Contemporary Fiction

The most life-affirming and uplifting story you will read this year. Perfect for fans of Jill Mansell, Fiona Gibson and Clare Pooley. ...

This spooky season curl up with the perfect witchy romcom for fans of Gilmore Girls, Hocus Pocus and Charmed. An absolute must-read if you love Eri...

Pre-order Victory for Ambridge, the brilliant new novel in The Archers series, coming in paperback in Spring 2025.Intriguing, comforting and endear...

A crime so brutal, it doesnt end at deathWhen a walk home in Surrey leads to a schoolboy stumbling upon a horrific crime scene of 96 containers, ea...

The major new novel from the beloved prize-winning author -- a brilliantly perceptive, painfully true and funny journey deep into one family''s foi...

It's October 1918 and the war is drawing to a close. Toussaint Caillet returns home to his wife, Jeanne, and the young daughter he hasn't seen grow...

Beautifully written, thought-provoking, intense and cleverly wrought, this is the most extraordinary first novel from a mesmerising new talent. One...

In Death as a Side Effect, Ana María Shuas brilliantly dark satire transports readers to a dystopic future Argentina where gangs of ad hoc marauder...

Shortlisted for the RSL Encore Award 2021Extraordinary SpectatorPowerful GuardianSpellbinding The TabletAs the 1950s draw to a close, and the Co...

With a Foreword by James Baldwin''Beautiful, timeless and relevant'' Jacqueline Woodson''A most important novel'' Paule Marshall''A considerable ac...

Over the course of a fifty-year career, Donald Westlake published nearly one hundred books, including not one - but two - long-running series, star...

This collection of short fiction aims to define the sometimes indefinable and to give voice to those struggling to make sense of what life throws a...

Harking from the golden age of fiction set in American suburbia - the school of John Updike and Cheever - these three works from the great American...