Modern Fiction (post 1945)

Perfect for fans of Barbara Pym WHAT READERS ARE SAYING 'This was a great read. A comforting, original story with a refreshing pace. I will be checking out more from...

THE INSTANT CULT CLASSIC FROM THE WINNER OF THE O. HENRY PRIZE 'Full of dark, deadpan humour, Brat is a raucous story of the messy, messed-up business of living, dying...

'Funny, sexy and glamorous' JOJO MOYES 'Jackie Collins's daring, unapologetic stroke of the pen, combined with her glorious wit, has single-handedly given creative license to new generations of authors and...

The novel's about a bloke called Bloke but it's the women who explain manhood and his identity. A disappointed man always heads bush but never knows what to expect. The...

A business novel focusing on project management. The novel aims to provoke readers to examine and reassess their business practices and transform the thinking and actions of managers.

Starting with an interview at the Cauldron of Peace Health Food Restaurant, continuing through her early apprenticeship at the J&W Exotic Food Emporium (for every bite you take, you need...

Runner-up for the Montana Book Awards 2000 Deutz Medal for Fiction, Golden Deeds is a novel about the human desire to connect things up. Warm, compassionate, beautifully written, Golden Deeds...

A strikingly accomplished first thriller about the Irish and the Mafia-and two Irish brothers caught in the crossfire between them.

Life is hard in post-Civil War New York, but change is in the air. Women are agitating for the vote and other rights. Immigrants are pouring into the city, bringing...

In a house overlooking Dublin Bay, Mimi and her daughter Grace are disturbed by the unexpected arrival of Grace's daughter Polly, and her striking new boyfriend. The events of the...

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The river Fineflour flows through this narrative as it flows through the town, linking time and place, character and event. A source of myth and memory, it brings tragedy as...

There was nowhere to go and nothing to do. Absolutely, definitely nothing to do. Even the matter of our boredom - held up and studied from all sides - had...

Five years after psychiatrist Michael Byrnes lost his sight during surgery to remove a brain tumour, his family has settled into a pattern of dysfunction. Over the course of six...

Two sisters, four nights, one city. April, 1941. Belfast has escaped the worst of the war - so far. Over the next two months, it's going to be destroyed from...

The acclaimed author of The Borrower returns with a dazzlingly original, mordantly witty novel about the secrets of an old-money family and their turn-of-the-century estate, Laurelfield. Meet the Devohrs- Zee,...

In 1904, at the age of six, Polly goes to live with her two holy aunts. The house is so close to the sea it seems to toss like a...

Bronwen's life has been tainted by her killing of a man who tried to rape her in the lane behind her parents' house. She tells nobody about the incident but...

When Grace O'Brien wakes up next to Bernard-from-IT, she blames the out-of-date bottle of Baileys for making her cheat on her boyfriend of one year, nine months, three weeks and...

In the summer of 1947, a small town outside Paris is rocked by scandal when a member of its Russian emigre community drowns in a boating incident and the woman...

Quinn is an incredibly dark and fascinating thriller from Dublin - starring a modern-day Moriarty and his plans to wipe out an entire family without a hint of suspicion of...

After Rory has returned to Dublin to bury his mother, he decides that New York, with the flash job, fast money and high tech apartment is just not for him...

"I'll tell you something, something important. Love is a decision. Not a feeling. That's what you young people don't realise. That's why you're always off divorcing each other. No offence,...

'Alice Hoffman is simply brilliant' Daily Mail When the women in the Sparrow family reach thirteen, they develop a unique ability. In young Stella's case, the gift, which is both...

This work presents a sumptuous collection of literary writing celebrating the delights and disappointments of food and eating, ranging from prose to poetry, from the world's most established literary figures,...

When a marriage meets a therapist... Annette and Spicer make a perfect pair: he thirty-nine, wide-shouldered, square-jawed, and often likened to Harrison Ford; she slight, fair, delicately featured, and sometimes...

'perhaps the best novel about Northern Ireland life which has yet appeared' Irish Times 'a quiet, compassionate story' New York Times Sarah Gomartin, the servant girl on Andrew Echlin's farm...

Twenty-seven years after she adopted her baby in Ireland, Lena Molloy receives a call from the nun who set up the adoption. Sister Monica claims that she wants merely to...

Unable to cope with raising his children alone, Robert Sullivan abandons them to others. However, he has a change of heart and decides to go back for them. But on...

Louise and Ben Hunter have a happy, loving marriage, marred only by their unfulfilled longing for a child. Working together on the family farm for Ben's father, Ronnie, they watch...

Pick Cantrell is a successful newspaper cartoonist whose career has hit the skids. He returns to North Carolina, where he confronts his past, notably the family matriach and his boyhood...