Modern Fiction (post 1945)

The best of Jeanette Winterson's remarkable, radical and genre-expanding novels, reissued in a bold new look ahead of the publication of her new book, 12 BYTES 'This book is a...

WINNER OF THE BOLLINGER EVERYMAN WODEHOUSE PRIZE FOR COMIC FICTION 2016 SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILEYS WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2016 A BBC RADIO 2 BOOK CLUB PICK ' an ingenious...

'THE FUNNIEST BOOK YOU'LL EVER READ ABOUT GRIEF' MAGGIE SHIPSTEAD 'PERFECTLY CAPTURES THE MESSINESS, HEARTACHE AND BEAUTY OF GRIEF' RED MAGAZINE 'For years I'd known exactly who I was to...

The classic by Booker Prize-winner Thomas Keneally When Jimmie Blacksmith marries a white woman, the backlash from both Jimmie's tribe and white society initiates a series of dramatic events. As...

'Tender, funny and romantic' Marie Claire Christine Rose is crossing the Ha'penny Bridge in Dublin late one night when she sees a stranger, Adam, poised to jump. Desperate to help,...

It was the longest of nights, when the strangest of things happened... the spell-binding novel from best-selling author Diane Setterfield will captivate readers in its multi-layered mystery. 'I was completely...

Shortlisted, Readings New Australian Fiction Prize Winner, 2025 SMH Best Young Australian Novelists Shortlisted for the 2025 Stella Prize Shortlisted for the NSW Premier's Literary Awards 'Jumaana Abdu is extraordinary...

'A Sandie Docker book is like a cup of tea and a biscuit. It's warm on the inside, snuggly, sweet and lots of fun. It touches the heart, and stimulates...

From the visionary author of Sudden Death, a hallucinatory, revelatory, colonial revenge story set in sixteenth-century Mexico 'An Aztec West Wing' GUARDIAN 'I was so impressed that I'm on my...

Los Angeles. Summer 1962. Marilyn Monroe ODs. A B-movie starlet is kidnapped. And Freddy-O is back. This is James Ellroy at his most crazed, brilliant, provocative and profanely hilarious Los...

A gripping new novel set in the universe of John le Carre's most iconic spy, George Smiley, written by acclaimed novelist Nick Harkaway It is spring in 1963 and George...

The chilling new thriller from the bestselling author of The Couple at No. 9 Twenty years ago, Olivia Rutherford was driving three friends home when she crashed. When she regained...

The mesmerising new novel from the twice Booker-shortlisted author of Hot Milk and Swimming Home At the height of her career, concert pianist Elsa M. Anderson - former child prodigy,...

A gorgeous clothbound edition of Jean Rhys's great masterpiece of desire and madness in the Caribbean Jean Rhys's late masterpiece Wide Sargasso Sea was inspired by Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre,...

BOOK ONE IN THE CICERO TRILOGY FROM THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLING AUTHOR 'Masterful' Sunday Times 'Gripping and accomplished' Guardian 'Truly gifted, razor-sharp' Daily Telegraph Ancient Rome teems with ambitious and...

A beautifully designed edition of number-one New York Times bestselling author Ann Patchett's prized classic, annotated and with an introductionby the author herself. 'A book that works both as a...

In the heat of the summer of 1939, five young cousins gathered together for their annual holiday in Cornwall with their aunt. It was to be their last summer of...

Kate Webster is a lovable larrikin who likes to play hard now and worry about the consequences later. At nineteen, she can't help mucking up the opportunities life gives her....

An instant Sunday Times bestseller and soon to be a major motion picture! "Utterly absorbing. Kristin Hannah is singular in her ability to tell unforgettable stories about some of the...

HUSTLERS meets BIG LITTLE LIES in the heist of the summer... A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 'Propulsive and captivating' Vogue 'Darkly comedic' Daily Mail Meet Ava: rule-abiding lawyer who has...

The new novel from internationally acclaimed author Paulo Coelho -- a dramatic story of love, life and death that shows us all why every second of our existence is a...

Becky Bloomwood goes to Hollywood! A fabulous Shopaholic novel by bestselling author Sophie Kinsella Becky Brandon (nee Bloomwood) is in Hollywood! She's hanging out with celebs . . . or...

