Modern Fiction (post 1945)

Your child always comes first, don't they? Rose McKenna volunteers at her daughter Melly s school in order to keep an eye on Amanda, a mean girl who s been...

From the New York Times bestselling author of Save Me comes an explosive new novel about family and sacrifice There's no escape from your past... Jill had married William Skyler...

Jimmy understands all about belonging and not belonging. He sees himself as part of both sides of the moon; '...kind of blackman, sort of nigger, in my own country, and...

In the tradition of Caleb Carr's The Alienist and Eric Larsen's The Devil in the White City comes The Paris Enigma , a gripping tale of murder and the art...

From the bestselling author of The Roanoke Girls comes a riveting mystery and poignant exploration of guilt, loss and devastation. 'A blistering page-turner...deeply chilling and beautifully written' Chris Whitaker 'Fans...

'I CAPTURE THE CASTLE meets THE VIRGIN SUICIDES. An eccentric and totally irresistible read' Glamour Rosalind. Bianca. Cordelia. The Weird Sisters. Rose always first, Bean never first, Cordy always last....

Two strong women. Two cultures. One unifying cause: survival. Ellen Thomas, experienced war correspondent, returns to Afghanistan's dangerous Helmand Province on assignment, keen to find the murderer of her friend...

With some help from her friends, and her noisy and loving family, Holly finds herself laughing, crying, singing, dancing -- and being braver than ever before. Life is for living,...

A beautifully crafted debut from one of the brightest young stars of American cinema. There's nothing more exhilarating than falling in love for the first time. And nothing more confusing......

Michael and Juliet Evans long for a baby but are forced to resort to a world of private clinics and medical jargon. As they wait, Juliet's grasp on reality begins...

'Irresistible - a funny, sexy romp that's also smart, even wise' Kirkus starred review ' Pure elegance, subtlety and wit. A triumph of a novel' - Francesca Segal, author of...

Anjir and Zal have been together ever since they first knew what love was. But living in Iran, the two men must keep their relationship hidden, potentially on pain of...

Taking its cue from Diary of a Provincial Lady , EM Delafield's dry-witted classic of domesticity and other vexations, Diary Of A Suburban Lady is a comic novel about the...

In the city of Enugu in the 1970s, young Nwabulu dreams of becoming a typist as she endures the endless chores she is tasked with by her employers. She's been...

'Guglani is the real deal' Michael Faber 'Profound . . . Poetic . . . Humane' Gabriel Weston 'Shows rare skill . . . Power and fear and morality' Sarah...

A compelling, clever and controversial debut which will appeal to fans of THE GIRL ON A TRAIN, APPLE TREE YARD, GONE GIRL and NOTES ON A SCANDAL. 'Can there be...

From the multi-award-winning author of Twice Born comes this dazzling, emotionally charged tale of two mothers' fight to protect their children's futures When the water is safer than the land......

Strap on your highest heels for a fast-paced peek inside the glossy world of magazines. When Nina Morey gets her perfectly pedicured toe on the first rung of the highly...

Strangers did not, as a rule, find their way to Chez Dom, a small Tunisian cafe in Paris. Run by the widow Houria and her young niece, Sabiha, the cafe...

A tale of forbidden love and must-have shoes. 1920s Paris. The 'Crazy Years'. English society beauty Genevieve Shelby King parties to the utmost with the artists and writers of bohemian...

An erotic tale of jealousy, obsession, and revenge suffused with the rich flavors and intoxicating aromas of Israel's Mediterranean coast An unnamed narrator writes a letter to an old college...

*THE HEARTWARMING KOREAN BESTSELLER* *A new book from Shanna Tan, translator of Welcome to the Hyunam-Dong Bookshop* Situated at the heart of a rapidly gentrifying district of Seoul, the Yeonnam-dong...

'A charming and heart-warming read that will warm your cockles this winter' Heat Thirty-nine-year-old Romane is a doctor and hypochondriac. Her usually uneventful life changes when one of her patients...

* Winner of the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction * New York Times Bestseller * A New York Times Notable Book and a Washington Post Notable Fiction Book...

As a late spring blizzard brews, Brother Christopher, a cloistered monk at Blue Mountain Monastery in Vermont, rushes to tend to his Ida Red and Northern Spy apple trees in...

Who's Loving You is a collection of short stories celebrating desire and love in all its guises, written by and reflecting the experiences of women of colour in an authentic...

A rich, ambitious first novel of a Midwestern family buffeted by change, A Good Family is perfect for book group discussions. Hard-charging Chicago sales executive Henry Brunson has long been...

Kat Jennings and Scott Murphy don't just play two people who are secretly in love on a television sitcom-they are also head over heels for each other in real life....

Patricia Wilson's carefully composed ads for the writers' retreat she runs at her thirteenth-century Italian castle promise so much. But while the splendour of their surroundings and chef Aldo's melanzane...

Jennet Mallow is born in Yorkshire in the 1920s but her interest in art and creativity alienates her from her family, her father who is a priest, her conventional sister...

Diamond heiress Rianne de Zoete is shocked when she's dumped at an English boarding school by her aunt. The girls who have to share a room with Rianne are just...

Washington is being brought to its knees by a terrorist bombing campaign. For years the USA has been spreading internal strife in countries opposed to it. Now somebody is doing...

Rowena Gordon, an upper-class young English girl, and Topaz Rossi, a feisty American, meet and become the best of friends at Oxford. Both are determined to succeed in their chosen...

Winner of the Premio Donna Citta di Roma 1994 and an international bestseller, this is a profoundly moving and beautifully crafted meditation on existence. Driven by the fear of encroaching...

Dinah and her sister Lisa are growing up in South Africa in the fifties - a time of dreadful changes. Dinah is weedy and doesn't much like eating. Lisa is...

It is early 1956 and the British Empire is crumbling. But for nine-year-old Ella, living with her parents at the British High Commission in Peshawar, Pakistan, the walls of class,...

In one new volume , an irresistible collect ion of stories from two previous works, SMILE and CHANGING BABIES, with additional stories, previously unpublished in book form. 'What informs Moggach's...

' So perceptive and wise about the media, privilege, the differing but equally troubling pressures that women of all ages face, while still being moving, laugh out loud funny, and...

Tim Cranmer, retired secret servant, and Larry Pettifer, bored radical don, philanderer and for twenty years Tim's mercurial double agent against the now vanished Communist threat, have an unresolved rivalry...

From man-about-Mitcham and leading diarist de nos jours, Simon Crisp: 'It is impossible to exaggerate the gratitude I owe the late Sir Alec Guinness. Had I not happened to meet...