Modern Fiction (post 1945)

Author: Jon McGregor Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 'It leaves the reader moved and subtly changed, as if she had become part of the story' Hilary Mantel...

Author: Diana Bretherick Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 464 The brightest mind meets the darkest killer 1887 When James Murray, a young Scottish doctor fascinated by the workings...

Author: Saul Bellow Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 592 A penniless and parentless Chicago boy growing up in the Great Depression, Augie March drifts through life latching on...

Author: Philip Pullman Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 448 A phenomenal bestselling author meets the most magical stories ever told, now in a beautiful clothbound classics edition In this stunningly...

Author: Robert Graves Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 406 Regarded as little more than a stammering fool, the nobleman Claudius quietly survives the intrigues, bloody purges and mounting...

Author: Charlotte McConaghy Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 From the author of the international bestseller Migrations comes a pulse-pounding new novel set in the wild Scottish Highlands...

Author: Barbara Hannay Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 From award-winning novelist Barbara Hannay comes a timely and uplifting story about the importance of community and connection. Can...

Author: Kyle Perry Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 464 From the bestselling breakout author of The Bluffs comes a heart-stopping new thriller set on the rugged coast of...

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: Carson McCullers Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 With delicacy of perception and memory, humour and pathos, Carson McCullers spreads before us the three phases of a...

Author: Thomas Pynchon Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 A witty, chaotic and brilliant novel from the incomparable Thomas Pynchon. Suffused with rich satire, chaotic brilliance, verbal turbulence...

Author: Ben Elton Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 Ben Elton's first historical thriller Flanders, June 1917- a British officer and celebrated poet, is shot dead, killed not...

Author: Yukio Mishima Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 The dawning of a young man's homosexual and sadistic desires A Japanese teenager is overcome with longing for his...

Author: George Orwell Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 A spectacular graphic adaptation of the greatest dystopian novel ever written Hidden away in the Record Department of the sprawling Ministry...

Author: Kerry McGinnis Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 A highly evocative family mystery of secrets and betrayal from the bestselling author of Croc Country. The darkest secrets...

Author: Anuradha Roy Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 Jarmuli: a city of temples, a centre of healing on the edge of the ocean. Nomi, a young girl, is taken...

Author: Emily Gray Tedrowe Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 Catch Me If You Can meets Patricia Highsmith in this "stylish" (New York Times Book Review) page-turner of...

Author: Evelio Rosero Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 Doctor Justo Pastor Proceso Lopez should be a happy man--he has a family, a thriving medical practice, and adoring patients--but he...

Author: Amanda Brooke Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 A little girl is missing. Her parents are hiding something. Who will pay the price? When eight-year-old Jasmine Peterson...

Author: Angie Cruz Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2020 'A thrilling, necessary, and unforgettable portrait of what it means to...

Author: Chip Cheek Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 'BRILLIANTLY UNSETTLING' Paula Hawkins 'SO, SO GOOD' Stylist (The Top 10 Books of 2019) 'DEVASTATING... A HEADY COCKTAIL' Mail...

Author: Julia Claiborne Johnson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 For some boys fitting in means standing out Meet Frank - he isn't like other kids. He's as...

Author: David Bird Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 128 David Bird is acknowledged as the world's best when it comes to humorous bridge fiction. As the bridge cruise...

Author: Tove Jansson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 In the deep winter snows of a Swedish hamlet, a strange young woman fakes a break-in at the house...

Author: Peter Carey Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 An Australian literary hoax lies at the core of My Life as a Fake, Peter Carey's captivating, 'continuously startling'...

Author: Peter Carey Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 One of Peter Carey's most searingly inventive novels yet. Wise, funny, profound. Michael 'Butcher' Boone is an ex-'really famous'...

Author: Linn Ullmann Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 An astonishingly beautiful work of autofiction from one of Norway's most prominent literary writers Each summer of her childhood,...

Author: Isabella Hammad Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 576 A sumptuous historical novel, set against the backdrop of World War I, from 'an enormous talent' (Zadie Smith) 'A...

Author: Mark Haddon Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 A truly remarkable novel about an autistic boy. 'The dog was lying on the grass in the middle of...

Author: Graham Greene Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 VINTAGE VOYAGES- A world of journeys, from the tallest mountains to the depths of the mind Greene takes us...

Author: Graham Greene Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 Bright, photographic, evocative new covers for Greene's backlist, to celebrate one of the keystone writers of the Vintage Classics...

Author: Gunter Grass Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 608 A new translation of the landmark novel with a new foreword by the author On his third birthday Oskar...

Author: Anne Enright Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 Winner of the Man Booker Prize Winner of the Man Booker Prize The nine surviving children of the Hegarty...

Author: Anne Enright Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 A book about family, selfishness and compassion on Ireland's Atlantic coast, from the Booker Prize-winner. A book about family,...

Author: Margaret Atwood Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 The bestselling dystopian classic that became a cultural phenomenon and inspired an award-winning TV series ** THE SUNDAY TIMES...

Author: Toni Jordan Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 One family. Nine momentous days. An unforgettable novel of love and folly and heartbreak. It is 1939 and although...

Author: Kate Jennings Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 Introduced by Gideon Haigh I disapproved of bankers, on principle. Not that I knew any. Until this job, I...

Author: Elizabeth Harrower Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 292 Introduced by Fiona McGregor Sharply observed, bitter and humorous, The Long Prospect is a story of life in an...

Author: Elizabeth Harrower Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 340 The wind from Siberia as announced by the BBC came down Bayswater Road from the direction of Marble Arch.........

Author: Elizabeth Harrower Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 338 Introduced by Joan London Winner, Patrick White Award 1996 Breaking their poses like trees snapping branches, the women urgently...

Author: Kate Grenville Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 Kate Grenville's Orange-Prize winning novel The Idea of Perfection is the story of the small town of Karakarook, and...

Author: Kate Grenville Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 Introduced by Louise Adler Shortlisted, Miles Franklin Literary Award 1995 Winner, Victorian Premier's Literary Award 1995 This is Albion...

Author: Helen Garner Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 Helen Garner's gritty, lyrical first novel divided the critics on its publication in 1977. Today, Monkey Grip is regarded...

Author: Helen Garner Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 A captivating and deeply personal novel from one of Australia's most respected authors, now available in a smaller and...

Author: Nino Culotta Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 Introduced by Jacinta Tynan Who the hell's Nino Culotta. That's what you asked yourself when you first picked up...

Author: Kenneth Cook Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 Introduced byPeter Temple The controller stood back. 'Right,' he said. 'Spin 'em!' The man flipped the piece of wood...

Author: J. M. Coetzee Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 Continuing Text's re-release of J. M. Coetzee's revered works with stylish new covers, Slow Man is a modern...

Author: J. M. Coetzee Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 Four modern classics by the great South African writer, J. M. Coetzee, re-released with stylish new covers and...