Modern Contemporary Fiction

'A masterpiece, a perfect book' David Nicholls Discover this unmissable modern classic where the fragile friendship between two teenage boys has de...

The global bestseller that inspired the hit musical phenomenon. Now two major movies and a record-breaking box office sensation. In this classic ta...

Picked as a most anticipated book of 2025 by Goodreads, Vogue, LitHub and TIME ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– 'Heralds the...

'Genre cannot contain Ursula Le Guin: she is a genre in herself' Zadie Smith 'Groundbreaking' Guardian 'No single work did more to upend the genre'...

A deeply moving novella that questions what it means to belong to a person, as much as to a place. It is the height of summer in Copenhagen. Cosmos...

From an award-winning debut novelist, Born of Guilt is a powerful and heartrending novel about the intense bond between mother and child and the co...

'A powerful and moving collection' Roddy Doyle ___________________ A group of British soldiers appear to help a farmer and his daughter free their ...

TransAtlantic: From the New York Times-bestselling, National Book Award-winning, Booker Prize-longlisted author of Apeirogon and Let the Great Worl...

'A sharp, hilarious, unsparing mother-daughter story' Rachel Khong 'Culturally incisive and relentlessly smart' Michelle Zauner 'A magnum opus and ...

'DELIVERS NEW PLEASURES ON EVERY PAGE' ANNE ENRIGHT 'STYLISH, SHARP AND FIERCELY INTELLIGENT' LUCY CALDWELL 'A GLOWING, MOVING, DARING BOOK' SEÁN H...

Featured on BBC Radio 4's Take Four Books Six friends. One city. The time of their lives. It’s 1988, and on the verge of a reunion with friends she...

Five Blessings for a WeddingAuthor: Taylor, Laurel,translator,Seo, Maiko,authorContributors: Taylor, Laurel,translator,Seo, Maiko,authorBinding: pa...

A Publishers Weekly Most Anticipated Book Valérie Perrin’s first new novel since her breakout bestseller Fresh Water for Flowers "Valérie Perrin is...

Winner of the International Prize for Arabic Fiction A bold, psychologically rich novel of identity, exile, and resistance from one of Palestine’s ...

The first novel written about the enigmatic literary legend Australia, 1901. Miles Franklin, the young daughter of poor bush farmers, manages to pu...

In the town of Dominion, Mississippi, Reverend Sabre Winfrey, Jr. is more than a preacher. From his pulpit at the Seven Seals Baptist Church to the...

'Ancient Rome provides rich plunder for fantasy writers...Godstorm is a grand addition to the genre' Daily Mail 'This startling alternative history...

'I adored this lovely debut about an off-grid child and her sophisticated urban aunt' Wendy Holden, Daily Mail 'Warm and funny, what a joy!' Jessic...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE NERO PRIZE FOR DEBUT FICTION SHORTLISTED FOR THE GOLDSMITHS PRIZE Plans for the expansion of the Capmeadow Business Park are in...

With life on earth fading to a whisper, Carlos and Aitana are faced with a decision, monumental and world-altering, about what they are prepared to...

Imagine a world in which you could take back the stupid thing you just said, unspill the coffee, avoid the accident, roll life back thirty seconds ...

'That rare treasure, a perfect novel' TIME A name is the first story that attaches itself to a life. Consider mine: Stanley Alban Marriott Obeyseke...

Don't miss the third book in the breathtaking new series from the number one bestselling author Santa Montefiore! A secret past. A love that defies...

A moving and haunting portrait of a Palestinian immigrant’s heroic efforts to heal his community and birth love from tragedy 'A heartbreaking and t...

If you could be anyone – who would you be? Beth Greenwood has always imagined being someone else. Someone more successful, more exciting. More aliv...

'It’s impossible for a book so chilling, so uncanny, so urgent to also be this funny. Nerve Damage is a major debut.' Kaveh Akbar, author of Martry...

‘An impeccable rendering of modern queer life, Hard Place is a closely-held mirror to the tenderness and brutality of what it means to be young, ga...

‘This sweeping will-they-won’t-they love story has echoes of One Day' Sunday Times ‘Took me back to the way I felt when reading Normal People’ Styl...

‘Pitch perfect’ TRACY REES ‘A stunning debut’ LIZ FENWICK The Cornish coast. A handsome smuggler. A love story for the ages. Isabel has always been...

The brilliant and beautiful new book from the author of Small Joys. A hymn to brotherly love and its transcendent power to heal. To the outside wor...

From bestselling author Jo Leevers comes a heartfelt story of lost things and second chances. Every morning, Evelyn Silver walks the shoreline befo...

Between the past, the present and the future lie a forbidden romance, a forgotten fortune and a family secret in a story of betrayal, resilience an...

'Fearless and frank and sometimes comic' Colm Tóibín 'I absolutely loved The Pilgrimage... Brilliant... A book about what it feels like to live wit...

Worship the idol. Fall for the real girl. In a future Korea, those who can afford to have retreated from the ravaged world outside, slipping on vir...

Winner of the Alfaguara Prize Translated by International Booker Prize-winning translator Daniel Hahn "A surprisingly life-affirming read." — Finan...

'If you were thrilled by The House of the Spirits, you'll love this' Marie Claire As a young girl, Aurora del Valle suffered a brutal trauma that e...

'If you like your passions grand and your views panoramic, then Daughter of Fortune will be irresistible' The Times In colonial Chile, 1832, the in...

'Rebecca meets Brideshead Revisited meets Saltburn' STYLIST 'A subtle, claustrophobic, seduction of a novel' CLAIRE FULLER 'Evocative, gripping and...

'An absolute tour de force ... One of the most powerful writers at work today' COLIN WALSH 'When the book burners knock on your door, this is one t...

'A zeitgeisty rags-to-riches tale' DAILY MAIL 'An off-beat slice-of-life novel' SYDNEY MORNING HERALD The bestselling South Korean phenomenon, To t...

'Gloriously inventive, wonderfully entertaining, wickedly knowing . . . Read it and revel' JOHN BANVILLE 'The unsung hero of his generation of nove...

Us: a brilliant, bittersweet novel about love and family, husbands and wives, parents and children | Longlisted for the Booker Prize 'Perfect' INDE...

The Understudy: a scintillating comedy of ambition, celebrity, jealousy and love 'Wonderfully chaotic' THE TIMES 'A funky, less-fluffy-than-funny r...

'Like all great storytellers Sara pulls the reader in and doesn't let go until the utterly satisfying, heart-swelling conclusion' Graham Norton 'Ut...

‘What a gorgeous book!’ MARIAN KEYES ‘Funny, tender and relatable’ JENNIE GODFREY ‘A warm hug of a novel’ CLAIRE DAVERLEY *****A Grazia Book Club P...

'Rich, evocative and beautifully written: a meditation on faith, grief and belonging. A wonderful debut' Nussaibah Younis 'A breathtaking debut' Fo...

A brother and sister lost and found, in a novel that seizes your heart and enthrals your mind, from the author of the Patrick Melrose series. ‘Perh...

A riveting and epic family drama set in WWII-era Norway, award-winning author Lars Mytting's The Night of the Scourge is the final novel in the int...