Modern Fiction (post 1945)

'Hirsch is one of my favourite characters...Unmissable.' HAYLEY SCRIVENOR, author of Dirt Town 'Disher is one of this country's finest writers.' TONY BIRCH 'Disher is the gold standard for rural...

'Five stars. One of the best books I've read in a very, very long time' James O'Brien, LBC 'This is first class' The Times | 'Excellent' Spectator 'A highly accomplished...

A private eye is catapulted on to a riotous and continent-hopping journey that proves difficult to escape - the new novel from the visionary storyteller. Milwaukee 1932, the Great Depression...

The sleepy town of Heartsdale, Georgia, is jolted into panic when Sara Linton, paediatrician and medical examiner, finds Sibyl Adams dead in the local diner. As well as being viciously...

Lou is a shy and diligent librarian at the local Heritage Institute. She works monotonous and dusty hours long into the night but she has found nothing - and no...

Osaka, 1943: as the Second World War rages and American bombers rain death down upon the city, the once prosperous Omari family is already in decline, financially ruined by the...

Brand new healing fiction from the 2.5-million-copy bestselling author of What You Are Looking for is in the Library set in a suburban community block DISCOVER THE BRAND NEW NOVEL...

For fans of THE HANDMAID'S TALE, this is a reissue of a much loved feminist classic 'One of those rare novels that leave us different people at the end than...

In his most exhilarating novel yet, Britain's greatest storyteller transports you from the vibrant streets of sixties London, as an accidental spy is drawn into the shadows of espionage and...

An addictive and searingly honest novel about childhood and grief from the international phenomenon, Karl Ove Knausgaard One of the Guardian's 100 Best Books of the 21st Century, an addictive...

'Part ghost story, part Jewish family epic, and part romance, RULES FOR GHOSTING is a meditation on life, death, and healing that is at turns bitingly funny and deeply moving'...

'A gripping read' SUNDAY TIMES INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER WINNER OF THE 2024 DAGGER FOR CRIME FICTION IN TRANSLATION PRIZE WINNER OF FRANCE'S FIRST NOVEL AWARD 'Riveting' OBSERVER 'Totally addictive' ALICE SLATER...

The instant Sunday Times bestseller ***SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER 1 BESTSELLER*** THE BIGGEST DEBUT LAUNCH OF 2024 'Such a fresh and interesting voice. You'll cry and you won't be able to...

VINTAGE QUARTERBOUND CLASSICS- Bound to be beautiful A beautiful hardback edition of Angela Carter's feminist retelling of fairy tales - masterful, seductive and luminous. From familiar fairy tales and legends...

A Guardian, NYT and TIME best book of the year, Beautyland is the best of cosy crossover literary fiction - a wise and tender novel about a woman who doesn't...

The debut novel from the brilliant essayist, reviewer, cultural critic and author of Flaneuse 'Scaffolding is like a perfect French movie of a novel...elegant, original and often very funny' Kevin...

One week in Cape Cod. The perfect family holiday. What could possibly go wrong...? From the author of We All Want Impossible Things, a raucously funny novel with an unexpected...

The House of God is a wild and raunchily irreverent novel that teaches you the not-so-gentle arts of healing, and tells you what your doctor never wanted you to know.It...

The life of a good priest in Ireland over the past 50 years provokes one of John Boyne's most powerful novels yet Odran Yates enters Clonliffe Seminary in 1972 after...

Albert Camus' existentialist masterpiece, now in a wonderful new Clothbound Classics edition In The Outsider, his classic existentialist novel, Camus explores the alienation of an individual who refuses to conform...

An enthralling, exotic saga spanning five decades and three continents, rife with forbidden love and desire; betrayals, murder, medicine and family secrets. Two surgeon brothers begin life in Ethiopia and...

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...

Hussam and Wassim are teenaged boys living in Syria during America's invasion of Iraq in the early 2000s. When a surprise discovery results in tragedy, their lives, and those of...

"A fresh ode to sisterhood and sexual agency that crackles with verve and wit. I couldn't put it down."-Gabriela Garcia, author of the New York Times bestseller and Good Morning...

