Modern Fiction (post 1945)

Author: Louis AuchinclossBinding: HardbackPublished: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1976Condition:Book: FairJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis compelling novel chronicles the intricate lives of a prominent New England family, tracing their lineage...

In the midnineties, New York's Lower East Side contained a city within its shadows: a community of squatters who staked their claims on abandoned tenements and lived and worked within...

By the end of the fifteenth century, the beauty and creativity of Italy is matched only by its brutality and corruption. When Cardinal Rodrigo Borgia buys his way into the...

Shortly before Christmas, 79-year-old Alfred Warner arrives at Berlin's busy central train station to meet his granddaughter Brynja for the first time. When she fails to arrive, Alfred, afraid and...

Brooklyn, the summer of 2015. The city is sweltering from another record-breaking heatwave, accompanied by biblical rains, and now a mysteriously glowing mushroom infestation is threatening the city. As the...

Jan Vidor seems like the ideal houseguest for a long summer holiday in a Tuscan villa. Unobtrusive but not antisocial, the quiet American academic can be relied upon to entertain...

Self-published in 2003, Hilary Thayer Hamann's Anthropology of an American Girl touched a nerve among readers, who identified with the sexual and intellectual awakening of its heroine, a young woman...

The Sleepers Almanac is a collection of short stories, with some cartoons and a dash of poetry to boot and showcases new and emerging writers alongside established authors.

THREE GENERATIONS. TWO CHICKEN SHACKS. ONE RECIPE FOR DISASTER. A REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK 'A charming, hilarious, feel-good story about the kind of bonds and rivalries only sisters can share'...

'We have a new The Handmaid's Tale ... an exciting new literary voice with a dazzling imagination' EMMA KENNEDY 'Compelling, menacing and ultimately uplifting, I fell headlong into the world...

Four sisters desperately seeking the blueprints to life-the modern-day retelling of Louisa May Alcott's Little Women like only Anna Todd ( After, Imagines ) could do. The Spring Girls-Meg, Jo,...

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER BY THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR THE TIMES '100 BEST SUMMER READS' 2020 LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE 2020 'Sublime' Candice Carty-Williams 'An epic in...

A classic novel by a Booker Prize-winning author. Soon to be an ITV television series starring David Morrisey, Luke Treadaway, Charles Dance and Jane Horrocks. Singapore just before the Japanese...

An international bestseller and finalist for the Prix Goncourt; a suspenseful tale of a tangled love triangle in the long shadow of the war on terror. Manhattan attorney Sam Tahar...

Now a major ABC TV series, starring Brendan Cowell, Asher Keddie and Jemaine Clement, Plum is the roaring, raucous, funny and deeply moving story of a deeply inarticulate man who...

Every bouquet tells a story... And every story begins at Blossom & Grow, a tiny jewel-like flower shop in the heart of Dublin. Here, among the buckets of fragrant blooms,...

The flame of genius scorches every generation it touches. Following a lonely upbringing in the woods of northern Michigan, Milo Andret enrols as a graduate student at U.C. Berkeley, where...

A powerful novel about the indelible effects of war and the memories which stir beneath the silence of a quiet Croatian town, from Orange Prize-shortlisted and Commonwealth Writers' Prize-winning author...

An American bishop gets kidnapped outside his cabin in the High Sierras one snowy morning in November 2008 by three liberation theologians who look like terrorists. They take him off...

Something strange has happened to Thomas Passmore. Waking from a warm Australian beach, he finds himself at Heathrow Airport on a winter's morning, only he can't remember getting there. Burdened...

INTRODUCED BY RACHEL COOKE 'Virginia Woolf's roving consciousness lies behind the prose in Novel on Yellow Paper , but the tone owes more to Dorothy Parker . . . When...

"The most fascinating and wonderful book" JAN MORRIS "A restrained, lyrical tour de force " OWEN SHEERS In the early years of the last century, Rebecca is born into a...

'That's why aw this-' Cage lifts his lager can, sweeps it round 180 degrees. '-means so much tay a man.' The crowd stamps and claps, a hundred and fifty thousand...

This is the stunning new novel from the author of "The Shadow Of The Wind". In an abandoned mansion at the heart of Barcelona, a young man - David Martin...

Traps the reader from the first page with its political undertones and its undeniable charm. -- Isabel Allende This "powerful, humane," prize-winning novel of politics, ballet, and a spectacular heist...

Allegra Goodman's first novel, relates American Jewish family life as lived during the summer of 1976 with its many relationships and intrigues. Allegra Goodman was the recipent of the Whiting...

Liz Spocott is a captured runaway slave, shot and near death, and shackled to other runaway slaves in the attic of the notorious slave-catcher Patty Cannon. The ancient nameless woman...

A naturalist films the slaughter of elephants in Zimbabwe's national park whilst in London an anthropologist confronts the shareholders of a powerful conglomerate to warn of destruction in an African...

Ray is not a bad guy. Sure, he's just cheated on his heavily pregnant wife. He secretly despises all of his friends. His career as a freelance tech journalist is...

'A true story, a murder story, a love story and a thriller bursting with humour, sex and often dazzling language' Independent Writer, Samson Young, is staring death in the face,...

Having examined England's twin obsessions - violence and sex - in THE FOOTBALL FACTORY and HEADHUNTERS, John King completes his trilogy with ENGLAND AWAY- sex and violence abroad, under the...

The deadliest mission is to extract the deadliest killer Twenty years out of the combat zone, hidden from killers, but now fate has thrust Alex Crawford back into the front...

Third in the series of explosive thrillers featuring Sam Packer from the bestselling author of The Lucifer Network Sam Packer, hero of Firehawk and The Lucifer Network, has a new...

The second explosive thriller featuring Sam Packer from the bestselling author of Fire Hawk TERROR KNOWS NO FRONTIERS A deadly secret whispered by a dying gunrunner on a lonely road...

Betty Smith, the beloved author of A Tree Grows in Brooklyn , weaves a riveting modern myth out of the experiences of her own life in this rediscovered classic. In...

Fearful of commitment after a dismal romantic disaster, Lexi James, a thirtysomething Philadelphia PR executive, seeks the advice of her best friends, the Council of Girlfriends--a group consisting of "Princess"...

[A WOMAN ALWAYS LANDS ON HER FEET] THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER Get ready for CAT LADY, the brilliantly bold and joyful new novel from Dawn O'Porter 'Even speaking...

Author: Ruth HoganBinding: PaperbackPublished: Two Roads, 2018Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageThis poignant contemporary novel chronicles the journey of a woman grappling...

Author: Micol OstowBinding: PaperbackPublished: Scholastic, 2019Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageThis young adult mystery, set in the iconic town of Riverdale, chronicles...

Author: Marian KeyesBinding: PaperbackPublished: Ken Fin Books, 2001Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageThree women, each looking for happiness—but are any of them...

Author: Alan MarshallBinding: HardbackPublished: F.W. Cheshire, Melbourne, 1961Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: YellowedMarkings: No markingsThe Gay Provider presents a heartwarming narrative set against...