Contemporary Fiction

What could be more innocuous than grass? Or more idyllic than a world covered with a wind-whipped ocean of verdant plains? But the planet Grass con...

When life stops making sense, its time to raise the anchor and follow the tide.Twenty-two years of marriage, and all Becca Larkins divorce settleme...

Widely regarded as Sorrentino's finest achievement, Mulligan Stew takes as its subject the comic possibilities of the modern literary imagination. ...

For Willi Kufult, prison life means staying out of trouble, keeping his cell clean, snagging a precious piece of tobacco - and dreaming of the day ...

The first of John Banville's novels concerning father and daughter Alexander and Cass Cleave, Eclipse is a lyrical exploration of memory, family an...

After immigrating with his German Jewish family to South America in the 1930s, Heinz Magnus hopes to escape the Nazi regime and build a new life fo...

Now in paperback, The Shadow of Things to Come and its catastrophic and carnivalesque dreamscape speak out against political rhetoric and the destr...

Now in paperback, The Red Sofa is a quiet French novella exploring love, memory, and the perspective that travel gives us on both. In The Red Sofa,...

My father bought me from the council for 365 francs, recalls the narrator in Monica Cantienis novel The Encyclopaedia of Good Reasons. Shes a young...

The seventeen stories in this anthology have been carefully chosen to provide a wide, representative range of recent and contemporary Brazilian the...

*WINNER OF THE WHITBREAD BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD**WINNER OF THE SUNDAY EXPRESS BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD *From acclaimed author William Trevor, Felicia...

'A total delight. Achingly romantic, full of suspense and a beautiful cast of characters. This will be huge!' Laura Jane Williams__________________...

Set in present-day New York, The Whittiers is a heartwarming story about the importance of family, home and being true to yourself, from the worlds...

The brand new festive romance from Debbie Macomber, the #1 New York Times bestselling author and the queen of Christmas fiction! ALL SHE WANTS FOR...