Modern & Contemporary Fiction

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...

Scotland Street witnesses the wedding of the century of Angus Lordie to Domenica Macdonald, but as the newlyweds depart on honeymoon Edinburgh is i...

For philosophically minded Isabel Dalhousie, editor of the Review of Applied Ethics, getting through life with a clear conscience requires careful ...

CHOSEN AS BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE GUARDIAN, OBSERVER, TELEGRAPH, NEW STATESMAN, EVENING STANDARD, SUNDAY TIMES AND IRISH TIMES 'Terrific, page-tur...

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

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 ...

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...

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

Paul Kemp has moved from New York to the steamy heat of Puerto Rico to work at the Daily News, quickly finding himself sucked into a chaotic world ...

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...

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

Fame, success, fortune, a drink problem slipping over the edge into alcoholism, a dead marriage, the incurable itches of middle-aged lust. For Wilf...

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 ...

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...

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...

'A novel of tremendous beauty . . . A wonderful achievement' Sarah Waters 'A beautiful and extraordinary book' Philip Pullman When Suzanne, a shy...

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 ...

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...

'Barnett has that rare talent, like Curtis Sittenfeld or Kate Atkinson, of building up the mundane aspects of everyday life until they acquire mean...

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...

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...

The second novel from the author of the Baileys Prize-winning The Glorious Heresies 'Fast paced, compelling, and thrilling, Lisa McInerney writes ...

'An intriguing tale of love and loss . . . written with verve and delivers an amazing twist' Sunday Mirror 'A haunting debut about grief, loss and ...

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...

Christopher Martin, the sole survivor of a torpedoed destroyer, is stranded upon a rock in the middle of the Atlantic. Pitted against him are the s...

THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER AND MODERN CLASSIC: NOW A MAJOR TV SERIES 'A phenomenon, a prodigy, a marvel' Evening Standard ONE OF THE BBC'S ...

A gorgeous, warm and joyful story from bestselling author Jenny Colgan, author of LITTLE BEACH STREET BAKERY, WELCOME TO ROSIE HOPKINS' SWEETSHOP O...

Damian Baxter is very, very rich - and he's dying. He lives alone in a big house in Surrey, looked after by a chauffeur, butler, cook and housemaid...

Rosie Strange doesn't believe in ghosts or witches or magic. No, not at all. It's no surprise therefore when she inherits the ramshackle Essex Witc...

WINNER OF THE INTERNATIONAL DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD WINNER OF THE GOLDSMITHS PRIZE LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE BGE IRISH BOOK OF THE YEAR 201...

Chicago, 1920: Hadley Richardson is a shy twenty-eight-year-old who has all but given up on love and happiness when she meets Ernest Hemingway and ...

Roy Strang is engaged in a strange quest in a surrealist South Africa. His mission is to eradicate an evil predator-scavenger bird, the marabou sto...

Winner of the Saltire Literary Award Fiction Book of the Year 'Literary gold . . . Morrison has published his masterpiece' Sunday Times 'Sensatio...

'I read a book one day, and my whole life was changed.' So begins The New Life, Orhan Pamuk's fabulous road novel about a young student who yearns ...

With a new introduction by DIANA EVANS 'A writer of huge compassion and acute observation, and also of dazzling style . . . Her work is more relev...

A page-turning story about new friendships, motherhood and heart-breaking secrets.... 'I couldn't put it down' Lo...

'Joyful, romantic and life-affirming.' Red Magazine 'It had me totally gripped.' Beth O'Leary, author of The Flatshare 'A l...

The acclaimed international bestseller soon to be a MAJOR MOTION PICTURE starring Constance Wu, Henry Golding, Michelle Yeoh and Gemma Chan! When ...

William Golding's final novel, left in draft at his death, tells the story of a priestess of Apollo. Arieka is one of the last to prophesy at Delph...

*SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA FIRST NOVEL AWARD 2015* *SHORTLISTED FOR THE GUARDIAN FIRST BOOK AWARD 2015* *LONGLISTED FOR THE DESMOND ELLIOTT PRIZE 2...

'For fans of Jo Nesbo and Patricia Highsmith' A. J. Finn, Sunday Times bestselling author of The Woman in the Window YOU WAKE UP COVERED IN BLOOD ...

The story revolves around the comings and goings at No. 44 Scotland Street, a fictitious building in a real street in Edinburgh. Immediately recogn...

THE TWELFTH INSTALLMENT OF THE MUCH-LOVED ISABEL DALHOUSIE SERIES It is summer in Edinburgh and Isabel Dalhousie is once again caught between 'gos...

THE EIGHTEENTH BOOK IN THE BELOVED NO. 1 LADIES' DETECTIVE AGENCY SERIES The one with the other Mma Ramotswe . . . The dismissal of an employee ...

Reissue of one of Robbins's best-loved books which has been a bestseller since first publication. Review "Robbins's comic philosophical musi...

'This is one of those special novels - a piece of working magic, warm funny and sane - that you just want to ride off into the sunset with' - Th...