Modern Fiction (post 1945)

It all starts when Southern Belle Lollie Woolfolk sashays into Rick Shannon's office at Rockin' Vestigations in Vicksburg. She hires him to find the grandfather she never met, one-time blues...

'...so taut you may need to remind yourself to breathe.' - Sun-Herald'...packed with suspense and insight. If you enjoy reading Patricia Cornwell and Kathy Reichs, this is a novel which...

the breakout novel from the award-winning Colombian author of Leopard In the Sun. Full of wit and intelligence, tragedy and compassion, the Dark Bride takes us deep into the Colombian...

A remarkable true story of heroism, courage, and faith

Controversial novel that challenges the moral standing of the Roman Catholic Church in Ireland.

A laugh-out-loud romance from the author of the bestselling YOU HAD ME AT HELLO When Edie is caught in a compromising position at her colleagues' wedding, all the blame falls...

Sandy, the youngest boy, swans through life with his movie-star looks, never taking responsibility for his actions. And Lucy, the youngest, must find her own path in the shadow of...

So, to get to the point, if it's a ripping yarn you're after you should give up now. Just put the damned book down and find something more satisfying, a...

Chinese by birth, Eurasian by blood, Mei-Ling Wang's extraordinary life is a mirror of our time. Born in China in 1949, the year of the Red Army's entry into Beijing,...

A woman, an obsession, an unforgettable bestseller. Television war correspondent Nicky Wells is a media superstar. Courageous, beautiful and renowned for her hard-hitting reports from the world's most dangerous trouble...

Alentejo Blue is the story of the Portuguese village of Mamarrosa told through the lives of those who live there and those who are passing through men and women, children...

Reality is juggled with myth in three fantasies set in Paris, Pharaoh's Egypt, and the world of hobos. From the author of cult classics The Fan Man, Fata Morganna and...

In Edwardian England a vow of friendship is a thing of innocence. Even when tested by the passionate militancy of the suffragette movement or the rigorous demands of the Season,...

THE INSTANT CULT CLASSIC FROM THE WINNER OF THE O. HENRY PRIZE 'Full of dark, deadpan humour, Brat is a raucous story of the messy, messed-up business of living, dying...

'Funny, sexy and glamorous' JOJO MOYES 'Jackie Collins's daring, unapologetic stroke of the pen, combined with her glorious wit, has single-handedly given creative license to new generations of authors and...

Life is hard in post-Civil War New York, but change is in the air. Women are agitating for the vote and other rights. Immigrants are pouring into the city, bringing...

In a house overlooking Dublin Bay, Mimi and her daughter Grace are disturbed by the unexpected arrival of Grace's daughter Polly, and her striking new boyfriend. The events of the...

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Two sisters, four nights, one city. April, 1941. Belfast has escaped the worst of the war - so far. Over the next two months, it's going to be destroyed from...

In 1904, at the age of six, Polly goes to live with her two holy aunts. The house is so close to the sea it seems to toss like a...

When a marriage meets a therapist... Annette and Spicer make a perfect pair: he thirty-nine, wide-shouldered, square-jawed, and often likened to Harrison Ford; she slight, fair, delicately featured, and sometimes...

Four women, Judy, Kate, Pagan and Maxine, are summoned to a New York apartment where they are asked which one of them is the mother of the host. As they...

Renowned abstract artist, the curmudgeonly octogenarian Giles Paumen, is the head of a family of artists, each of whom he considers less talented than himself. His son Laurence is a...

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When mild-mannered mail clerk Bertie Jones tries his luck as an Elvis Presley impersonator, his whole world gets shaken up. His doting mother doesn t approve, for a start. But...

I was there when it happened. I watched her disappear... 'POWERFUL' - Amazon Reviewer 'ABSORBING' - Karen Perry 'INCREDIBLE' - Amazon Reviewer 'ELEGANT' - Sunday Mirror 'GRIPPING' - Amazon Reviewer...

With an introduction by Stuart Evers So this is happiness, she thought. Or this, at least, is what adds up to happiness. The prospect of never running after men and...

'[The Gosling Girl] interrogates the context of a child's crime and simplistic notions of evil by society and the media. It fosters understanding & empathy and draws us deep inside...

A propulsive novel about music, coming of age and the cost of fame, for fans of Megan Abbott and Daisy Jones and the Six. 'The secrets simmer in this atmospheric,...

'Brinkley's sentences are daggers' RAVEN LEILANI 'Extraordinary ... moving, compelling and virtuosic' OBSERVER 'A triumph' COLIN BARRETT An electric collection of stories set in contemporary New York, from the award-winning...

'A startling meditation on grief and family and betrayal and the stories we tell about ourselves ... introspective, psychologically astute, and engaging' - Kirkus starred review 'There were other women,...

Author: Robert LudlumBinding: HardbackPublished: Granada, 1980Condition:Book: Very goodJacket: UnblemishedPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThe book introduces a man with amnesia, found adrift in the Mediterranean Sea. He embarks on a perilous journey...

Author: Lee LangleyBinding: HardbackPublished: Hale, London, 1969Condition:Book: Very goodJacket: DamagedPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Very good condition with price clipped DJ.A woman's intense gaze dominates the cover, her expression hinting...

Author: P. B. YuillBinding: HardbackPublished: Macmillan, 1975Condition:Book: Very goodJacket: UnblemishedPages: YellowedMarkings: No markingsThe narrative follows Hazell, a character navigating the streets of London. The plot involves a man's determination, a...

Author: Haruki MurakamiBinding: HardbackPublished: Harvill Secker London , 2014Condition:Book: Very goodJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: DJ with shelf wear. Sticker pack included. The narrative follows Tsukuru Tazaki,...

The second book in Ed McDonald's Redwinter Chronicles, Traitor of Redwinter is full of deadly politics, ancient powers . . . and a young woman navigating a world in which...

I am as brown as brown can be, And my eyes as black as sloe; I am as brisk as brisk can be, And wild as forest doe. (The Child...

A poignant and compelling story of three lives torn apart by the Battle of Gallipoli. Arthur Tarrant, an Oxford graduate headed for his uncle's law firm, changes path leaving behind...