Modern Fiction (post 1945)

Author: R. O. Kwon Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 'R. O. Kwon is the real deal' LAUREN GROFF 'Absolutely electric . . . Everyone should read this book' GARTH...

Author: Gill Hornby Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 It's the start of another school year at St Ambrose. But while the children are in the classroom colouring in, their...

Author: Jacob Kerr Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 Eshwood Hall is a great English house surrounded by sprawling woods. In 1960, Izzy is thirteen, lives in the servants quarters...

Author: Jesse Ball Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 A pair of girls, Lethe and Lois, navigates the perimeters of a segregated city, armed with canisters of killing gas. Another...

Author: Akwaeke Emezi Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 They burned down the market on the day Vivek Oji died. One afternoon, a mother opens her front door to find...

Author: Sarah Hall (Author) Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 The world has changed. War rages in South America and China, and Britain - now entirely dependent on the US...

Author: Rene Denfeld Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 Naomi Cottle is an investigator who finds missing children. But the one child she has never been able to find is...

Author: Tsitsi Dangarembga Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 As Zimbabwe emerges into independence, Tambudzai Sigauke embarks on her second year at the Young Ladies' College of the Sacred Heart....

Author: Jeet Thayil Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 496 The Book of Chocolate Saints follows the unforgettable character Francis Newton Xavier and his journey towards salvation - or damnation -...

Author: Gayl Jones Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 FINALIST FOR THE 2022 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD The Birdcatcher is the new novel from a major voice in American literature, which...

Author: Tuomas Kyro Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 A strange, compelling fable about Europe, capitalism and the human heart. Vatanescu, an impoverished construction worker, wants a future for himself...

Author: Sonya Lalli Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 You can't choose who you fall for...but it helps if there's a list Raina, twenty-nine, is still unmarried much to the...

Author: Julianne Pachico Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 'A brilliant, feverishly imaginative novel.' - Sharlene Teo 'Seriously impressive.' - Claire Adam 'A vibrantly intelligent work.' - Sergio de la...

Author: Edward St Aubyn Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 The third of the Melrose novels. Some Hope finds Patrick qualified as a barrister and speaking for the first time...

Author: Attia Hosain Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 208 BY ONE OF THE MOST INFLUENTIAL INDIAN WRITERS OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY 'There is so much to love and admire in...

Author: Sofi Oksanen (DOB 7-1-1977) Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 From the internationally acclaimed author of Purge and When the Doves Disappeared, comes a deliciously dark family drama that...

Author: Maeve Binchy Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 'An absolute joy. Maeve sweeps you away to an island paradise you won't ever want to leave!' VERONICA HENRY 'The perfect...

Author: Alix Kates Shulman Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 'An extraordinary novel ... women will like it and men should read it for the good of their immortal souls.'...

Author: Sarah Hall (Author) Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 192 Madame Zero is a remarkable collection of dark, sensuous stories set in sometimes conflicting landscapes - rural, industrial, psychological -...

Author: Andrew Sean Greer Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 The awkward and lovable hero of Andrew Sean Greer's bestselling and prize-winning novel Less returns in this unforgettable road trip...

Author: Prayaag Akbar Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 Shalini will never forget her daughter Leila's third birthday party: it was the last time she saw her alive. Sixteen years...

Author: Willy Vlautin Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 Fifteen-year-old Charley Thompson wants a home; food on the table; a high school he can attend for more than part of...

Author: David Keenan Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 Industry of Magic & Light is a love letter to the counterculture of the 1960s and a requiem for its passing....

Author: Kate Maxwell Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 A GRAZIA BOOK OF THE YEAR 'A daring, compelling novel about motherhood' Cosmopolitan 'Beautifully written' i Paper 'Brilliantly explores the societal...

Author: Mario Vargas Llosa Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 'A wildly enjoyable book; the 85-year-old Vargas Llosa is as sharp and mordantly funny as ever.' - Financial Times Guatemala,...

Author: Jamie Marina Lau Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 'A tender horror story, all the more haunting for being so familiar' Roisin Kiberd, author of The Disconnect 'Here is...

