Modern Fiction (post 1945)

Author: Louis de Bernieres Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 560 A new classics edition of this enduringly popular novel. It is 1941 and Captain Antonio Corelli, a young...

Author: Anita Desai Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 'A daring and colourful novel. A superb observer of the human race' New York Times Book Review Hugo Baumgartner...

Author: Jose Saramago Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 Published for the first time in English, this deeply autobiographical novel by Nobel Prize-winning writer Jose Saramago tells the...

Author: John Williams Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 The author of Stoner delivers something completely different but equally unique, skewering romantic notions of the Wild West with...

Author: The Brothers Grimm Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 1072 'In oldentimes, when wishing still helped, there lived a king whose daughters were all beautiful...' - 'The Frog...

Author: George Orwell Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 496 These essays, reviews and articles illuminate the life and work of one of the most individual writers of this...

Author: Evelyn Waugh Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 Evelyn Waugh's acidly funny and formally daring satire, Vile Bodies reveals the darkness and vulnerability that lurks beneath the...

Author: Joseph Conrad Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 He cried in a whisper at some image, at some vision - he cried out twice, a cry that...

Author: John Mortimer Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 New to Penguin Modern Classics, the very first selection of stories featuring the irrepressible Rumpole. Horace Rumpole, the old...

Author: Raymond Chandler Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 672 Raymond Chandler was America's preeminent writer of detective fiction, and this Penguin Modern Classics edition of The Big Sleep...

Author: Philip Hensher Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 A spectacular treasury of the best British short stories published in the last twenty years. We are living in...

Author: Christopher Isherwood Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 'The best prose writer in English' Gore Vidal Christopher Isherwood introduces Sally Bowles in this pre-war Berlin novel. Set...

Author: Vladimir Nabokov Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 Vladimir Nabokov's Pale Fire, with its wildly original narrative structure, is a postmodern masterpiece from the author of Lolita,...

Author: Truman Capote Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 Immortalised by Audrey Hepburn's sparkling performance in the 1961 film of the same name, Breakfast at Tiffany's is Truman...

Author: Virginia Woolf Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 Woolf exposes the prejudices and constraints against which women writers struggled for centuries, and argues for a more equal...

Author: Iain M Banks Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 327 Eighteen-year-old Kit is weird: big, strange, odd, socially disabled, on a spectrum that stretches from "highly gifted" at...

Author: Alice McDermott (Johns Hopkins University) Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 181 A Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award It is high summer, the...

Author: J G Ballard Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 279 On the arid, war-plagued terrain of central Africa, a manic doctor is consumed with visions of transforming the...

Author: Peter Stamm Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 144 Christoph, an older man who is a writer, has a story to share with Lena, a younger woman who is an...

Author: Danny Denton Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 Ireland is flooded, derelict. It never stops raining. The Kid in Yellow has stolen the babba from the Earlie...

Author: Matt Haig Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 Philip Noble is an eleven-year-old in crisis. His pub landlord father has died in a road accident, and his...

Author: Miranda Emmerson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 A story of class and corruption, sex and the Sixties, for fans of A Very English Scandal and The...

Author: Luke Rhinehart Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 560 The cult classic that can still change your life... Let the dice decide! When a bored psychologist hands over...

Author: Anthony Burgess Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 A sharply written satire, Honey for the Bears sends an unassuming antiques dealer, Paul Hussey, to Russia to do...

Author: Ryan Ireland Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 To escape his troubled past, Norman heads to the desert to lose himself in his work. He has just...

Author: Luce D'Eramo Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 'Sometimes when you go astray and touch bottom, you finally come out on the other side.' Lucie was brought up by...

Author: Chris Cleave Format: Hardback in Slipcase Number of Pages: A heart-pounding novel about the extremes to which people will go for success, from the bestselling author of Little Bee.In the tradition...

Author: Terry Goodkind Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 512 *SIGNED COPY* In The Omen Machine, #1 New York Times-bestselling author Terry Goodkind returns to the lives of Richard Rahl and...

Author: Patrick Modiano Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 168 A mesmerizing novel by Nobel Laureate Patrick Modiano, now superbly translated for English-language readers For long standing admirers of...

Author: Cecelia Ahern Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 The long-awaited sequel to the international bestseller PS, I Love You. The PS, I Love You Club. These are...

Author: Balli Kaur Jaswal Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 'Big-hearted, earthy and funny... A rattlingly good story' Deborah Moggach, The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel When Nikki takes...

Author: Julia Crouch Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 464 The Wayland family - Lara and Marcus and their three children - leave England to spend a long, hot...

Author: Bev Thomas Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 'Taut, absorbing and psychologically astute, in A Good Enough Mother Bev Thomas combines all the tension of a thriller...

Author: Jia Tolentino Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 A Times book of the year A Guardian book of the year 'Magnificent'The Times 'Dazzling' New Statesman 'It filled...

Author: Haruki Murakami Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 A narrative particle accelerator that zooms between Wild Turkey Whiskey and Bob Dylan, unicorn skulls and voracious librarians, John...

Author: Michael Hjorth Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 528 Psychologist Sebastian Bergman desperately needs some order in his chaotic life. He has learned that he has a daughter - and...

Author: Ethan Canin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 576 The flame of genius scorches every generation it touches. Following a lonely upbringing in the woods of northern Michigan,...

Author: Joanna Kavenna Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 Vienna 1865: Dr Ignaz Semmelweis has been hounded into a lunatic asylum, ridiculed for his claim that doctors' unwashed...

Author: Chuck Palahniuk Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 Agent Number 67, nicknamed Pygmy for his diminutive size, arrives in the United States from his totalitarian homeland. An...

Author: Italo Svevo Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 592 'I am sure a cigarette has a more poignant flavour when it is the last' A neurotic Italian businessman...

Author: Anakana Schofield Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 My name is Bina and I'm a very busy woman. That's Bye-na, not Beena. I don't know who Beena...

Author: Alexander Starritt Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 When a young British man asks his German grandfather what it was like to fight on the wrong side...

Author: Ian Williams Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 464 WINNER OF THE 2019 SCOTIABANK GILLER PRIZE An internationally bestselling debut novel: an energetically told, funny and moving book...

Author: Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 Written by Brian Azzarello Art and cover by Marcelo Frusin Don't miss this collection featuring issues #1-5 of the Western series...

Author: Howard Jacobson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 Novelist Guy Ableman is in thrall to his vivacious wife Vanessa, beautiful but contrary, highly strung and blazingly angry. The trouble...

Author: Miranda Popkey Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 What is the shape of a life? Is it the things that happen to us? Or is it the stories we...

Author: Alexander Solzhenitsyn Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 144 This brutal, shattering glimpse of the fate of millions of Russians under Stalin shook Russia and shocked the world...

Author: Pamela Redmond Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 'Contains a lot of wisdom between its one-liners. Older explores what happens when a woman rejects societal expectations, embraces...