Modern Fiction (post 1945)

Author: Diana Gabaldon Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 1200 THE FOURTH NOVEL IN THE BESTSELLING OUTLANDER SERIES. THE FOURTH NOVEL IN THE BESTSELLING OUTLANDER SERIES. How far will...

Author: Salman Rushdie Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 560 One of the most controversial and infamous books of modern times Just before dawn one winter's morning, a hijacked...

Author: Carlos Ruiz Zafon Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 816 The final instalment of the internationally acclaimed and New York Times bestselling series that began with The Shadow...

Author: Thomas Keneally Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 268 Australian literature's strangest novel, written by its most familiar novelist. It is the duty of a good child to...

Author: J. M. Coetzee Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 As Text continues the re-release of J. M. Coetzee's revered works, this second instalment of four titles-with introductions...

Author: Ben Elton Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 624 A deeply poignant novel set in Berlin between 1920 and 1945 Berlin 1920 Two babies are born. Two brothers....

Author: Tom Keneally Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 Whilst living in exile on St Helena, Napoleon exerted an extraordinary influence on young Betsy Balcombe. How did she...

Author: Steve Toltz Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 720 From his prison cell, Jasper Dean tells the unlikely story of his scheming father Martin, his crazy Uncle Terry...

Author: Terry Pratchett Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 One of the new PB editions of three classic Discworld novels introducing new readers to the wonderful world of...

Author: Paulo Coelho Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 The Spy tells the unforgettable story of a woman who dared to break the conventions of her time, and...

Author: Charles Bukowski Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 YOU CAN TAKE THE MAN OUT OF THE GUTTER, BUT YOU CAN'T TAKE THE GUTTER OUT OF THE MAN...

Author: Peter Temple Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 Shooting Star is classic Peter Temple, and now a Text Classic. Pat Carson's old eyes were on me, looking...

Author: Jo Nesbo Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 624 The gripping new thriller from the number-one Sunday Times bestselling author of The Thirst. THE NO.1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER...

Author: John Banville Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 Once Oliver Orme was a petty thief and a successful painter. Always desiring what belonged to others, he sought...

Author: Haruki Murakami Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 Reality bends all the more acutely with lack of sleep in this stunning novel from the master of the...

Author: Paulette Jiles Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 Now a Major Motion Picture It is 1870 and Captain Jefferson Kyle Kidd travels through northern Texas, giving live...

Author: Aravind Adiga (Author) Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 Here's a strange fact: murder a man, and you feel responsible for his life - possessive, even. You...

Author: Barbara Taylor Bradford Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 The conclusion to the extraordinary tale of Emma Harte, the original Woman of Substance, and the powerful Harte...

Author: Bruce Chatwin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 WINNER OF THE WHITBREAD BEST FIRST NOVEL AWARD On the Black Hill is an elegantly written tale of identical...

Author: Irvine Welsh Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 Detective Sergeant Bruce Robertson wants to wind down to Christmas with a week of sex and drugs in Amsterdam....

Author: Graham Greene Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 'One of the most true and moving novels of my time, in anybody's language' William Faulkner WITH AN INTRODUCTION...

Author: Graham Greene Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 Graham Greene's first novel to be published represented for the author 'one sentimental gesture towards his won past, the...

Author: Brigid Brophy Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 'Superb ... Sheer artistic insolence.' - Iris Murdoch 'Brilliantly seductive...A witty, sexy, sophisticated treat.' - Sarah Waters London, New...

Author: Bev Thomas Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 The most dangerous lies are the ones we tell ourselves. 'Taut, absorbing and psychologically astute, in A Good Enough...

Author: Karl Marlantes (Author) Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 736 'An unforgettable novel.' - Washington Post At the turn of the twentieth century, as the oppression of Russia's...

Author: Martin MacInnes (Author) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 The world is heating up, species are dying out, and data collection is thriving. Shel Murray, a primate researcher, is...

Author: Peter Ackroyd Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 192 The arrival of an enigmatic stranger wreaks havoc on the denizens of the idyllic English village of Little Camborne; most notably...

Author: Virginia Woolf Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 496 An immaculately-observed social comedy that explores the boundaries between personal freedom and the demands of love, the Penguin Classics...

Author: Virginia Woolf Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 A playful mock 'biography' of a chameleonic historical figure, written for Virginia Woolf's intimate friend Vita Sackville-West. Orlando has...

Author: Virginia Woolf Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 Woolf's innovative modernist novel, in a new Black Classics edition. Tracing the lives of a group of friends, this...

Author: Virginia Woolf Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 Virginia Woolf's final novel, now in Penguin Black Classics. Outwardly a novel about life in a country-house in whose...

Author: Virginia Woolf Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 An enthralling exploration of the human experience, from the author of To The Lighthouse On a June morning in...

Author: Lorna Sage Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 Innovative, startlingly perceptive and aglow with colour, these fifteen stories were written towards the end of Katherine Mansfield's tragically...

Author: Katherine Mansfield Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 816 WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY ALI SMITH Katherine Mansfield's clear, sparkling and perceptive short stories revolutionized the genre, and this...

Author: Mikhail Lermontov Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 A masterpiece of Russian prose, Lermontov's only novel was influential for many later nineteenth-century authors, including Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky and...

Author: D H Lawrence Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 528 The marriage of Gertrude and Walter Morel has become a battleground. Repelled by her uneducated and sometimes violent...

Author: D H Lawrence Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 Lawrence was one of the great short story writers of the 20th century. This new collection of ten...

Author: D H Lawrence Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 These three novellas display D. H. Lawrence's brilliant and insightful evocation of human relationships - both tender and...

Author: Charles and Mary Lamb Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 This famous retelling of twenty of Shakespeare's plays by Charles and Mary Lamb has delighted generations of...

Author: James Joyce Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 "This edition, published for the novel's centennial, is the definitive text, authorized by the Joyce estate and collated from...

Author: Joris-Karl Huysmans Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 Huysmans' gaudy, shocking and largely autobiographical novel La-Bas was described by one critic as 'even more disquieting' than his...

Author: Nikolay Gogol Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 The best of Gogol in a single volume - his most famous drama and the most brilliant of his...

Author: E M Forster Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 Rickie Elliot, a sensitive and intelligent young man with an intense imagination and a certain amount of literary...

Author: E M Forster Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 When attractive, impulsive English widow Lidia takes a holiday in Italy, she causes a scandal by marrying Gino,...

Author: Ford Madox Ford Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 Ford Madox Ford's extraordinary novel of passion and betrayal, The Good Soldier, is edited with an introduction by...

Author: Joseph Conrad Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 'It was I who removed de P- this morning.' With these chilling words Victor Haldin shatters the solitary, industrious...

Author: Joseph Conrad Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 The Secret Agent is Joseph Conrad's dark satire on English society, edited with an introduction and notes by Michael...

Author: Joseph Conrad Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 A haunting and hugely influential Modernist masterpiece, the Penguin Classics edition of Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness is edited...