Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) books

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Show Me Where It Hurts: The searingly beautiful debut novel about loss and learning how to live again

Show Me Where It Hurts: The searingly beautiful debut...

Author: Claire Gleeson
ISBN: 9781399734745
Format: Paperback
$22.99

For reading groups and lovers of emotionally arresting fiction: the story of a woman forced to rebuild her life...  Read More >>

The Expanded Earth: A TOP TEN TIMES BESTSELLER

The Expanded Earth: A TOP TEN TIMES BESTSELLER

Author: Mikey Please
ISBN: 9781472158352
Format: Paperback
$24.99

A high-stakes adventure packed with jeopardy and invention The Expanded Earth is a classic-in-the-making about the...  Read More >>

raw content

raw content

Author: Naomi Booth
ISBN: 9781472159366
Format: Paperback
$24.99

Set among the Yorkshire Moors, raw content is the dark, tender and troubled story of a young mother whose past has...  Read More >>

Happy Land: The spellbinding new novel from the bestselling author of Take My Hand

Happy Land: The spellbinding new novel from the bestselling...

Author: Dolen Perkins-Valdez
ISBN: 9781474622738
Format: Paperback
$24.99

A woman learns the astonishing truth of her family's ties to a real-life American Kingdom in this riveting novel...  Read More >>

The Palm House

The Palm House

Author: Gwendoline Riley
ISBN: 9781035021055
Format: Paperback
$34.99

From the Women’s Prize-shortlisted author of First Love and My Phantoms comes a novel of enduring friendships and...  Read More >>

Stag Dance: From the bestselling author of Detransition, Baby

Stag Dance: From the bestselling author of Detransition,...

Author: Torrey Peters
ISBN: 9781800810815
Format: Paperback
$24.99

Trans life past, present and future is explored in this kaleidoscopic follow-up to the Women's Prize-nominated bestseller...  Read More >>

Quiet Dell

Quiet Dell

Author: Jayne Anne Phillips
ISBN: 9780349725536
Format: Paperback
$24.99

A reissue of Quiet Dell, by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Night Watch  Read More >>

MotherKind

MotherKind

Author: Jayne Anne Phillips
ISBN: 9780349725574
Format: Paperback
$24.99

A reissue of MotherKind, by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Night Watch  Read More >>

Lark and Termite

Lark and Termite

Author: Jayne Anne Phillips
ISBN: 9780349725550
Format: Paperback
$24.99

A reissue of Lark and Termite, by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Night Watch  Read More >>

The Driving Seat

The Driving Seat

Author: Abigail Abbas
ISBN: 9781846976926
Format: Paperback
$22.99

Set in London and the Scottish Highlands, The Driving Seat is a thriller packed with blistering black humour and...  Read More >>

Seascraper

Seascraper

Author: Benjamin Wood
ISBN: 9781405975247
Format: Paperback
$24.99

SEASCRAPER is a mesmerising portrait of a young man confined in by his class and the ghosts of his family's past,...  Read More >>

You Are the Führer's Unrequited Love

You Are the Führer's Unrequited Love

Author: Jean-Noël Orengo ,  Dr David Watson
ISBN: 9780241745694
Format: Paperback
$28.99

An electrifying novel about the Nazi who reinvented himself, Albert Speer 'Which is the most seductive, truth or...  Read More >>

Permanence

Permanence

Author: Sophie Mackintosh
ISBN: 9780241776315
Format: Paperback
$34.99

Stylish and sumptuously romantic, charged with emotional electricity - this is the story of an affair... Clara...  Read More >>

Favourite Daughter

Favourite Daughter

Author: Morgan Dick
ISBN: 9781405974677
Format: Paperback
$24.99

THESE TWO STRANGERS HAVE ONE THING IN COMMON . . . THEIR FATHER. 'He left you some money.' Mickey felt her mouth...  Read More >>

The Sunken Sailor

The Sunken Sailor

Author: Patricia Moyes
ISBN: 9781788425513
Format: Paperback
$24.99

Peace, fresh air and good company was on the agenda for Inspector Tibbett's sailing holiday until Tibbett becomes...  Read More >>

The Savage, Noble Death of Babs Dionne: ""One of the best crime novels of 2025""

The Savage, Noble Death of Babs Dionne: ""One of the...

Author: Ron Currie
ISBN: 9781805463917
Format: Paperback
$24.99

A wild, blackly funny, brilliantly twisty literary-crime novel, like an unholy coming together of Tana French and...  Read More >>

Hopes and Dreams at The Chocolate Pot Café: The BRAND NEW heartfelt and uplifting story from Jessica Redland for 2026

Hopes and Dreams at The Chocolate Pot Café: The BRAND...

Author: Jessica Redland
ISBN: 9781835183298
Format: Hardback
$87.09

The BRAND NEW heartwarming and uplifting romance from MULTI-MILLION BESTSELLER Jessica Redland! Perfect for fans...  Read More >>

Vera

Vera

Author: Cisco Mills
ISBN: 9798999042644
Format: Paperback
$60.69

A Black woman photographer falls into a Colorado canyon and finds herself stranded on a ledge with a shattered body,...  Read More >>

Every Kind of Free

Every Kind of Free

Author: Elisabeth Klein
ISBN: 9798994686300
Format: Paperback
$42.21

Faith-rooted and emotionally powerful, Every Kind of Free follows a widow learning to recognize healthy love after...  Read More >>

Saving Liberty: A Franklin In Time Series

Saving Liberty: A Franklin In Time Series

Author: Roger Gillespie
ISBN: 9798989788774
Format: Paperback
$42.21

When Benjamin Franklin is swept into a world where the American Revolution was lost, history itself becomes the...  Read More >>

Reality's Fragility

Reality's Fragility

Author: Joe Beninati
ISBN: 9781738981779
Format: Paperback
$52.75

An investigation into my life's dilemmas in verse.  Read More >>

Under a Black Flag: A Sonny Haynes Novel

Under a Black Flag: A Sonny Haynes Novel

Author: Brian Townsley
ISBN: 9798218905811
Format: Paperback
$46.20

This is the 3rd Sonny Haynes book, which features classic noir styling with a modern feel.  Read More >>

Beneath the Ley Line

Beneath the Ley Line

Author: Matthew Scura
ISBN: 9781971421056
Format: Paperback
$44.85

Beneath the Ley Line is a character-driven dark fantasy.  Read More >>

Woodspring

Woodspring

Author: Elizabeth Buchan
ISBN: 9781838955311
Format: Hardback
$39.99

A tender and moving novel of love, loss and redemption from the beloved bestselling author of Revenge of the Middle-Aged...  Read More >>

The Palm House

The Palm House

Author: Gwendoline Riley
ISBN: 9781035021048
Format: Hardback
$42.00

From the Women’s Prize-shortlisted author of First Love and My Phantoms comes a novel of enduring friendships and...  Read More >>

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