Modern Fiction (post 1945)

90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books Muriel Spark claimed The Driver's Seat to be her best and creepiest novel. Once you have met her heroine Lise -...

THE INSTANT TOP 10 IRISH BESTSELLER An Observer Best Debut Novelist of 2025 'One of the most exciting writers working in Ireland today' SALLY ROONEY 'One of my favourite books...

Becky Bloomwood is back on form in this hilarious Shopaholic novel by bestselling author Sophie Kinsella Becky's life is blooming! She's working at London's newest fashion store The Look, house-hunting...

Delia Hopkins has led a charmed life. Raised in rural New Hampshire by her widowed father Andrew, she now has a young daughter, a handsome fiance, and her own Search...

When you dig, will you strike gold ... or unearth dangerous secrets? An exciting new series from the queen of rural crime. No matter how much or how little you...

"My darling B, my heart, my soul. I only wish we'd had longer. Longer to search for the daughter that I should never have given up. The daughter that I...

From the bestselling author of Mallawindy and the Woody Creek series comes a moving story about being set free. "Dettman knows how to tell a story" The Sunday Age Sally...

LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2024! 'Percival Everett is a giant of American letters, and James is a canon-shatteringly great book' - Hernan Diaz, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Trust From...

'A superb legal thriller...crackles with tension' Guardian 'A topical and gritty story' Observer 'A thought-provoking and sparklingly intelligent novel, with the welcome bonus of an unguessable ending' Daily Telegraph 'Razor-sharp...Much...

A glittering new novel of deeply-buried secrets, passionate love, obsession and redemption from the master storyteller. Thirty-year old Serena Stone is a talented war photographer who has followed in her...

*GET YOUR COPY OF BRIDGET COLLINS' STUNNING NEW NOVEL, THE SILENCE FACTORY , OUT NOW* LOSE YOURSELF IN THE BREAKOUT SENSATION OF THE YEAR SHORTLISTED FOR WATERSTONES BOOK OF THE...

**Order the paperback of Bella Mackie's latest hilarious novel, WHAT A WAY TO GO, now** THE #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'I loved this book' RICHARD OSMAN 'Funny, sharp, dark and...

The fast-paced new novel from the internationally bestselling author of The Best Laid Plans, Morning, Noon & Night and Bloodline. Someone was following her. She had read about stalkers, but...

This morning, I met the man who started the fire. He did something terrible, but then, so have I. I left him. I left him and now he may be...

'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...

Harry Bosch works cold cases, helping out the under-funded San Fernando police department. When a double murder at a local pharmacy is called in, Bosch is the most seasoned detective...

' Bridget Jones's Diary for the millennial set' InStyle 'Cheeky, sweet and serious' Psychologies 'Will strike a chord with anyone who's survived their twenties' Red 'A funny quarter-life crisis tale'...

A mesmerising mystery story about friendship from the internationally bestselling author of Norwegian Wood and 1Q84 Tsukuru Tazaki had four best friends at school. By chance all of their names...

'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...

Here's a strange fact: murder a man, and you feel responsible for his life - possessive, even. You know more about him than his father and mother; they knew his...

*** THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLING AUTHOR *** When are the boundaries of friendship pushed too far, and when is it time to stop flying over oceans for someone who wouldn't...

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...

At seventeen, on the night of her mother's funeral, Grace Adams is attacked. A young woman with secrets too horrible to tell, with hurts so deep they may never heal,...

THREE WOMEN. ONE BODY. WILL THEY EVER LEARN? **The jaw-dropping new thriller from Sunday Times and Kindle #1 bestseller Harriet Tyce** 'The shocks kept coming right up to the final...

A ten-year-old girl vanishes without trace from a Fenland village, her body never found. Thirty years on, she comes sharply back to life in the mind s eye of her...

It has been nearly two years since the day of the mass disappearances. In one cataclysmic instant, millions all over the globe simply vanished, leaving everything but flesh and bone...

A successful and self-contained novelist, Felix Morsom suddenly gets thrust into the underworld of London's homeless, when a strange woman proclaims him the father of her son and he becomes...

* Winner of the Costa First Novel Award * No.1 Sunday Times bestseller * Soon to be a major motion picture produced by Reese Witherspoon 'Funny, touching and unpredictable' Jojo...

LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE 2023 This extraordinarily affecting debut novel captures life inside the Siege of Sarajevo. Sarajevo, spring 1992. Each night, nationalist gangs erect barricades, splitting the diverse...

In this sequel to Call of the High Country, David MacLeod takes over the High Peaks Pastoral Company following the early death of his father, and builds an empire of...

Geneva Settle is a bright young high school student from Harlem writing a paper about one of her ancestors, a former slave called Charles Singleton. Geneva is also the target...

For fans of Fifty Shades of Grey - the international bestseller - an explosive novel of sex, secrecy and escape. A woman finds her voice and leaves behind a book...

A Navy captain near the end of a decorated career, Stephen Rensselaer is disciplined, intelligent, and determined always to do what's right. In defending the development of a new variant...

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?...

'Profoundly wise, wildly inventive' Jonathan Safran Foer, author of Everything is Illuminated A bitingly funny, razor-sharp debut about a motley assortment of residents in a crumbling apartment block. Welcome to...

"Extraordinary...beautifully precise...[an] earnestly ambitious debut." - The New York Times Book Review "A wild, angry, and devastating masterpiece of a book." -NPR "[A] descendent of the Dickensian 'social novel' by...

Anna Funder, winner of the Samuel Johnson Prize and author of Stasiland, offers a thrilling tale and powerful love story that tells the heroic and tragic true story of the...

The hardest lies to spot are the ones we tell ourselves. Dr Ruth Hartland rises to difficult tasks. She is the director of a highly respected trauma therapy unit. She...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2025 'Enormously entertaining' THE TIMES 'The word-of-mouth breakout' STYLIST 'As funny as it is moving' GUARDIAN 'A joy of a debut' DAVID MITCHELL...

The "enchanting" ( EW ) conclusion to the Another Day series from the New York Times bestselling author of Wicked , the multimillion-copy bestseller and basis for the Tony Award-winning...

'Grab the tissues and clear your schedules as you will not be able to put this down!!!' Reader review , 'Beautiful, emotional and hopeful, but have tissues to hand.' Liz...

Two people. One life-changing connection. 'At times joyful and funny, at others heartbreaking, The Lifeline is an honest yet hopeful exploration of love, loneliness and the power of connection. Captivating,...

The is the extraordinary love story of Clare and Henry who met when Clare was six and Henry was thirty-six, and were married when Clare was twenty-two and Henry thirty....

Across the country, men and women are kidnapped in broad daylight and then disappear completely. These people are not being taken for ransom, Alex Cross realises. They are being bought...

The enthralling sequel to Barbara Taylor Bradford's universally loved novels, A Woman of Substance and Hold The Dream. Set in Yorkshire, Hong Kong and America, this remarkable novel continues the...

Fatherland is set in an alternative world where Hitler has won the Second World War. It is April 1964 and one week before Hitler's 75th birthday. Xavier March, a detective...

This is a story of murder. This is a story of love. This is a story of survival. This is the most unforgettable thriller of the year._________________________ '[a] mesmerising blend...

THE NUMBER 1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER LONGLISTED FOR THE CWA CRIME FICTION IN TRANSLATION DAGGER AWARD 2025 'A masterclass in suspense' PAULA HAWKINS 'A spellbinding nightmare' FERNANDA MELCHOR 'A book of...