Modern Fiction (post 1945)

Author: Clarice Lispector Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 672 The publication of Clarice Lispector's Collected Stories, eighty-five in all, is a major literary event. Now, for the first...

Author: Marjorie Celona Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 A compelling literary mystery about the dark corners in a small community from an acclaimed novelist which asks: what...

Author: Valentina Giambanco Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 496 The critically acclaimed, breathtaking thriller: perfect for fans of Angela Marsons. In the dead of winter Homicide Detective Alice...

Author: Atticus Lish Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 'BLISTERING' THE TIMES * 'EXTRAORDINARY' FINANCIAL TIMES *Winner of the New York City Book Award for Fiction* *Finalist for...

Author: Nick Cave Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 This box set includes: One of 500 numbered, limited editions of "The Death of Bunny Munro "signed by Nick Cave Seven...

Author: Dana Czapnik Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 'A novel of huge heart and fierce intelligence.' - Ann Patchett 'An electric debut' - New York Times 'Exhilarating'...

Author: Pierre Lemaitre Format: PaperbackNumber of Pages: 288 "A LABYRINTHINE, MATRYOSHKA DOLL OF A NOVEL, THE BOOK'S MANY LAYERS WILL SHOCK AND ASTOUND YOU." --Mystery Scene Magazine "UNPREDICTABLE IN A...

Author: Jane Harris Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 544 Scotland, 1863. In an attempt to escape her not-so-innocent past in Glasgow, Bessy Buckley - the wide-eyed Irish heroine...

Author: Lang Leav Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 School is almost out for Audrey, but the panic attacks are just beginning. Because Audrey told a lie and...

Author: Mario Vargas Llosa Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 From the Nobel Laureate comes a politically charged detective novel weaving through the underbelly of Peruvian privilege. In...

Author: Michael Frayn Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 On the sunlit Greek island of Skios, the Fred Toppler Foundation's annual lecture is to be given by Dr...

Author: Melanie Finn Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 'Finn has a light, deft touch as a writer, but the images she conjures up are so subversively creepy they haunt...

Author: Amanda Quick Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 'A master storyteller' The Huffington Post *New York Times bestselling author* 'Quick's ambitious novel, set during the golden age...

Author: James Benmore Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 The Artful Dodger is back doing what he does best: stealing, charming and leading a gang of petty thieves...

Author: Richard Mason Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 Cape Town, 1914. Where a person can be whoever they want to be . . . Former tutor Piet Barol and...

Author: Dorothy Koomson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 448 'I'm looking for that perfect blend of flavours; the taste that used to be you.' It's been 18 months since my...

Author: Alison Goodman Format: Paperback  Number of Pages: 512 Sequel to New York Times bestselling author Alison Goodman's acclaimed The Dark Days Club--a smashing combination of Buffy and Jane Austen!...

Author: John Fowles Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 672 Read John Fowles's feisty, clever, cunning and compelling novel with an unusual twist. On a remote Greek island, Nicholas...

Author: Brian Azzarello Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 128 Written by Brian Azzarello Art by Eduardo Risso Cover by Dave Johnson In this volume collecting issues #84-88 of...

Author: Jamel Brinkley Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 'Full of subtle poignancy ... each story is a trenchant exploration of race and class, vividly conveying the tension between social...

Author: Aldous Huxley Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 Brave New World predicts - with eerie clarity - a terrifying vision of the future. Read the dystopian classic...

Author: Kei Miller Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 WINNER OF THE OCM BOCAS PRIZE FOR CARIBBEAN LITERATURE SHORTLISTED FOR THE RSL ONDAATJE PRIZE, THE GREEN CARNATION PRIZE,...

Author: F Scott Fitzgerald Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 When Benjamin Button's father arrives at hospital he is surprised and ashamed to find his new baby boy...

Author: Albert Camus Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 128 'The sky seemed to rip apart from end to end to pour fire down upon me' Meursault will not...

Author: Anthony Burgess Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 In this nightmare vision of a not-too-distant future, fifteen-year-old Alex and his three friends rob, rape, torture and murder...

Author: Nell Zink Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 Two generations of an American family come of age - one before 9/11, one after - in this moving...

Author: S.E. Hinton Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 Adapted into an award-winning film by Francis Ford Coppola, and starring Patrick Swayze, Rob Lowe and Tom Cruise, S.E....

Author: Gail Honeyman Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 The Sunday Times bestseller 'Funny, touching and unpredictable' Jojo Moyes Eleanor Oliphant has learned how to survive - but...

Author: Sam Guglani Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 128 'Remarkable and full of grace. It broke my heart' Sarah Perry 'Guglani is the real deal' Michel Faber 'Profound...

Author: Anna Kavan Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 The world is threatened by encroaching ice, creeping down day by day from the polar ice caps. The imminent...

Author: John le Carre Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 512 Aldo Cassidy is the naive and sentimental lover. A successful, judicious man, he is wrenched away from the...

Author: Tarjei Vesaas Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 144 A tale of intense friendship and almost overwhelming grief amongst the frozen fjords of rural Norway. In winter, the...

Author: Javier Marias Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 Volume one of Javier Marias's acclaimed and evocative 'novel in parts'. Translated by Margaret Jull Costa 'I am myself...

Author: Jorge Luis Borges Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 Jorge Luis Borges's Fictions introduced an entirely new voice into world literature. It is here that we find...

Author: Vladimir Nabokov Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 496 A great work of art, radiant and rapturous, affirming the power of love and imagination' The New York Times...

Author: Javier Marias Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 Haunting and unsettling,A Heart So Whiteis a breathtaking portrayal of two generations, two marriages, the relentless power of the...

Author: Dorothy Allison Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 Bastard out of Carolinais a raw, poignant tale of fury, power, love and family. Twentieth Anniversary Edition - with...

Author: Irmgard Keun Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 A hilarious, tragic novel about a would-be movie star in 1920s Berlin, from the author of Child of All...

Author: Julius Caesar Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 Between 58 and 50BC Caesar conquered most of the area now covered by France, Belgium and Switzerland, and twice...

Author: Mr John Steinbeck Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 128 THE PEARL is Steinbeck's flawless parable about wealth and the evil it can bring. When Kino, an Indian...

Author: Alfred Hayes Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 128 Hayes's masterpiece is an exquisite depiction of a doomed love affair set in noirish, 1950s New York. Hayes's masterpiece...

Author: Marguerite Yourcenar Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 Framed as a letter from the Roman Emperor Hadrian to his successor, Marcus Aurelius, Marguerite Yourcenar's Memoirs of Hadrian...

Author: Emily Fridlund Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 'A powerhouse of a first story collection notable for its temerity and its skilled combination of humour and insight'...

Author: Katherine Webb Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 496 1937. In a village on the Dorset coast, fourteen-year-old Mitzy Hatcher has endured a wild and lonely upbringing -...

Author: Hannah Tinti Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 496 Bursting with imagination, THE TWELVE LIVES OF SAMUEL HAWLEY by Hannah Tinti has been described as 'One part Quentin...

Author: Anne Berry Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 A novel for those who loved BEHIND THE SCENES AT THE MUSEUM, THE POISONWOOD BIBLE and THE LOVELY BONES....

Author: Abigail DeWitt Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 Set in France and America, News of Our Loved Ones is a haunting and intimate examination of love and...

Author: Various Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 From Paris to Prague, from the past to the present, authors and artists explore what Europe means to them -...