Contemporary Fiction

Return to Everdene Sands, setting for the THE BEACH HUT, and discover secrets, love, tragedy and dreams. It's going to be a summer to remember...Su...

Delve into the deliciously dark family saga, The Snow Angel, a tale spun between two eras by Lulu Taylor, the bestselling author of The Winter Foll...

As dramatized on BBC Radio 4Winner of the Miles Franklin Award'Magnificent' - The New York TimesCloudstreet is Tim Winton's great family drama, a t...

A classic love story and a seminal work of Irish literature that is a testament to romance, magic and the power of true love. With an introduction ...

When the Great Flood of 1927 devastates Mississippi, eight-year-old Robert Chatham loses everything. Roberts adventures in the brooding swamplands ...

Two acclaimed young adult authors join forces for a novel about growing up, leaving home, and that one fateful email that assigns . . . your colleg...

Shortlisted for the Guardian First Book AwardWinner of the inaugural Voss Literary PrizeJoint winner of the Barbara Jefferis AwardIn an isolated ho...

The Carmichaels and Grahams have gathered on Nantucket for a wedding. Plans are being made according to the wishes of the bride's late mother, who ...

It's summertime in the French Pyrenees and the mountain commune of Fogas is en fête. But Christian Dupuy has no time for the frivolity of les vacan...

Perfect to curl up with this Christmas, The Proposal by Tasmina Perry is a spellbinding tale of second chances that looks back to the year of the l...

An epic tale for fans of Justin Cronin, THE HUNGER GAMES and Cormac McCarthy. The final part in the PURE trilogy.Partridge has escaped the safety o...

Tender, funny and romantic Marie Claire Christine Rose is crossing the Hapenny Bridge in Dublin late one night when she sees a stranger, ...

Annabel Buchanan has the perfect life. A loving husband, a beautiful house, a happy family.So, when her daughter Izzy falls dangerously ill, Annabe...

They say you know instinctively who to trust.Alice is normal; she'd never do anything rash. But when she sees her husband one day with a younger gi...

Judy Chicurel''''s exquisitely written debut evokes the atmosphere of a 1970s summer in a close-knit working class community on Long Island. Katie ...

Don''t miss the STUNNING new novel from Sunday Times bestselling author, Harriet Evans - THE BELOVED GIRLS is published on 19 August and available ...

'Few novels are life-changing; this one just might be' Daily MailLeaving home is one thing. Surviving is another.In 1940s Lahore, the Punjab, two b...

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER NOW A MAJOR TV SERIES starring Pierce Brosnan and co-written by Philipp Meyer The critically acclaimed, New York Time...

María Dueñas's million copy best-selling tale of adventure, tragedy, love and war, The Seamstress, a Richard and Judy 2012 book club pick.Spain, 19...

The tender, touching novel from the Sunday Times bestselling author of Sunny Days and Sea BreezesThe last place Anna Terry expects to fall in love ...

The riotously funny novel from the Sunday Times and multi-million-copy bestseller'She's had men popping in and out of there all day. They're more r...

Eight interlinked family dramas set on an Israeli kibbutz from the masterful storyteller behind A Tale of Love and DarknessOn the kibbutz its hard ...

Discover the generation-defining American novel from the author of The WifeWhatever became of the most talented people you once knew? On a warm sum...

Longlisted for the 2015 IMPAC Dublin Literary AwardJimmy Rabbitte is back.The man who invented the Commitments back in the eighties is now forty-se...

A heartwarming romantic comedy about a most unlikely love affair. Perfect for fans of Holly Martin, Ellie Adams and Kirsty Greenwood.Tom doesn't ne...

A father sets out to save the Islamic world. A daughter sets out to save herself.Najwa's father left when she was four years old. Now, upon her mot...

When newlywed Penny turns her hand to some casual wedding planning she only wants to help other women afford the big day of their dreams. But tamin...

Brilliantly funny stuff SUN Welcome to the Hope Street Hotel where you check in married, and check out single. Two years ago C...

An enchanting and exotic family mystery from the #1 Kindle Bestseller'The perfect holiday companion' - Heat'The ultimate feel-good read' - Candis'S...

Jane Austen in the hands of queen of crime, Val McDermid. Get ready for a very different Northanger Abbey. For Ca...

Fairytale and history, wilderness and civilisation collide in this brilliant and magical new novel from the author of Little Exiles. In B...

Who is A. N. Dyer? For fans of The Art of Fielding and Wonder Boys this is the panoramic, deeply affecting story of an iconic novelist and the hea...

A deliciously warm novel from the best-selling author of Meet Me At The Cupcake Cafe and The Loveliest Chocolate Shop in Paris. Amandas o...

The beloved and bestselling novelist Joanna Trollopes contemporary reworking of Jane Austens Sense and Sensibility launches The Austen Project and ...

Johan Thoms (pronounced Yo-han Tomes) was born in Argona, a small town twenty-three miles south of Sarajevo, during the hellish depths of winter 18...

From New York Times bestselling author Wally Lamb, a disquieting and ultimately uplifting novel about a marriage, a family, and human resilience in...

In Roberto Saviano's The Opposite of Death, a town in southern Italy is haunted by the war in Afghanistan, where one by one its sons are dying. In ...

BY THE AUTHOR OF THE BOOKER PRIZE LONGLISTED PROPHET SONG.'Paul Lynch is peerless' Donal Ryan, author of Strange FlowersSpring 1832: Donegal, north...

Shortlisted for the Costa First Novel award 2013, this bitterly humorous debut is a novel of love, narcissism, and ailing cattle. Katheri...

Champagne, cat-fights and a very tricky love triangle Life is pretty good for Jade. Shes happily settled with her gorgeous boyfriend Sam...

''A gutsy, heartfelt novel'' Sunday Times ''[Shriver''s] best novel yet'' Independent on Sunday ''A surprising sledgehammer o...

Longlisted for the 2013 Man Booker Prize, the overlapping lives of five newcomers to Chinas most dynamic city are the subject of this kaleidoscopic...

Marie may be 'getting on a bit' but it's certainly not getting her down. Her family around her and a man who loves her means that life is good - bu...

A stunning book set in the Edwardian era about a seamstress working at Buckingham Palace. Full of drama, betrayal and compelling histo...

Lex is seventeen. But being seventeen is a rollercoaster ride, and Lex is about to run into trouble. If he survives the humiliation of his final su...

The luxury cruise ship Transylvania takes six days to cross the Atlantic - just enough time for the passengers to find their sea-legs and lose thei...

My father is dead. I simply can't tell you how happy this makes me. Lucas Cage loses his father and gains a disused printing works in east London, ...

From Costa prizewinning and Booker-shorlisted Jennifer Johnston comes a beautifully crafted, alluring tale of family and secrets. Not every death i...