Modern Fiction (post 1945)

Author shortlisted for the Romantic Novelist Association's 'The Romantic Saga Award 2023' for A Mother's WarNorth Yorkshire, September 1940. It's a year since war was first announced and the dangers...

A award-winning, psychological post-Cold War novel-adapted as a TNT series starring Sean Bean-Legends is the next blockbuster spy novel from Robert Littell. Martin Odum is a onetime CIA field agent...

'Sharp as a skewer about the devices and desires in many modern marriages. I loved it' Amanda Craig'Charming, very touching and very funny. Taut and full of surprises' Tessa HadleyI...

In the dead of night, Lily Waite and her 5-year-old son, Matthew, arrive at their new home on a council estate in East London; their only possessions, two suitcases and...

The German Girl sweeps from Berlin at the brink of WWII to Cuba on the cusp of revolution, to New York in the wake of September 11th, before reaching its...

"My favorite millennial provocateur." -Bret Easton Ellis "There's no way a robot wrote this book. A no-holds-barred tour of the Millennial mindset's spiritual DNA. Anything goes." -Douglas Coupland NYLON Magazine...

When her husband Richard is killed in a freak accident, Shelby Pomeroy is devastated. But she soon learns a horrible truth - Richard was a conman and a cheat, and...

'Charming and shocking' MICK HERRON'Intriguing, brilliantly told' NINA STIBBE'Compulsive' CLARE CHAMBERS'Rich in charm and surprises' GUARDIAN'Mysterious, moving and ingenious' PHILIP PULLMANIn the 1970s, a single night in a remote hunting...

'A love letter to the power of community' Eleanor Ray, author of Everything is Beautiful____________Alice is working hard to provide for her daughter, Mollie. But it's a challenge juggling her...

'Alison is a haunting book, complex and intimate. Lizzy Stewart has written and drawn the aches and confusions of love and growing up with immense skill' - Posy SimmondsAlison is...

'A gripping mystery... sweeping across centuries in its three interlinked sections, Molly & the Captain summons the past effortlessly' ObserverA celebrated artist of the Georgian era paints his two young...

A 2023 best book to look forward to in Vogue, Bustle, GQ and the New Statesman'A superbly observed exploration of intimacy and its failings' Megan Nolan'West-Knights is a masterful, hilarious...

LONGLISTED FOR THE INAUGURAL CLIMATE FICTION PRIZE'Rare is the book that enlightens as much as it entertains. Beautifully imagined and full of characters to love' EMMA STONEX, author of The...

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'BRING ON THE DRAMA' Cosmopolitan Best New Book of July 2023The Read with Jenna Today Book Club Pick'I couldn't put it down' Alice Clark-Platts'Slick, agile, and utterly engrossing' Taiye SelasiBasking...

From the Observer debut novelist of the year, comes a blistering, heart-wrenching new novel of complicity and atonement, delving into one nurse's experience of the little-known history of conversion therapy...

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In these five stories, prototypes from the ancient world cast a shadow over our age. Cupid and Psyche, Penelope, Oedipus, Icarus and Odysseus inhabit the consciousness of characters who wrestle...

The End of Alice treads the wafer-thin line between the evil and the everyday, following the correspondence of two paedophiles. One, the narrator, is a child-killer, serving his twenty-third year...

The House Next to the Factoryshows a changing India over three decades through the lens of one family and the house that they live in.Life in the house is humdrum...

'An astonishingly accomplished debut - the Brennans leap fully formed onto the page in this brilliantly judged novel of the intricacies of family life . . . Wholly engrossing.' -...

Winner of the 2018 Sapir Prize. You need to bribe someone into giving you weed? Don't worry, just step into this court room and call the defendant a murderer. You're...

'A gripping mystery... sweeping across centuries in its three interlinked sections, Molly & the Captain summons the past effortlessly' ObserverA celebrated artist of the Georgian era paints his two young...

'I loved this novel' SARAH PEARSE, bestselling author of The Sanatorium 'Rippling with suspense' VICTORIA SELMAN, author of Truly, Darkly, Deeply BEHIND EVERY STRONG WOMAN IS A GIRL WHO SURVIVED...

So there I was with two pens, my two titties, Charles Dickens, two slice of bread and a blank book at the end of my first day in the middle...

EVERY STORY HAS TWO SIDES . . .Daniel and Luke are unlikely best friends. Their bond has stood the test of time, through marriages, children and tragedies. But hidden truths...

On board the train to Malma Station are a married couple in crisis, a single dad and his young daughter, and a woman searching for the answer to a mystery...

A Times 'Best New Thriller' for May 2022'Enthralling . . . Sharp dialogue and flashes of dry wit' Financial Times'Ben Creed has a genuine gift for conjuring up Stalin's Leningrad...

An intoxicating story of collapse and survivalMei is a forty-two year-old editor living in Barcelona. After years of unsuccessfully trying to become pregnant, and having grown apart from her husband,...

Two happy couples. One dead body. A whole load of secrets. Married life wasn't meant to start like this.On honeymoon in Bali, you hit it off with another newlywed couple...

'Twist follows twist and nothing is what it seems' ALEX MICHAELIDES'Exhilarating, addictive, fierce' BRIDGET COLLINS'A psychological thriller you can't put down' HARLAN COBEN'Dark, Gothic, and propulsively readable' RUTH WARE'A dark...

'I loved this book' BONNIE GARMUS'A generous, compassionate book about the power of love and community' LOUISE KENNEDY'I can't recommend this one highly enough ' HARLAN COBEN 'THIS is his...

"The limitless possibilities of fiction are brilliantly utilised . . . Ingenious" Irish Times"Agualusa's funny and lively tale turns increasingly ominous ahead of an explosive conclusion" Guardian***A Financial Times Fiction...

'Whip-smart and uncompromising' NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW'Quietly riveting' IRISH TIMES'It's the perfect crime' NEW YORKER'Impressive and complex' GUARDIAN'Addictive' OPRAH DAILYThe riveting new novel from the author of The Great...

'A tour de force' IRISH TIMES'Riveting and moving' NINA STIBBE'Gripping' THE TIMES'It had me by the throat' EMMA DONOGHUELONDON, 1940. As enemy planes fly over the city, twenty-year-old Charlotte Richmond...

The luminous debut novel from one of Ireland's finest storytellers'The Polite Act of Drowning is a beautiful and captivating novel, lyrical and sensuous, a precise and faithful evocation of the...

Kiki grew up in New Zealand, dreaming of one day going to Glastonbury Festival. Now, mourning the loss of her beloved Yaya - the woman who raised her - she...

The Good Place meets Sliding Doors, Begin Again is an uplifting novel about life's what if's, missed chances and new beginnings.Despite living firmly in her comfort zone, Frankie McKenzie feels...

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The Girl Talk presenters are out of work and out for revenge on the man who publicly humiliated them and destroyed their careers. So when James Almond, the ruthless controller...

St Brigid's is a remote island off the west coast of Ireland. It is a barren place and its small community is dwindling. But according to rumour it is a...

A heartbreaking, lyrical story for all of those who have fantasised about escaping their daily lives and starting over.Michael Kabongo is a British-Congolese teacher living in London on the cusp...

'Niven Govinden's Diary of a Film, his sixth novel, is also his best yet. Smart, sexy and cinematic (in many senses), it is a love letter to Italy and to...

Ava, Rebeka and Grace have been best friends forever. Ava has hit rock bottom since she split up with her husband. It's hard enough being a Scot in London without...

In September 1939, World War Two is declared. For RAF fighter pilots patrolling the Franco-German border it is a bizarre time: one moment they are chasing an elusive Luftwaffe, the...