Modern Fiction (post 1945)

'A gripping call to action-and a daring triumph of a novel' ADORAH NWORAH 'Masterfully portrays the splintering of the mind in its most striking, unfiltered form' AIWANOSE ODAFEN 'A playful,...

How long does it take to forget the smell of someone who loved you? And when do you stop loving them? When Chloe's husband leaves her and their children for...

With a new introduction by Colm Toibin "Absolutely captivating" ANDREA CAMILLERI "Monumental" Guardian Drawing comparisons with Shadow of the Wind and The Name of the Rose , and an instant...

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER BY THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR THE TIMES '100 BEST SUMMER READS' 2020 LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE 2020 'Sublime' Candice Carty-Williams 'An epic in...

EVEN ANGELS HAVE THEIR DEMONS . . . PARIS, CHRISTMAS 2021. After a heart attack, Mathias Taillefer wakes up in hospital with a stranger at his bedside. The mysterious girl...

In the summer of 1972, Famagusta in Cyprus is the most desirable resort in the Mediterranean, a city bathed in the glow of good fortune. An ambitious couple are about...

HARD LIVES. HARD LESSONS. IT S MURDER ON THE STREETS. Danielle Crosby had a body to die for. A body she sold to the highest bidder. But she ended up...

A sweet, funny and romantic novel from the Sunday Times No. 1 bestseller. Cleo Quinn doesn't have the greatest track record when it comes to men, but now Will's come...

Keith Mabbut is at a crossroads in his life. When he is offered the opportunity of a lifetime - to pen the biography of the elusive Hamish Melville, a highly...

Dan and Sally Oliver and their friend Chloe Hennessey are lucky to be alive. Three years on, after surviving one of the world's biggest natural disasters - the Boxing Day...

Colin Hancock is giving his second chance his best shot. At twenty-eight, he's focused on getting his teaching degree and avoiding all the places and people that proved so destructive...

Swept off your feet and into a nightmare . . . A powerful blend of love story, betrayal and obsession, The Guardian is written with electrifying intensity, playing with your...

Ceri D'Altroy's hero-worship of Oprah Winfrey is beginning to have serious repercussions. Bored with London life and writing yet another 'black is the new black' fashion feature, she's decided to...

In this humorous and touching debut, Sarah Bilston examines what happens to a first-time mother who becomes imprisoned in her flat due to prenatal complications. Q is a young English...

Robert Godwin's tumultuous ride on the Wheel of Fortune begins with his passion for his sensual cousin Ginevra, as they waltz to 'The Blue Danube' beneath the chandeliers at Oxmoon,...

The Perfect Love... Jessica and Ian were a golden couple- young, glamourous, successful and deeply in love. Until one afternoon's casual faithlessness threatened their relationship, ended their days of happiness...

Tom Stone is madly in love with his wife Ann. Pushing forty and expecting their first child, they buy a semi-derelict house in Hackney. Despite their spiralling money troubles, they...

When Olivia s husband Johnny announces, I don t care what colour you paint the hall, I m leaving, Olivia is understandably devastated. Left with an eccentric troop of builders...

From the moment she learns of the stranger's visit, Molly Tattersall is filled with a sense of fear. A short time later, Molly's mother disappears, leaving behind a letter in...

Magnus is haunted. He is trying to make a life for himself in Edinburgh, but memories of Claire, his sister, who died mysteriously when working in Africa, follow him everywhere....

The sensational novel that shocked Australia... Come in Spinner won the 1948 Daily telegraph novel competition. It was first published in an abridged edition in 1951, as the subject matter...

Fern has taken a raincheck from her everyday routine. Abandoning work, her studies and any human contact, she holes up in her room, haunted by strange dreams and the creeping...

The new classic from the queen of contemporary fiction A brand-new book from the Number One bestselling author of The Break and The Woman Who Stole My Life They're a...

One fine day in May, Hattie's life changes for ever... Single mother Hattie has plenty of reasons to be happy. Her antiques business is flourishing, her teenage son is settled...

Sussex, 2003 . When a beautiful blonde girl is found half-drowned on a beach, she has no memory of who she is or what horrors have left her there. But...

In this entrancing first collection of stories, a master storyteller focuses on a fresh and fascinating range of human behaviour, revealing himself as an even more versatile and accomplished writer...

Since their days at Oxford, they've gone their separate ways - but none of them have come to terms with Maggie's acciendental death. She was always the headstrong one, the...

One act of love will change one family s destiny As a devoted mother, Veronique Parker has dedicated herself to her three daughters, before and since her divorce. Her world...

Tallie Jones has it all. She's professionally at her peak as a famous film director, and with a loving live-in boyfriend and a well-adjusted teen daughter, she couldn't be happier...

Becky Brandon (nee Bloomwood) thought motherhood would be a breeze - but it's trickier than she thought. Two-year-old Minnie is a little tearaway who has created havoc everywhere from Harrods...

Candy - it's the only the name she needs - is blazing her way through Paris, New York and Tokyo as fashion's latest international supermodel... Her sister, Tammy, has a...

A young American aid volunteer, Billy Colenso, is brutally murdered in former Yugoslavia. His grandfather, the Canadian billionaire Steven Edmond, is bent on revenge. The quest to find Billy's murderer...

Bramble House contained a matriarchal empire headed by Emma Funnell. The house had been built for her as a wedding gift by Patrick and, now in her 70s, Emma continued...

A year after his divorce, Jayojit Chatterjee, an economics professor in the American Midwest, travels home to Calcutta with his young son, Bonny, to spend the summer holidays with his...

Khuku, a housewife, is irritated with the Muslims because their call to prayerwakes her up early every morning; her husband, a retired businessman, hasbeen hired to cure a 'sick' sweet...

Winner of the 2016 Costa Book of the Year Winner of the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction 2017 Winner of the Independent Bookshop Week Book Award 2017 Longlisted for...

In 'The Brooklyn Follies' an uncle and nephew accidentally end up living in the same Brooklyn neighbourhood. When a little girl who refuses to speak comes into their lives, there...