Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) books

The new novel from the author of BBC Radio 2 Book Club pick The Silence Project. A literary thriller with a heart...  Read More >>

Included in THE TIMES Best Historical Fiction Books of 2025: 'A lively new perspective on a grimly familiar tale'...  Read More >>

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A collection of wild, dark stories, including the blackly funny tale of a former serial killer suffering from memory...  Read More >>

This is the story of one life. But George is a thousand men.  Read More >>

This fiction collection by Umm Zakiyyah, internationally acclaimed author of the If I Should Speak trilogy and His...  Read More >>

The phenomenal word of mouth bestseller, shortlisted for the Waterstones Debut Fiction Prize, winner of 5 awards...  Read More >>

No one sees us the way our pets do - and this pet has plans of his own . . .  Read More >>

A haunting tale of sorrow and sacrifice, where a soul-bound tree bears the weight of human pain, and discovers that...  Read More >>

As the plague spreads further throughout the northern realm of Raylinette, guards pile corpses ever higher under...  Read More >>

A multi-generational novel in which Miriam uncovers family secrets through her mother's memory journal, exploring...  Read More >>

In the heart of a divided Capital City, where the affluent North thrives while the South fades into shadow, Café...  Read More >>

Table 52 - Extended: A Collection of Short Stories is an expansive literary journey that spans the full spectrum...  Read More >>

Education, protest, racism, and a teacher and student's journey into America for answers.  Read More >>

Nyx Vargas clawed her way out of the gutter and built an empire out of blood, steel, and the broken bones of anyone...  Read More >>

This is the third volume of short fiction from Chicago author Anne O'Brien. Her previous books served as love-letters...  Read More >>

You ever wonder what people really do when they think nobody's watching? I do. Because for years, they forgot...  Read More >>

Winner of Switzerland's Grand Prix Literatur 2024 In his short lyric novella, Dreaming Jack, Klaus Merz transports...  Read More >>

A poetic and fiercely moving Russian novel of tradition, change, and thwarted desire by an internationally celebrated...  Read More >>

In the shadowy alleys of Fleet Street, Bleeders: The Terrible Tale of Sweeney Todd reimagines the infamous barber's...  Read More >>

A portrait of the artist as a young woman in a Berlin that can’t escape its history: an electric debut novel about...  Read More >>

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In Massachusetts, in the years between witchcraft delusion and Revolution, a curious, insightful Tamsin Bennett...  Read More >>