Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) books

A dramatic and moving historical fiction saga  Read More >>

From the twice Booker-nominated author of The Year of the Runaways, a magnificent novel of love and politics, with...  Read More >>

A kaleidoscopic literary debut about love and self set across parallel universes 'An explosion of creative beauty...  Read More >>

Mad Men meets On Chesil Beach. One unseasonably hot Sunday in November 1957, Kathleen Beckett, wife of insurance...  Read More >>

A love letter to Jane Austen and Elizabeth Gaskell, The Trouble with Mrs Montgomery Hurst is a witty novel of manners...  Read More >>

In 1922 in Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, two teenage friends with dreams of breaking the mould of Maritime music find...  Read More >>

The third darkly humorous novel in the critically acclaimed Patrick Melrose series.  Read More >>

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

For readers of Cleopatra and Frankenstein and Exciting Times, an addictive, dark and sexy debut novel about falling...  Read More >>

Helen Oyeyemi draws on myth, fairy tale and fable for this extraordinary novel exploring the female muse.  Read More >>

A story of three grown sisters, whose father - in a moment of crisis - accidentally lets slip that he has a favourite,...  Read More >>

The latest novel by twice Booker-shortlisted author Chigozie Obioma FROM THE TWICE BOOKER-SHORTLISTED AUTHOR Longlisted...  Read More >>

A debut novel bursting its banks with wondrous storytelling, for fans of David Mitchell, Sunjeev Suhota and Yaa...  Read More >>

Ruthless. Devoted. Ambitious. Triumphant. This is war as women fight it. 1461. Through violent war and great sacrifice,...  Read More >>

From Rupaul’s Drag Race All Star and host of HBO’s WE’RE HERE comes an inventive, wondrous novel about American...  Read More >>

The beginning of a gorgeous new family trilogy, a story of their love, life and home, of their beginning and their...  Read More >>

“The Northern is both a tender-hearted, contemplative coming-of-age novel and adventure-filled road trip story that...  Read More >>

The grid has gone dark, and the planet's population, cut to the bone. The Mackinac Bridge is the iron key to Michigan....  Read More >>

In this emotional narrative, the ubiquitous humor, heartache, and rich history of an immigrant family comes to life...  Read More >>

When my ex exposes my secret romance pen name to my students and my world unravels, I turn desperately to the one...  Read More >>

Set on the east coast of Australia in a steadily gentrifying surf town, YOUTH is shaped by the sea, and the joy...  Read More >>

An absurd criminal investigation into the supernatural, full of monsters and irreverence.  Read More >>

Old Girls and Palm Trees by Meg Pokrass is an illustrated collection about iconoclasts, perpetual dreamers, tightrope...  Read More >>

On a cold Christmas Eve morning, Rebekah and Jonas set off on what should have been a simple adventure-hot cocoa...  Read More >>

From the Number One bestselling author of The Versions of Us comes a story of six lifelong friends and one extraordinary...  Read More >>