Modern Fiction (post 1945)

SHORTLISTED FOR THE UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND FICTION BOOK AWARD 'a compelling, intricate and multifaceted tale' - The Saturday Paper 'Politica can't make war make sense (what can?), but it does...

When it was first published in 1989, The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love became an international bestselling sensation, winning rave reviews and the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. To celebrate...

'A lean, careening thrill ... one of my favourite books of the year' Megan Nolan 'Riveting reading' The Times 'Irresistible ... A page-turning story of sex, power, and money' Vogue,...

Author: Paul Beatty Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 WINNER THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2016 Born in the 'agrarian ghetto' of Dickens - on the southern outskirts of Los Angeles...

A special hardback edition of Murakami's brilliantly surreal, detective-story classic, A Wild Sheep Chase. Published in this new gift edition, with an introduction from the author. A beautifully packaged hardback...

Beautifully written and utterly absorbing from the first word, this is a haunting coming-of-age novel that's good enough to eat . . . Abandoned by her mother with only some...

In her opulent novel, Eva Luna, Isabel Allende uses exquisite prose to describe the survival of a young Latin American woman whose powers as a storyteller bring her friendship and...

The international bestseller. Over three million copies sold worldwide. 'Charming and heartwarming...A delightful example of how love can be imperfect, messy-and utterly magical.' Dua Lipa Don Tillman is getting married....

Four of George Orwell's most essential books, 1984, Animal Farm, Down and Out in Paris and London and Homage to Catalonia available for the first time in Vintage Classics with...

'Deserves first prize in every category... superbly written, wildly funny' Daily Telegraph Young, gay, William Beckwith spends his time, and his trust fund, idly cruising London for erotic encounters. When...

THE FOURTH NOVEL IN THE BESTSELLING OUTLANDER SERIES. THE FOURTH NOVEL IN THE BESTSELLING OUTLANDER SERIES. How far will a woman travel to find a father, a lover a destiny?...

Jack Reacher, the popular drop-out renegade crusader for justice, returns in a brand-new thriller in Lee Child's number-one bestselling series - across the Atlantic, to Paris, and then to London....

NEW LOOK FOR THE CLASSIC NOVEL WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY NEELI CHERKOVSKI Henry Chinaski, an outcast, a loner and a hopeless drunk, drifts around America from one dead-end job to...

Amy Tan's bestselling classic novel of mothers and daughters. 'The Joy Luck Club is an ambitious saga that's impossible to read without wanting to call your Mum' Stylist Discover Amy...

Worth Dying For is the kind of explosive thriller only Lee Child could write, and only Jack Reacher could survive. 'If anyone can put down Worth Dying For after the...

The latest masterpiece from the Pulitzer Prize-winning, Number One New York Times bestselling author of Olive Kitteridge, now in paperback Olive, Again follows the blunt, contradictory yet deeply loveable Olive...

A soaring, sensual coming-of-age novel, by the legendary 'Black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet' If I didn't define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people's fantasies for me...

Anais Nin's classic exploration of love and sex in 1930s Paris The brilliant tale of Anais Nin's true love affair with Henry Miller, and her ambiguous, charged relationship with his...

Evelyn Waugh's masterpeice, Brideshead Revisted is an extraordinary mediation on a lost world The most nostalgic and reflective of Evelyn Waugh's novels, Brideshead Revisited looks back to the golden age...

A chillingly powerful dystopian vision from one of Europe's greatest writers No food, no water, no government, no obligation, no order. Discover a chillingly powerful and prescient dystopian vision from...

Ernest's Hemingway's powerful autobiographical war classic - considered by many to be the greatest war novel ever written Ernest's Hemingway's powerful autobiographical story of war. 'I don't live at all...

Holly Golightly, glittering socialite traveller, generally upwards, sometimes sideways and once in a while down. She's up all night drinking cocktails and breaking hearts. She's a shoplifter, a delight, a...

Listen, I told myself, and heard the waves against the harbour-wall, a gull being peevish, the white tapping stick of a blind man against the stones. Listen, I told myself,...

The wind from Siberia as announced by the BBC came down Bayswater Road from the direction of Marble Arch...Searing skin, and petrifying metal and wood, it took possession of London...

