Modern & Contemporary Fiction
Vernon Subutex One
Product Description **SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL 2018** WHO IS VERNON SUBUTEX? An urban legend. A fall from grace. The mirro...
View full detailsBefore the Ruins
'Engrossing, beguiling, and with an undertow of menace, Before the Ruins is a masterly debut from a richly talented author.' Sarah Waters 'Jaw-dro...
View full detailsThe Patron Saint of Second Chances: the most uplifting book you’ll read this year
Review The Patron Saint of Second Chances is a rare treasure: both hilariously funny and beautifully written. I was sad to say goodbye to these de...
View full detailsA Lucky Man
'Full of subtle poignancy ... each story is a trenchant exploration of race and class, vividly conveying the tension between social codes of mascul...
View full detailsAn Island Wedding (Mure)
'I loved this novel and every single one of its characters. Supremely heartfelt, hilarious and heartrending - it's an absolute triumph.' Sophie Kin...
View full detailsRed Earth and Pouring Rain
About the Author Born in New Delhi, India, in 1961, Vikram Chandra now divides his time between Bombay and Washington D.C., where he teaches at Ge...
View full detailsHowards End
NOW A MAJOR BBC ONE DRAMA STARRING HAYLEY ATWELL AND MATTHEW MACFADYEN In spring of 1905 in England, a brief romance between Helen Schlegel and ...
View full detailsMr Cadmus
Review "A darkly witty fable ... a tale of vengeance that begins to take on the swerving, lurid velocity of a fever dream" ― Spectator Published O...
View full detailsWho's Loving You: Love Stories by Women of Colour
Review A beautiful collection that I both lost and found myself in. Unbelievably exciting stories from some show-stoppingly talented writers. ― CA...
View full detailsA Plea for Eros
Review 'She strides across these pages: a 6ft tall Amazonian New Yorker...by whom we are at once riveted and faintly disconcerted...Hustvedt is a ...
View full detailsSix Stories & an Essay
A superb collection of writing from multi-award-winning, million-copy bestseller Andrea Levy.
The Blindfold
The dazzling debut of Siri Hustvedt, author of the international bestseller WHAT I LOVED.
Faces In The Water (Virago Modern Classics)
I was now an established citizen with little hope of returning across the frontier; I was in the crazy world, separated now by more than locked doo...
View full detailsThe Pursuit of William Abbey
The Comfort Of Saturdays (Isabel Dalhousie Novels) Book 5
Isabel Dalhousie is a new mother and a connoisseur of philosophy; she'd rather not be a sleuth. But when a chance conversation at a dinner party dr...
View full detailsAn Incomplete Revenge
1931. Maisie Dobbs' new case takes her investigation into the pastoral beauty of the Kent Weald where acts of arson, theft and vandelism around the...
View full detailsEvery Seventh Wave
Love Virtually ends as Leo leaves Austria for America. He and Emmi have still not met, but the intensity of their e-mail correspondence has been th...
View full detailsMr Rosenblum's List: or Friendly Guidance for the Aspiring Englishman
List item 2: Never speak German on the upper decks of London buses. Jack Rosenblum is five foot three and a half inches of sheer tenacity. He's w...
View full detailsStrange Fits Of Passion
A young and successful journalist working in New York, Maureen English appears to have the perfect life and family. But Maureen's husband, a highly...
View full detailsSmoke
'Astonishing ...It's filling in that gaping hole left by both Harry Potter and Philip Pullman's Northern Lights. Yes, really' Stylist 'The laws of...
View full detailsThe Full Cupboard Of Life
THE FIFTH BOOK IN THE BELOVED NO. 1 LADIES' DETECTIVE AGENCY SERIES The one where J. L. B. Matekoni takes a great leap . . . Once again, Mma Ram...
View full detailsThe Miracle At Speedy Motors: No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency 09
THE NINTH BOOK IN THE BELOVED NO. 1 LADIES' DETECTIVE AGENCY SERIES The one with the poison pen letter . . . For the first time in her career as...
View full detailsThe Collector of Lost Things
I felt the worlds of ocean and ice were meeting in a frontier of rage, as if the Earth had torn in two along this line.This was a place if there ev...
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Sunshine on Scotland Street (44 Scotland Street): A 44 Scotland Street Novel, Book 8
Sunshine on Scotland Street (44 Scotland Street): A 44 Scotland Street Novel, Book 8
Scotland Street witnesses the wedding of the century of Angus Lordie to Domenica Macdonald, but as the newlyweds depart on honeymoon Edinburgh is i...
