Modern & contemporary fiction

'A tour de force' IRISH TIMES 'Riveting and moving' NINA STIBBE 'Gripping' THE TIMES 'It had me by the throat' EMMA DONOGHUE LONDON, 1940. As e...

FOUR FUNERALS. TWO MARRIAGES. ONE PRECIOUS LIFE. 'Delicious' LIANNE MORIARTY 'A delight' SUNDAY EXPRESS 'Uplifting' OBSERVER This is a story abou...

A special hardback edition of Neil Gaiman's internationally bestselling novel with stunning new contemporary artwork by Monet Alyssa. **Highly ant...

Five friends. Five lives. Countless hopes. Patrick, Shiv, Rian, Oli and Conor grew up together. They played together, skipped school together, and...

Review A gripping, pacy read, with a few dark twists I did not see coming - the perfect end-of-summer novel ― Daily Mail With a smart plot, chara...

'Addictive' Stylist 'Sultry' Elle 'Shimmers with suspense' Daily Mail 'Sizzling' Esquire Summer in Paris. Leah, bored of tedious dead-end jobs, is...

A SUNDAY TIMES POLITICS BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023 A TELEGRAPH BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023 'It's so believable... This is the perfect summer book' Lorraine K...

'A beautiful, moving and thought provoking story, The Figurine is a stunning read . . . her love and passion for Greece comes through loud and clea...

Review Those unacquainted with the author's catalogue of work will doubtless appreciate his imagination and wit, especially in his efforts to air ...

THE SIX LOVES OF BILLY BINNS is a deeply moving and honest debut set in London against the backdrop of the changing 20th century. it is reading gro...

'Entertaining, in the best sense of the word, and a true page-turner' Ann Napolitano 'I read it in a single gulp' Karen Joy Fowler 'A smart and...

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 ...

'A stunning writer and a brilliant transporting experience' Lisa Taddeo, bestselling author of Three Women and Animal 'Sensorial as hell... An ode...

'With slow, quiet intent Kate Worsley builds a tense atmosphere of looming horror. This book demands to be savoured, even as it clamours to be devo...

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

The life-affirming and unforgettable new novel from the author of Lost for Words 'I read this book in one sitting, it made me smile and made me wi...

'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...

WILL THE JOURNEY OF A LIFETIME HELP KATY FIND HER WAY HOME? 'Rebecca Serle is a maestro of love in all its forms' GABRIELLE ZEVIN 'An extraordinar...

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

'THIS FOLLOW-UP IS AS ENTHRALLING AS ITS PREDECESSOR' Sunday Times 'BRILLIANTLY IMAGINED AND THOROUGHLY CHILLING' Observer 'BEGINS WITH A BANG AND ...

'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...

Spring 1832: Donegal, north west Ireland. Coll Coyle wakes to a blood dawn and a day he does not want to face. The young father stands to lose ever...

'Immediately enticing, endlessly charming, full of wit, magic and deep, moving humanity. It transported me to a world both familiar and utterly unk...

'CENSUS is a vital testament to selfless love; a psalm to commonplace miracles; and a mysterious evolving metaphor. So kind, it aches.' David Mitch...

'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...

The prize-winning debut novel by the author of Before the Feast Aleksandar is Comrade-in-Chief of fishing, the best magician in the non-aligned Sta...

'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...

England, in the mid-fifties. Meg Bailey has always aspired to live a respectable life. With her best friend, Roxane, she moves from secondary schoo...

If war is madness, how can love survive? Yugoslavia, summer 1979. A new village. A new life. But eight-year-old Miro knows the real reason why his...

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 ...

'Defiant, probing, hot' Saba Sams, author of Send Nudes At the age of forty-three, the narrator abandons her marriage, her apartment and her succe...

AN IRISH TIMES FICTION BOOK TO LOOK OUT FOR I'm going to tell you everything. I'm gonna tell you the whole story. Sometimes all it takes is a sin...

'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...

When Rachel sets off alone for her mother's isolated country house, she promises herself that the business of packing up and selling will only take...

'Every page reveals the mark of an extraordinarily original and gifted talent.' - William Styron Leonard, a young writer drifting through the city...

Enchanting. -- Financial Times In my reckless and undiscouraged youth, I worked in a walnut-paneled office thirteen floors above West Thirty-Fifth...

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...

Sophia is the pride of the Giambelli clan and a vital player in the family's celebrated winery. But things are about to change at Villa Giambelli.A...

It's 1985 and Brian Jackson has arrived at university with a burning ambition - to make it onto TV's foremost general knowledge quiz. But no sooner...