Modern & Contemporary Fiction

FOURTEEN DAYS, THREE SISTERS AND THE MOTHER OF ALL LIES 'Radhika has the ability to create characters who make us laugh while pulling on our heart...

'Got under my skin in the way the best writing can' SHEILA HETI A fearless and savagely funny examination of masculinity under late capitalism, fr...

'Glorious . . . So brilliant on being young, skint, ambitious and hopeful in London. My heart ached with identification, I loved it' MARIAN KEYES ...

'Full of warmth, humour and courage and I absolutely loved it!' RUTH HOGAN A charming, joyful and surprising story about love, friendship and lear...

'Jennifer E. Smith always manages to make you fall in love' 5* reader review Owen lives in the basement. Lucy lives on the 24th floor. But when th...

"Stridsberg has perfected a kind of contemporary fairy tale with a bracing Scandinavian edge, here elegantly translated by Deborah Bragan-Turner" C...

The fourth novel in a historical series that began with the International Booker-shortlisted The Unseen "Taken together, Jacobsen has given us an ...

'This novel is essence of Banville ... a career summation' Daily Telegraph Felix Mordaunt, recently released from prison, steps from a flashy red s...

'Had me gripped from start to finish ... timely, horrifying, and hugely entertaining' Kiran Millwood Hargrave, author of The Dance Tree and The Mer...

'HOW CAN ANYONE LEAVE SOMEONE THEY LOVE?' Martin Berg is falling into crisis. Decades ago, he was an aspiring writer, his girlfriend was the wildly...

'Gripping . . . twists and turns like a thriller' Sunday Times 'Brave and startling' Financial Times 'Classy . . . suspenseful' The Times 'I loved ...

FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE GIRL IN THE EAGLE'S TALONS, THE NEW GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO THRILLER FEATURING LISBETH SALANDER STEEPED IN DARKNESS, COM...

Eva Kennedy is in a rut. Whatever happened to the Eva who was going to be someone? Hoping to shake things up and find inspiration, Eva ventures to ...

'Help Wanted is like a great nineteenth-century novel about now, at once an effervescent workplace comedy and an exploration of the psychic toll ex...

Ilka Weisz is in need not just of friends but 'elective cousins'. She has left her home in New York to accept a junior teaching post at the prestig...

One morning, high in the Dolomite mountains, two hikers are some distance apart. The path in places is narrow and perilous. One man falls to his de...

Clover has loved James for as long as she can remember, since before she knew what what love was. But fate seems determined to keep them apart. As...

Review After I first read Justine in 1967, I was never the same again ... Durrell's Alexandria is a city bathed in uncommon beauty and sensuality ...

Nariman Vakeel, a seventy-nine-year-old Parsi widower, beset by Parkinson's disease and haunted by memories of the past, lives in a once-elegant ap...

Review Every so often a writer blasts a hole through a wall. Geovani Martins is that writer. The Sun on My Head is a blaze of heat, love and r...

NAMED A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2018 BY Buzzfeed * Esquire * Bustle * The Millions * The Wall Street Journal * Entertainment Weekly * Nylon * Elle...

A young man returns to Nigeria after fifteen years in New York. The country of his childhood has changed: it has found fast-food restaurants, email...

When your past is a lie, who are you? 'Provocative, moving and timely' Mail on Sunday 'Angry and engaged' Sunday Times 'So perceptive and clever...

THE SIXTH BOOK IN THE BELOVED NO. 1 LADIES' DETECTIVE AGENCY SERIES The one where Mma Makutsi finds a dancing partner . . . Although Mma Ramotsw...

'I was enthralled . . . Nash's skilled storytelling will keep you turning pages until the very end' FLEUR MACDONALD 'Fans of The Unlikely Pilgrim...

'This book is the perfect dose of sweet, hilarious joy. . . We are in love' bestselling author Christina Lauren _____________ If you dream somet...

A cantankerous, elegant old woman sits in her beautiful Somerset house while her family secretly plots to evict her. In the garden is Lady Pamela's...

Crossing decades and continents, SPARKLES is the totally compelling story of the Massot family. Fabulously wealthy, internationally adored, the Mas...

Jack Howard becomes part of a terrifying legacy and a race against time, in the action-packed new adventure from bestselling author David Gibbins. ...

'A rapid-fire debut with a cinematographer's eye for detail... Fan strikes a deft balance between agile set-pieces and lingering beauty.' Naoise Do...

Named a Best Book of 2022 by the New Yorker Named a Top 10 Book of the Year by Slate Named a Best Book of the Year by Vulture A New York Times Edit...

'Properly, seriously good. Humoric structure . . . oneiric texture, with pitch-black basalt fins jutting through.' Robert Macfarlane 'Apocalyptic,...

'Breaking Point is raw, compelling, and ground-breaking; Coffey puts the life of working mothers under a microscope. To say I loved it is an unders...

In the hilarious new novel in the best-selling Detective Varg series, Ulf Varg will need to resolve both a sensitive crime and his own delicate dil...

'So deliciously South London.' - Yomi Adegoke, author of SLAY IN YOUR LANE 'A sweeping, rich tale that explores family, secrets, loss, love and re...

'It's the new One Day' FABULOUS 'Delightful, insightful and immersive' KATE EBERLEN 'Invigorating [and] fascinating' GUARDIAN 'Holly's beautiful pr...

'A book to cancel plans for' BELLA 'An ode to sisterhood and sexuality... Utterly refreshing' HEAT 'Daisy Buchanan writes about all the chaos and c...

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

Shahid is a clean-cut student, trying to make an impression on his college lecturer, Deedee Osgood, who gives his spirits a lift when she takes him...

The enchanting childhood memoirs of bestselling author Miss Read. Miss Read's early days were spent with two remarkable grandmothers - one in Lewi...

Hollywood: where dreams come true? Eleanor Marshall, Roxana Felix and Megan Silver are from very different worlds. But they all have something th...

'LOVED it. I read it in 3 hours in one sitting' Goodreads reviewer, THEIR FIRST MISTAKE WAS INVITING HER IN... Rose has it all - the go...

I suppose that these are the horses from which we are thrown. We see things as we are, not as they are. How do we best see? With eyes old or new?...

'A compulsively readable tale, all the better for being set in one of the most secretive countries in the world. In The Sorcerer of Pyongyang, Marc...

Before she was betrayed and left for dead, Tenny was many things: prodigal daughter of the Driftwood City underworld. Leader of the Thorn Orphans, ...

For several months Marnie, a middle-aged poet and mother, has experienced sightings of her long-dead identical twin sister, Perdita, across London....

In a small apartment in New York, in the sweltering mid-summer heat, a group of Russian emigres gather around the sickbed of an artist named Alik. ...