Modern & Contemporary Fiction

Abhi, a Bengali boy, spends his school holidays at his uncle's home in Calcutta, trying to make sense of the often confusing world of adults around...

'If you have time for only one book this summer, pick this one' New York Times 'An ambitious, immersive novel from the author of In Her Shoes' Red...

Longlisted for the Comedy Women in Print Prize 'tender, vicious, hilarious, exhilarating, devastating and HOPEFUL' Daisy Buchanan '[a] knockout d...

"An engrossing, enthralling and utterly captivating read, The Young Pretender tells a simply remarkable story with bounce, energy, wit, and lively ...

Edwidge Danticat's groundbreaking debut, with new introduction from Booker Prize winner Bernardine Evaristo At the age of twelve, Sophie Caco is s...

Follow young Oliver's rebellious coming-of-age in the village of Stillbourne in this comic novel by the radical Nobel Laureate and author of Lord o...

"One by One in the Darkness" follows a week in the lives of three sisters shortly before the start of the IRA ceasefire in 1994, undercut with the ...

This moving, funny, and deeply perceptive novel explores the complex terrain of love, friendship, grief, and the unexpected healing power of the ma...

'I found the eyeball fifteen minutes before I found the rest of him.' Having moved to London with her athletic boyfriend, the sweet-but-stuttering...

'We got a McDonald's the night my mam got lung cancer.' As a distraction from sleazy male admirers, spiteful classmates and her mother's cancer, E...

'A beautiful exploration of grief and family, written in exquisite prose and told with compassion and tenderness.' Brit Bennett, author of The Vani...

'The forerunner of an entire school of African literary art.' Sunday Times Those men who are history now; did they feel like this? A 1950s Hamp...

PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OF A VISIT FROM THE GOON SQUAD A Time Magazine Must-Read 'A complex, compelling read that showcases Egan's masterful ...

A haunting and vivid novel which excavates an Australia rarely seen in literature. New Year's Eve, 1990, small-town Australia. The mysterious deat...

'Curious and unflinching ... deftly executed and cringingly funny' Guardian 'Truly excellent' Brandon Taylor, author of Real Life, shortlisted for ...

'The Long Answer is a triumph of human portraiture, as subtle as it is seething' Sunday Times 'There were other women, how many other women, who h...

Though she wounded me beyond pain, I too inflicted deep hurt. Not born to murder her, still I sought to break her . . . Her name was Elizabeth Ashb...

Review In these lazy days of conformity and censorship, David Peace continues to experiment and excite. Tokyo Redux represents another peak in a g...

A New Statesman Book of the Year 2021 A Metro Book of the Year 2021 A Washington Post '10 Best Thriller and Mystery Books of 2021' 'Gripping.' FIN...

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...

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

'Duncan brings a new way of seeing to the world of prose' Irish Times Michael has been away from Ireland for most of his life and lives alone in B...

Review "Pulses with up-to-the-minute topicality . . . as high-octane entertainment that hits notes poignant as well as savagely witty, it soars" ―...

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...

'Engrossing, beguiling, and with an undertow of menace, Before the Ruins is a masterly debut from a richly talented author.' Sarah Waters 'Jaw-dro...

Review The Patron Saint of Second Chances is a rare treasure: both hilariously funny and beautifully written. I was sad to say goodbye to these de...

'Full of subtle poignancy ... each story is a trenchant exploration of race and class, vividly conveying the tension between social codes of mascul...

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 A beautiful collection that I both lost and found myself in. Unbelievably exciting stories from some show-stoppingly talented writers. ― CA...

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.

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 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...

Love Virtually ends as Leo leaves Austria for America. He and Emmi have still not met, but the intensity of their e-mail correspondence has been th...

A young and successful journalist working in New York, Maureen English appears to have the perfect life and family. But Maureen's husband, a highly...

'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 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...

Scotland Street witnesses the wedding of the century of Angus Lordie to Domenica Macdonald, but as the newlyweds depart on honeymoon Edinburgh is i...