Modern & contemporary fiction

Winner of the Best Picture at the 1998 European Film Awards and the Grand Jury Prize at the 1998 Cannes Film Festival.'A masterpiece. Romantic, hil...

About the Author Gilbert Adair has published novels, essays, translations, children's books and poetry. He has also written screenplays, including...

Review I LOVED Jane Is Trying. It has all the warmth, cleverness, wit and turn of phrase I fell in love with watching Isy performing -- Aisling Be...

Product Description 'Touching, tender . . . filled with wonderful humour' Sarah Haywood 'A very special book' Katie Fforde The Sunday Times best...

'Nicholson is a subtle and addictive writer who deserves to be a household name . . . [with] his remarkable eye for detail and for the weaknesses o...

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

About the Author Hanif Kureishi was born and brought up in Kent. He read philosophy at King's College, London. In 1981 he won the George Devine Aw...

Over the course of the last 12 years, Hanif Kureishi has written short fiction. The stories are, by turns, provocative, erotic, tender, funny and ...

When Linda Fallon and Thomas Janes meet at a writers' festival in Toronto, it is the first time they have seen each other for twenty-six years. The...

An uplifting, life-affirming epistolary novel about overcoming loneliness and finding happiness, perfect for fans of The Keeper of Lost Things and ...

A mash up of Max Porter, Kafka's METAMORPHOSES and IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE, NOTHINGis a short, strange unforgettable novel and a deeply humane portra...

Review An attentive and considered tribute to friendship, reminding us that, for all our human messiness, to have a friend is to enter an enduring...

Review In Waters' world, dysfunction is beautiful, degradation is powerful, and there's nothing to fear because the grotesque is proudly on displa...

Review The stories, phenomenally powerful and beautifully written, demonstrate the threats so many women in reality face, but also how, whatever t...

Review Tantalizing, heartbreaking, and filled with beautifully imperfect characters, this novel will slowly draw you in and leave you with tears i...

Review An amazing and profound work, rich in memorable detail. ― Jay Parini Every new novel by Giles Foden is something to celebrate - my hand le...

Review Henry Fry's First Time for Everything is a hilarious and heartfelt coming-of-queer novel about Danny Scudd, an anxiety-riddled gay man in h...

Review This is the essential book on sisterhood that I needed to read. Beautifully written and gorgeous, Salma El-Wardany is a brilliant writer an...

A reissue of the bestselling novel by JT LeRoy/Laura Albert - published to coincide with the new Jeff Feuerzeig documentary: Author: The JT LeRoy S...

Review An uncompromisingly modern novel about care and damage, so finely-textured in its documentary of trauma and recovery, so committed to the c...

Review One of the most outstanding authors to have emerged in recent years--DAILY EXPRESS Torday, as he demonstrated in his debut novel SALMON FI...

From the bestselling author of Crazy Rich Asians (Soon to be a MAJOR MOTION PICTURE starring Constance Wu, Henry Golding, Michelle Yeoh and Gemma C...

Nestling on India's southern coast lies the town of Kittur. Ranging through the city's streets and schoolyards, bedrooms and businesses, its inner ...

Review 'Moving from offbeat humour to soaring spiritual ecstasy, it has both pathos and punch' Maya Jaggi, Guardian. ― Guardian 'A novella about ...

'Like A VISIT FROM THE GOON SQUAD written by Tina Fey' Sam Baker, RED MAGAZINE Shortlisted for the 2013 Women's Prize for Fiction A NEW YORK TIMES ...

Review '[an] 'ebullient coming-of-age novel ... horribly funny' -- The Times Product Description A wonderfully funny and poignant novel about gr...

A spellbinding historical novel of obsession, the lure of fame, and the power of illusion, perfect for fans of The Binding, Bone China and The Lost...

'Grace and intelligence . . . [her work] defines universal truths about what it means to be human' BARACK OBAMA 'Radiant and visionary' SARAH PERR...

The new novel from three times Orange Prize longlisted Leila Aboulela Natasha Wilson knows how difficult it is to fit in. Born to a Russian mother ...

In the internationally bestselling vein of The Paris Wife and Z: a novel of Zelda Fitzgerald this biographical novel is set in the early 1900s when...

THIRTY MILLION READERS WORLDWIDE. INCLUDES EXCLUSIVE NEVER BEFORE SEEN CHAPTER. 'The Hunger Games meets The Road' MTV Don't look back. That's wh...

'The perfect summer read' Mail on Sunday Maeve Binchy at her very best - the superb novel of one summer, and four people whose lives are irrevocab...

'Electrifying' Christina Dalcher, Sunday Times Bestselling author of VOX 'A cleverly woven tale' The Times *WINNER OF THE EAST ANGLIAN BOOK AWARD...

Survival tips for times of stress: 1. Take deep breaths 2. Count to ten 3. Eat chocolate Lucy thought she had got her happily ever after with the ...

With three of the goddess Durga's quests behind them, only one prophecy now stands in the way of Kelsey, Ren, and Kishan breaking the tiger's curse...

'A beautiful, wry love story' David Nicholls, author of ONE DAY 'I love this woman's writing. Golden sentences' Diana Evans, author of ORDINARY...

On an Aegean island one summer, an English traveller meets an enigmatic elderly Frenchwoman. He is captivated by a painting she owns of a busy Cari...

*Read the novel that inspired the major TV drama Witches of East End, now available on Netflix* 'Smart, stylish and just a bit wicked' Deborah Har...

'[A] fast-paced story.' - Orlando Sentinel 'A taut, sensual thriller that grips from the first page. Elena Michaels is at once sublime and sympath...

In his latest case, Sonchai is paired with young, female inspector Krom. Like him, she's an outsider on the police force, but she is socially savyy...

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...

'An exceptional work . . . A brilliant and necessary book' Douglas Stuart, author of the Booker Prize-winning SHUGGIE BAIN 'THE OCTOPUS MAN remind...

Northern girl Harriet lives and works on a London estate which is a battleground between the white working class plus the immigrants versus the new...

An earthquake strikes at the heart of London, its epicenter a theatre where a lavish production of "The Tempest" has just opened. Thus, the scene i...

'If there is a more inspired writer of fiction than Aleksandar Hemon currently at work in English, I haven't read him. Startlingly fresh and origin...

A lifetime of restraint and placid affection erupts when a retired bank manager falls for a young girl, as far removed from him in background and e...