Modern & contemporary fiction

Friendship, food and romance await on this magical Italian island. It's the perfect summer read. 'A true feast for the senses' Jenny Ashcroft, aut...

'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 Kazantzakis's autobiographical novel Report to Greco was one of the last things he wrote before he died. It paints a vivid pic...

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

Lose yourself in this Christmassy winter's tale of young love by the 'best-loved English poet of the past 100 years.' (Sunday Times) Katherine Li...

Review In these lazy days of conformity and censorship, David Peace continues to experiment and excite. Tokyo Redux represents another peak in a g...

Review Easily the most original novel of the year. This is the book I'll be giving people for Christmas. -- Cressida Connolly ― Spectator Book...

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

Sammy Mountjoy, artist, rises from poverty and an obscure birth to see his pictures hung in the Tate Gallery. Swept into World War Two, he is taken...

Review A fine writer and a rising star of Zimbabwean literature. -- J.M. Coetzee Engrossing, beautiful and deeply imaginative ... A masterful wri...

Review Sleepless Nights assembles a series of fleeting images and memories united by the high intelligence and beauty of Hardwick's prose. ― Sally...

Review I was struck over and again by what an amazing writer she is. ― Helen DunmoreThis deft, haunting work compels on every page. ― Daily Ma...

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

Review Stunning . . . Sexy and provocative, this is masterful storytelling by a brilliant writer. ― Daily Mail A fast-moving crime novel . . . a ...

Introduced by Helen Castor, lose yourself in an epic naval journey in the second novel in the Booker Prize-winning historical fiction Sea Trilogy b...

Review Great delicacy and freshness .... Notwithstanding its ancient setting, the novel is entirely modern in form, its characters and dialogue vi...

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 ...

'Devastating in the most beautiful ways . . . you are in the hands of an absolute artist.' TORREY PETERS, author of DETRANSITION, BABY It is Apri...

Review This is a novel that lives firmly in the melancholia of the city's gentrification, hurtling readers through one woman's desperation to keep...

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

LONGLISTED FOR THE GORDON BURN PRIZE AS HEARD ON R4s FRONT ROW 'The football novel is back.' The Times Wonderful.' IRENOSEN OKOJIE 'A novel rich i...

Review Perhaps the most inimitable [writer] produced in the English-speaking Caribbean. -- Fred D'Aguiar An extraordinary writer ... Courageous an...

Review 'Wickedly funny and fearlessly honest.' ― The New Yorker 'It is the funniest, most life-affirming and most virtuosic novel I expect to rea...

ONE OF THIS WEEK'S BEST NOVELS OF 2022 The perfect novel for fans of The Last Dance, Hoop Dreams and Winning Time 'Warm, humane, and tragic ... So...

The brand new festive romance from Debbie Macomber, the #1 New York Times bestselling author and the queen of Christmas fiction! ALL SHE WANTS FO...

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...

In a house overlooking Dublin Bay, Mimi and her daughter Grace are disturbed by the unexpected arrival of Grace's daughter Polly, and her striking ...

Constance Keating has lived a life of internal exile, alienated from her family and from Ireland. Now she has returned to her family home to die. W...

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...

Product Description When Emily's boyfriend posts compromising photos of her on the internet, her life goes into sharp decline. Emily is about to ...

Review All the warmth and wit we expect from Carole Matthews. Perfect ― Bella Witty, funny and incredibly touching ― Heat Simply brilliant ― Clo...

Review A feel-good tale . . . fun and thoroughly escapist ― Marie Claire Matthews is one of the few writers who can rival Marian Keyes's gift for...

The tender, touching novel from the Sunday Times bestselling author of Sunny Days and Sea Breezes The last place Anna Terry expects to fall in lov...

A family's triumphs and tragedies, from life as privileged distillery owners to the horrors of the trenches in France. Charlotte becomes engaged t...

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 In the middle of a sultry summer heatwave, the inhabitants of Barleybridge find love, conflict and much more... When Kate wor...

Product Description Change is afoot in the beautiful Cotswold village of Thrush Green... As the early sunshine begins to warm Thrush Green, it lo...

The well-loved residents of Thrush Green return in another slice of village life. Charles Henstock, rector of Thrush Green, has difficulty living ...

'This is a wonderful powerful novel that deserves to win an Oscar' TIME OUT It's the spring of 1968, the sun shines down on an America on the brin...

Review Seamlessly weaving in bits of the original, this entertaining novel gets the curmudgeonly hero spot on ― Independent A witty and entertain...

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...