Modern Fiction (post 1945)

Author: Emma Donoghue Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 The story of a mother, her son, a locked room and the outside world. Jack is five and, like...

Author: William Melvin Kelley Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 At the age of five, a blind African-American boy is handed over to a brutal state home. Here...

Author: Marisa de los Santos Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 The New York Times bestselling author revisits the characters from her beloved novels Love Walked In and...

Author: Richard Lumsden Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 480 THE SIX LOVES OF BILLY BINNS is a deeply moving debut set in London against the backdrop of the...

Author: James Smythe Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 A global thriller presenting an apocalyptic vision of a world on the brink of despair and destruction. What would...

Author: Maeve Binchy Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 Superb storytelling from one of the world's best-loved writers. Just round the corner from St Jarlath's Crescent (featured in...

Author: Alison Pick Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 From Alison Pick, Booker Prize longlisted author of FAR TO GO comes a suspenseful, dystopian reimagining of the founding...

Author: Gretchen Berg Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 'What if you could listen in on any phone conversation in town? With great humor and insight, THE OPERATOR...

Author: John David Morley Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 896 'This is a bold and fascinating mystery novel of ideas. John David Morley enfolds science and human loss...

Author: Neil Gaiman Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 Sunday Times No. 1 bestselling author Neil Gaiman's extraordinary FRAGILE THINGS, a collection of dazzling stories featuring HOW TO...

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

Author: Audur Ava Olafsdottir (Author) Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 In a dark Icelandic November, the narrator sees her husband leave without a word of warning. At...

Author: Martina Reilly Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 528 Eight years ago, Sandy ran away from home, and has done her best never to look back. Now, the...

Author: John Fairfax Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 The last time Tess de Vere saw William Benson she was a law student on work experience. He was...

Author: Lawrence Ferlinghetti Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 192 Little Boy was quite lost. He had no idea who he was or where he had come from ... Grown Boy...

Author: Charles Chadwick Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 688 It is the 1970s and henpecked family man Tom Ripple is happy to wryly watch the world from his...

Author: Lavinia Greenlaw Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 This is a story about a woman and a man who meet by chance. Nothing of any importance is...

Author: Anthony Doerr Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 544 WINNER OF THE 2015 PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER WINNER OF THE...

Author: Nicolas Giacobone Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 From the Academy Award-winning co-writer of BIRDMAN, a wonderfully eccentric, suspenseful debut in the tradition of MISERY and KISS OF THE...

Author: Christine Mangan Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 'GIRL ON THE TRAIN meets THE TALENTED MR RIPLEY under the Moroccan sun. Unputdownable' The Times The perfect read...

Author: Nell Zink Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 'Heady and rambunctious ... Wake up, this book says: in its plot lines, in its humour, in its philosophical...

Author: Joseph Connolly Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 Jim and Milly. Stan and Jane. Jonathan and Fiona. Winter, 1959. Three married couples: each living in England's Lane,...

Author: James Henry Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 496 THE NEW ESSEX-BASED CRIME SERIES FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE DI JACK FROST PREQUELS - PERFECT FOR FANS...

Author: Claire North Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 Everyone has heard of the Gameshouse. But few know all its secrets . . . It is the place...

Author: Paul Lynch Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 Spring 1832: Donegal, north west Ireland. Coll Coyle wakes to a blood dawn and a day he does not...

Author: Peter May Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 "A CEREBRAL, CHILLING TALE BOUND TO BURNISH MAY'S REPUTATION." --Kirkus Reviews "AN UNUSUALLY COMPELLING, ONGOING SAGA" --Publishers Weekly "HIS...

Author: Ciara Geraghty Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 It all started with a bottle of Baileys that was a year out of date but I drank it...

Author: Tracy Corbett Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 The Saunders sisters need a bit of Cornish magic this summer... Charlotte Saunders has always loved the buzz of...

Author: Cathy Kelly Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 The Sunday Times Number 3 Bestseller 'Wise, warm, compassionate and full of characters I loved ... it's like having...

Author: Lionel Davidson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 The award-winning debut thriller from the bestselling author of Kolymsky Heights. In London, young Nicholas Whistler leads a disappointing...

Author: Andrei Makine Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 In Soviet Russia the desire for freedom is also a desire for the freedom to love. Lovers live as...

Author: Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 After the death of her father, an exiled Iranian man of letters, the bookish twenty-two-year-old Zebra...

Author: Sarah Duguid Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 LOOK AT ME is a superb coming-of-age novel and an unsettling yet entertaining exploration of grief. Lizzy's mother died...

Author: Lloyd Jones Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 Sometimes a person passes through your world and you don't forget them. She is like that. She is crossing...

Author: Mona Yahia Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 Lina is trying to lead a normal girl's life in Baghdad, but being Jewish in an Arab country is...

Author: Francesca Jakobi Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 'A novel to detonate the heart. Fans of Gail Honeyman and Joanna Cannon will love Bitter' A.J. Finn, author...

Author: Rose Boyt Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 'I am smiling. It ain't just me listening to our Maggie. Her voice carries all over the flats. I...

Author: Amy Sackville Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: This is a portrait of Diego Velazquez, from his arrival at the court of King Philip IV of Spain, to...

Author: Timur Vermes Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 576 By the author of LOOK WHO'S BACK, a radical and bold satire in inequitable times. "Whizz-bang energy and gleeful...

Author: Alexandra Potter Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 'I wish I could get a seat on the tube... I hadn t eaten that entire bag of Maltesers......

Author: Pajtim Statovci Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 Amid the conflict and desolation of post-Communist Albania, teenage boys Agim and Bujar share restless dreams of escape. After Bujar's father...

Author: Stefan Spjut Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 464 Set ten years on from his hit novel Stallo, author Stefan Spjut revisits the world of Susso Myren, as...

Author: Muhsin Al-Ramli Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 "A contemporary tragedy of epic proportions. No author is better placed than Muhsin Al-Ramli, already a star in the...

Author: Alan Burns Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 Babel, Alan Burns's fourth critically acclaimed novel, contains all the hallmarks of the aleatoric style he helped to define...

Author: Sylvie Matton Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 A sensitive innocent, Hendrickje Stoffels escapes the harsh realities of her garrison home-town to become a servant in Rembrandt's...

Author: Luce D'Eramo Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 Lucie was brought up by bourgeois parents as a passionate young fascist. At the age of eighteen, she decides...

Author: Emma Hannigan Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 496 Happy Birthday, darling girl... Ever since she can remember, Roisin has received a birthday card in the post. Signed...

Author: Emma Flint Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 It's 1965 in a tight-knit working-class neighborhood in Queens, New York, and Ruth Malone -- a single mother who works long...