Modern & contemporary fiction

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. ...

'I love this woman's writing. Golden sentences' Diana Evans 'Witty, fiery, wistful and even shocking, with engrossing heady prose, Campbell's styl...

'Heartbreaking, hopeful . . . nothing short of a joy' Caleb Azumah Nelson, author of Open Water Rupert's eclectic charity shop, The Chest of Small...

'Bold, dazzling, hilarious' Fernanda Melchor 'All the sores and salves of a coming-of-age relationship are here' Rachael Allen 'A novel that consum...

Review This new collection shows one of the great American writers continuing to evolve, proving that she can surprise as well as shock. ― Sunday ...

'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...

'A superb debut novel... Anyone who enjoyed The White Lotus will love Thomas's scalpel-sharp skewering of the mores and idiocies of the idle rich' ...

THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER WINNER OF THE 2020 AKUTAGAWA PRIZE 'My oshi was on fire. Word was he'd punched a fan' High-school student Akari has ...

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...

A BBC RADIO 2 BOOKCLUB PICK SHORTLISTED FOR THE CENTRE FOR FICTION FIRST NOVEL PRIZE, THE GOTHAM BOOK PRIZE AND THE LAMBDA AWARD *'Absolutely incr...

HIGHLY ANTICIPATED OPRAH DAILY PICK FOR 2023 'Ill-fated love and toxic family power struggles provide emotional drive for this big dynastic saga' ...

'These Benson and de Vere stories are unputdownable... A five star bravura performance. This writer gets better and better' A.N. Wilson The Hither...

Prior's Ford's Women's Rural Institute finds itself on the verge of a civil war when Moira Melrose is defeated in her bid to become president for t...

'Destined to become a classic of its kind' Maggie Nelson 'One of the most compulsive voices I've read in years' Olivia Laing, Observer When Const...

Review Mr Mani New Statesman and Society) -- New Statesman and Society A.B. Yehoshua has created a historical and psychological universe - nearly...

Review FATHER FRANK is a warm, funny, blisteringly good read that has the angels on its side ― Tony Parsons A dazzling first novel - funny, thoug...

Louisiana is the setting for this riveting tale of a kidnapped child and the man on her trail - Sam Simoneaux, who feels honour-bound to help find ...

Sophie Sturgeon can't wait for her annual summer holiday. Not only will it be a week away from work, it will be a chance to reconnect with her boyf...

Review West's work is timelessly cinematic, with painterly visual descriptions and pitch-perfect dialogue that ranges across class, region, race, ...

'An absolute belter of a page-turner' HEAT 'Kept me reading late into the night' DAILY MAIL 'Clever and compelling. I loved it' JANE SHEMILT Ruth'...

Review This beautifully written debut explores what it really means to choose to go it alone as a single mother, as well as the unforeseen consequ...

Product Description LONGLISTED FOR THE 2022 NATIONAL BOOK AWARDS The Birdcatcher is the new novel from a major voice in American literature, which...

'A riot of eloquent bigotry and bluster' THE TIMES BEST BOOKS OF 2022 'Unbroken, unbowed and raging against the wokeness of the modern world' MAIL...

'A promising writing debut' Daily Mail Brandi Maxwell is living the fashion intern dream. Except, the dream looks more like living on the breadli...

Review A beautiful exploration of grief and family. Through exquisite prose, Okechukwu Nzelu delves into the lives of the complicated men at the c...

Product Description The hunter arrives in an isolated community in the Tasmanian wilderness with a single purpose in mind: to find the last thylac...

Review An entertaining and funny picture of Lagos life. ― Guardian A fine novel . . . worlds - rich and poor, urban and rural, privileged and pow...

Review 'Written in prose that disrespects established boundaries to reveal a unique and courageous voice, Julianne Pachico's The Anthill, is the s...

Review A masterpiece of evocation, it conjures up its imaginary island with superb fullness and immediacy. . . it's as a magnificent panorama of t...

Why be healthy when the world is so sick? From the author of Perfidious Albion, a darkly comic and profoundly affecting novel about resistance, rad...

'Where most of us can barely trace our own footprints in the mass of moments that are the stuff of experience, numerous and storyless as grains of ...

For fans of Patricia Lockwood and Ben Lerner, audacious fictions of a generation wondering: what now? ** Chosen as a Guardian, White Review and NP...

THE FEEL GOOD NOVEL OF THE YEAR 'I loved this funny, heartwarming read' Libby Page The Patron Saint of Plumbing is not answering Nino Speranza's ...

About the Author Sophie Green is an author and publisher who lives in Sydney. She has written several fiction and non-fiction books, some under ot...

The residents of Prior's Ford are facing more upheaval . . . There are new arrivals at Prior's Ford - Meredith and Genevieve Whitelaw - who are de...

A story about finding happiness from the Sunday Times bestseller Lily and Laurence had it all: the money, the car, a beautiful home in the Bucking...

The perfect rom-com from the Sunday Times and multi-million-copy bestseller Emma and Leo have been together for ever, but their relationship seems...

The first rule of heartbreak club is - get your heart broken. That's all really. Caroline's heart broke when her husband took his own life. Josh's...

A superb, powerful thriller from 'one of crime fiction's new stars' [Sunday Telegraph] John Harper has always been alone. His mother died when he ...

Product Description From the master of the wartime espionage novel; a thrilling story of subterfuge at sea May 1941. At four in the morning, a ru...

A spy thriller, a love story and a chilling look at a resurgent superpower... At the dawn of the new millennium, Finn, an MI6 spy, and Anna, a col...

Archaeologist Jack Howard is a brave but cautious man. When he embarked on a new search for buried treasure in the Mediterranean, he knew it was a ...

Review Intriguing and compelling - a very accomplished debut ― Sophie Hannah, bestselling crime fiction author 'Byrne is a talented writer with a...

Solitary, nostalgic Liz Crane returns to her family's now-deserted farmhouse to study the migratory habits of the Monarch butterfly. A rich family ...

Review A compelling story about the complexities of female friendships and the dark side of the Internet ― HEAT Darkly voyeuristic but with heart...

Review Peng Shepherd has done it again! The Cartographers is an exquisitely written, brilliantly plotted, absolutely fantastic novel. A story like...