Contemporary Fiction

Evoking Emmy limited-series winner Big Little Lies, Whalens novel is about a Georgia town ripped apart when an outcast boy kills three cheerleaders...

From one of China's foremost authors, Jia Pingwa's Happy Dreams is a powerful depiction of life in industrializing contemporary China, in all its h...

Symphony Nelson has weathered more than her share of hardshipsin part thanks to the faithfulness and affection of her adopted puppy, Toby. Her form...

A harrowing historical novel of the extraordinary acts of ordinary people in Nazi-occupied Italy.Italy, 1943. Luca Benedetto has joined the partisa...

Its the phone call every parent dreads: in the middle of the night, Sandy Cline learns that her twenty-year-old son, Jordan, has been in a car acci...

In the shadow of World War II, one young woman must make an unthinkable sacrifice for those she loves.Norway, 1940. Nazis pour into Oslo, a shroud ...

Legendary jazz pianist Oliver Pleasant finds himself alone at the end of his career, playing his last five shows, hoping the music will draw his es...

After spending eight years in a state-run home for girls, Mia is finally on her own. So she hits the road, determined to see the world that was alw...

A heartwarming, hilarious novel for anyone who has ever had a family, from the author of Lift and Separate.After a lifetime of marriage, Marcy Hamm...

An intriguing and hypnotizing work of postmodern fiction from groundbreaking Hispanic-American writer Giannina Braschi, Empire of Dreams chronicles...

BY THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR 'One of our best and most captivating novelists' PHILIP HENSHER '[Godden] writes with grace and a cheerful...

''A wonderful writer'' - Jessie Burton, author of The MiniaturistAs Britain is pulled towards war, the secrets within two families threaten to tear...

The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde Continues...Seven years after the death of Edward Hyde, a stylish gentleman shows up in foggy London clai...

One of my lifes greatest tragedies is to have already read Pickwick Papers- I cant go back and read it for the first time.- Fernando Pessoa If I m...

The greatest tragic writer among English novelists.-Virginia Woolf There is no other novelist alive with the breadth of sympathy, the knowledge or...

Winesburg, Ohio (1919) is a collection of interrelated short stories about small-town life in the American Midwest by author Sherwood Anderson. No ...

Dope-Darling is a story of sex, drugs, and music set just before the outbreak of the First World War. Claire is the talk of the town when she meets...

Equality (1897) is a novel by Edward Bellamy. The sequel to Bellamys bestselling novel Looking Backward, 2000-1887 (1888) is a product of decades o...

When Lucy Ashford lands a top job at a leading theatrical agency in London, work mixes with pleasure, as she literally falls into the arms of Holly...

Howards End (1910) is a novel by English author E.M. Forster. Inspired by his interactions with the famous Bloomsbury Group of writers and intellec...

'Addictive' Stylist'Sultry' Elle'Shimmers with suspense' Daily Mail'Sizzling' EsquireSummer in Paris. Leah, bored of tedious dead-end jobs, is intr...