Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) books

A modern midsummer night's dream about friends, lovers and friends' lovers; about sex, hope and love; and about...  Read More >>

The 18th book from one of Ireland's most beloved commercial fiction writers Family life is enough of a juggle without...  Read More >>

‘Frida Slattery As Herself is intoxicating. Ana Kinsella gives us an impeccably crafted tale of art, power, love,...  Read More >>

Kafka Tamura runs away from home to escape his father's oedipal prophecy and to find his long-lost mother and sister....  Read More >>

Toru Okada's cat has disappeared. His wife is growing distant every day. Then there are the increasingly explicit...  Read More >>

Mari sips her coffee and reads a book, but soon her solitude is disturbed: a girl has been beaten up at the Alphaville...  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 >>

A dazzling and sweeping new novel from #1 Sunday Times bestselling author Emily Henry!  Read More >>

A big-hearted, immersive debut novel about three generations of a Barbadian-British family affected by the Windrush...  Read More >>

The moving, large-hearted story of a young boy in danger of slipping through society's cracks and the unlikely father...  Read More >>

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A nearly divorced housewife enrolls in culinary school to win back her husband, only to start questioning the strange...  Read More >>

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A wonderful, moving and deeply soulful book about friendship, forgiveness, grief, love .. The best book I’ve read...  Read More >>

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 >>

From the mind of Alex Howard, author of much-loved adventure The Ghost Cat: meet your new feline friend, The Ship's...  Read More >>

Elizabeth, Joyce, Ibrahim and Ron return in the brilliant new...  Read More >>

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A haunting dark urban fantasy set in historical Hong Kong, where ancient myths and local legends combine in a story...  Read More >>