Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) books

Lizzy Brinks is the ultimate professional. Smart, calm and ever so slightly scary, there’s nothing she can’t handle...  Read More >>

In the heat and the green haze that seemed to surround us both like a physical presence, I felt intensely awake....  Read More >>

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Helena steps off the cattle train onto the grounds of Auschwitz, scheduled to be killed tomorrow, for a crime she...  Read More >>

'Particularly skilled in evoking the strangeness and contradictoriness of Greek myths’ The Sunday Times' From...  Read More >>

For fans of White Lotus, a delectably witty satire on the culture and dynamics at play at a dinner party where the...  Read More >>

An old soldier carves a croft out of the Finnish forest and calls it home, but try as he might to tame the land,...  Read More >>

A luxury hotel, a world-renowned writers' conference and a killer on the loose . . . It can only be Catherine Mack's...  Read More >>

From Douglas Stuart, Booker prize-winning author of Shuggie Bain and Young Mungo comes a stunning new novel, John...  Read More >>

Agnes Owen's sharp wit, humour and lean prose is beautifully displayed in this tragi-comedy. Betty's husband Adam...  Read More >>

En toi réside le Fanga est un roman initiatique dramatique qui plonge au coeur des dilemmes de la jeunesse moderne,...  Read More >>

À bientôt 15 ans, Émerance n'a jamais fait le deuil de son père. En rencontrant Marcus, sa maman a recréé un foyer,...  Read More >>

The New Vogue has upended society's rules, but not Elizabeth Bennet's opinion of the proud and penniless William...  Read More >>

A fabulous new novel by Amanda Craig, author of The Lie of the Land and The Golden Rule  Read More >>

Aghast at American cinema's descent into boundary-pushing violence, famed Hollywood director J. Edgar Schnatz decides...  Read More >>

'When I read Flyn’s writing I would often exhale with a sense of wonder' GUARDIAN 'Fascinating and masterfully...  Read More >>

‘A superb writer… the Irish Jojo Moyes. Her books are beautifully written, and infused with warmth, humour and human...  Read More >>

Welcome to the 80s, and to the raunchiest summer of your life  Read More >>

'An evocative, romantic and deeply sensuous read. Wonderful escapism' Santa Montefiore 'Fragrant and fabulous,...  Read More >>

THE HOLY CITY IS NO PLACE FOR MERCY 'Matthew Plampin should rank with the best' Sunday Times 'Plampin is heartbreakingly...  Read More >>

I should never have taken that DNA test. Then maybe things wouldn't have gone so wrong…  Read More >>

Escape to Cornwall this summer with the new emotional and uplifting novel from Sunday Times #1 bestselling author...  Read More >>

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For fans of My Dark Vanessa and Acts of Desperation, THE CRUSTACEAN is a Korean high schooler's response to Lolita...  Read More >>

Immersive, open-hearted speculative fiction debut that connects an irresistible cast of characters across six hundred...  Read More >>