Contemporary Fiction

No Presents Please is a vivid evocation of city life, exploring the sub-locales and spatial identities of Mumbai and the struggles of small-town mi...

Upon changing his religion, a young man is denounced as an apostate and flees his country hiding in the back of a freezer lorry... After years o...

Some promises should never be broken.AD 1055. With the crisis of 1051 long behind them and finally coming to terms with the death of Sweyn, the God...

''A major-league prose writer who has fun in every sentence'' Jonathan Franzen ''A clever speculative tale set against a backdrop of con...

'Matthew Venn is a keeper . . . stunning' David BaldacciThe number one Sunday Times bestselling series featuring Detective Matthew Venn, from autho...

Before the war! How long shall we go on saying that, I wonder? How long before the answer will be 'Which war?' The approach of the Second World Wa...

'All animals are equal - but some are more equal than others'When the downtrodden animals of Manor Farm overthrow their master Mr Jones and take ov...

Under the feckless husbandry of Mr Jones, the Manor Farm has fallen into disrepair. Pushed into hardship, the animals decide to stage a revolt,...

The stunning new thriller from international No.1 bestseller Karin Slaughter, author of Pieces of Her, now a major Netflix series A girl...

Introducing the works of a major Chinese writerliberal, cosmopolitan, and lyrically exoticonce banned but now embraced, and newly discovered in the...

Introducing the works of a major Chinese writerliberal, cosmopolitan, and lyrically exoticonce banned but now embraced, and newly discovered in the...

Ten-year-old Rauli lives in a world that is often hostile. His older brother is violent; his philandering father doesn't understand him; his intell...

The linen besuited, white-booted barge of a man moving down the sidewalk was something to see, but the addition of the broad-brimmed straw fedora o...

The novel walks a line between comedy and wrenching sadness. It is fluently written and its depiction of domestic chaos is all too recognisable Su...