Modern Fiction (post 1945)

Author: Oscar Hijuelos Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 From FSG Classics, a special twenty-fifth anniversary edition of Oscar Hijuelos's beloved Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, The Mambo Kings Play Songs of...

Author: Rivka Galchen Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 192 A BRILLIANT NEW COLLECTION OF SHORT STORIES FROM THE CONSPICUOUSLY TALENTED (TIME) RIVKA GALCHEN Winner of the Danuta Gleed Literary Award...

Author: Arthur Bradford Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 208 Paddling down a remote, meandering river, Georgie's friend Otto decides to do something both spectacular and stupid. As his friends look...

Author: Nadifa Mohamed Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 From one of Granta's Best of Young British Novelists, a stunning novel illuminating Somalia's tragic civil war It is 1987 and...

Author: Amitav Ghosh Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 624 A Christian Science Monitor Best Fiction Book of the Year A Guardian Best Book of the Year A San Francisco Chronicle...

Author: Paul Kingsnorth Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 408 A visionary and timely novel about a world out of balance by the prizewinning author of The Wake When Swans return,...

Author: Paul Kingsnorth Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 176 The stunning new novel from the prizewinning author of The Wake Beast plunges you into the world of Edward Buckmaster, a...

Author: Angela Carter Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 In their heyday on the vaudeville stages of the early twentieth century, Dora Chance and her twin sister, Nora--unacknowledged daughters of...

Author: Lois-Ann Yamanaka Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 Her name is Lovey Nariyoshi, and her Hawai'i is not the one of leis, pineapple, and Magnum P.I. In the blue...

Author: Emmanuel Dongala Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 Set amid the chaos of West Africa's civil wars, Emmanuel Dongala's striking new novel tells the story of two teenagers growing...

Author: Dror Burstein Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 In a Jerusalem both ancient and modern, where the First Temple squats over the populace like a Trump casino, two young...

Author: Lynn Freed Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 208 Since their children left home, Ruth, Dania, and Bess have grown used to living wonderfully free lives. Only now they're beset...

Author: Rosellen Brown Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 The New York Times bestseller from Rosellen Brown, Before and After--the basis for the major film of the same name starring...

Author: Sigrid Nunez Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 192 From Sigrid Nunez, the National Book Award-winning author of The Friend, comes A Feather on the Breath of God: a mesmerizing...

Author: 0 Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 When Will skips school to slip off to a movie theater near Johannesburg, he is shocked to see his father. An ordinary...

Author: Stuart Dybek Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 A new collection of short stories by a master of the form with a common focus on the turmoils of romantic...

Author: Roxana Robinson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 448 Julia Lambert, an artist, is spending the summer in her old Maine farmhouse. During a visit from her elderly parents, she...

Author: Susan Coll Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 Acceptance is a satire of America's overachievers, a novel set over one year in the college application process, when students and...

Author: Jon Pineda Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 Fifteen-year-old Pearl is squatting in an abandoned boathouse with her father, a disgraced college professor, and two other grown men, deep...

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: Oonya Kempadoo Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 260 Oonya Kempadoo's moving third novel, All Decent Animals, looks at the personal and aesthetic choices of a multifaceted cast of characters...

Author: Christopher Isherwood (New Directions) Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 A deeply introspective book about war, religion, and sexuality Against the backdrop of World War II, The World in...

Author: Nadine Gordimer Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 A New York Times Notable Book Winner of the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Africa Ranks as one of Gordimer's best novels...It...

Author: Christopher Isherwood (New Directions) Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 Bremen, 1928. The Greek Islands, 1932. London, 1938. California, 1940. Four portraits, four settings, four narrators all named Christopher...

Author: Paul Lynch Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 192 Beyond the Sea is frightening but beautiful. --M John Harrison, The Guardian The haunting story of two men stranded at sea...

Author: Tupelo Hassman Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 275 A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice Rory Hendrix, the least likely of Girl Scouts, hasn't got a troop or...

Author: Sara Gallardo Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 An old man lives alone. His garden is the envy of all his neighbours. But one morning he wakes up to...

Author: N/a Polly Clark Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 'Mysterious, wondrous, captivating' Louis de Bernieres 'We need the courage to choose ourselves' W. H. Auden It's early summer when...

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Author: F Scott Fitzgerald Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 A captivating and glamorous tale of squandered talent that defined 'The Lost Generation' of 1920s New York Anthony Patch and...

Author: Kurt Vonnegut Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 The first and only collection of unpublished works by Kurt Vonnegut since his death-a fitting tribute to the author, and an...

Author: Una Mannion Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 Rage. That's the feeling engulfing the car as Ellen's mother swerves over to the hard-shoulder and orders her daughter out onto...

Author: Shukri Mabkouth Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 At his father's funeral, to the great consternation of all present, Abdel Nasser beats the imam who is celebrating the funeral...

Author: Rebecca Rukeyser Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 I didn't realize how much I needed this lusty, funny, heart-breaking bookuntil I devoured it in a single sitting ... A...

Author: Dan Vyleta Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 560 Welcome to a world where every desire is visible, rising from the body as a plume of Smoke. A world where...

Author: Libby Page Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 480 Two decades. Hundreds of miles. A lifetime of secrets. Could coming home mean starting again? 'A perfect, warm escape from these...

Author: Jane Feaver Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 'Perhaps my problem all along is that I've never understood or recognized the difference between story and life...' Crazy is an...

Author: Edel Coffey Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 'Breaking Point is raw, compelling, and ground-breaking; Coffey puts the life of working mothers under a microscope. To say I loved...

Author: Rabih Alameddine Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 WINNER OF THE PEN/FAULKNER AWARD FOR FICTION 'A beautiful, well paced, enraging, funny and heartbreaking book' the Guardian 'Favorite novel of...

Author: Giles Foden Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 416 1996: in a Ugandan dive bar, the 'freight dogs' gather. An anarchic group of mercenary pilots from Texas, Russia, Kenya and...

Author: Craig Revel Horwood Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 Set against the colourful boho backdrop of London's Camden in the 1990s, Craig Revel Horwood's first novel, Dances and Dreams...

Author: Stacey Swann Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 'The most wildly entertaining novel I've read in a long time' Richard Russo, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction When...

Author: Jenny Colgan Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 'Nobody does cosy, get-away-from-it-all romance like Jenny Colgan' Sunday Express 'An evocative, sweet treat' Jojo Moyes ___________________________________ In a quaint seaside...