Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) books

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Thirst Trap

Thirst Trap

Author: Gráinne O'Hare
ISBN: 9781035046218
Format: Paperback
$24.99

A wildly original debut set in Belfast: full of the pain, joy and bad decisions arising from young friendship, grief...  Read More >>

One Yellow Eye

One Yellow Eye

Author: Leigh Radford
ISBN: 9781035048298
Format: Paperback
$24.99

A darkly funny, heartbreaking and propulsive ticking time bomb of a novel, One Yellow Eye follows a scientist as...  Read More >>

138 Main Street: Turn up the heat with the unputdownable cat-and-mouse thriller of the summer

138 Main Street: Turn up the heat with the unputdownable...

Author: Gavin Bell
ISBN: 9781398542815
Format: Paperback
$38.79

A riveting, high-concept cat-and-mouse thriller that plunges an FBI Special Agent and a rookie officer into a race...  Read More >>

The Final Chapter

The Final Chapter

Author: C. B. Everett
ISBN: 9781398534575
Format: Paperback
$38.79

From the author of the ‘blackly funny’ (John Connolly) The Other People, a gripping book-within-a-book thriller...  Read More >>

A New New Me

A New New Me

Author: Helen Oyeyemi
ISBN: 9780571387540
Format: Paperback
$24.99

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First Summer

First Summer

Author: Ekin Oklap
ISBN: 9781398559240
Format: Paperback
$29.99

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

Sunset Song: Voted ‘The Best Scottish Book of All Time’

Sunset Song: Voted ‘The Best Scottish Book of All Time’...

Author: Lewis Grassic Gibbon ,  Kapka Kassabova
ISBN: 9781846977510
Format: Paperback
$22.99

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

Aphrodite

Aphrodite

Author: Phoenicia Rogerson
ISBN: 9780008589936
Format: Paperback
$24.99

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Best Friends

Best Friends

Author: Andrew Meehan
ISBN: 9781068389375
Format: Paperback
$22.99

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The Last Marriage of Dot Brightmore: The long-awaited sequel to THE LAST LIST OF MABEL BEAUMONT - find out what happens next!

The Last Marriage of Dot Brightmore: The long-awaited...

Author: Laura Pearson
ISBN: 9781836564744
Format: Hardback
$87.09

The totally uplifting and unmissable follow-on to the No.1 bestselling hit The Last List of Mabel Beaumont ✨📋❤️There’s...  Read More >>

Down With The Ship

Down With The Ship

Author: Chloe Jory
ISBN: 9798994767214
Format: Paperback
$47.49

Pride and Prejudice meets Below Deck in this laugh-out-loud, enemies to lovers romcom set on a superyacht in the...  Read More >>

Hot Scenes

Hot Scenes

Author: Michael J Sahno
ISBN: 9781944173135
Format: Paperback
$52.67

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

The Sea of Silence

The Sea of Silence

Author: Seth Hunter
ISBN: 9781493075102
Format: Paperback
$47.99

Volume #7 in the Nathan Peake series. The war moves to the Americas as Captain Nathan Peake, freed from service...  Read More >>

High and Low: 'The most mischievous take imaginable on the way we live now' Francis Spufford

High and Low: 'The most mischievous take imaginable...

Author: Amanda Craig
ISBN: 9781408714713
Format: Paperback
$34.99

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

One Leg on Earth: The 'stunning' (Abi Dare) 2026 debut novel from the National Book Award finalist

One Leg on Earth: The 'stunning' (Abi Dare) 2026 debut...

Author: 'Pemi Aguda
ISBN: 9780349018287
Format: Paperback
$32.99

The eagerly awaited debut novel by a literary star in the making: a vivid, mesmerising story about modern Lagos...  Read More >>

The Factory Girls

The Factory Girls

Author: Daisy Styles
ISBN: 9780241998724
Format: Paperback
$24.99

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The Savage Landscape: How We Made the Wilderness

The Savage Landscape: How We Made the Wilderness

Author: Cal Flyn
ISBN: 9780008686536
Format: Paperback
$32.99

From the Sunday Times bestselling author of Islands of Abandonment, comes a new book about our relationship to the...  Read More >>

Dead Lucky: A BBC Radio 2 Book Club Pick

Dead Lucky: A BBC Radio 2 Book Club Pick

Author: Connor Hutchinson
ISBN: 9781472159076
Format: Paperback
$24.99

Dead Lucky is a debut dark comedy novel about the secrets of addiction alongside the eccentric realities of the...  Read More >>

Pig: 'Fresh, full of character and utterly addictive' Alice Slater

Pig: 'Fresh, full of character and utterly addictive'...

Author: Matilde Pratesi
ISBN: 9781472159090
Format: Paperback
$24.99

Shortlisted for the Caledonia Novel Award, Pig is a razor-sharp, disturbing novel about toxic female friendship...  Read More >>

The Manor of Dreams: A totally addictive gothic page-turner

The Manor of Dreams: A totally addictive gothic page-turner...

Author: Christina Li
ISBN: 9781408748916
Format: Paperback
$24.99

Mexican Gothic meets The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo in this unputdownable gothic, sapphic novel about the dangerous...  Read More >>

Fun and Games

Fun and Games

Author: John Patrick McHugh
ISBN: 9780008517373
Format: Paperback
$22.99

‘One of the most exciting writers working in Ireland today’ SALLY ROONEY 'Lively, bighearted … an utter...  Read More >>

A Bookshop Summer: The life-affirming new novel from the author of Found in a Bookshop, perfect for book lovers

A Bookshop Summer: The life-affirming new novel from...

Author: Stephanie Butland
ISBN: 9781035431823
Format: Paperback
$24.99

The intriguing, twisting and heart-warming new novel from the author of Found in a Bookshop and The Second Chance...  Read More >>

Cooking in the Wrong Century

Cooking in the Wrong Century

Author: Teresa Präauer ,  Eleanor Updegraff
ISBN: 9781805331780
Format: Paperback
$24.99

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

Tangled Roots

Tangled Roots

Author: Maria Turtschaninoff ,  Annie Prime
ISBN: 9781805330158
Format: Paperback
$29.99

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 >>

Offseason: 'Phenomenal' MADELINE CASH, author of LOST LAMBS

Offseason: 'Phenomenal' MADELINE CASH, author of LOST...

Author: Avigayl Sharp
ISBN: 9781399637015
Format: Paperback
$32.99

A savage, hilarious and profound debut novel from Paris Review and Granta contributor Avigayl Sharp  Read More >>

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