Modern & Contemporary Fiction
Queenie (2 covers)
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER BOOK OF THE YEAR AT THE BRITISH BOOK AWARDS SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA FIRST NOVEL AWARD LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S...
View full detailsBreakfast Of Champions (Vintage Classics)
In a frolic of cartoon and comic outbursts against rule and reason, a miraculous weaving of science fiction, memoir, parable, fairy tale and farce,...
View full detailsMilkman
Winner of the 2018 Man Booker Prize, Milkman is an extraordinary, rhythmic, and bitingly funny exploration of a young woman’s struggle for anonymit...
View full detailsBritt-Marie Was Here
The number one European bestseller by the author of the international phenomenon A Man Called Ove, this novel is a funny, poignant, and uplifting t...
View full detailsSanctuary: You’ll be shocked by the ending to 2020’s most addictive thriller
THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING THRILLER! 'TWISTY AND COMPELLING' DAILY MAIL Sanctuary. It's the perfect town. . . Dan's death was a tragi...
View full detailsMen Without Women
Men Without Women was a milestone in Hemingway's career. Fiesta had already established him as a novelist of exceptional power, but with these shor...
View full detailsToday Will Be Different: From the bestselling author of Where’d You Go, Bernadette
Eleanor Flood knows she's a mess. But today will be different. Today she will shower and put on real clothes. She will attend her yoga class after ...
View full detailsLuis Borges: The Aleph
Borges' stories have a deceptively simple, almost laconic style. In maddeningly ingenious stories that play with the very form of the short story, ...
View full detailsLevin: Rosemary's Baby
Rosemary Woodhouse and her struggling actor-husband, Guy, move into the Bramford, an old New York City apartment building with an ominous reputatio...
View full detailsBeloved
"Discover Toni Morrison's most iconic work in this Pulitzer-prize winning novel that exemplifies her powerful and important place in contemporary A...
View full detailsMonk Kidd: Secret Life of Bees
Lily has grown up believing she accidentally killed her mother when she was four. She not only has her own memory of holding the gun, but her fathe...
View full detailsChrysalids
The disturbing post-apocalyptic novel The Chrysalids by John Wyndham, author of The Day of the Triffids and The Kraken Wakes and dramatised on BBC ...
View full detailsThe Mistletoe Bride and Other Haunting Tales
Review These eerie tales are perfect for stormy winter darkness ― DAILY MAIL Mosse's love of history and of ghosts and legends mix in her new col...
View full detailsTouch Not the Cat
Ashley Court: the tumbledown ancestral home of the Ashley family, all blessed with 'the gift' of being able to speak to each other without words. W...
View full detailsThe Road
A father and his young son walk entirely alone through a burned, unrecognizable America, heading slowly toward the coast. Nothing moves across the...
View full detailsWe Don't Know What We're Doing
A young video shop assistant exchanges the home comforts of one mother-figure for a fleeting encounter with another; a brother and sister find them...
View full detailsRemains of the Day
About the Author Kazuo Ishiguro was born in Nagasaki, Japan, in 1954 and moved to Britain at the age of five. His nine works of fiction have earne...
View full detailsMigrations
'An extraordinary novel... as beautiful and as wrenching as anything I've ever read' Emily St. John Mandel A dark past. An impossible journey. The...
View full detailsTogether: a Richard and Judy Book Club summer read 2018
RICHARD AND JUDY SUMMER BOOK CLUB PICK 2018 'This big, clever, tender and twisty love story reminded me of One Day & The Time Traveler's Wife' ...
View full detailsFINDING HENRY APPLEBEE: The warmest, most charming and feel good novel of the year!
'An absolute delight. It's beautiful and elegiac and written with such a good heart' BAFTA award-winning screenwriter and producer Russell T. Davie...
View full detailsThe Binding: THE #1 BESTSELLER
LOSE YOURSELF IN THE BREAKOUT SENSATION OF THE YEAR SHORTLISTED FOR WATERSTONES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2019 ...
View full detailsVintage Greene: End of the Affair
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY MONICA ALI The love affair between Maurice Bendrix and Sarah, flourishing in the turbulent times of the London Blitz, ends...
View full detailsVintage Vonnegut: Mother Night
Whilst awaiting trial for war crimes in an Israeli prison, Howard W. Campbell Jr sets down his memoirs on an old German typewriter. He has used suc...
View full detailsPenguin Essentials: Animal Farm
A brilliant and timeless satire on the corrupting influence of power. Renowned urban artist Shepard Fairey provides a striking new look for George ...
