Modern Fiction (post 1945)

'A magnificent beast of a book: epic' Roxane Gay 'Large in scope and heart' Patrick deWitt 'It blew me away' Emma Donoghue 'Unforgettable' Nathan Hill 'A blast' Karen Russell On...

A tender and funny story about wanting to go back - when you know it's time to move on. --------- Theo has been living in his parents' shed, nursing a...

Leaving home was hard. Returning is impossible. Fiadh's life is turned completely upside down on a night out in Belfast. Pretty soon everyone has heard about what happened; it is...

LONGLISTED FOR THE 2025 STELLA PRIZE LONGLISTED FOR THE 2025 FICTION INDIE BOOK AWARD SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2025 ACT LITERARY AWARD FOR FICTION 'No label can fully do justice to...

From one of America's preeminent literary voices comes a new story collection that proves once again why the writing of Luis Alberto Urrea has been called "wickedly good" ( Kansas...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORANGE PRIZE FOR FICTION 2012 There were people on the banks of the river. Among the tangled waterways and giant anacondas of the Brazilian Rio Negro, an...

The title story shows a headmaster's elegant wife suffering torments of jealousy when his gawky young cousin comes to live with them. Why is it that her sophistication seems unable...

Colin Thompson's first, highly autobiographical, adult novel. He has created an intense, moving, yet funny story about losing and then retrieving sanity. It is the story of a young man...

Pat Barker returns to the First World War and to the characters of Life Class with her new novel Toby's Room, a dark, compelling story of human desire, wartime horror...

In one of the wittiest novels of them all, Nancy Mitford casts a finely gauged net to capture perfectly the foibles and fancies of the English upper class. Set in...

Rejacketed in a stunning new series style for 2023, The Child in Time is the extraordinary novel behind the major BBC drama starring Benedict Cumberbatch Now a major BBC drama...

The new sun-drenched summer read from the bestselling author and TV presenter Soak up the glamour PRIMA Youre invited to the most glamorous wedding of the year... The guests are...

One of the classics of Australian literature, Alexis Wright's Miles Franklin award-winning novel is being rereleased in a new edition designed by Jenny Grigg. Accompanies the April release of Praiseworthy...

This is a story of love, scandal and murder, set in Melbourne in 1899. Susan Fairfax is a successful businesswoman and leading suffragette. Although beautiful and in her early thirties,...

The long-awaited novel by the acclaimed author of "Fabulous Nobodies". Berenger, a nineteen-year-old supermodel nicknamed The Wraith, is found dead in her New York apartment, and it looks like murder....

Steven has just crossed the Imaginary Line into the Real World and now he's delivering mail. He goes to the pub, he watches Murder, She Wrote with Gina, he listens...

Since it won the 2002 Booker Prize, Life of Pi has gone on to sell nearly 2 million copies, it is the biggest selling winner of all time, and is...

When Jimmie Blacksmith marries a white woman the backlash from both Jimmie tribe and white society initiates a series of dramatic events. As Jimmie tries to survive between two cultures,...

The health and wellness retreat promises total transformation, and nine stressed city dwellers are keen to drop their literal and mental baggage, while enjoying their hot stone massages in complete...

'A clear-eyed, warmly funny tale.' Kirkus Reviews This novel is the story of a lie. But it is also a story of laughter and tears, of life itself. When her...

' The World at My Feet brought me to tears. What a beautifully written and incredibly moving novel' Beth O'Leary, author of The Flatshare and The Switch 'A bittersweet, beautifully...

When private investigator Izzy Spellman is arrested for the fourth time in three months, she writes it off as an occupational hazard. She's been keeping surveillance on her new next-door...

'Taut, clever, compelling and guaranteed to keep you on the edge of your seat...' Paula Hawkins, author of The Girl on the Train You think you know her... But look...

Marlow voyages into the wildness and jungle of the Belgian Congo to meet Kurtz, a company agent, and having found him, realizes that Kurtz has won supremacy over the natives...

After killing his brother Abel, Cain must wander for ever. He witnesses Noah's ark, the destruction of the Tower of Babel, Moses and the golden calf. He is there in...

Adam and Eve and Pinch Me went down to the river to batheAdam and Eve were drowned. Who was saved?'This old nursery rhyme is a favourite of Jerry Leach (if...

With an introduction by novelist John Banville. In a burned-out America, a father and his young son walk under a darkened sky, heading slowly for the coast. They have no...

'Forster-lovers will not be disappointed by her depiction of a cornered creativity and its persisting power to subvert and enchant' - Sally Vickers, Guardian Lost, found, stolen, strayed, sold, fought...

An unforgettable story about the intertwined lives of two wronged women, spanning from the chaos of the San Francisco earthquake to the glittering palaces of Versailles... San Francisco, 1906. In...

'Lukins' prose is supple and elegant ... his doomed and flailing Gulch family are a stunning comic creation. But even as they writhe and scheme under the law's heel, Lukins...

No.1 bestselling author Gill Sims is back with her eagerly awaited fourth and final Why Mummy novel. I just wanted them to stop wittering at me, eat vegetables without complaining,...

Three young doctors-their hopes, their dreams, their unexpected desires... Dr.Paige Taylor: She swore it was euthanasia, but when Paige inherited a million dollars from a patient, the D.A. called it...

'Funny, ironic, erudite, surprising, and not afraid to take a dive overboard into the depths of sorrow and loss. My novel of the year' Nadime Gordimer Winner of the Man...

A warm, funny and surprising love story about one woman's journey to find out who she really is - as if Richard Curtis watched Seachange , shared a cold beer...

Her quiet life is about to get blown to smithereens... Jamie Swift just wants to keep her beloved Beaumont Gazette afloat, even if she occasionally has to sell the furniture...

From the splendour of a Royal Palace to the poverty of a dusty African village ... The conflict between the old world and the new...between responsibility and freedom...between duty and...

From the bestselling author of ALMOND, The Devil Wears Prada meets The Office in this witty, humane, and ultimately transformative story of a group of young workers who rebel against...

'Unsparing and tender' Colm Toibin, author of Brooklyn 'A brilliant novel from our most brilliant of writers' Colum McCann, author of Apeirogon 'A quietly stunning achievement' Ocean Vuong, author of...