Modern Fiction (post 1945)

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: Jorge Luis Borges Format: Paperback Number of Pages: In Borges' story, the Aleph is a point in space that contains all other points. Anyone who gazes into it can...

Author: Amy Sackville Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 This is a portrait of Diego Velazquez, from his arrival at the court of King Philip IV of Spain, to his...

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Author: Cathy Kelly Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 'A burst of warmth and wit, twists and turns' MARIAN KEYES 'This is Cathy Kelly on top form writing...

Author: Ernest Hemingway Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 112 'The best story Hemingway has written. No page of this beautiful master-work could have been done better or differently'...

Author: William S. Burroughs Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 Originally written in 1952 but not published till 1985, Queer is an enigma - both an unflinching autobiographical...

Author: Mr John Steinbeck Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 528 A stunning new series look for one of the greatest writers of the 20th century in Penguin Modern...

Author: Garry Disher Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 Australia's favourite country cop, Hirsch, is back in this new edition of Consolation, the follow-up to Peace and Bitter...

Author: Gayl Jones Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 512 A FINALIST FOR THE 2022 PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION Palmares hails the return of a major voice in literature - 'the...

Author: Frances Cha Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 A glitteringly dark and unsettling debut novel set in the drinking dens and beauty salons of South Korea If...

Author: Wally Lamb Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 901 #1 New York Times Bestseller and Oprah Book Club selection "Thoughtful . . . heart-wrenching . . . ....

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Author: Cecile Pin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 'A deeply humane and genre-defying work of love and uncompromising hope' Ocean...

Author: Javier Marias Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 496 From the award-winning, internationally best-selling Spanish writer, author of The Infatuations, comes a gripping new novel of intrigue and missed chances--at...

Author: Sarah Perry Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 From the internationally bestselling author of The Essex Serpent--soon to be an Apple TV+ Series "A beautiful, dream-like, unsettling...

Author: Ernest Hemingway Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 464 Ernest Hemingway's last novel written before his death and his most autobiographical novel. Hemingway's last major novel, set in...

Author: Jonathan Franzen Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 570 An international bestseller and the novel of the year, 'Freedom' is an epic of contemporary love and marriage. Patty...

Author: George Orwell Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 Hidden away in the Record Department of the sprawling Ministry of Truth, Winston Smith skilfully rewrites the past to...

Author: Emily M. Danforth Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 640 'Brimming from start to finish with sly humour and gothic mischief' SARAH WATERS 'Beguilingly clever, very sexy and...

Author: Joyce Carol Oates Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 An ingenious, dystopian novel of one young woman's resistance against the constraints of an oppressive society, from the...

Author: Jonathan Escoffery Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR FICTION 'Kaleidoscopic, urgent, hilarious, revelatory' Marlon James, author of A Brief History...

Author: Joyce Carol Oates Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 752 A sweeping, mesmerising novel of the most enduring and evocative cultural icon of the 20th century. Joyce Carol...

Author: Jen Beagin Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 Mona is twenty-three, emotionally adrift and cleaning houses to get by. While handing out clean needles to drug addicts, she falls...

Author: Haruki Murakami Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 'Casablanca remade Japanese-style'- a moving, thoughtful story of long-lost love and second chances Growing up in the suburbs in...

Author: Joanna Cannon Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 Amazon readers are LOVING this book: 'Dark, claustrophobic, compelling, shocking and very funny indeed' 'A very dark black comedy,...

Author: Haruki Murakami Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 An assault on the senses, part murder mystery, part metaphysical speculation; a fable for our times as catchy as...

Author: Haruki Murakami Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 'A remarkable writer-he captures the common ache of contemporary heart and head' Jay McInerney When a man's favourite elephant...

Author: Jhumpa Lahiri Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: Pulitzer-winning, scintillating studies in yearning and exile from a Bengali Bostonian woman of immense promise. A couple exchange unprecedented confessions...

Author: Donna Tartt Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 640 Truly deserving of the accolade Modern Classic, Donna Tartt's novel is a remarkable achievement - both compelling and elegant,...

Author: Leonard Cohen Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 In A Ballet of Lepers Leonard Cohen explores themes that would come to permeate his later works - shame stemming from...

Author: J. G. Ballard Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 Introducing the Collins Modern Classics, a series featuring some of the most significant books of recent times, books...

Author: Jonathan Franzen Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 592 'His best novel yet ... A Middlemarch-like triumph' Telegraph 'A pleasure bomb of a novel' Vogue 'A true modern master' Independent...

Author: Sarah Lotz Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 Discover the love story of the year 'It's the book we all need right now' SARAH PINBOROUGH 'Warm, funny,...

Author: Haruki Murakami Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 Leave reality behind and enter Murakami's fictional universe where nothing is ever as it seems A marvelous hybrid of...

Author: Julie Langsdorf Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 A turf war between neighbors leads to a small-town crisis in this sharply observed debut novel perfect for fans...

Author: David Jackson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 A dark, shocking and relentlessly gripping thriller that will keep you up all night, for fans of Adrian McKinty's...

Author: Micah Nemerever Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 480 A Literary Hub Best Book of Year * A Crime Reads Best Debut of the Year * A Newsweek 25 Best...

Author: Lee Child Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 576 Takes cult hero Jack Reacher back in time, to his younger days as a Military Policeman in the US...

Author: Isabel Allende Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 496 Allende's magical realist epic is an international classic - 'thick with plot and bristling with characters. A novel to...

Author: Yoko Ogawa Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 VINTAGE JAPANESE CLASSICS - following on from the success of Vintage Russian Classics and European Classics, these are covetable...

Author: Kurt Vonnegut Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 50th anniversary hardback edition of the bestselling cult US classic - with extra material 50th ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL EDITION As a young...

Author: Erica James Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 Another heartbreaking but glorious tale of secrets and love from the Sunday Times bestselling author Erica James... Love grows where you...

Author: Martina Cole Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 832 Donna Brunos worships her husband and is devastated when he is jailed for armed robbery. Georgio swears he s...

Author: Sue Monk Kidd Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 448 Don't miss the extraordinary new novel from Sue Monk Kidd, The Book of Longings - published on 21st April 2020,...

Author: Graham Greene Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 Graham Greene's first novel to be published represented for the author 'one sentimental gesture towards his won past, the...

Author: Vanessa Greene Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 When life as you know it changes, will it define you, destroy you or make you stronger? Best friends...

Author: Lee Child Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 512 Get ready for the most exciting count-down of your life! Winner of the prestigious Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Novel...