Modern & contemporary fiction

It all starts on the one-hundredth birthday of Allan Karlsson. Sitting quietly in his room in an old people's home, he is waiting for the party he-...

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...

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'HILARIOUS' Stylist 'DAZZLING' Marian Keyes ...

When Rainclouds Gather: Escaping South Africa and his troubled past, Makehaya crosses the border to Botswana, in the hope of leading a peaceful, pu...

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

The number 1 European bestseller by the author of New York Times bestseller and international phenomenon A Man Called Ove, Britt-Marie was Here is ...

THE GRAFT by Sunday Times No.1 bestseller Martina Cole is an unflinching novel that exposes a world that many would rather ignore. The 'undisputed ...

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...

Hilary Napier has had enough of secrets. Her engagement party is a chance for her and David to finally celebrate their good news. But with obstacle...

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

'Nobody does cosy, get-away-from-it-all romance like Jenny Colgan' Sunday Express Snuggle up and escape with Jenny Colgan to the beautiful islan...

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...

WATERSTONES THRILLER OF THE MONTH BBC RADIO 4'S OPEN BOOK One family's skeletons emerge on a 1950s seaside summer holiday in this classic mystery ...

Written in 1966, 'Tarantula' is a collection of poems and prose that evokes the turbulence of the times in which it was written, and gives a unique...

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...

THE HOTTEST DEBUT NOVEL OF 2023 "Frank, sexy, and so tender. Little's pen shines" Bolu Babalola, author of Love in Colour "A beautifully rendere...

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 ...

Review PRAISE FOR SHOULD I TELL YOU?: 'What a gorgeous book! Jill has a great gift for characterisation - nuanced, interesting, believable people...

‘Masterful, magnificent. A passionate story of survival. This story will stay with me for a long time’�Heather Morris, bestselling author of The Ta...

"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 unfinished manuscript of The First Man was discovered in the wreckage of car accident in which Camus died in 1960. Although it was not publishe...

In Invisible Cities Marco Polo conjures up cities of magical times for his host, the Chinese ruler Kublai Khan, but gradually it becomes clear that...

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

With a new introduction by TAYARI JONES, author of An American Marriage and winner of the Women's Prize for Fiction 2019. 'Ann Petry's first novel...

'Long before Liane Moriarty was spinning her Big Little Lies, Shreve was spicing up domestic doings..She still is, as effectively as ever, this tim...

Pure escapism on every page, The Distant Shores tells the story of a family torn apart, and the woman who will bring them back together. � 'Nobod...

A story of a dysfunctional but deeply loveable family reunited, INSTRUCTIONS FOR A HEATWAVE already feels like a contemporary classic. It was shor...

Jim Francis has finally found the perfect life - and is now unrecognisable, even to himself. A successful painter and sculptor, he lives quietly wi...

'Good God, thought Oliver, as he saw the smile. She thinks I'm him! And all at once he knew it was so. He was Dr Norman Wilfred.' On the sunlit Gre...

Review 'THE LONG SONG is is told with irresistible cunning; it is captivating, mischievious and optimistic, generating new stories and plot lines ...

In this clever and swoonworthy new novel from the New York Times and Sunday Times bestselling author of The Love Hypothesis, life's moving pieces b...

Winner of the 2023 David J. Langum, Sr. Prize in American Historical Fiction 'A breathtaking tale of love and war' Telegraph 'Moore's voice is co...

"Frank, sexy, and so tender. Little's pen shines" Bolu Babalola, author of Love in Colour "A beautifully rendered story about love's possibilities...

WINNER OF THE BBC NATIONAL SHORT STORY AWARD 'Terrifically exciting . . . It's a beautiful, electrifying thing to witness - a writer so hilariousl...

Set over the course of one life-changing year, The Best Days of Our Lives is a warm, big-hearted and poignant story, full of hope, heartache and lo...

*A GUARDIAN BEST TRANSLATED NOVEL OF 2023* *A NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARDS 2023 FINALIST* *A WORDS WITHOUT BORDERS BEST TRANSLATED BOOK OF...

A bewitching novel by Brenda Lozano, one of the most prominent voices of the new generation of Latin American writers. 'You can't really know anot...

'Every detail is sharply placed ... a scorching sense of humor and a soft spot for humanity down here on Earth' The New York Times 'Fleishman Is I...

From the best-selling author of Strange Weather in Tokyo and The Nakano Thrift Shop 'Charming... Beguiling and beautiful' The Times Over the cour...

Jack is a teenager who wants nothing more than to be normal - even if being normal means having divorced parents and a rather strange best friend. ...

Shortlisted for the Gordon Burns Prize 2023/2024 Shortlisted for the William Hill Sports Book Award 2023 About one woman’s fine, hard life at the ...

About the Author Sylvia Plath (1932-63) was born in Boston, Massachusetts, and studied at Smith College. In 1955 she went to Cambridge University ...

'Original, tender, thoughtful and true' Reese Witherspoon 'Part tender coming of age story, part electrifying tale of political awakening, part he...

'Perfect poolside reading' PAIGE TOON 'Enchanting, engaging and utterly romantic' MIKE GAYLE 'No one does romance and travel like Lorraine Brown' Z...