Modern Fiction (post 1945)

'Dark, disturbing and utterly compelling' LIZ FENWICK 'Haunting and skilfully crafted' PHOEBE WYNNE 'Mysterious, atmospheric and chilling' ANITA FRANK A HOUSE CAN HOLD A THOUSAND SECRETS . . . 2019...

'Excellent as ever. Victoria Hislop at her best.' Reader review 'Within a few pages I was back in Greece and almost feeling the sun on my face.' Reader review Beloved...

In the summer of 1972, Famagusta in Cyprus is the most desirable resort in the Mediterranean, a city bathed in the glow of good fortune. An ambitious couple are about...

From the #1 bestselling author of Breaking Point and winner of Crime Novel of the Year at the An Post Irish Book Awards, November 2022. 'Edel Coffey is like an...

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 &...

FOUR BLONDES charts the romantic intrigues, liaisons, betrayals and victories of four modern women: a beautiful B-list model finagles rent-free summerhouses in the Hamptons from her lovers until she discovers...

Global phenomenon Neil Gaiman returns to dazzle, captivate, haunt, and entertain with this third collection of short fiction following Smoke and Mirr ors and Fragile Things, which includes a never-before...

Discover Neil Gaiman's NEVERWHERE , the extraordinary modern classic from the bestselling author of AMERICAN GODS , illustrated for the first time by 2015-2017 UK Children's Laureate Chris Riddell. This...

From USA Today bestselling author Eliza Knight comes an endearing and vivid novel told from the unique multi-narrative viewpoints of a young Queen Elizabeth; Hanna Penwyck, the fictionalized Keeper of...

A naive divorced mother of two faces the darkest parts of herself in this heart-stopping thriller from the author of USA Today bestseller, The Girl With All the Gifts ....

DISCOVER THE GORGEOUS NEW NOVEL FROM THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING BOOK CLUB CHAMPION Tucked away on the Cornish coastline and brimming with history, Roseland seemed to belong to another century...

'A modern master at work' THE TIMES 'Heart-poundingly suspenseful' WASHINGTON POST 'Joseph Kanon owns this corner of the literary landscape' LEE CHILD Berlin, 1963. The height of the Cold War...

A beautiful collectible edition containing the seventh and eighth novels of the beloved Bridgerton series by New York Times bestselling author Julia Quinn. It's in His Kiss Gareth St. Clair...

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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...

THE INSTANT SATURDAY TIMES TOP 10 BESTSELLER A DYMOCKS BOOK OF THE MONTH A PANDORA SYKES/FANE BOOK CLUB PICK ' Truly one of the most beautiful stories you'll ever read'...

A revolutionary and timeless tale of rebellion, surfing, and youthful discovery. 'By day, we were at school learning logarithms, but by night - in the back of cars, under the...

Embark on a captivating journey of love, espionage, and treacherous alliances, as a widow's relentless pursuit for truth takes her from the untamed landscapes of northern England to the heart...

A #1 Japanese bestseller and winner of the influential Japan booksellers' award, for fans of BEFORE COFFEE GETS COLD For fans of BEFORE THE COFFEE GETS COLD, fairy tale and...

The third Lou Clark novel, following the Number One international bestsellers Me Before You and After You Lou Clark knows too many things . . . She knows how many...

THE STUNNING SEQUEL TO THE WORLDWIDE PHENOMENON ME BEFORE YOU Lou Clark has lots of questions. Like how it is she's ended up working in an airport bar. Whether her...

The phenomenal bestseller. The overall bestselling novel of 2017, with almost 700,000 copies sold in print alone. 'Meticulously crafted and razor-sharp. THE COUPLE NEXT DOOR lingers long after you turn...

One of the best-known novels of the 20th century - the controversial story of Humbert Humbert who falls in love with twelve year old Lolita 'Lolita, light of my life,...

THE EXTRAORDINARY LOST NOVEL FROM THE NOBEL PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OF LOVE IN THE TIME OF CHOLERA AND ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF SOLITUDE Sitting alone, overlooking the still and blue lagoon,...

