Modern & contemporary fiction

Review Sleepless Nights assembles a series of fleeting images and memories united by the high intelligence and beauty of Hardwick's prose. ― Sally...

Review Great delicacy and freshness .... Notwithstanding its ancient setting, the novel is entirely modern in form, its characters and dialogue vi...

'Devastating in the most beautiful ways . . . you are in the hands of an absolute artist.' TORREY PETERS, author of DETRANSITION, BABY It is Apri...

Review This is a novel that lives firmly in the melancholia of the city's gentrification, hurtling readers through one woman's desperation to keep...

Review 'Wickedly funny and fearlessly honest.' ― The New Yorker 'It is the funniest, most life-affirming and most virtuosic novel I expect to rea...

The brand new festive romance from Debbie Macomber, the #1 New York Times bestselling author and the queen of Christmas fiction! ALL SHE WANTS FO...

When Jake tells Lyssa it's not working, she knows he's not talking about the toaster. Her immediate reaction is to sob into her pillow and wait for...

The well-loved residents of Thrush Green return in another slice of village life. Charles Henstock, rector of Thrush Green, has difficulty living ...

The tyranny of the gods is absolute, and they are capricious, malevolent and almost all-powerful, playing cruel games with the fates of mortals for...

Product Description Your favourite authors have been gripped by this electric psychological thriller!'A dark world of emotional complexity and be...

Product Description New York Times bestselling author Nalini Singh returns to a world devastated by change in her award-winning Psy-Changeling Tri...

Product Description **SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL 2018** WHO IS VERNON SUBUTEX? An urban legend. A fall from grace. The mirro...

'I loved this novel and every single one of its characters. Supremely heartfelt, hilarious and heartrending - it's an absolute triumph.' Sophie Kin...

About the Author Born in New Delhi, India, in 1961, Vikram Chandra now divides his time between Bombay and Washington D.C., where he teaches at Ge...

NOW A MAJOR BBC ONE DRAMA STARRING HAYLEY ATWELL AND MATTHEW MACFADYEN In spring of 1905 in England, a brief romance between Helen Schlegel and ...

Review "A darkly witty fable ... a tale of vengeance that begins to take on the swerving, lurid velocity of a fever dream" ― Spectator Published O...

Review 'She strides across these pages: a 6ft tall Amazonian New Yorker...by whom we are at once riveted and faintly disconcerted...Hustvedt is a ...

A superb collection of writing from multi-award-winning, million-copy bestseller Andrea Levy.

The dazzling debut of Siri Hustvedt, author of the international bestseller WHAT I LOVED.

I was now an established citizen with little hope of returning across the frontier; I was in the crazy world, separated now by more than locked doo...

Isabel Dalhousie thinks often of friends, sometimes of lovers, and on occasion of chocolate. As an Edinburgh philosopher she is certain of where sh...

Isabel Dalhousie is a new mother and a connoisseur of philosophy; she'd rather not be a sleuth. But when a chance conversation at a dinner party dr...

1931. Maisie Dobbs' new case takes her investigation into the pastoral beauty of the Kent Weald where acts of arson, theft and vandelism around the...

List item 2: Never speak German on the upper decks of London buses. Jack Rosenblum is five foot three and a half inches of sheer tenacity. He's w...

As featured on BBC Radio 4 as part of the Riot Girls series Ruth Patchett never thought of herself as particularly devilish. Rather the opposite i...

'Astonishing ...It's filling in that gaping hole left by both Harry Potter and Philip Pullman's Northern Lights. Yes, really' Stylist 'The laws of...

THE FIFTH BOOK IN THE BELOVED NO. 1 LADIES' DETECTIVE AGENCY SERIES The one where J. L. B. Matekoni takes a great leap . . . Once again, Mma Ram...

THE NINTH BOOK IN THE BELOVED NO. 1 LADIES' DETECTIVE AGENCY SERIES The one with the poison pen letter . . . For the first time in her career as...

I felt the worlds of ocean and ice were meeting in a frontier of rage, as if the Earth had torn in two along this line.This was a place if there ev...

For philosophically minded Isabel Dalhousie, editor of the Review of Applied Ethics, getting through life with a clear conscience requires careful ...

CHOSEN AS BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE GUARDIAN, OBSERVER, TELEGRAPH, NEW STATESMAN, EVENING STANDARD, SUNDAY TIMES AND IRISH TIMES 'Terrific, page-tur...

Stevie's alter ego Pompey is young, in love and working as a secretary for the magnificent Sir Phoebus Ullwater. In between making coffee and typin...

Sunday Times Top-Ten Bestseller and Richard and Judy Book Club Choice. I'll risk my life for you. On 24 November Yasmin and her ten-year-old daug...

THE NUMBER ONE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR Things are going well for Callie and Kayden. They're still dealing with their past and the pain c...

Paul Kemp has moved from New York to the steamy heat of Puerto Rico to work at the Daily News. He starts hanging out at Al's Backyard, a local den ...

WINNER OF THE CWA INTERNATIONAL DAGGER 2014 Cadiz, 1811. While the city is under siege from the marauding French army, an even greater menace is lu...

WINNER OF THE WRITERS' GUILD FIRST NOVEL AWARD 2020 ELLE ONES TO WATCH 2019 'Not since Holden Caulfield have I been so captivated by a first-pers...

'Okojie is a dazzlingly wild, bold and imaginative writer who tells stories with captivating originality and intense drama' Bernardine Evaristo '...

Fame, success, fortune, a drink problem slipping over the edge into alcoholism, a dead marriage, the incurable itches of middle-aged lust. For Wilf...

In the dead of night, Ayesha takes her daughter, Sabina, and slips quietly from her home, leaving behind a life full of pain. Boarding a coach to L...

For many years Dan Starkey has been a journalist of some repute - mainly ill. Now he is back with his wife Patricia, and while they try for a baby ...

The third novel in Simon Scarrow's bestselling Roman series. After a series of bloody battles, Camulodunum (modern-day Colchester) has fallen to th...

Curl up with the page-turning story full of heart that has readers raving, about Andrew, who has forgotten how to live, and Peggy, who helps him re...

'A novel of tremendous beauty . . . A wonderful achievement' Sarah Waters 'A beautiful and extraordinary book' Philip Pullman When Suzanne, a shy...

Winner of the 2017 Ryan Tubridy Show Listener's Choice Award at the Irish Book Awards. John Connolly recreates the golden age of Hollywood for an ...

The basis for KILLING EVE, now a major BBC TV series, starring Sandra Oh and Jodie Comer SUNDAY TIMES Thriller of the Month In a hotel room in Ve...