Modern & contemporary fiction

'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 the global warming wake-up call is compelling ― SUNDAY TIMES Product Description When fifteen-year-old Anna begins receiving messages fro...

The North Star Bakery has been in Hope's family for generations, the secret recipes passed down from mother to daughter. But at thirty-six and rece...

The world is a bewildering place and we're ill-equipped to deal with it. From the horrors of childhood to the vagaries of old age, from confused pe...

It is 3 a.m. in The City, and in a dark corner of The Bar, two lovers collide in the beginnings of a passionate and violent affair. Boy: nineteen...

Anthony Whitelands, an English art historian, is invited to Madrid to value the collection of a Spanish duke. At a welcome lunch he encounters Jose...

In 1933, President Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt took up residence in the White House. With them went the celebrated journalist Lorena Hickok - Hi...

Clash of Civilisations Over an Elevator in Piazza Vittorio tells the story of the immigrant tenants of a building in Rome, who offer skewed account...

'The anti-Bridget Jones ... brutally funny' Chris Kraus Ann-Marie's life has collapsed, and she's blaming everyone but herself. Twenty-three, hear...

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

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...

'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...

Annabel Christopher is every inch the star: a glamorous actress with a devoted, handsome husband. To keep the paparazzi and her adoring public unde...

Finalist for the Man Booker International Prize 2015 Buttologist is down on his uppers. His girlfriend, Original Colour, has cleared out of their ...

Yehuda Kaminka, a retired teacher, returns to Israel from the U.S. to divorce his estranged wife who is in a mental asylum, having tried to kill hi...

Review A novel of dark satire ... laugh-out-loud funny. (Peter Carty Independent)I bloody loved it! --Gary Hume Product Description ...

Winner of a PEN Translates Award When Anya is arrested at a Moscow anti-corruption rally under false pretences, she is given a 10-day sentence at ...

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...

Review I literally cannot believe this book exists. A mind-blowing page-turning un-put-downable heartwarming empathetic formally inventive horror ...

The word-of-mouth bestseller causing a sensation across Europe, Fredrik Backman's heartwarming debut is a funny, moving, uplifting tale of love and...

- Special Christmas Hardback edition of the #1 Sunday Times Bestseller - Longlisted for the Booker Prize - Featured in Barack Obama's Summer Readi...

THE WORD-OF-MOUTH SENSATION THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER A RICHARD & JUDY BOOKCLUB SELECTION NOW A NUMBER ONE�NETFLIX SERIES 'Timely and compel...

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...

Review engaging ― OBSERVER (16.10.05) [a] likeable, warm-hearted tale. -- David Robson ― SUNDAY TELEGRAPH (6.11.05) Product Description 'A mode...

'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...

Product Description The palm trees give the street a holiday atmosphere. There must be something in the soil they like. They have straight leaves ...

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...

A spellbinding yarn set a thousand years ago along the ancient Silk Road, by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Amazing Adventures of Kavalie...

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'...

'A MARVEL' RUMAAN ALAM 'MAGNIFICENT' NEW YORK TIMES 'A TRIUMPH' i 'SUBLIME' GUARDIAN 'DAZZLING' OBSERVER When Chouette is born, Tiny's husband an...

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...

A 2022 PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST LONGLISTED FOR THE RATHBONES FOLIO PRIZE 'A once-in-a-lifetime work of literature, the kind that changes your under...

Review The most important book I've read on sexuality since Jean Genet. It's about friendship, desire, violence. It defies all the current frames ...

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

Book Description Everyone's favourite detective, The Limpopo Academy of Private Detection is Mma Ramotswe's thirteenth adventure Product Descript...

'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...