Contemporary Fiction

After thirty years at St Oswald''s Grammar in North Yorkshire, Latin master Roy Straitley has seen all kinds of boys come and go. Each class has it...

Once a week, Rosie Tipcott counts her blessings. She goes to sit on her favourite bench on the north Devon cliffs, and thanks her lucky stars for...

An ordinary day. An ordinary bank. An ordinary street in an ordinary town. Nothing ever happens, until, one day, a shocking robbery turns life upsi...

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER Part whodunnit, part coming of age, this is a gripping debut about the secrets behind every door R...

'A masterpiece... I would urge you to read - and re-read ' Daily Telegraph**Winner of the Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2011**Tony Webster and his c...

A compulsive and chilling debut about a girl growing up in a cult WHY WOULD ANYONE WANT TO LEAVE? Green...

HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. LADY CHATTERLEYS LOVER was banned on its public...

''Powerful . . . unputdownably gripping'' Guardian''The island itself. Its throbbing heat as if in a belljar under the sun, the scorpion in his son...

A writer discovers a set of notes in his notebook and sets off on a journey through the Paris of his past, in search of the woman he loved forty ye...

Wry, satirical and bawdy, Tamer's stories are always informed by his dark view of humanity and of Syrian society in particular. Through these glimp...

The town governors... all flogged the inhabitants, but the first flogged them pure and simple, the second explained their zeal by referring to the ...

PERFECT for fans of Roald Dahl.Think you know Dahl? Think again. There's still a whole world of Dahl to discover in a newly collected book of his d...

Every family has its secrets...An uplifting story from the bestselling author of The Memory Book and Zoe Ball Book Club pick, The Summer of Impossi...

When fifteen-year-old Anna begins receiving messages from another time, her parents take her to the doctor. But he can find nothing wrong; in fact ...

From Sunday Times Top Ten bestselling author, Katherine Webb, The English Girl is perfect for fans of Dinah Jefferies, Kate Morton and Santa Montef...

Desiderio, an employee of the city under a bizarre reality attack from Doctor Hoffman's mysterious machines, has fallen in love with Albertina, the...

'Fabulous' Lesley PearseThe Liberation is set in Italy in 1945 as British and American troops attempt to bring order to the devastated country and ...

The Girl from Lace Island is a romantic and moving story that spans generations and oceans, from author Joanna Rees.Some bonds will never break . ....

THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER'A gut-wrenching tale of mother love . . . contains enough blind alleys and red herrings to keep even the most astute r...

Jilly Cooper returns to horses in a fabulously entertaining romp through the world of jump racing.Etta Bancroft - sweet, kind, still beautiful - ad...

Not many writers introduce a phrase let alone a whole idea into the language. In Catch-22, Joseph Heller invented a motif for the modern world. T...

From Whitbread Novel Award-winning and Booker Prize-shortlisted author Justin Cartwright comes an intimate exploration of one mans relationship wit...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORANGE PRIZE FOR FICTION There were people on the banks of the river. Among the tangled waterways and giant anacondas of the ...

Growing up in London in the aftermath of the Second World War, Ruth is an observant and thoughtful child who finds herself in a confusing and myste...