Modern Fiction (post 1945)

At 44 Amy O'Connell thinks she's seen, heard or done it all. Until her husband Hugh announces he needs a break - from her. He is going backpacking for six...

`Everybody remembers where they were the day they heard that Paddy de Courcy was getting married' Lola has every reason to be interested in who Paddy's marrying - because although...

Adele Talbot is twelve when her younger sister is killed in a road accident in London's Kings Cross, and her mother Rose - so devastated by the loss - begins...

After building an empire that has made her a legend in business, Olivia spends months each year planning a lavish holiday for everyone in her family to enjoy. This summer...

Lovers, colleagues, family - Tilly has always been brilliant at pushing people in and out of her life exactly as it suits her. Then along comes Geoffrey, gentle, compassionate, generous...

A sparkling, life-affirming story that will make you cry like Jojo Moyes and laugh like Dawn French. Here is a truth that can't be escaped- for Mia 'Rabbit' Hayes, life...

Despite her broken heart, when Dilly Gently joins Magnus Olensen's new band, the chemistry between them is explosive. Both impossibly romantic dizzy blondes with the souls of poets, they could...

Assistant DA Nina Frost prosecutes child molesters, and in the course of her everyday work she endures the frustration of seeing too many criminals slip through the system and walk...

A chilling new novel in the award-winning Inspector Banks series. Number 35 The Hill is an ordinary house in an ordinary street, owned by an apparently ordinary young couple. But...

Evie Hamilton has a secret. One she doesn't even know about. Yet . . . She's blissfully unaware that her charmed and happy life is about to be turned upside...

The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters became the publishing phenomenon of 2006 with the release of the Glass Books instalments A SPY. A KILLER. AN IMPOSTER. THREE EXTRAORDINARY HEROES....

A gloriously witty novel from Sebastian Faulks using P.G. Wodehouse's much-loved characters, Jeeves and Wooster, fully authorised by the Wodehouse estate. 'Brings the peerless Jeeves and Wooster barrelling back to...

The compelling new novel from the bestselling author of A French Affair and Missing. Since Susannah Cates's husband was sent to prison three years ago, life has been a constant...

The thought-provoking new novel from the international bestselling author whose words change lives. Linda knows she's lucky. Yet every morning when she opens her eyes to a so-called new day,...

"If you're looking for a page-turner with some bite, this one's for you." -theSkimm "Millennial wedding culture gets a much-needed skewering in this alternately light and biting novel." - Vogue...

Tad Williams' popular TechoComics series Mirror World introduced a fictional world so original and yet so compelling, so bizarre and yet so reminiscent of our own reality, that no reader...

FYRE FESTIVAL meets ONE OF THE GIRLS in this psychological thriller with twists you'll never see coming. 'It's the hottest ticket in town. But once you're in, there's no getting...

*Don't miss A Murder in Paris , the brand new twisty thriller from Matthew Blake* THE SMASH HIT NO.1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER ~ A GUARDIAN and SUNDAY TIMES THRILLER OF THE...

Innocent sleepwalker. Or a sleeping killer? You decide. *** *THE SMASH HIT NO.1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER *A GUARDIAN THRILLER OF THE MONTH *A SUNDAY TIMES THRILLER OF THE MONTH *TV IN...

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,...

In this game of hearts, the stakes have never been higher... Molly Harris is used to being left. Parents, boyfriends - she's the queen of rejection. Her latest boyfriend, gym-fanatic...

Don't miss this utterly gripping and emotional thriller from Sunday Times bestselling author Susan Lewis! Secrets lie at the heart of every family... When the unthinkable happens... Hanna's world is...

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;...

Warm and wise bestselling fiction from the hugely popular Alex Brown, the author of The Great Christmas Knit Off and The Great Village Show. April Wilson is wondering what to...

Beloved and bestselling author Alexander McCall Smith lends his delightful touch to the Austen classic, Emma.`Funny, heartfelt and very readable' Good Housekeeping Prepare to meet a young woman who thinks...

Reissue of a classic novel from the bestselling author of 'The Future Homemakers of America'. What hope is there for Poppy Minkel? She has kinky hair, out-sticking ears, too yellow...

The powerful new bestseller from Josephine Cox -- the country's favourite storyteller. Home is where the heart is - but it's also where the pain lurks! After a tragic accident...

Jackson Sweeney is stewing in his tiny hometown, feeling stuck. He spends his days working at Al's Takeaway and his nights at the local dive pub, scouting for a guy...

The cliff loomed over her and though her eyes were cast downwards she felt its presence. Even inside the cabin she could feel it, as though the cliff's shadow was...

The year is 1947. Carlos slips over the orphanage wall in search of the village girl who has captured his heart. From that moment, his is a life at sea,...

Address Book is the new work of fiction by the Costa-shortlisted author of Skin Lane. Neil Bartlett's cycle of stories takes us to seven very different times and situations: from...

'The criminal world is always closer than you think... Tense and cop-savvy.' Phil Rickman "Everything's going to be okay." "What if it's not?" Suddenly, she turned. For a split second...

A modern fable with a magical quality by the Booker prize-winning writer.

In Francesca Rendle-Short's family, silence was golden. So to break ranks and tell stories about her peculiar family life and her mother's moral crusading should send this daughter straight to...

A Brilliant new crime series by a major new Irish writer.Mourning the death of his father, disgraced ex-policeman Jack Taylor is slowly drinking his way to oblivion in Galway when...

There was only ever one woman in the life of Jamie Niland. But Elvie McKenzie, scarred by loss and humiliation, has learned too well that if you don't love, you...