View full detailsLemming: That Time I Got Drunk And Yeeted A Love Potion At A Werewolf
'Kimberly Lemming is doing god's work, I swear. Finally, well written, funny, steamy (the sex scenes, whoa) fantasy romance with heroines who look ...
View full detailsN-W
"NW" is Zadie Smith's masterful novel about London life. Zadie Smith's brilliant tragi-comic "NW" follows four Londoners - Leah, Natalie, Felix and...
View full detailsHogan: Wisdom of Sally Red Shoes
A Prima Best Book of 2018 selection 'Warm and wise' Guardian 'A book to really love ... makes reading a joy' Stylist 'Will soften even the hardest...
View full detailsReturn to Mandalay
Eva Gatsby has often wondered about her grandfather Lawrence's past, and exactly what happened to him in Burma during the Second World War. But it ...
View full detailsFind Me: A TOP TEN SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
Elio believes he has left behind his first love - but as an affair with an older man intensifies, his thoughts turn to the past and to Oliver. Oli...
View full detailsThe New York Trilogy
The New York Trilogy is perhaps the most astonishing work by one of America's most consistently astonishing writers. The Trilogy is three cleverly ...
View full detailsThe Queen's Gambit
From the author of THE HUSTLER, THE QUEEN'S GAMBIT is a modern classic about a troubled chess prodigy and her battle to survive When she is sent t...
View full detailsOrlando
WITH INTRODUCTIONS BY PETER ACKROYD AND MARGARET REYNOLDS As his tale begins, Orlando is a passionate young nobleman whose days are spent in rowdy...
View full detailsFrank & Red
Flynn: Sharp Objects
Some scars never heal ...An addictive thriller from the author of the mega bestseller GONE GIRL. When two girls are abducted and killed in Missouri...
View full detailsFarewell to Arms
In 1918 Ernest Hemingway went to war. He volunteered for ambulance service in Italy, was wounded and twice decorated. Out of his experience came A ...
View full detailsGirl with the Louding Voice
'Unforgettable' New York Times 'Impressive' Observer 'Remarkable' Independent 'Important' Guardian 'Captivating' Mirror 'Luminous' Daily Mail '...
View full detailsParable Duology: Parable of the Talents (Book 2)
"In the ongoing contest over which dystopian classic is most applicable to our time... for sheer peculiar prescience, Butler's novel may be unmatch...
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"Shimamura is tired of the bustling city. He takes the train through the snow to the mountains of the west coast of Japan, to meet with a geisha he...
View full detailsAn Absolutely Remarkable Thing
If you came across an absolutely remarkable thing at 3 a.m. in New York City, would you walk away . . . or do the one thing that would change your ...
View full detailsSound & the Fury
With an introduction by Richard Hughes Ever since the first furore was created on its publication in 1929, The Sound and the Fury has been consider...
View full detailsPorno
Ten years on from Trainspotting Sick Boy is back in Edinburgh after a long spell in London. Having failed spectacularly as a hustler, pimp, husband...
View full detailsA View Of The Harbour: A Virago Modern Classic (VMC Designer Collection)
'Her stories remain with one, indelibly, as though they had been some turning-point in one's own experience' - Elizabeth Bowen In the faded coast...
View full detailsRose Cottage
'A comfortable chair and a Mary Stewart: total heaven. I'd rather read her than most other authors.' Harriet Evans Summer, 1947. Kate Herrick, a w...
View full detailsAll Souls Series: Discovery of Witches (Book 1)
Fall under the spell of Diana and Matthew in the stunning first volume of the No.1 internationally bestselling All Souls series. In a world where w...
View full detailsBetty: The International Bestseller
Immerse yourself in the haunting beauty of the Appalachian foothills with this stunning, lyrical novel that follows a young girl's journey as she u...
View full detailsInheritance: The new novel from the author of Richard & Judy bestseller Moving
'So immersive, atmospheric and compelling' Marian Keyes 'Kept me glued to the page' Alex Marwood 'Achingly poignant . . . An absolutely brilliant r...
View full detailsA Clergyman's Daughter
Intimidated by her tyrannical father, the cold and unyielding rector of Knype Hill, Dorothy Hare spends her days performing the submissive roles of...
View full detailsBukowski: Post Office
Henry Chinaski is a lowlife loser with a hand-to-mouth existence. His menial post office day job supports a life of beer, one-night stands and race...
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