Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) books

'This is a book about searching in the best sense – full of ideas, beauty, doubt and adventures' ELIZABETH KOLBERT...  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 >>

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 >>

'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 >>

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

USA Today Bestseller! “As brilliant as it is bizarre. From the very first page you know you are in the hands of...  Read More >>

Since its first publication in 1932,Sunset Songhas been regarded as one of the most important novels ever written...  Read More >>

An electrifying, sultry and deliciously dark exploration of sex, power and art – a queer Rebecca for the twenty-first...  Read More >>

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

Gentlemen of the West isAgnesOwens' first novel. It is the acutely observed series of episodes in the life of the...  Read More >>

Peggy is turning a dark girlhood romance into a novel and is trying to get her fellow inmate at the mental hospital,...  Read More >>

'Like Birds in the Wilderness', a portrait of brickie Mac. He's a straightforward guy with a talent for laying bricks...  Read More >>

A new annotated edition of 'the funniest book in the world' (Evelyn Waugh). It features Weedon Grossmith's hilarious...  Read More >>

England, 1500s. Queen Mary I rules the throne. History calls her Bloody Mary and brands her a tyrant-but that story...  Read More >>

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