Introduced by Fiona McGregor Sharply observed, bitter and humorous, The Long Prospect is a story of life in an Australian industrial town. Growing up neglected in a seedy boarding house,...

A man starts driving without knowing where he is going. He alternates be-tween turning right and left, and finally he gets stuck at the end of a forest road. Soon...

Set in the late 1960s and the 1970s, Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay continues the story of the feisty and rebellious Lina and her lifelong friend, the brilliant...

'Morton is masterful at controlling a story's flow and tension. Readers will not suspect the twist at the end.' - Publisher's Weekly 'Secrets told with exquisite timing.' - The Australian...

Kitchen juxtaposes two tales about mothers, transsexuality, bereavement, kitchens, love and tragedy in contemporary Japan. It is a startlingly original first work by Japan's brightest young literary star and is...

Set before the start of the First World War, this moving fable sees a young English writer set out to Crete to claim a small inheritance. But when he arrives,...

"Tender, terrifying, and heart-rending . . . A must read" GEETANJALI SHREE, author of International Booker Prize-winning Tomb of SandA Fistful of Moonlight is a collection of fourteen stories that...

'Wonderfully witchy and emotionally astute' Chloe Ashby'Unsettling and atmospheric' Harriet Tyce 'Bloody brilliant' Clare PollardPropulsive and wry, this razor-sharp debut is perfect for fans of Boy Parts and My Year...

From one of Ireland's most provocative and admired writers comes a story of rage and reckoning, joy and transformation, and one woman's decision to leave everything behind.'Thrillingly relatable' HARPER'S BAZAAR'A...

In her perceptive and affecting new novel, Daniela Krien explores a marriage where everything hangs in the balance. "Quietly devastating" HANNAH BECKERMANN, Observer"A stylish, subtle read" Woman & Home BOOK...

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'Compelling and fine and rich, I devoured it' TESSA HADLEY'Powerfully compelling' GUARDIAN'Unbelievably good' ELIZABETH DAY'Complex and nuanced... the perfect definition of summer reading' LUCY CALDWELL'Subtle, complex, ambitious' THE TIMESA Guardian...

Elizabeth Smart's passionate fictional account of her intense love-affair with the poet George Barker, described by Angela Carter as 'Like Madame Bovary blasted by lightening ... A masterpiece'. One day,...

The brand new psychological thriller from the Sunday Times bestselling author of It's Always The Husband'We were drawn in from the first page' Bella A young Harvard law student falls...

'If she didn't tell Patrick that she'd fallen in love with him, how could he know to say it back? If she didn't say let me come away with you,...

'A master of historical crime fiction' Guardian'A writer in full command of his subject' Mail on Sunday'Martin's novels are works of literature, not simply puzzles' Financial TimesThe Talented Mr Ripley...

Return to Everdene Sands, setting for the THE BEACH HUT, and discover secrets, love, tragedy and dreams. It's going to be a summer to remember...     Summer appeared from...

A dark and dazzling debut from a beguiling new voice - for fans of Beautiful Ruins and Lessons in Chemistry.Lois Saunders thought that marrying the right man would finally cure...

From the author of The Secret Life of Albert Entwistle and Becoming Ted, a brand new enemies-to-lovers romcom for fans of Ted Lasso and Red, White and Royal Blue ....

Your dream island. The love of your life. A secret that changes everything . . .'I loved it' TIM WEAVER'A griptastic thriller' LIZ NUGENT'Jo Spain at her brilliant best' ANDREA...

A TELEGRAPH BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023'This novel amazed me. It is the work of a true original' LUCIE ELVEN'I loved Strangers at the Port. It is deliciously spare, yet...

'A phenomenal, transfixing?work; Cunningham is a singular, dazzling writer' Bryan Washington'A coming-of-age novel of the richest, most expansive kind, it's a rare debut, one that feels both intimate and revelatory'...

'Powerful' JOANNA GLEN   'Beautiful' KATE SAWYER   'A triumph' JENNIE GODFREY     The eagerly awaited new novel from Bobby Palmer, author of the critically acclaimed debut Isaac and...

Six o'clock in the morning, Sunday, at the worn-out end of January.In a small room in an Oxford college, cold and dim and full of quiet, an undergraduate student works...