Modern & contemporary fiction

This book was shortlisted for the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award. In these eight masterful stories, Lorrie Moore explores the passi...

At the bitter end of the 1960s, upon his return home from combat in the Vietnam War, twenty-two-year old Eugene Allen writes a novel called Hystopi...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE JHALAK PRIZE 2018 For weeks, someone has been broadcasting people's secrets from the minarets of the city's mosques, striking ...

Mamoon is an eminent Indian-born writer who has made a career in England -- but now, in his early seventies, his reputation is fading, his book sal...

For better or worse, two families are about to become one . . . 'Sassy and romantic' Heat 'The perfect summer read' OK! The Ashworth sisters cou...

One night, when I am old, sick, right out of semen, and don't need things to get any worse, I hear the noises growing louder. I am sure they are ma...

The Beautiful Torment of a Dream is a personal exploration of the pressures of modern life, of the search for love and success, and the ultimate ne...

'Just like Malory Towers for grown-ups' Sophie Kinsella Jenny Colgan's return to the Little School by the Sea - perfect for anyone who ever dream...

In a remote town in the Himalaya, Maya tries to put behind her a time of great sorrow. By day she teaches in a school and at night she types up dra...

Stevie's alter ego Pompey is young, in love and working as a secretary for the magnificent Sir Phoebus Ullwater. In between making coffee and typin...

The BookWorld's leading enforcement officer Thursday Next is four months into an enforced semi-retirement following an assassination attempt. She r...

Amid the harsh landscape of the Ozark Hills, sixteen-year-old Ree is taking care of her mother and two brothers. Her father has put their house up ...

Locked behind the Iron Curtain, a young boy grows up bewitched by his French grandmother's memories of Paris before the Great War. Yet despite what...

In the spring of 1938 Elise Landau arrives at Tyneford, the great house on the bay. A bright young thing from Vienna forced to become a parlour-mai...

Marian Sutro is an outsider: the daughter of a diplomat, brought up on the shores of Lake Geneva and in England, half French, half British, naive y...

Shortlisted for the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction 'Extraordinarily affecting' Alex Preston, Observer 'This is a novel whose engine is flesh an...

'Absolutely electric' Garth Greenwell 'A major talent' Financial Times 'Reminiscent of Donna Tartt's The Secret History' New Yorker Phoebe Lin...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE AN POST IRISH BOOK AWARDS SUNDAY INDEPENDENT NEWCOMER OF THE YEAR 'A landmark book by an important new voice in Irish writing'...

Sunday Times Top-Ten Bestseller and Richard and Judy Book Club Choice. I'll risk my life for you. On 24 November Yasmin and her ten-year-old daug...

Trust is the most precious commodity of all. In the cutthroat world of Sweden's financial elite, no one knows that better than corporate raider Da...

***THE TOP-TEN EBOOK BESTSELLER*** 'Absolutely loved this book!' Susan Lewis, bestselling author of One Minute Later For fans of The Guilty Mothe...

'One of the best books of the year' Hello! 'If you are struggling with self-isolation in the family home, then this is the novel for you' Abbie Gr...

'One of those rare nights in the theatre when some strange alchemy takes place in the dark and as a shiver runs down your spine and a bubble of lau...

'Alright' I said, 'I'll try...' This is how Emily Stuart opens her intricate tale of a classic love affair that becomes Caroline's Bikini: a swirli...

An ingeniously nasty exercise reminiscent of Vladimir Nabokov and Patricia Highsmith - John Dugdale, Sunday Times This book is an experiment. We'...

'To read Mothers is to take a journey through a landscape familiar enough to console, yet strange enough to unsettle. The thrills and dangers of su...

Irene Bobs loves fast driving. Her husband is the best car salesman in rural south eastern Australia. Together they embark upon the Redex Trial, a ...

A TIMES AND EVENING STANDARD BOOK OF THE YEAR WINNER OF THE DESMOND ELLIOTT PRIZE 2019 ONE OF THE BBC'S '100 NOVELS THAT SHAPED OUR WORLD' LONGLIST...

THE NUMBER ONE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR Things are going well for Callie and Kayden. They're still dealing with their past and the pain c...

In this masterful novel by the acclaimed Indian writer Vivek Shanbhag, a close-knit family is delivered from near-destitution to sudden wealth afte...

Long-suffering assistant Evie Summers will lose her job unless she can convince her film agency's biggest and most difficult client, Ezra Chester, ...

'A delight from the first page to the last' Milly Johnson 'Laugh-out-loud funny, as warm as it is witty...If you love Milly Johnson you will love ...

'It's BRILLIANT. I enjoyed it hugely' Marian Keyes ***** Two people. Two lives. One chance to see the same world differently. Louis and Louis...

Chris Faulkner has just landed the job of his dreams. But Shorn Associates are market leaders in Conflict Investment. They expect results, they exp...

London, 1930. Maisie Dobbs, the renowned psychologist and investigator, receives a most unusual request. She must prove that Sir Cedric Lawton's so...

A passionate and perceptive story full of the pain and the humour of growing up, from Andrea Levy, author of the Orange Prize winning SMALL ISLAND ...

Paul Kemp has moved from New York to the steamy heat of Puerto Rico to work at the Daily News. He starts hanging out at Al's Backyard, a local den ...

WINNER OF THE CWA INTERNATIONAL DAGGER 2014 Cadiz, 1811. While the city is under siege from the marauding French army, an even greater menace is lu...

Hartlepool Hall has been in Ed's family for generations - but is that about to change, and who is the mysterious Lady Alice? Ed Hartlepool has bee...

Finn lives with his mother in an apartment block in a working-class suburb of Oslo. It is 1961, a time when 'men became boys and housewives women',...

Traumatized by memories of his war-ravaged country, and with his son and daughter-in-law dead, Monsieur Linh travels to a foreign land to bring the...

What advice would you give the younger you...and would you listen? As far as time machines go, a magic telephone is pretty useless. TV writer Geor...

A delightful collection of linked stories from No. 1 bestselling author of A WEEK IN WINTER Just round the corner from St Jarlath's Crescent (feat...

WINNER OF THE WRITERS' GUILD FIRST NOVEL AWARD 2020 ELLE ONES TO WATCH 2019 'Not since Holden Caulfield have I been so captivated by a first-pers...

'An absolute joy. . . reminds me of some of my all time favourites - Adults, Not Working, The To-Do List' Daisy Buchanan, author of How to be a Gr...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE DESMOND ELLIOTT PRIZE 2020 'A magnificent novel, full of wit, warmth and tenderness' Andrew McMillan 'Smart, serious and ente...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE GORDON BURN PRIZE 2019 'A true force of fierceness and beauty' OLIVIA LAING 'A vital book' ANDREW MCMILLAN 'This Brutal Hou...

'Okojie is a dazzlingly wild, bold and imaginative writer who tells stories with captivating originality and intense drama' Bernardine Evaristo '...