Modern & Contemporary Fiction

The Gingerbreadman - psychopath, sadist, convicted murderer and cake/biscuit - is loose on the streets of Reading. It isn't Jack Spratt's case. Des...

Review A remarkable debut which I simply cannot put down... Master of Sorrows is a brilliant and riveting tale of having the courage to find a...

On the outskirts of a provincial town thirty miles from Istanbul, a traditional master well-digger and his young apprentice are hired to find water...

'One of the funniest books I've ever read' - Gore Vidal * The Dud Avocado gained instant cult status on first publication and remains a timeless ...

Longlisted for the Booker Prize 2020 Featuring on BBC 2's Between the Covers 'Sophie Ward is a dazzling talent who writes like a modern-day F Scot...

An idyllic Cornish holiday in the summer of 1958. A happy aristocratic family blessed with wealth and promise. But unbeknown to all of them, death ...

'Compelling . . . it should delight anyone looking for a thoughtful, witty successor to Sally Rooney' Observer 'Stunning' Olivia Laing 'This nove...

Shortlisted for the Prix Goncourt Winner of the Goncourt du Premier Roman Winner of the Prix des Cinq Continents Winner of the Prix Francois Mauria...

Isherwood's short, poignant novel is a tender and wistful love story ...

'This collection is [like] the Beatles' "White Album": massive in size and scope, with individually brilliant pieces presented together because the...

Subtitled 'A Romantic Novel in Honour of the Passing of a Great Race', The Torrents of Spring—Hemingway's second published work—wonderfully parodie...

This story is a rare and utterly engaging experience. It tells the extraordinary story of a geisha -summoning up a quarter century from 1929 to th...

THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER Meet Rosemary, 86, and Kate, 26: dreamers, campaigners, outdoor swimmers... Rosemary has lived in Brixton all...

Essays in Love will appeal to anyone who has ever been in a relationship or confused about love. The book charts the progress of a love affair from...

A dark and powerful goddess hunts for three jewels: fallen stars that will give her endless power. To save the world, six friends have joined force...

In this classic thriller, Ira Levin imagines Dr Josef Mengele's nightmarish plot to restore the Third Reich. Alive and hiding in South America, thi...

From the Women's Prize for Fiction longlist and the Northern Writer's Award Winner comes. . . REMEMBERED 'Compares with Toni Morrison's Beloved'...

"Love in the Time of Cholera" stands as Gabriel García Márquez’s magnificent, internationally acclaimed masterpiece of an unrequited passion that s...

The latest installation in the beloved Isabel Dalhousie series 'Cosy and effortlessly charming' Herald 'Delightful' Sunday Telegraph 'Humorous a...

Step into the mind of a young Albert Einstein as he dreams up fantastical worlds where time bends and twists in unimaginable ways. "Einstein's Drea...

Winner of the 2015 Man Booker International Prize The Melancholy of Resistance, Laszlo Krasznahorkai's magisterial, surreal novel, depicts a chain...

In 1975 art historian Leo Hertzberg discovers an extraordinary painting by an unknown artist in a New York gallery. He buys the work, tracks down i...

Venya is more interested in how much he and his colleagues can drink during the working day than in his job. Once he is fired, he spends the last o...

Tilly Dunnage left her hometown of Dungatar in rural Australia under a black cloud of accusation. Years later Tilly, now a couturier for the Paris ...

Siri Hustvedt's mesmerising second novel, 'startlingly good, tautly written and very sexy' Marie Claire.

A moving story of love, friendship, grief, healing, and the magical bond between a woman and her dog. WINNER OF THE 2018 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD * A N...

Winner of the 2015 Man Booker International Prize Beauty, in Laszlo Krasznahorkai's new novel, reflects, however fleeting, the sacred - even if w...

'A brilliant rollercoaster of a thriller about obsessive love and hidden secrets. Tense, twisty and unputdownable. I loved it!' CLAIRE DOUGLAS Cle...

Bertie's respite from his overbearing mother, Irene, is over. She has returned from the middle-east, only to discover that her son has been exposed...

As seen on ITV in the Zoe Ball Book Club 'Beautifully written, thought-provoking and completely charming.' Ruth Hogan 'Mike Gayle is the king of ...

In 1985, Bret Easton Ellis shocked, stunned and disturbed with his debut novel, Less Than Zero. Published when he was just twenty-one, this extraor...

A controversial reworking of well-trodden American myth by the author of 'Naked Lunch'. This surreal fable, set in America's Old West, features a c...

In 1985, Bret Easton Ellis shocked the literary world with his debut novel, a work that has since become an iconic cult classic and a chilling embo...

Nancy Mitford's The Pursuit of Love is one of the funniest, sharpest novels about love and growing up ever written. 'He was the great love of her ...

The torrid story of Frank Chambers, the amoral drifter, Cora, the sullen and brooding wife, and Nick Papadakis, the amiable but inconvenient husban...

Nancy Mitford's The Pursuit of Love is one of the funniest, sharpest novels about love and growing up ever written. Longing for romance, obsessed w...

"Do you know your desert-island, all-time, top five most memorable break-ups?" Rob Fleming does. He owns a struggling record shop in London, he’s o...

It takes a lot to get under the skin of Cornelius 'Fatty O'Leary, but then there is a lot of skin to get under. The heroically proportioned Fatty c...

'The Crossing, together with its predecessor All the Pretty Horses, towers over most contemporary fiction. An American epic infused with a grand so...

THE NO. 1 EBOOK BESTSELLER A witty, heartwarming story of love, life and second chances set in the idyllic Cotswolds, from the glorious Jill Manse...

WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE 2023 SHORTLISTED FOR THE AN POST IRISH BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023 SHORTLISTED FOR THE STREGA EUROPEAN PRIZE A SUNDAY TIMES BE...