Modern & contemporary fiction

Pyke returns in a gripping tale of brutal murder and deception, set in the back streets of Victorian London and the cane fields of Jamaica. London...

Two sisters can't quite believe what their mother has done. And now they have to decide what to do about it. As if their own personal lives aren't ...

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 ...

� 'Fantastic' The Sunday Times� 'Marvellous... Hugely impressive' Guardian 'Beautiful, brilliant, powerful' Madeline Miller, bestselling a...

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

A intoxicating and darkly immersive story of obsession, illusion and the price of freedom, from the award-winning author of The Unseeing Paris, 17...

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

Review Diana Reid will be called the new Sally Rooney - you're certain of it by the end of page one. By the end of this real, raw and startling no...

Industry of Magic & Light is a love letter to the counterculture of the 1960s and a requiem for its passing. The much-anticipated prequel to K...

UNFINISHED BUSINESS focuses on an ordinary suburban office worker, fundamentally weak but always keeping his eyes fixed on some horizon where a hei...

Harper Connelly's past comes back to haunt her in the final gripping supernatural mystery from bestselling author Charlaine Harris. Taking a break...

The awkward and lovable hero of Andrew Sean Greer's bestselling and prize-winning novel Less returns in this unforgettable road trip across America...

Product Description If you've ever dreamed of starting over, then this bestselling novel from Erica James is just what you need...Alice Shoema...

Step into the heart of Liverpool in 1915, where one mother's relentless pursuit for justice amidst the chaos of war will leave you breathless. As M...

Hot-headed Lilia is seen as nothing but a vulgar source of embarrassment to her late husband's family, so her decision to embark on a year abroad i...

Dieselpunk: an emerging retro-futuristic sub-genre, similar to steampunk, based on the era between the First World War and the start of the Atomic ...

London 1968: The Unstable Boys are the name on every music insider's lips and tipped to follow in the footsteps of the Beatles and the Rolling Ston...

Review Mr. Splitfoot is lyrical, echoing, deeply strange, with a quality of sustained hallucination. It is the best book on communicating with the...

London. A city robbing and killing people since 50BC. The Vizz: an industry in crisis. Baxter Stone, a film maker and television veteran, a lifelo...

'Dark and dreadful and persistently clever. Ortberg bloodily turns familiar tales inside out.' Rainbow Rowell 'A collection of stories delectable,...

'Compelling . . . this is a fable for the times ahead that feels essential' Irish Times 'Stunning, insightful, deeply humane prose . . . Fisher in...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2022 PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OF THE NIGHT WATCHMAN -------------------------------------------...

You've never seen romance do this before. So brutally honest and breathtakingly perverse you'll want to throw this book at the wall, but you'll als...

'? ? ? ? ? An absolute joy to read. A book for anyone who is in love, has loved or been loved' '? ? ? ? ? Oh my gosh... It was so romantic and fun...

The tyranny of the gods is absolute, and they are capricious, malevolent and almost all-powerful, playing cruel games with the fates of mortals for...

What happens when you invite an outsider in? It was supposed to be the holiday of a lifetime - a luxury villa in Ibiza, a group of university frie...

Review Campbell writes beautiful sentences with breath-taking imagery -- Mia Letvin ― Irish Times She appears to digest the world in layers, rece...

WINNER OF AN ENGLISH PEN AWARD 'Effortlessly readable and fizzing with energy, this novel is by turns quirky, funny and thoughtful' Mail on Sunday...

Review Cowardly, avaricious, annoying, territorial, deceitful, opportunistic: there aren't enough shady adjectives in the dictionary to describe t...

'Warm and uplifting storytelling: a delightful treat' Clare Chambers, author of Small Pleasures 'If you're not in the Yuletide mood yet, you will ...

'White's sharp-eyed take on modern life couldn't be more on target ' Irish Independent All looks perfect for Ali and Shelly. And that's what count...

Review A story told with brutal honesty underpinned by humour, love, hope and the inestimable power of friendship. Kit Fielding's debut is a trium...

From the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature 2009 'Just as the father in the house in which we live is our father, so Comrade Nicolae Ceauses...

FROM THE BOOKER PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OF THE PROMISE Shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best Book A gripping, claustrophobic nove...

Gonzalo is a frustrated would-be poet in a city full of poets; poets lurk in every bookshop, prop up every bar, ready to debate the merits of Teill...

About the Author Peter Stamm was born in 1963, in Scherzingen, Switzerland. He is the author of the novels Agnes, On A Day Like This, Unformed Lan...

In 1940, Helene, young, naive, and recently married, waves goodbye to her husband, who has enlisted in the British army. Her home, Guernsey, is soo...

A remarkable, sweeping novel about collective trauma, memory and love set in the aftermath of the recent Japanese earthquake. 'A searching, humane...

Review From her first book onward, A. M. Holmes has been challenging us to look at fiction, the world, and one another as we haven't done-because ...

'Endearing... enlightening... an affecting and suspenseful portrait of contemporary Bangkok' Literary Review 'Emma Larkin richly and vividly bring...

Product Description AM Homes' most infamous novel about the manifestations of forbidden desire and its terrible consequences, reissued for Granta ...

A Cambridge PhD student called Reem has gone missing in Egypt. Those close to her fear that her investigation into her family''s history in the Gul...

'This is a wonderfully original and compelling novel that puts you in mind of John le Carr�'s The Night Manager... it's a thoughtful and sensitive ...

The much-anticipated follow-up to the Radio 2 Book Club-favourite The Peculiar Life of a Lonely Postman Twenty-two-year-old Tania has moved to Mont...

MY HEAD SPINS. I'M LYING IN A BED. WHERE AM I? WHO AM I? A man wakes up in hospital. He has no idea who he is or how he came to be there. The doct...