A revelatory and richly varied collection of Korea's greatest short stories This eclectic, moving and wonderfully enjoyable collection is the essential introduction to Korean literature. Journeying through Korea's dramatic twentieth...

First with your head and then with your heart . . . To Peekay, a seven-year-old boy who dreams of being the welterweight champion of the world, this is a...

Ruth Park's classic novel The Harp in the South is one of Australia's greatest novels. Hugh and Margaret Darcy are raising their family in Sydney amid the brothels, grog shops...

In these haunting reflections, Primo Levi, a chemist by training takes the elements of the periodic table as his inspiration. He ranges from young love to political savagery; 'Iron' honours...

It is the Day of the Dead. The fiesta in full swing. In the shadow of Popocatepeti ragged children beg coins to buy skulls made of chocolate...and the ugly pariah...

Set in the volatile Paris summer of 1938, The Age of Reason follows two days in the life of Mathieu Delarue, a philosophy teacher, and his circle in the cafes...

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...

This brutal glimpse of Russia under Stalin shocked the world when it first appeared. Discover the importance of a piece of bread or an extra bowl of soup, the incredible...

Roald Dahl's Tales of the Unexpected is a delightfully dark collection of sixteen stories, each with a startling end. Among the unforgettable characters lurk the homicidal wife and her deadly...

Jonathan Safran Foer's Everything is Illuminated won the Guardian First Book Award in 2002. It tells the story of a young man who goes to the Ukraine in search of...

Hidden away in the Record Department of the sprawling Ministry of Truth, Winston Smith skilfully rewrites the past to suit the needs of the Party. Yet he inwardly rebels against...

The portrayal of Stephen Dedalus's Dublin childhood and youth, his quest for identity through art and his gradual emancipation from the claims of family, religion and Ireland itself, is also...

New to our Vintage Classics Murakami Collector's Library - a newly translated, unabridged edition of Murakami's most mind-bendingly brilliant novel. A special hardback edition of Murakami's surreal, mind-bending masterpiece, in...

A complete collection of surprising and sinister tales from one of Britain's most celebrated writers. Roald Dahl is one of the world's most popular writers, equally at home writing for...

Dazzling new story collection from the prize-nominated Sunday Times bestselling author of Romantic Comedy, American Wife and You Think It, I'll Say It, YOUR NEXT READ FROM THE INSTANT SUNDAY...

An epic love story that reimagines the tempestuous romance of Wuthering Heights in the sparkling, savage world of elite figure skating Everyone thinks Heath Rocha was my first love. He...

A Japenese masterpiece, reissued in Modern Classics Written when Mishima was only twentysix, Forbidden Colors is a depiction of a male homosexual relationship, in which a rich older man buys...

Raymond Chandler created the fast talking, trouble seeking Californian private eye Philip Marlowe for his first great novel The Big Sleep in 1939. Marlowe's entanglement with the Sternwood family -...

Philip Roth's hilarious novel about sex, growing up, psychoanalysis, now reissued in electric new backlist style 'The most outrageously funny book about sex written' Guardian Portnoy's Complaint n. after Alexander...

A novel about family, belonging, and the agony of imagining the life you should have had, sparked by the disappearance of a four-year-old Mi'kmaq girl from the blueberry fields of...

The sensuous blockbuster novel by the beloved, bestselling author of The Pearl Thief. MILLION COPY BESTSELLING AUTHOR 'Impossible to put down' BETTER READING 'A sweeping wartime romantic thriller' HERALD SUN...

Elegant novellas-in-translation, VINTAGE EDITIONS celebrate the audacity and ambition of the written word, transporting readers to wherever in the world literary innovation may be found. FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF...

'Like most people I lived for a long time with my mother and father. My father liked to watch the wrestling, my mother liked to wrestle; it didn't matter what'...

VINTAGE JAPANESE CLASSICS - following on from the success of Vintage Russian Classics and European Classics, these are covetable new editions of the best Japanese writers on the Vintage list...