Modern Fiction (post 1945)

A novel based on the BBC1 comedy series of the same name, featuring an eccentric elderly couple and their bizarre assortment of relatives and friends.

"The Land of Summer" is the brilliant new novel from Transworld's very own Queen of Romance. Spanning two generations this is a love story about overcoming the odds and escaping...

In more than fifty New York Times bestselling novels, Sandra Brown has captivated her millions of readers with stories of charismatic love and tantalizing twists of fate. In more than...

A story of mystery, love and revenge. Bridget Gether's parents had been killed in the wartime blitz and she had lived with the Overmeers at Balderstone, their sprawling property in...

A novel about hope, and change, and daring to be free. Everyone in Washington knows Madeleine and Jack Hunter. Maddy is an award-winning TV anchorwoman, and Jack is the head...

PASSION... In a tale as timely as "Scruples," as compelling as "Dazzle," asintriguing as "Mistral's Daughter," Judith Krantz launches three innocentbeauties on the city of fashion and love.... SCANDAL... It's...

Growing up, Roxanne, Del, and Alice tested the limits of their friendship with cruel and often dangerous games - safe in the knowledge that they were bound together forever. Now,...

Detective Milo Dragovitch spends too much time boozing until he gets caught up in a case involving two-bit criminals and an old lady on the run. His friends call him...

Oliver Gold, the brilliant, ascetic writer and philosopher, has lived quietly and happily for eight years on the outskirts of London as a lodger in 12 Wagner Rise. His sudden...

'A joy to read' Amanda Craig 'Shades of Cold Comfort Farm...Charming' Guardian ENGLISH ANIMALS is a subversive, wry debut that fans of Marina Lewycka's A Short History of Tractors in...

Precious Ramotswe, traditionally built proprietor of the famous No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency, is finally married to Mr J. L. B. Matekoni of Tlokweng Road Speedy Motors, the agency is...

Imagine a world that is one of infinite parallel worlds, that hangs suspended between triumph and catastrophe, the dismantling of the Wall and the fall of the Twin Towers, in...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * Friendship, loyalty, and love lie at the heart of this beautifully written, poignant, and sweeping novel of five women who, over the course of four...

The fantastically inventive, ingenious and hilarious second novel from Ned Beauman, author of the acclaimed and prizewinning BOXER, BEETLE. HISTORY HAPPENED WHILE YOU WERE HUNGOVER When you haven't had sex...

It was not love at first sight. It proved to be not much of a conversation Nothing should have come of it. A passionate but ultimately tragic love affair starts...

A tale of murder mystery and Meccano Golden Deeds tells the story of the middle-aged Patrick Mercer, lying unconscious in a hospital bed: of the teenaged Laura Pearse's disappearance and...

"A mesmerizing tale of star-crossed love and of the dark secrets in a fracturing family . . . This novel is so full of wonders that it leaves you haunted,...

Three friends descend upon an art auction in search of some excitement. Mike Mackenzie-retired software mogul, bachelor and fine art enthusiast-wants something that money can't buy. Fellow art-lover Allan Cruickshank...

After teaching and raising her family for most of her life, Agnes Scofield is tired of the routine. But how, at 51, can she establish an identity apart from what...

A romantic comedy with a spiritual twist, Never the Bride will appeal to women readers who enjoy the humorous, girl-in-crisis focused novels of Kristin Billerbeck and Tracey Bateman and classic...

Evelyn is a young woman who has defied convention to become one of the country's pioneer female lawyers. Living at home with her mother, aunt and grandmother, Evelyn is still...

In the very darkest hour, who do you trust, who do you love, and who can be saved? It is 1943 - the height of the Second World War. With...

This is the most extreme and extraordinary read of the year. From one of Britain's most brilliantly talented younger writers comes a novel you will never forget. Savagely funny and...

In Paul Theroux's first novel since KOWLOON TONG, the newly-married 49 year-old narrator, exiled from his old life elsewhere and his former profession of writing, is drawn into the chaotic...

A charming, moving debut about three lives and one last great adventure I've gone. I've never seen the water, so I've gone there. I will try to remember to come...

From the author of the world renowned masterpiece The Little Prince, Saint-Exupery's novel Night Flight is similarly magical in its telling of the miracle of flight. In this gripping novel,...

The comedy of domestic manners gets a delightful update in this intoxicating novel that suggests a latter-day "Pride and Prejudice" transplanted to an affluent suburb of Philadelphia. Well-meaning but domineering...

The Rain Before it Falls - Jonathan Coe's heartbreaking novel of family secrets Deeply moving and compelling, The Rain Before it Falls is the story of three generations of one...

To the French Riviera come Dick and Nicole Diver. Handsome, rich and glamorous, their dinners are legendary, their atmosphere magnetic. But something is wrong - Nicole has a secret and...

Behind this rather prim title lies the hilarious fictional diary of a disaster-prone lady of the 1930s, and her attempts to keep her somewhat ramshackle household from falling into chaos:...

A young couple abandon the urban jungle of London s East End for a remote, mountainous corner of Washington State. Chosen by Mick, who is half-American, the place seems as...

'A splendid work...superb' - Marilyn French Life Before Man explores the lives of three people imprisoned by walls of their own construction and in thrall to the tragicomedy we call...

A brilliant, witty thriller set in the world of English classical music in the early years of the twentieth century. The night before brilliant but erratic composer Charles Jessold's opera...

When archaeologist Louise Cantor's son Henrik is found dead in his flat, she refuses to believe it was suicide. In this tense and chilling thriller that will see her travel...

'Matthew Pearl is the new shining star of literary fiction - an immensely gifted author' - Dan Brown 1870. Charles Dickens is dead. The final instalment of his last manuscript...

A truly stunning novel of one man's dangerous obsession with immortality, from the BAFTA award-winning creator of Bodyguard and Line of Duty A truly stunning novel of one man's dangerous...

Lissy Jablonski was fifteen years old when her father ran off with the red-haired bank teller. That same summer, Lissy and her mother embarked on an adventure of their own...

The New York Times bestseller and basis for the smash hit musical and two major motion pictures, in a deluxe hardback edition with green stained edges, a ribbon marker, and...

On a hot, dry day a four-year old girl named Raisa was taken out into a busy street by her parents and abandoned. As young Raisa is passed among orphanages...

'Full of glamour, nostalgia, pop music and strong women chasing their dreams. The perfect poolside read to escape into' Georgina Moore 'Weiner captures the tension of sibling rivalry and the...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2025 DYLAN THOMAS PRIZE A Granta Best Young British Novelist 'A thrilling love for the stuff of language ... Magical' JON McGREGOR 'Poignant and playful' DAILY MAIL...

You think you know what happened that night But the truth is far more dangerous ... 'Exquisitely told by the author of last year's bestselling debut Anna O ... just...