Modern & Contemporary Fiction
Pincher Martin: Faber Modern Classics
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...
View full detailsCamberwell Beauty
'Viciously funny' Daily Mail Welcome to one of the nicest streets in one of London's vilest boroughs: a determined middle-class oasis of skips and...
View full detailsA Suitable Boy: The classic bestseller and major BBC drama
THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER AND MODERN CLASSIC: NOW A MAJOR TV SERIES 'A phenomenon, a prodigy, a marvel' Evening Standard ONE OF THE BBC'S ...
View full detailsThe Little Shop of Happy-Ever-After (Kirrinfief)
A gorgeous, warm and joyful story from bestselling author Jenny Colgan, author of LITTLE BEACH STREET BAKERY, WELCOME TO ROSIE HOPKINS' SWEETSHOP O...
View full detailsPast Imperfect
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...
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Amy Wilde is tired of the idiots her glamorous flatmate Jo tries to set her up with - she'd much rather be landscaping a garden with her dog Badger...
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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...
View full detailsSolar Bones
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...
View full detailsThe Paris Wife
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 ...
View full detailsMarabou Stork Nightmares
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...
View full detailsNina X
Winner of the Saltire Literary Award Fiction Book of the Year 'Literary gold . . . Morrison has published his masterpiece' Sunday Times 'Sensatio...
View full detailsHarriet Said...: A Virago Modern Classic (VMC) (Virago Modern Classics)
A girl returns from boarding school to her sleepy Merseyside hometown and waits to be reunited with her childhood friend, Harriet, chief architect ...
View full detailsThe New Life
'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 ...
View full detailsThe Wedding (Virago Modern Classics)
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...
View full detailsUndermajordomo Minor
Lucien (Lucy) Minor is the resident odd duck in the bucolic hamlet of Bury. Friendless and loveless, young and aimless, he is a compulsive liar and...
View full detailsJust Between Friends: Perfect page-turning fiction about motherhood, friendship and secrets
A page-turning story about new friendships, motherhood and heart-breaking secrets.... 'I couldn't put it down' Lo...
View full detailsOur Stop: The funny, romantic and feel-good top fiction bestseller – a perfect, escapist read
'Joyful, romantic and life-affirming.' Red Magazine 'It had me totally gripped.' Beth O'Leary, author of The Flatshare 'A l...
View full detailsThe Double Tongue: With an introduction by Meg Rosoff
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...
View full detailsThings We Have in Common
*SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA FIRST NOVEL AWARD 2015* *SHORTLISTED FOR THE GUARDIAN FIRST BOOK AWARD 2015* *LONGLISTED FOR THE DESMOND ELLIOTT PRIZE 2...
View full detailsThe Good Son
'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 ...
View full detailsMcCall Smith: 44 Scotland Street
The story revolves around the comings and goings at No. 44 Scotland Street, a fictitious building in a real street in Edinburgh. Immediately recogn...
View full detailsMcCall Smith: Quiet Side of Passion
THE TWELFTH INSTALLMENT OF THE MUCH-LOVED ISABEL DALHOUSIE SERIES It is summer in Edinburgh and Isabel Dalhousie is once again caught between 'gos...
View full detailsMcCall Smith: House of Unexpected Sisters (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency)
THE EIGHTEENTH BOOK IN THE BELOVED NO. 1 LADIES' DETECTIVE AGENCY SERIES The one with the other Mma Ramotswe . . . The dismissal of an employee ...
View full detailsStill Life With Woodpecker
Reissue of one of Robbins's best-loved books which has been a bestseller since first publication. Review "Robbins's comic philosophical musi...
View full detailsEven Cowgirls Get the Blues
'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...
View full detailsHislop: The Return
An atmospheric, vibrant and moving tale of pain and passion at the heart of war-torn Spain, from Victoria Hislop, the million-copy bestselling auth...
View full detailsWitch You Weren't Here
'It has everything I love in a romantasy. I absolutely adored it' CARRIE ELKS 'Fun, sweet and sexy' SARAH HAWLEY 'A magical rollercoaster which w...
View full detailsBlack Narcissus: Now a haunting BBC drama starring Gemma Arterton (Virago Modern Classics)
NOW A HAUNTING BBC DRAMA, STARRING GEMMA ARTERTON AND DIANA RIGG 'Godden's wonderful book sets out a complex vision of the variety, necessity and ...
View full detailsOld Filth (50th Anniversary Edition)
Jane Gardam's funny and wise masterpiece, reissued with a new introduction by Nina Stibbe 'Old Filth has stayed with me for years' SATHNAM SANGHE...
View full detailsGeneration X (25th Anniversary)
The twenty-fifth anniversary edition of Douglas Coupland's classic.
Christmas With Miss Read
Two Christmas novels from Miss Read - the perfect festive treat! CHRISTMAS AT FAIRACRE From an unexpected visitor on Christmas Eve in 'The Christm...
View full detailsFundamentally: Shortlisted for the 2025 Women's Prize for Fiction
A Perfectly Good Man
Devastatingly moving and full of psychological insight, A PERFECTLY GOOD MAN is a warm, humane Cornish novel from the bestselling author of A PLACE...
View full detailsLittle Disasters
'Taut, clever, compelling and guaranteed to keep you on the edge of your seat…' Paula Hawkins, author of The Girl on the Train You think you know ...
View full detailsImperfectionists
The newspaper was founded in Rome in the 1950s, a product of passion and a multi-millionaire's fancy. Over fifty years, its eccentricities earned a...
View full detailsMrs Fletcher
New York Times bestseller! Now a major Sky/HBO TV series From the bestselling author of The Leftovers and Little Children comes a penetrating and ...
View full detailsWater for Elephants: a novel for everyone who dreamed of running away to the circus
The gritty, compelling international bestselling novel of star-crossed lovers and circus life, set in Depression-era USA.
Censoring An Iranian Love Story: A novel
Truly original, CENSORING AN IRANIAN LOVE STORY is an incredibly imaginative yet always charming love story set in contemporary Iran that crackles ...
View full detailsBlack Dog
A special illustrated edition of Black Dog by bestselling storytelling legend, Neil Gaiman. This American Gods world novella will thrill Games of T...
View full detailsThe World at Night
Paris 1940. The civilised, upper-class life of film producer Jean Casson ends with the German occupation of the city. Out of money and almost out o...
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Fire Down Below
Introduced by Kate Mosse, lose yourself in an epic naval journey in the final novel in the Booker Prize-winning historical fiction Sea Trilogy by t...
View full detailsThe Image of You
They Were Divided: The Transylvanian Trilogy, Volume III
Ghostwalk
Review A creepy, unputdownable book ― GOOD BOOK GUIDE Product Description A stunning literary ghost-story of entanglement and obsession; ambitio...
View full detailsMiracle on Cherry Hill
Celebrated bestselling author Sun-mi Hwang is back with a heartwarming new novel about renewal and friendship. This is the story of a man named K...
View full detailsThe Art of the Body
'A bold, unflinching debut' GUARDIAN 'Brutal, tender, philosophical, visceral, complex and so well written' EMMA JANE UNSWORTH Maintaining one pe...
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