"Splendid . . . what really sells this imaginative, scary, verge-of-growing-up tale is its characters, each with a distinct voice and personality. . . . Kois' surprising second novel is...

READ THE MOST CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED THRILLER OF 2018: 'You'll never see your neighbours in the same light again' OBSERVER 'Beautifully written, frightening and absorbing' THE TIMES 'As intellectually stimulating as...

'Dettmann at her hilarious and heartwarming best.' Tim Minchin When Margot receives an email from her best friend it comes as a shock ... seeing as Tess died twenty years...

In an age driven by desire, what happens when you want two different things? Set in the pristine, precarious world of MoMA, The Modern is a brilliantly wry and insightful...

'Outstandingly weird and memorable' GUARDIAN 'Deliciously creepy' NEW SCIENTIST Fear never dies... Featuring stories from Susan Barker, J K Chukwu, Bridget Collins, Mariana Enriquez, Michel Faber, Lewis Hancox, Emilia Hart,...

Abbott Elementary meets Ali Hazelwood in this spicy rivals-to-lovers rom-com starring two kindergarten teachers whose one night stand leads to an unexpected nine-month lesson in love. Quirky, free-spirited Valerie Marquez...

Engrossing and memorable, The Sins of the Father is the second novel in international bestseller Jeffrey Archer's celebrated the Clifton Chronicles. It takes us to New York in 1939 where...

A quirky, joyful queer love story about a lonely museum worker who falls in love with a statue of Venus, from the author of cult hit Diary of a Void...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE GOLDSMITHS PRIZE 2024 'Tender and merciless . . . a hallucinatory window into what it means to excavate the past in a world committed to its erasure'...

Soon to be a film directed, written and produced by Baltasar Kormakur, co-written by Olaf Olafsson. Only In Theaters July 12. A mesmerizing, panoramic story of one mans search to...

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'You really must read this book. A rare and phenomenal life affirming read' DINAH JEFFERIES 'Get ready to fall in love with Eadie Browne, the eponymous and eccentric heroine of...

With an introduction by Anthony Quinn In the late summer of 1913, George Sawle brings his Cambridge friend Cecil Valance, a charismatic young poet, to visit his family home. Filled...

London, 1930s. Years after she first fled to South Shields, Cathy is known by everyone as the landlady of the Robin Hood pub. But Cathy has a secret from her...

New parts for thirty of Shakespeare's women, letting them speak their minds, written by famed stage and screen actress, Dame Harriet Walter DBE 'Bold and original... a book that anyone...

RIGHT PLACE. RIGHT TIME. WRONG MAN. 'Engrossing...ingenious...Goodman combines traditional elements - the nods to Buchan, Fleming and le Carre - with the topicality of 2020s technology and the threat from...

Kamryn Matika has a great job, a hectic social life and no responsibilities - one birthday card will change all of that forever... What would you do for the friend...

Georgie Blalock, the acclaimed author of The Other Windsor Girl , delivers an enchantingly reimagined fictional portrait of Wallis Simpson through the lens of her cousin who is engaged to...

' Subverted my expectations at almost every turn... Jordan shows how the aftermath of violence affects all those who witness it.' New York Times 'Immersive, atmospheric, heart-stopping - I tore...

'A writer of almost cinematic talent' DAILY EXPRESS EVERY OPERATIVE KNOWS THE RULES. The mission comes first. You are a deniable asset. Betrayal is punished by death. Alex Reeve -...

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

1956, the Scottish Highlands: Aaron and Robbie, a schoolmaster's son and a farmer's boy, are fast friends with a shared passion for diving, but very divergent ideas of what they...

'Best book of the year!' 'A fantastic debut' The brilliant, heart-warming debut novel from the Sunday Time s best-selling author of Dummy and Man vs Toddler 'A lovely feel-good treat'...

Nine spine-tingling, mind-altering and deliciously atmospheric, journey into the dark side of America with nine of its most uncanny classics. VINTAGE CLASSICS' AMERICAN GOTHIC SERIES Spine-tingling, mind-altering and deliciously atmospheric,...