Modern Fiction (post 1945)

On a chilly February day, two old friends meet in the throng outside a crematorium to pay their last respects to Molly Lane. Both Clive Linley and Vernon Halliday had...

Gerhard Self, the seventy-something, sambuca-drinking, Sweet-Afton smoking sleuth returns in a riveting new mystery about money-laundering, murder, and mafiosi.Despite his failing health and his girlfriend's pleading, Gerhard Self won't stop...

'If you're after the perfect pick-me-up, take-me-away-from-the-world read, then she's your woman' The Guardian 'Nora Roberts is, quite simply, a one-woman phenomenon' Heat 'I love Nora Roberts' Stephen King When...

Creative and spontaneous, antiques dealer Dora Conroy has an infectious enthusiasm for life. She also has an eye for quality, and her gorgeous shop in Philadelphia is overflowing with fascinating...

Patrick Browning first sees Anne Fitzgerald in the British Museum, her head tilted, watching the beautiful frozen stone bodies of the Elgin Marbles. Both are young historians, and both have...

LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2020 A BARACK OBAMA BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020 America. In the twilight of the Gold Rush , two siblings cross a landscape with a...

Maria is an ambitious young graduate about to embark on a journey round the world with friends. Her life is a million miles from that of her early childhood in...

The Smallwoods are a middle-class, small-town, South Carolina family. You would not look for treachery in a family like the Smallwoods. You would not look for bloodstains or double bolt...

The upheavals of the Second World War reverberated in the peace that followed, and many found a return to the old life more difficult than they had anticipated. Like Sam...

Author: A. P. HerbertBinding: HardbackPublished: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1932Condition:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerThis work presents a witty...

Jan Hardy is 33, widowed and short of money, but determined to make a success of her life for her children's sake. She has managed against the odds to acquire...

Their birth was greeted by the sound of midwives screaming. The two children looked perfect in every way, just two normal Siamese boys - except for the skin joining them...

A brilliant novel narrated by an intelligent and humorous teenager who has just turned 18. His mother, an artist, described as having a "masculine style" taught part time in the...

An adventure, a black comedy, a fairy tale of sorts and a romance, Little Gods tells the story of larger-than-life Jean Clocker, whose birth challenges the very balance of nature...

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At an inn in the Berkshire Mountains, seven former schoolmates gather to celebrate a wedding -- a reunion that becomes the occasion of astonishing revelations as the friends collectively recall...

In a story exploring the theme of the artist's isolation, Grady Tripp, an obese, aging writer who has lost his way, and debauched editor Terry Crabree struggle to rekindle their...

Munich Airport: the brilliant new novel by Greg Baxter An American expat in London, about to enter a meeting, takes a phone call. The caller is a German policewoman. The...

A feminist cult classic about love, independence and what it means to be an individual, translated into English for the first time 'I want to have him, I really do....

'One of the most compulsive psychological mysteries since Donna Tartt's The Secret History . . . impossible to put down' The Times One night changes everything for Toby. He's always...

A savagely funny and perceptive coming-of-age debut novel - a battle cry for the #metoo generation. Twenty-nine year old Roberta has spent her whole life hungry - until the day...

Instant New York Times Bestseller "Unimpeachably terrific." - The New York Times Book Review For fans of Ruth Ware, Shari Lapena, and Donna Tartt: a twisty, fast-paced, cinematic literary thriller,...

`Fluffier than a poodle in a mohair bodywarmer ... Triumphantly successful' Daily Mail `Married girls in New York these days put almost as much effort into losing husbands as they...

GLOVE PUPPET is a love story, an erotic gay novel, a confronting, sordid tale of chance, sex and manipulation. The narrator is Johnny/Vaslav, a world weary twenty year old who's...

A thoroughly modern tale of politics, spin-doctoring, and media manipulation. As the harsh wind holds the Greek fleet trapped in the straits at Aulis, frustration and political impotence turn into...

'Oz deserves his high reputation' - Sunday Telegraph Where the Jackals Howl is prize-winning author Amos Oz's first collection of stories. On publication it received immediate critical acclaim and revealed...

A dazzling novel from one of America's finest writers - the story of three generations of a radical New York family Longlisted for the 2015 Folio Prize Longlisted for the...

For more than seventeen years, Lin Kong, a devoted and ambitious doctor, has been in love with an educated, clever, modern woman, Manna Wu. But back in the traditional world...

Philip Roth's entire oeuvre - 31 books - to be reissued in electric new Vintage jackets for October 2016 In search of the unpublished manuscript of a martyred Yiddish writer,...

A startlingly accomplished and enchanting novel with the savvy of Melissa Bank (A Girl's Guide to Hunting and Fishing) and the heart of Fannie Flagg. From a thrillingly talented 28-year-old...

Winner of the Crook's Corner Book Prize, finalist for the Golden Poppy Award, and longlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize "This immersive, full-bodied novel will keep its...

For fans of Like Water for Chocolate and Woman on Top comes a deliciously magical and mouth watering story, filled with wonder, discovery, and new beginnings. Thirty-one-year-old Wynter Morrison long...

A NEW EDITION WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY NEEL MUKHERJEE The international bestseller from the Booker Prize-shortlisted author 'Ghosh has established himself as one of the finest prose writers of his...

Picked as a most anticipated book of 2025 by Goodreads, Vogue , LitHub and TIME ------------------------------------------------------- 'Heralds the arrival of a powerful new literary voice' VOGUE 'Pacy, immaculately modulated' OBSERVER...

Winner of the Irish Book Awards Popular Fiction Book of the Year 2025! Pip's world is small. But it's about to become a whole lot bigger. For years she's tucked...

A haunting ode to Cornish folklore and the secrets of the places we call home 'This powerfully brutal novel is the most exciting thing I've read in years' S. J....

A Small Revolution in Germany is about growing up, or refusing to accept what growing up means; it's about the small dishonest pacts that people make with their own futures;...

LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2014 SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOLINGER EVERYMAN WODEHOUSE PRIZE FOR COMIC FICTION The first novel from Joseph O'Neill since NETHERLAND. 'O'Neill, in this book, has...

Ordinary people living ordinary lives...and an extraordinary debut novel. 'TOASTING EROS - it's my fear and Henry's loathing in Las Vegas... Henry and I are on a romantic holiday when...

Author: Martina ColeBinding: PaperbackPublished: headline, 1994Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageMartina Cole's Goodnight Lady plunges readers into the brutal heart of London's...

Author: Linda Buckley-ArcherBinding: PaperbackPublished: Simon and Schuster, 2007Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageThis captivating historical fantasy, The Tar Man: Being Book II...

Author: Malorie BlackmanBinding: PaperbackPublished: Penguin Books, 2017Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageDouble Cross by Malorie Blackman presents a compelling dystopian narrative set...

Author: Brian FrielBinding: PaperbackPublished: Catholic Univ of Amer Press., 1988Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageThis compelling collection presents a vital...

Author: Ivan TurgenevBinding: HardbackPublished: The Folio Society, 1967Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Slipcase: GoodPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Inscription on slipcase.The satirical novella The Torrents of Spring presents a witty and incisive critique...

Author: Lawrence DurrellBinding: PaperbackPublished: Faber & Faber., 1974Condition:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Fair - Bumping on spine and corners. Rubbed edges.Condition remarks: Condition as shown in imageThis...

Beatrix is a loner. She has a love-hate relationship with her one friend, Ray, a hate-hate relationship with everyone else in her office and a genuine attachment to a stuffed...