Contemporary Fiction

The Accidental Woman is a wickedly funny novel from bestseller Jonathan CoeFor Maria, nothing is certain. Her life is a chain of accidents. Untouch...

A Touch of Love is Jonathan Coe's delightfully comic and moving novel about not fitting inRobin, a postgraduate student in Coventry, has spent four...

Kate Fordham fled to Spain to start a new life. Amid the sunlit streets of Granada and the earthly paradise of the Alhambra's gardens, towers and c...

'If you like Trainspotting, Peaky Blinders, Guy Ritchie and Quentin Tarantino then this rackety, kinetic, hold-your-attention at gunpoint book for ...

Live Bait is the second book in P.J. Tracy's bestselling Twin Cities series.When elderly Morey Gilbert is found, lying dead in the grass by his wi...

'Ólafsdóttir's specialty is the small journeys we take to save ourselves and the ones we care for. She is the heart's finest map-maker' SjónWinner ...

Essential reading for Jodi Picoult fans Daily Mail A past that wont stay buried ...

A sharp and poignant snapshot of the crises of youth - from the acclaimed author of The Catcher in the Rye'Everything everybody does is so - I don'...

The discovery of an immortal dog with miracle healing powers upends the world. For several centuries an isolated mountain village in Mexico has hel...

What if you could rewrite the past . . . ?Marc Laurent is being held captive. Every night, a woman he knows only as Josephine comes to visit him. A...

Maria knew about guilt. It was a stubborn, pervasive and toxic emotion, and incredibly difficult to shake. Especially if really, deep down, you did...

Winner of a 2015 Gourmand Cookbook Award For FictionShortlisted for the 2015 ABIA Matt Richell Award for New WriterChristmas Livingstone has formul...

Kate Fullerton, talented tea designer and now co-owner of The Tea Chest, could never have imagined that she'd be flying from Brisbane to London, ri...

Edith and Oliver fell in love after meeting in the glitzy world of the music hall in its Edwardian heyday. Edith is a spirited young woman who play...

'The stories here will provoke, delight and impress. Joost Zwagerman's selection forms a fascinating guidebook to a landscape you'll surely want to...

Without telling her family, Elyria takes a one-way flight to New Zealand, abruptly leaving her stable life in Manhattan, her home, her career and h...

Three bears. The first, a diligent memoirist whose unlikely success forces her to flee Soviet Russia. The second, her daughter, a skilled dance...

'A sweeping, colourful read' Mail on Sunday Lose yourself in the irresistable story of one woman's journey through 20th-century Russia. Growing u...

This thrilling collection of twenty-one all-original stories, by an all-star list of contributors, will delight and astonish in equal measure with ...

Ten powerful stories set on several continents and at different periods in history. A well-meaning Abolitionist learns the sordid and violent truth...

'A bold new talent' Matt HaigNinety minutes.A few years from now, not too far in the future, two people meet.It is a classic story of boy meets gir...

THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER Everybody wanted the railway close, oh yes please, but not so close that they could hear it or smell itIts only in dictat...

'Kept me guessing and re-guessing all the way to its inexorable conclusion' Ruth Ware, Sunday Times bestselling author of The Woman in Cabin 10.Sup...

The heartwarming story of how the little dog with the biggest heart saves Christmas.*****'Charming, touching - an absolute gift of a book!' Katie F...