Modern Fiction (post 1945)

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 -...

Author: Sophie Nicholls Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 Meet Ella and her mother Fabbia Moreno who arrive in York, one cold January day, to set up their...

Author: Irina Ratushinskaya Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 IN THE BEGINNING goes back to the poet's life before her arrest, interweaving her experiences of growing up in...

Author: Jennifer Johnston Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 All families are complicated but some are more complicated than others. And Christmas can only make matters worse. After...

Author: Zoe Whittall Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 What if your own husband was accused of sexual misconduct? 'You will be left wondering just who George is,...

Author: Karin Altenberg Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 Returning to the bleak and beautiful Dartmoor village where he grew up, Gabriel attempts to come to terms with...

Author: CC Gibbs Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 Kate knows the irrestistible attraction she feels for Dominic Knight could forfeit her chance at happiness, but she's finding...

Author: Joanna Kavenna Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 'Extraordinary, wise, funny, adventurous' A. L. Kennedy 'So utterly startling and inventive, it's almost an act of resistance' Miriam...

Author: Judy Finnigan Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 After her best friend Eloise dies from breast cancer, Cathy is devastated. But then Cathy begins to have disturbing...

Author: Pamela Evans Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 Pam Evans' heartwarming London saga, DANCE YOUR TROUBLES AWAY, is set during the Second World War and is sure...

Author: Rachael English Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 480 *No.1 bestseller* From a storyteller who combines the warmth of Maeve Binchy with the elegance of Maggie O'Farrell comes...

Author: William Nicholson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 544 She loves him. She's happy. But could she be happier? Maggie and Andrew are lovers who live apart -...

Author: Rory Gleeson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 'Rockadoon Shore is terrific' Roddy Doyle 'One of the most exciting Irish storytellers to have emerged in years' Gavin...

Author: Sagheer Afzal Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 Alone in his room in a London madrasah, Musah tries on an abaya, a hijab and a shawl; he...

Author: Anita Ganeri Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 32 Discover the Bronze Age and write about it! Find out about the Bronze Age to discover how the skill of making...

Author: David Ebershoff Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 The Danish Girl is now a major motion picture starring Eddie Redmayne and Alicia Vikander, directed by Tom Hooper....

Author: George Grossmith Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 Mr Charles Pooter is a respectable man. He has just moved into a very desirable home in Holloway with...

Author: Tash Aw Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 A murderer's confession - devastating, unblinking, poignant, unforgettable - which reveals a story of class, education and the inescapable...

Author: Mark Bryant Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 432 'Handsomely produced . . . All in all, a quite absorbing collection, an easy Christmas present, and a perfect (if bulky)...

Author: Margaret Kirk Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 'SHADOW MAN is a harrowing and horrific game of consequences.' Val McDermid A gripping Scottish crime thriller from the...

Author: Prof Bernhard Schlink Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 Old friends and lovers reunite for a weekend in a secluded country home after spending decades apart. They...

Author: Jonathan Safran Foer (University of Ottowa) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 592 A monumental novel from the bestselling author of Everything Is Illuminated and Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close,...

Author: A.G. Roemmers Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 A beautiful tribute to the international bestseller The Little Prince, with specially commissioned illustrations by the award-winning artist Pietari...

Author: Sabri Louatah Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 In an already tense crowd on election night, France's first Arab presidential candidate Chaouch is shot at close range...

Author: Celia Imrie Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 The deliciously witty, irresistible new novel from the top ten Sunday Times bestselling author of Not Quite Nice follows...

Author: Graham Greene Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 Henry Pulling, a retired bank manager, meets his septuagenarian Aunt Augusta for the first time in over fifty years...

Author: Claire Vaye Watkins Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 Desert sands have laid waste to the south-west of America. Las Vegas is buried. California - and anyone...

Author: Charles Dickens Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 144 It is the twenty-fourth of December. Mean old Ebenezer Scrooge sits in his freezing cold office shouting 'Bah! Humbug!'...

Author: Cecelia Ahern Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 512 Meaningful and moving - the classic million-copy bestselling love story from Cecelia Ahern. Some people wait their whole lives...

Author: Sarah J. Harris Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 How do you solve a mystery when you can't remember the clues? 'A rich tapestry... distinctive and compelling'...

Author: Kathrine Kressmann Taylor Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 96 Can friendship survive in a divided world? Written on the eve of the Holocaust as a series of...

Author: Lee Child Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 96 WHAT MAKES A HERO? WHO BETTER TO ANSWER THAT QUESTION THAN LEE CHILD... 'It's Lee Child. Why would you not read...

Author: Jasmin B. Frelih Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 It's 2036, twenty-five years after the 'Great Shutdown' destroyed the global communications network. In this post-Internet world, three...

Author: Patrick Gale Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 A quirky, warm novel of eccentric adventure from the bestselling author of A PLACE CALLED WINTER - 'A huge...

Author: Jodi Ellen Malpas Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 Did you fall in love with Christian Grey in the books and the Fifty Shades of Grey film?...

Author: William Melvin Kelley Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 At the age of five, a blind African-American boy is handed over to a brutal state home. Here...

Author: Marisa de los Santos Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 The New York Times bestselling author revisits the characters from her beloved novels Love Walked In and...

Author: Melvyn Bragg Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 A classic love story, retold for our times. Heloise, a young scholar reputed to be the cleverest woman in...

Author: Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 Gunter Grass (1927-2015) was Germany's foremost writer for more than half a century, and his books were and remain bestsellers across...

Author: James Smythe Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 A global thriller presenting an apocalyptic vision of a world on the brink of despair and destruction. What would...

Author: Robert Fabbri (Author) Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 'I foresee great struggles at my funeral games.' Babylon, 323 BC: Alexander the Great is dead, leaving behind...

Author: Anna Todd Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 608 Now a major motion picture! Experience the internet's most talked-about book from Anna Todd, the writer Cosmopolitan called "the...

Author: Alison Pick Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 From Alison Pick, Booker Prize longlisted author of FAR TO GO comes a suspenseful, dystopian reimagining of the founding...

Author: Jeffrey Eugenides Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 The new novel from the bestselling author of Middlesex and The Virgin Suicides. Brown University, 1982. Madeleine Hanna, dutiful...

Author: Carol Lynne Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 On the south side of Chicago sits an old gym called The Brick Yard. Ten years ago, on a...