Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) books

A clever and fun romcom about a woman who accidentally catfishes her love interest, written by popular plus size...  Read More >>

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Even Beyond Death is a ravishing, swashbuckling love story set amid the courts of 17th century Avignon, utterly...  Read More >>

Cherry Hendricks is a down-on-her-luck party clown in Orlando, Florida, trying to make ends meet. A date with a...  Read More >>

A hilariously insightful take on midlife and marriage by US bestselling novelist Colleen Oakley  Read More >>

""Two elderly sisters live alone on a crumbling estate at the end of the world, tending to a large walled garden...  Read More >>

An immersive, epic tale of three generations of women over two continents, caught between forging their own paths...  Read More >>

A poignant story of love and regret, from a master of contemporary Irish fiction  Read More >>

Nine women, nine stories, woven together in a stunning collection rooted in contemporary Nigeria  Read More >>

Fizzingly original, disarmingly tender and laugh-out-loud funny, BIG NOBODY is a coming-of-age story about first...  Read More >>

A pitch-black novel of obsession and pain about a headmaster grappling with world events and existential despair...  Read More >>

Five characters with troubled hearts get to meet a single dead person of their choice in this hugely popular Japanese...  Read More >>

Like a long winter's dream, this haunting and visionary new novel from 2024 Nobel Prize winner Han Kang takes us...  Read More >>

Challengers meets Whiplash in this intimate, bruising novel about the short and tumultuous life of a table tennis...  Read More >>

Her favourite tales are those that conjure ancient worlds – of angry gods and heroic mortals, one of whom will some...  Read More >>

Set in a near-future enhanced by AI technology, a Black British journalist comes into her power-literally and figuratively-when...  Read More >>

A major launch from one of America's leading literary fiction writers, coming in spring 2026.  Read More >>

JO NESBO: #1 Sunday Times bestseller, #1 New York Times bestseller, 40 million books sold worldwide He’s the...  Read More >>

Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale is revolutionised by the iconic Jeanette Winterson in her page-turning, heart-breaking...  Read More >>

Shakespeare’s King Lear is reimagined in Edward St Aubyn's gripping story of a media mogul who has lost control....  Read More >>

Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew is hilariously reimagined by one of our greatest living novelists, in this...  Read More >>

Shakespeare’s The Tempest gets the Margaret Atwood treatment in this ingenious, funny, tear-jerking story about...  Read More >>

Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice is brilliantly reinvented by Howard Jacobson, in his merciless, sharp and funny...  Read More >>

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The warm, funny and vibrant story of a multi-generational British-Caribbean family across five decades  Read More >>