Modern Fiction (post 1945)

Eight tales, all concerned with love and its conditions, on the night of 19 March, 1929.

Edited and with an Introduction by Dr Keith Carabine, Chairperson of the Joseph Conrad Society of Great Britain. As these three specially commissioned stories amply demonstrate, Conrad is our greatest...

Former SAS Captain Will Jackson is a man with nothing to lose. A veteran of the most dangerous missions the Regiment could throw at him, his life was torn apart...

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This is the story of Hanns Scharff the master interrogator of the Luftwaffe who questioned captured American fighter pilots of the USAAF Eighth and Ninth Air Forces in World War...

A hallowed place it may be, but No 5 Caper Court in the Inner Temple is riddled with rumour and uncertainty. The head of chambers is dying; there is a...

A new volume of three novels-previously published separately by Anchor-by Naguib Mahfouz, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature. Together with The Beggar, The Thief and The Dogs, and Autumn...

A gripping and vivid novel of childhood and family feuding in the tradition of Kate Atkinson and Seamus Deane'Vivid, moving, alive: The Hiding Place opens up ordinary-looking doors to let...

A sequel of sorts to the Booker-shortlisted THE SHADOW KING. This is an epic tale of a father and two sons, of betrayals and loyalties, of a family unraveling in...

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Sybilla Forsenstrom doesn't exist. For fifteen years she has been excluded from society and, as one of the homeless in Stockholm, she takes each day as it comes, keeping all...

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'An alchemical work that blends truth and art into a heady, addictive brew' Atlantic Sarah and David are in love - the obsessive, uncertain love of teenagers on the edge...

'Mysterious, wondrous, captivating' Louis de Bernieres 'We need the courage to choose ourselves' W. H. Auden It's early summer when a young poet, Dora Fielding, moves to Helensburgh on the...

A single mother stands in the garden of her isolated house, hanging out the washing, when suddenly a man appears. When he grabs at her, Lisa runs, but she is...

Julian Treslove, a professionally unspectacular and disappointed BBC worker, and Sam Finkler, a popular Jewish philosopher, writer and television personality, are old school friends. Despite a prickly relationship and very...

In a one year, daily devotional style, follow a fictional backpacker s journey of faith. Loneliness, fear and wonder confront him on the trail, as well as the demonic power...

From Alan Bennett, the author of The Madness of King George , come two stories about the strange nature of possessions...or the lack of them. In the nationally bestselling novel...

With wry humour and real freshness, SNAPPER charts the disastrous love affair between career birdwatcher Nathan Lochmueller and the place that made him. Set in a brilliantly observed rural Indiana,...

An American in Paris falls in love with two women, one of whom he can only only imagine, in this wonderful debut. As he settles into his new office in...

The motto of the boarding school to which Tommy Bedford is dispatched is Fortune Favours the Brave. It's 1959 and the school bristles with bullies and sadistic staff. Tommy, a...

'An Act of Terror belongs to that small group of novels embracing a country's ethos and history in one panoptic vision... Peter Carey... Garcia Marquez... Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Andre Brink must...

A history of the occupation of the West Bank and Gaza.

NINA X is loosely inspired by the real case of a tiny Maoist cult in London whose leader kept five women trapped for more than twenty years. Nina X has...

'You've disappointed me. You had all the potential in the world. You could have been so much.' William Adair, patriarch, doting father of three girls, Men's Tennis Club Champion from...

An unforgettable story of love and adventure set in one of the world s last unspoiled wildernesses. For Libby Bass, expert in whale and dolphin communication, the job in New...

New from the best selling author of Generation X GENERATION A is set in the near future in a world where bees are extinct, until one autumn five unconnected people...

If you were forced to live with faith, or without, which would you choose? England. 1986. The Church controls the country, and all members of the Secular Movement have been...

THE QUEEN OF THE REVENGE COMEDY is back with a sharp, funny novel about the perfect life on social media Iris is happy- decent job, good friends, her own flat....

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New Zealand author William Brant's acclaimed debut is a hilarious farce about the film industry, ex-girlfriends and desperate measures. Frederick Case is a 42-year-old New Zealand film-maker failing in London....

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Kourtney, Kim, and Khloe combine their truly scandalous imaginations with the secrets they know about life in the fast lane to bring you a book like nothing you've ever read...

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Greetings card copywriter Phoebe Chapman knows a good romantic line or two - and it makes her a fantastic Cupid. So when she lands in the Hollywood Hills - a...

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The Sunday Times bestseller from the author of Freedom and The Corrections Pip Tyler doesn't know who she is. She knows that her real name is Purity, that she's saddled...