Modern Fiction (post 1945)

Author: John Boyne Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 Bestselling author John Boyne's A History of Loneliness tells the riveting narrative of an honorable Irish priest who finds the church...

Author: Yukio Mishima Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 One of the outstanding writers of the world' New York Times After the early death of her philandering husband,...

Author: L. P. Hartley Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 L.P. Hartley's moving exploration of a young boy's loss of innocence The Go-Between is edited with an introduction...

Author: Bruce Chatwin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 'Extraordinary - a remarkable and satisfying book' Observer Bruce Chatwin provides a fascinating background to indigenous Australian life. The...

Author: Lee Child Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 512 Jack Reacher in a taut, cool, sexy pageturner- One Shot was named on of the 50 best crime novels...

Author: Yoko Ogawa Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 Elegant, pocket-sized paperbacks, VINTAGE Editions celebrate the audacity and ambition of the written word, transporting readers to wherever in...

Author: Nina George Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 The international bestseller, translated from the German by Simon Pare. On a beautifully restored barge on the Seine, Jean...

Author: Annie Proulx Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 Annie Proulx's highly acclaimed, international bestseller and Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. Quoyle is a hapless, hopeless hack journalist living and...

Author: Primo Levi Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 In this gripping novel, based on a true story, Primo Levi reveals the extraordinary lives of the Russian, Polish...

Author: Honoree Fanonne Jeffers Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 816 THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER AN OPRAH BOOK CLUB PICK 'Deeply moving' Sarah Winman, author of Still Life 'Remarkable' Afua...

Author: Erica James Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 528 The captivating new drama of family secrets and second chances, from Sunday Times bestselling author Erica James It's the autumn of...

Author: Matt Haig Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 Philip Noble is an eleven-year-old in crisis. His pub landlord father has died in a road accident, and his...

NB: This is a secondhand book in very good condition. See our FAQs for more information. Author: Harper Lee Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 From Harper Lee comes a...

Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 Now the subject of a major new film from director Baz Luhrmann (Romeo+Juliet, Moulin Rouge!), starring Leonardo DiCaprio...

Author: Anne Glenconner Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 A storm. A disappearance. A race against time . . . Mustique is in a state of breathless calm as tropical...

Author: Maylis De Kerangal Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 One of Bill Gates' Five Best Summer Reads The basis for the critically-acclaimed film, Heal the Living, directed by Katell...

Author: J. Courtney Sullivan Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 THE PERFECT BOOK GROUP SUMMER READ FROM BEST-SELLING AUTHOR OF THE ENGAGEMENTS AND MAINE 'I LOVED IT' Meg Wolitzer, author...

Author: Jill Dawson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 In 1964, the eccentric American novelist Patricia Highsmith is hiding out in a cottage in Suffolk in order to...

Author: Elizabeth Ames Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 496 A Vogue "10 New Books to Read This Summer" "A sharply drawn portrait of lifelong friendship, Elizabeth Ames illuminates...

Author: Timur Vermes Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 576 By the author of LOOK WHO'S BACK, a radical and bold satire in inequitable times. "Whizz-bang energy and gleeful...

Author: Catherine Lacey Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 Certain states are hard to shake, or so Catherine Lacey's characters find in these twelve tales of love, loss...

Author: Eimear McBride Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILEY'S WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2017 SHORTLISTED FOR THE GOLDSMITHS PRIZE 2016 SHORTLISTED FOR THE BORD GAIS IRISH...

Author: Liz Nugent Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 The deliciously sinister new novel from the bestselling author of Lying in Wait 'I could probably have been an...

Author: Alexander McCall Smith Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 In this latest installment of Alexander McCall Smith's ever-delightful and perennially bestselling series, amateur sleuth and philosopher Isabel Dalhousie is...

Author: George Orwell Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. 'Big Brother is Watching You.' Winston Smith...

Author: Alexander McCall Smith Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 "Love Over Scotland" is the third in the series and revolves around the many colourful characters that come and go...

Author: Georgette Heyer (Author) Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 A dashing tale of heroes, heroines and Regency romance by one of our best-known and most beloved historical...

Author: Mircea Cartarescu Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 A mesmerizing novel about the magical and gritty world of Bucharest in the 1980s by a celebrated Eastern European...

Author: Hala Alyan Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 464 "Feels revolutionary in its freshness." -Entertainment Weekly "The Arsonists' City delivers all the pleasures of a good old-fashioned saga,...

Author: Meera Syal Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 432 Life hasn't always been easy for Shyama, a woman in her mid-forties whose husband abandoned her when their daughter was still...

Author: Nathacha Appanah Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 176 A powerful examination of the artistic impulse, cultural identity, and family bonds Anita is waiting for Adam to be released from...

Author: Alain de Botton Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 This is a modern love story. It is a story about learning to survive, endure and flourish in...

Author: Lee Child Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 512 This pacy, nailbiting new Jack Reacher thriller is one of Lee Child's darkest and most addictive yet. Prepare to...

Author: Nora Roberts Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 A vengeful goddess hunts for three jewels: fallen stars that will give her endless power. To save the world,...

Author: Nigel Packer Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 Elderly retired architect Otto Laird lives a peaceful, if slightly bemused, existence in Switzerland with his second wife, Anika....

Author: Tim Pears Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 SHORTLISTED FOR THE WINSTON GRAHAM HISTORICAL PRIZE 2018 The beautiful, questing second novel in Tim Pears' acclaimed West Country...

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Author: Ian McEwan Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 'The best thing he has ever written' Observer Discover the modern classic that has sold over two million copies....

Author: Phoenicia Rogerson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 'Astonishingly vivid' Jodi Taylor This should be the story of Hercules: his twelve labours, his endless adventures...everyone's favourite hero, right? Well,...

Author: John Kennedy Toole Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 John Kennedy Toole's hilarious satire, A Confederacy of Dunces is a Don Quixote for the modern age, and...

Author: Gabriel Garcia Marquez Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 Famously associated with the term 'magical realism', Marquez is probably South America's most famous literary export An acknowledged...

Author: Charles Portis Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 There is no knowing what lies in a man's heart. On a trip to buy ponies, Frank Ross is...

Author: Rosalind Stopps Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 The brand-new book from a powerful literary voice, author of The Stranger She Knew, shortlisted for the Paul Torday...

Author: Chinua Achebe Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 A compelling story of one man's battle to protect his community against the forces of change, the Penguin Classics...

Author: Anne Glenconner Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 A storm. A disappearance. A race against time . . . Mustique is in a state of breathless calm as tropical...

Author: Lisa Genova Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: Sarah Nickerson is like any other career-driven supermom in Welmont, the affluent Boston suburb where she leads a hectic but...

Author: 0 Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 The acclaimed novel of love and resistance during late 1930s China by Mo Yan, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature Spanning...

Author: Anna Stuart Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 Everyone would spare a moment of kindness for a stranger when they were in trouble... wouldn't they? Supermarket delivery...