Modern Fiction (post 1945)

From the image of a small boy entranced by his mother's GI escort, yet still hoping for the return of his father 'missing in action', to the portrait of an...

A shocking novel of adolescent anger and social disorder. Dragged from the influences he so enjoyed in London, a young boy spies on his sister and father sharing an intimate...

'Watch out, world. Here I come!' For Victoria Dawson , growing up isn't a happy experience. Born to picture-perfect parents, she never feels pretty enough. But when her parents have...

A powerful novel of three couples who face decisions about having children, which will test them as lovers, partners and friends. Diana Goode and Andrew Douglas are a California couple...

Maisie doesn't understand why her mother can't love her, but she knows that her life is hard, and deeply unhappy. When the only person she trusts, her stepfather George, leaves,...

Gore Vidal's satirical fantasy, with a new introduction by the author. From his long-time hiding-place in provincial Egypt, Eugene Luther tells the story of John Cave, a former Californian undertaker,...

Dara Flood always says the most interesting thing about her life happened before she was born. Thirteen days before she came into the world, her father walked up the road...

There was a time when love was the most important thing in the world. People would go to the end of the earth to find it. They would tell lies...

Have you ever wished you could walk away from it all? Not for a day, not for a week, but for good. Claire's older brother, Daniel, has disappeared. He leaves...

PEEP SHOW is about the making of a fly on the wall movie, where the cast have no idea that they are being filmed. An LA film crew, led by...

Charlie Marshall is not a man who should be getting married. But the ceremony is in five days' time and it's too late to back out. His future mother-in-law has...

A fairytale for grown-ups. The Zing family lives in a misguided world of spell books, flying beach umbrellas, and state-of-the-art covert surveillance equipment. There's a slippery Zing, a graceful Zing,...

Patty and Walter Berglund were the new pioneers of old St. Paul--the gentrifiers, the hands-on parents, the avant-garde of the Whole Foods generation. Patty was the ideal sort of neighbor,...

Abigail's Amish life has always followed a certain path . . . until an Englisch woman disrupts all she's known to be true. Growing up Amish, Abigail Bontrager often felt...

Set in present-day Cambridge, but entangled with the 17th century, this is at once a ghost story, a love story and a beautifully told history of 17th century Cambridge -...

This is a life told back to front. This is a man who has lied all his life. Roy is a conman living in a leafy English suburb, about to...

A dark, distinctive and addictively compelling novel set in fin-de-siecle Vienna and Nazi Germany - with a dizzying final twist Vienna, 1899. Josef Breuer - celebrated psychoanalyst - is about...

Rural Irish girl Ellie loves living in New York, working as a lady's maid for a wealthy socialite. She tries to persuade her husband, John, to join her but he...

After his last blag, Ged Brennan's had enough. He sees young kids making a name for themselves in Liverpool. Worse still, they're making big money. Ged wants some of that...

Will is a bright, happy five-and-a-half-year-old. The grown-ups - his mother Jody, a photographer, her devoted boyfriend Mel, and Will's father, Wayne, perpetually down on his luck and living with...

The inhabitants of the Half Moon Valley are an idiosyncratic lot. Obsessed by the production of superfine Merino wool they will go to any length to keep the property in...

England was an unhappy and fearful land. In a desperate attempt to prevail over crime and social disorder Jack Barker, the Prime Minister has created Exclusion Zones for all of...

Liz, Alix and Esther are old friends whose lives continue to cross and uncross. As the years pass, they are more than ever disposed to question, to re-evaluate, to examine...

A young English biographer is working on a book about the late writer, John Coetzee. He plans to focus on a period in the seventies when, the biographer senses, Coetzee...

The prequel to the internationally bestselling novel Suite Fran aise- a coruscating, powerful story about one man's rise and fall and the brutal impact of war The prequel to the...

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