Introducing the Collins Modern Classics, a series featuring some of the most significant books of recent times, books that shed light on the human experience - classics which will endure...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2025 DYLAN THOMAS PRIZE A Granta Best Young British Novelist 'A thrilling love for the stuff of language ... Magical' JON McGREGOR 'Poignant and playful' DAILY MAIL...

Pools. Tennis courts. Luxury station wagons. Welcome to Sunnyside.Olivia wants to sleep with her teacher. Harry wants a B&O sound system. Alice want a cure for writer's block. Molly wants...

THE THEATRE MAY SEEM GLAMOROUS, BUT SECRETS WAIT BEHIND THE CURTAIN 1926. Running a theatre may appear to be all about the showbiz, but times are hard at The Empire....

A witch cursed to tell the truth, and the man who won't let her lie to herself anymore... Cursed by her own mother to always tell the truth and one...

A dissection of greed-obsessed America a decade after The Bonfire of the Vanities and on the cusp of the millennium, from the master chronicler of American culture Tom Wolfe A...

A fabulous read for cozy winter evenings! - Sophie White, author of Unfiltered An unexpected love story of magical moments, Christmas surprises and life-affirming decisions - Lexie Byrne is back!...

90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books 'People should fall in love with their eyes closed. Just close your eyes. Don't look.' From Warhol's romantic relationships to his...

'A compassionate, beautifully told portrait' GUY GUNARATNE 'T his is absorbing, witty, eloquent fiction, as well as a trenchant political critique' TOM BENN ' A hymn to empathy, alive with...

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...

Daniel Cambridge is a thirty-three year old compulsive-obsessive. He knows the exact wattage of the bulbs in his flat, and will panic if the wattage isn't kept constant. This makes...

Dark yet life-affirming, endlessly inventive and heart-breakingly human - the next novel in the 'Seasonal' cycle, following the Man Booker-shortlisted Autumn Winter? Bleak. Earth as iron, water as stone, so...

Charmed meets Practical Magic in this magically wicked paranormal romance, perfect for fans of Not the Witch You Wed and The Ex Hex . There have always been rumours that...

Having been saved from execution at the hands of the Draoihn - powerful magic users Raine used to count as allies - Raine finds herself in the Fault, a vast...

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...

'An exceptional novel,exquisitely told.' MARK BRANDI 'Deeply human ... profound.' BEN HOBSON 'Superbly written and propelled by an unsettling Gothic tension.' PAUL DALEY There are animals in the camouflage of...

THE DARKEST DEBUT OF THE YEAR. Unsettling, Uncomfortable, Unputdownable. 'Sharp, powerful, tragic, addictive' Chris Whitaker 'Dark, compelling and beguiling' Kate Mosse 'An engrossing read' The Sunday Times 'Intensely gripping' Karin...

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...

The brilliant new novel from the author of the massive international bestseller, The Time Traveler's Wife. When Elspeth Noblin dies she leaves her beautiful flat overlooking Highgate Cemetery to her...

LONGLISTED FOR THE MILES FRANKLIN LITERARY AWARD 2025 'Islanders must do everything together. We painted ngatu together. We crossed the ocean together. We settled on isles together. We lived with...

What is fiction? What is autobiography? How do the two meet? What is a man? What is a woman? How do the two meet? What is violence? What is happiness?...

Two college lovers suspected of a brutal double homicide enlist a podcasting crime journalist to proclaim their innocence in this psychologically riveting and compulsively readable novel of love, lies, and...

Beneath the prim and proper morals of Victorian society lurks a violent madman who emerges at night to commit the most cold-hearted of crimes. Nothing is known of him except...

The bestselling love story behind the massive Hollywood film starring James Marsden and Michelle Monaghan. They were teenage sweethearts from opposite sides of the tracks - with a passion that...

Malika Oufkir has been a prisoner for virtually her whole life. Born to a proud family in 1953, daughter of the King of Morocco's aide, Malika was adopted by Mohammed...

A ruthless and unflinching examination of American life in the late 1960s, from the author of The Year of Magical Thinking. One thing in my defence, not that it matters:...