Author: Abigail Tarttelin Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 'My name is Flick and these are my images of my disconnected life, my forgettable weeks and unforgettable weekends. I am...

Author: Kit Fan Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 'A rapid-fire debut with a cinematographer's eye for detail... Fan strikes a deft balance between agile set-pieces and lingering beauty.' Naoise...

Author: Marco Missiroli Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER, NOW A NETFLIX ORIGINAL SERIES 'Erotically charged... this intimate and ultimately moving analysis of desire and the long-term...

Author: Terry Stiastny Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 'A skilful prose stylist and a connoisseur of telling details' Guardian Lawrence Leith has retreated from his once-successful career in TV...

Author: Rumer Godden Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 NOW A HAUNTING BBC DRAMA, STARRING GEMMA ARTERTON AND DIANA RIGG 'A remarkable and beautiful book' DAILY TELEGRAPH 'I envy anyone...

Author: Victoria Gosling Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 'Engrossing, beguiling, and with an undertow of menace, Before the Ruins is a masterly debut from a richly talented author.' -...

Author: Roxane Gay Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 192 From New York Times-bestselling powerhouse Roxane Gay, AYITI is a powerful collection exploring the Haitian diaspora experience. In AYITI, a married...

Author: Lucy Mangan (Columnist) Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 'Utterly wonderful ... full of love. Enormously uplifting, funny and witty and wry' - Marian Keyes Meet Liz: all she...

Author: Susan Spindler Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 'An absolute belter of a page-turner' HEAT 'Kept me reading late into the night' DAILY MAIL 'Clever and compelling. I loved...

Author: Paul Kingsnorth Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 'Like Robert Macfarlane re-written by Cormac McCarthy.' - Telegraph 'Beckett doing Beowulf.' - London Review of Books One thousand years from...

Author: John Kennedy Toole Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 Meet Ignatius J. Reilly- fat, flatulent, eloquent and almost unemployable 'This city is famous for its gamblers, prostitutes, exhibitionists, anti-Christs,...

Author: Rudyard Kipling Format: Paperback Number of Pages: Inspired by the bedtime stories Rudyard Kipling told his daughter that had to be recited Ôjust so', this collection includes mythical animal...

Author: Jennifer Egan Format: Hardback - Signed first edition (UK)Number of Pages: It's 2010. Staggeringly successful and brilliant tech entrepreneur Bix Bouton is desperate for a new idea. He's forty,...

Author: Michelle de Kretser Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 *** WINNER OF THE 2023 RATHBONES FOLIO FICTION PRIZE*** ONE OF SLATE'S 10 BEST BOOKS OF 2022 'Every page of...

Author: Jacob Kerr Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 Eshwood Hall is a great English house surrounded by sprawling woods. In 1960, Izzy is thirteen, lives in the servants quarters...

Author: Sofi Oksanen (DOB 7-1-1977) Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 From the internationally acclaimed author of Purge and When the Doves Disappeared, comes a deliciously dark family drama that...

Author: Claire Dyer Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 Paddington station, nine a.m., rush hour. As the crowds ebb and flow, time suddenly stands still for two people: Fern and...

Author: Alice Munro Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 64 'Read not more than one of her stories a day, and allow them to work their spell slowly: they are made...

Author: Tuomas Kyro Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 A strange, compelling fable about Europe, capitalism and the human heart. Vatanescu, an impoverished construction worker, wants a future for himself...

Author: Laura Barnett Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 208 'WARM AND UPLIFTING STORYTELLING: A DELIGHTFUL TREAT' CLARE CHAMBERS, AUTHOR OF SMALL PLEASURES Twelve people Twelve gifts One Christmas to remember...

Author: Jamie Marina Lau Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 'A tender horror story, all the more haunting for being so familiar' Roisin Kiberd, author of The Disconnect 'Here is...

Author: Andrew Lipstein Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 Named a Best Book of 2022 by the New Yorker Named a Top 10 Book of the Year by Slate Named...