Modern Fiction (post 1945)

Ria and Marilyn have never met - they live thousands of miles apart, separated by the Atlantic Ocean: one in a big, warm, Victorian house in Tara Road, Dublin, the...

It's almost Christmas. But for Ali the season of good cheer is the anniversary of her baby's death. As she stands at her son's grave, she is poignantly aware of...

A story of Venice today and Venice in its illustrious past, this novel gives the reader a portrait of the modern-day film world and a clue to the passions behind...

It looks like it is going to be quite a Christmas for Richard Hermes, a Christmas powdered with cocaine and whining with the white noise of urban derangement. Not so...

The path to true love doesn't always run smooth - sometimes you have to brave dangerous passions to get there. This collection of stories explores the darker side of love...

It is 1887, the year of Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee, and London is in turmoil, particularly at the dead centre, Trafalgar Square. Here, the angry unemployed gather daily to protest...

Combining her trademark charm with unabashed emotion and side-splitting hilarity, Fannie Flagg takes readers back to Elmwood Springs, Missouri, where the most unlikely and surprising experiences of a high-spirited octogenarian...

From the acclaimed author of The Worst Thing I've Done and Children and Fire , a stunning story about ordinary people living in extraordinary times--"epic, daring, magnificent, the product of...

The diaryarrived addressed to me, bearing a message: We live forever through ourstories. Tell ours. And so began the author's journeyinto the life and legends of the Naga a forgotten...

"Combine equal parts of Stephen King's Dark Tower series and Chine Mieville's Perdido Street Station, throw in a dash of Aubrey BeardsleyandJ.K. Huysmans, and you'll get some idea of this...

Spring 1915. On a sprawling country estate not far from London a young woman mourns her husband, fallen on a distant battlefield. he isolated and eerie stillness in which she...

Zola Denise Norwood always knew she'd one day edit her own magazine, but she had no idea it would be so soon. When she spots married media mogul Davis Vincent...

From the white heat of Miami to the implants of LA, the glittering waters of the Caribbean to the deserts of Arabia, Olivia Joules pits herself against the forces of...

So what do you do if you're bored with life? Uproot yourself and move to Japan, land of the rising sun and of opportunity - a country of suspicious-looking food,...

The beguiling fourteen-year-old narrator of IN ZANESVILLE is a late bloomer. She is used to flying under the radar-a sidekick, a third wheel, a marching band dropout, a disastrous babysitter,...

Marnie s schizophrenic father has gone missing.Her sister spends her days sitting on the sofa plucking out her eyelashes, one by one.Something has scared away all the neighbourhood cats and...

Lloyd Jones's dazzling novel is set on a Pacific Island ravaged by war. Told through the eyes of young Matilda and drawing on the elusive power of great literature, it...

The Reading Group is the funny, insightful and emotional Number One Bestseller. A must-have story of everywoman, for everywoman . . . A New Year. A New Page. A New...

An entrancing story that is one of the most absorbing examinations of the English in Italy since A Room With A View. Set during one week in springtime Florence, A...

A haunting love story set against the grim backdrop of fear and violence in Northern Ireland. Set in the Northern Ireland of the 1980's, Cal tells the story of a...

Bold, touching and very, very funny - a debut novel by a brilliant young woman about the coming-of-age of a brilliant young literary man Nathaniel Piven is a rising star...

At the centre of Francine Prose's profoundly moving new novel is a young girl facing the consequences of sudden loss after the death of her sister. As her parents drift...

If you like The Artist you'll love Daisy Waugh's Last Dance with Valentino. One night. One dance. One love to last a lifetime. 1916. Leaving war-ravaged London, Jenny Doyle sets...

For fans of FIFTY SHADES OF GREY; the author of sensational bestseller THE BRIDE STRIPPED BARE returns with a powerful tale of marriage and desire. Smothered by marriage and family,...

Ambitious, exotic, and a classic book club read, 'The Piano Teacher' is a combination of 'Tenko' meets 'The Remains of the Day'. Sometimes the end of a love affair is...

The magical new novel from the number 1 bestselling author of PS, I Love You, Where Rainbows End and If You Could See Me Now. Ever since the day her...

A kooky, quirky, cheeky US debut. Eliza Naumann, a seemingly unremarkable eleven-year-old, expects never to fit into her gifted family: her father, Saul, absorbed in his study of mysticism; her...

Brilliant stories from the hyper-real world of Weldonia. Brilliant stories from the hyper-real world of Weldonia, where self-deception rules; where a bully can believe he's a victim; a blackmailer see...

'Let's say I was born when I came over the George Washington Bridge...'This is how we meet unforgettable Tess, the twenty-two-year-old at the heart of this stunning first novel. Shot...

When life in the fast lane threatens to implode...Melanie Hunt's job working for the Delta racing team means she is constantly rubbing shoulders with Formula One superstars in glamorous locations...

Charlie Johnson is 13 and in her first year of high school. She loves her family, netball and Liam, the cute guy who sits next to her in Science-but most...

From Australia's favourite storyteller with new novel Arcadia out now. "Rain Music is utterly compelling." West Australian "Morrissey's beautifully crafted story celebrates history and nature." Australian Women's Weekly Rain Music...

Dear Sir/Ma'am, Please find enclosed this AMBER AMULET. That must sound unusual to a citizen, but you will have to trust me on this count because the science is too...

From the winner of St Jordi Prize. The perfect combination of literary fiction & feminist journalism. A warm-hearted ode to female friendship. "Set in vibrant, multilingual Barcelona, Ruiz Pala's Wenling's...