Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 144 Christoph, an older man who is a writer, has a story to share with Lena, a younger woman who is an...

Author: Matt Haig Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 Philip Noble is an eleven-year-old in crisis. His pub landlord father has died in a road accident, and his...

Author: Miranda Emmerson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 A story of class and corruption, sex and the Sixties, for fans of A Very English Scandal and The...

Author: Emma Hannigan Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 The Heart of Winter by Emma Hannigan, author of the Irish Top Ten bestseller The Summer Guest, delivers a...

Author: Anthony Burgess Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 A sharply written satire, Honey for the Bears sends an unassuming antiques dealer, Paul Hussey, to Russia to do...

Author: Cecelia Ahern Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 The long-awaited sequel to the international bestseller PS, I Love You. The PS, I Love You Club. These are...

Author: Julia Crouch Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 464 The Wayland family - Lara and Marcus and their three children - leave England to spend a long, hot...

Author: Bev Thomas Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 'Taut, absorbing and psychologically astute, in A Good Enough Mother Bev Thomas combines all the tension of a thriller...

Author: Haruki Murakami Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 A narrative particle accelerator that zooms between Wild Turkey Whiskey and Bob Dylan, unicorn skulls and voracious librarians, John...

Author: Michael Hjorth Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 528 Psychologist Sebastian Bergman desperately needs some order in his chaotic life. He has learned that he has a daughter - and...

Author: Joanna Kavenna Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 Vienna 1865: Dr Ignaz Semmelweis has been hounded into a lunatic asylum, ridiculed for his claim that doctors' unwashed...

Author: Alexander Starritt Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 When a young British man asks his German grandfather what it was like to fight on the wrong side...

Author: Ian Williams Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 464 WINNER OF THE 2019 SCOTIABANK GILLER PRIZE An internationally bestselling debut novel: an energetically told, funny and moving book...

Author: Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 Written by Brian Azzarello Art and cover by Marcelo Frusin Don't miss this collection featuring issues #1-5 of the Western series...

Author: Alexander Solzhenitsyn Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 144 This brutal, shattering glimpse of the fate of millions of Russians under Stalin shook Russia and shocked the world...

Author: Pamela Redmond Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 'Contains a lot of wisdom between its one-liners. Older explores what happens when a woman rejects societal expectations, embraces...

Author: Valentina Giambanco Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 496 The critically acclaimed, breathtaking thriller: perfect for fans of Angela Marsons. In the dead of winter Homicide Detective Alice...

Author: Atticus Lish Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 'BLISTERING' THE TIMES * 'EXTRAORDINARY' FINANCIAL TIMES *Winner of the New York City Book Award for Fiction* *Finalist for...

Author: Thomas E. Kennedy Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 There has never been any shortage of business at the Tank, a high-profile firm in Copenhagen. There are round-table meetings...

Author: Nick Cave Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 This box set includes: One of 500 numbered, limited editions of "The Death of Bunny Munro "signed by Nick Cave Seven...

Author: Jane Harris Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 544 Scotland, 1863. In an attempt to escape her not-so-innocent past in Glasgow, Bessy Buckley - the wide-eyed Irish heroine...

Author: Lang Leav Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 School is almost out for Audrey, but the panic attacks are just beginning. Because Audrey told a lie and...

Author: Evelio Rosero Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 144 When Father Almida is summoned to an audience with the parish's principal benefactor, a stand-in is found in Father...

Author: Dorothy Koomson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 448 'I'm looking for that perfect blend of flavours; the taste that used to be you.' It's been 18 months since my...

Author: Stanley Johnson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 2016. The world is on the brink of crisis. Who could have predicted how events would play out? In...

Author: Justin Cronin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 1008 NOW A MAJOR TV SERIES! 'THE STAND meets THE ROAD' Entertainment Weekly 'Enthralling ... richly imagined. Above all, Amy...

Author: Jamel Brinkley Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 'Full of subtle poignancy ... each story is a trenchant exploration of race and class, vividly conveying the tension between social...

Author: David Means Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 At the bitter end of the 1960s, after surviving multiple assassination attempts, President John F. Kennedy has created a...

Author: Anthony Burgess Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 In this nightmare vision of a not-too-distant future, fifteen-year-old Alex and his three friends rob, rape, torture and murder...

Author: Nell Zink Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 Two generations of an American family come of age - one before 9/11, one after - in this moving...

Author: S.E. Hinton Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 Adapted into an award-winning film by Francis Ford Coppola, and starring Patrick Swayze, Rob Lowe and Tom Cruise, S.E....

Author: Gail Honeyman Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 The Sunday Times bestseller 'Funny, touching and unpredictable' Jojo Moyes Eleanor Oliphant has learned how to survive - but...

Author: John le Carre Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 512 Aldo Cassidy is the naive and sentimental lover. A successful, judicious man, he is wrenched away from the...

Author: Tarjei Vesaas Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 144 A tale of intense friendship and almost overwhelming grief amongst the frozen fjords of rural Norway. In winter, the...

Author: Javier Marias Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 Volume one of Javier Marias's acclaimed and evocative 'novel in parts'. Translated by Margaret Jull Costa 'I am myself...

Author: Vladimir Nabokov Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 496 A great work of art, radiant and rapturous, affirming the power of love and imagination' The New York Times...

Author: Javier Marias Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 Haunting and unsettling,A Heart So Whiteis a breathtaking portrayal of two generations, two marriages, the relentless power of the...

Author: Dorothy Allison Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 Bastard out of Carolinais a raw, poignant tale of fury, power, love and family. Twentieth Anniversary Edition - with...

Author: Marguerite Yourcenar Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 Framed as a letter from the Roman Emperor Hadrian to his successor, Marcus Aurelius, Marguerite Yourcenar's Memoirs of Hadrian...

Author: Emily Fridlund Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 'A powerhouse of a first story collection notable for its temerity and its skilled combination of humour and insight'...

Author: Hannah Tinti Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 496 Bursting with imagination, THE TWELVE LIVES OF SAMUEL HAWLEY by Hannah Tinti has been described as 'One part Quentin...

Author: Anne Berry Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 A novel for those who loved BEHIND THE SCENES AT THE MUSEUM, THE POISONWOOD BIBLE and THE LOVELY BONES....

Author: Abigail DeWitt Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 Set in France and America, News of Our Loved Ones is a haunting and intimate examination of love and...