Modern Fiction (post 1945)

How would you feel if your best friend at work betrayed you? Was secretly having an affair with an influential colleague? Did you out of a coveted promotion, then teamed...

With tight breeches and loose morals, the horse trials circuit is a hell-for-leather chase across the magnificent parkland of England's finest country estates. Flirtation is compulsory sport; love is a...

DI Kate Burrows thought she'd never face a killer like the Grantley Ripper again. But she was wrong. One by one, children are being abandoned. Thankfully, they're rescued from harm....

Sally, a successful actress, returns to her house in Goatstown from a European tour, just wanting to rest and to see her husband, Charlie, again. When Charlie announces that he's...

First novel in the spine-tingling De Beers series; Wealth, extravagant parties, celebrity status were things Willow De Beers could only dream of - until now. After discovering deep family secrets...

It is the sixties and times are changing. Hemlines are getting shorter, stockings are being discarded and women are doing it for themselves. At the advertising agency of Bofinger, Adams,...

Laced with sparkling wit and compassionate insight - nobody does it quite like Marian Keyes. Jojo Harvey is a literary agent whose star is on the rise. In love with...

A collection of short stories and poems by members of Scribes Writers. Covering a range of topics this engaging collection brings to life the lives and histories of both the...

Did someone try to kill me or am I going mad? When writer Rob Fallon gets drunk one night and ends up joining his friend s girlfriend, Jenny, back at...

For fourteen years, Steve and Meredith Whitman have sustained a marriage of passion and friendship - despite the demands of two all-consuming careers. Meredith, an investment banker, has achieved partnership...

Several months into his recovery from a near-fatal illness, thirty-four-year-old novelist Sidney Orr enters a stationery shop in the Cobble Hill section of Brooklyn and buys a blue notebook. It...

'A beautiful, compelling artifice, spun from unspeakably savage facts . . . a fiction that faces the terrible truth about slavery' The Times WINNER OF THE COMMONWEALTH PRIZE FOR FICTION...

A timeless love story set in New York's Russian emigre community from a stunningly gifted young novelist. Vaclav and Lena seem destined for each other. They first meet as children...

'One of the feminist novels of 2018' Stylist ' A pacy dystopian thriller' Red Magazine 'Topical, probing and quietly intense - XX is a phenomenal debut' Skinny 'Fantastic - completely...

Lily's epilepsy means she's used to seeing the world in terms of angles -- you look at every surface, you weigh up every corner, and you think of your head...

This is the story of two sisters haunted by the deaths of their parents and separated by the Cuban revolution. Constancia Aguero lives in Miami with her husband. Her sister...

Family, that slippery word, a star to every wandering bark, and everyone sailing under a different sky. i> fter his mother's death, Richard, a newly remarried hospital consultant, decides to...

The Kilburn Social Club is a Premiership football team of opera singers, academics and South African freedom fighters. It s a dream, a club where no one is more equal...

Meet the Hunter family- Adam, a teacher, his wife Kate, and their children Hal, 17 and Charlotte 13. And Prince their black Labrador. It's Prince who is the narrator and...

Downtown, wartime Auckland. Victoria Park is swamped by a vast American military camp and Ponsonby Road is a sometimes wild place of bars, drunken soldiers and brothels. Peter Sokel is...

Named one of the best books of 2021 by NPR , The Washington Post , and Financial Times "No one states problems more correctly, more astutely, more amusingly and more...

An emotionally wrenching work of fiction about a health-care worker who tenders compassion and love to victims of AIDS, by an author who "strips her language of convention to lay...

Don't miss the new book from Sunday Times bestselling author, Josephine Cox! The pretty Arnold sisters have grown up on their father's farm and yearn for something more out of...

There's little room in this world for a moral man Meet Early "Trenchmouth" Taggart, a man born and orphaned in 1903, a man nicknamed for his lifelong oral affliction. His...

A book about growing up and being young, about sex and love and rock and roll, about the dreams of youth colliding head-on with the grown-up world. Sometimes you can...

A stranger can change your life in a moment of kindness 1952: Bella is a young French Jew in post-war London, having lost everything in WWII. When she meets Adebayo,...

A border town on the steppe. A small group of emaciated and feral refugees appears out of nowhere, spreading fear and panic in the town. When police commissioner Pontus Beg...

"Perceptive and witty-like a Sally Rooney novel set in Southern California." - Star Tribune (Minneapolis) "It's this author's best work yet. A Sapphic roller-coaster ride." - Kirkus Reviews (starred review...

Discover the unbreakable bond between a dog and their human in this phenomenal New York Times bestseller that inspired a major film starring Dennis Quaid. This remarkable story follows one...

THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER 'A national favourite . . . touching and emotive' Sunday Express Emma Hunt has spent fifteen years raising her two sons Theo and Jacob on her own,...

From the Number One bestselling author of MY SISTER'S KEEPER and NINETEEN MINUTES, Jodi Picoult 'She is a master of her craft ...and humanity is what she does best' Telegraph...

The captivating new drama of family secrets and second chances, from Sunday Times bestselling author Erica James It's the autumn of 1962 in the idyllic Suffolk village of Melstead St...

Alice Shoemaker habitually goes to great lengths to avoid telling the truth about herself and her past. After agreeing to help out a friend, by shopping and cleaning for the...

It's the start of another school year at St Ambrose. But while the children are in the classroom colouring in, their mothers are learning sharper lessons on the other side...

Two couples. Two love stories. One epic tale. Ninety-one-year-old Ira Levinson is in trouble. Struggling to stay conscious after a car crash, with his mind fading, an image of his...

London, 1914. Belle Reilly finally has the life she's dreamed of thanks to a devoted husband in Jimmy and the hat shop she's wanted to own since she was a...

Best Book of the Year Real Simple * AARP * USA Today * NPR * Virginia Living Longlisted for the 2022 Booker Prize From the Man Booker finalist and bestselling...

JACK REACHER NEVER LOOKS BACK . . . UNTIL NOW. The most hotly anticipated thriller of the year follows our hero Jack Reacher on a quest into his father's past,...

Lara has always had an over--active imagination. Now she wonders if she is losing her mind. Normal twenty-something girls just don t get visited by ghosts! But inexplicably, the spirit...

John Meron, a happily married father of two who s never been in trouble, receives a phone call that will change his life for ever- his friend Jack Calley, a...

Flanders, June 1917- a British officer and celebrated poet, is shot dead, killed not by German fire, but while recuperating from shell shock well behind the lines. A young English...

By the author of "The Gift". This is the story of a woman whose life is changed by one swift, unexpected stroke of fate, challenging the strength of her marriage.