View full detailsThe Careful Use Of Compliments
For philosophically minded Isabel Dalhousie, editor of the Review of Applied Ethics, getting through life with a clear conscience requires careful ...
View full detailsSummary Justice: 'An all-action court drama' Sunday Times (Benson and De Vere)
The last time Tess de Vere saw William Benson she was a law student on work experience. He was a twenty-one year old, led from the dock of the Old...
View full detailsThe Lie of the Land
CHOSEN AS BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE GUARDIAN, OBSERVER, TELEGRAPH, NEW STATESMAN, EVENING STANDARD, SUNDAY TIMES AND IRISH TIMES 'Terrific, page-tur...
View full detailsThe Incendiaries
'Absolutely electric' Garth Greenwell 'A major talent' Financial Times 'Reminiscent of Donna Tartt's The Secret History' New Yorker Phoebe Lin...
View full detailsThe Quality of Silence: The Richard and Judy and Sunday Times bestseller
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...
View full detailsThe Resolution of Callie and Kayden
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...
View full detailsThe Rum Diary (Bloomsbury Classic Reads)
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 ...
View full detailsThe Siege: Winner of the 2014 CWA International Dagger
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...
View full detailsCygnet
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...
View full detailsNudibranch
'Okojie is a dazzlingly wild, bold and imaginative writer who tells stories with captivating originality and intense drama' Bernardine Evaristo '...
View full detailsThe Paper Men: With an introduction by Andrew Martin
Fame, success, fortune, a drink problem slipping over the edge into alcoholism, a dead marriage, the incurable itches of middle-aged lust. For Wilf...
View full detailsDriving Big Davie
For many years Dan Starkey has been a journalist of some repute - mainly ill. Now he is back with his wife Patricia, and while they try for a baby ...
View full detailsWhen the Eagle Hunts
The third novel in Simon Scarrow's bestselling Roman series. After a series of bloody battles, Camulodunum (modern-day Colchester) has fallen to th...
View full detailsSomething to Live For: A page-turning comfort read that will make you laugh and cry
Curl up with the page-turning story full of heart that has readers raving, about Andrew, who has forgotten how to live, and Peggy, who helps him re...
View full detailsA History of Running Away
Book of the Year in the Irish Times 'A wonderful storyteller' Joseph O'Connor On the quays of Dublin, Jasmine is running, training for a fight sh...
View full detailsNever Anyone But You
'A novel of tremendous beauty . . . A wonderful achievement' Sarah Waters 'A beautiful and extraordinary book' Philip Pullman When Suzanne, a shy...
View full detailshe: A Novel
Winner of the 2017 Ryan Tubridy Show Listener's Choice Award at the Irish Book Awards. John Connolly recreates the golden age of Hollywood for an ...
View full detailsKilling Eve: No Tomorrow
The basis for KILLING EVE, now a major BBC TV series, starring Sandra Oh and Jodie Comer SUNDAY TIMES Thriller of the Month In a hotel room in Ve...
View full detailsGreatest Hits: From the bestselling author of The Versions of Us
'Barnett has that rare talent, like Curtis Sittenfeld or Kate Atkinson, of building up the mundane aspects of everyday life until they acquire mean...
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A world that hangs suspended between triumph and catastrophe, between the dismantling of the Wall and the fall of the Twin Towers, frozen in the sh...
View full detailsThe Summer Without Men
After Mia Fredricksen's husband of thirty years asks for a pause - so he can indulge his infatuation with a young French colleague - she cracks up...
View full detailsThe Blood Miracles
The second novel from the author of the Baileys Prize-winning The Glorious Heresies 'Fast paced, compelling, and thrilling, Lisa McInerney writes ...
View full detailsAn Unremarkable Body: Shortlisted for the Costa First Novel Award 2018
'An intriguing tale of love and loss . . . written with verve and delivers an amazing twist' Sunday Mirror 'A haunting debut about grief, loss and ...
View full detailsThe Tiger's Wife: Winner of the Orange Prize for Fiction and New York Times bestseller
WINNER OF THE ORANGE PRIZE FOR FICTION 'Not since Zadie Smith has a young writer arrived with such power and grace' Time 'A marvel of beauty and im...
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