Contemporary Fiction

Johan Thoms (pronounced Yo-han Tomes) was born in Argona, a small town twenty-three miles south of Sarajevo, during the hellish depths of winter 18...

In Roberto Saviano's The Opposite of Death, a town in southern Italy is haunted by the war in Afghanistan, where one by one its sons are dying. In ...

BY THE AUTHOR OF THE BOOKER PRIZE LONGLISTED PROPHET SONG.'Paul Lynch is peerless' Donal Ryan, author of Strange FlowersSpring 1832: Donegal, north...

Champagne, cat-fights and a very tricky love triangle Life is pretty good for Jade. Shes happily settled with her gorgeous boyfriend Sam...

A gutsy, heartfelt novel Sunday Times [Shrivers] best novel yet Independent on Sunday A surprising sledgehammer of a novel The ...

Longlisted for the 2013 Man Booker Prize, the overlapping lives of five newcomers to Chinas most dynamic city are the subject of this kaleidoscopic...

Marie may be 'getting on a bit' but it's certainly not getting her down. Her family around her and a man who loves her means that life is good - bu...

A stunning book set in the Edwardian era about a seamstress working at Buckingham Palace. Full of drama, betrayal and compelling histo...

Lex is seventeen. But being seventeen is a rollercoaster ride, and Lex is about to run into trouble. If he survives the humiliation of his final su...

The luxury cruise ship Transylvania takes six days to cross the Atlantic - just enough time for the passengers to find their sea-legs and lose thei...

My father is dead. I simply can't tell you how happy this makes me. Lucas Cage loses his father and gains a disused printing works in east London, ...

From Costa prizewinning and Booker-shorlisted Jennifer Johnston comes a beautifully crafted, alluring tale of family and secrets. Not every death i...

Nobel Laureate Gabriel García Márquez, author of One Hundred Years of Solitude and Love in the Time of Cholera, tells a powerful tale of poverty an...

The bestselling author of Getting Rid of Matthew and My Sweet Revenge tells a story of discovered secrets and the price of keeping them in her stun...

Sweeping through crumbling towns, travelling fairs and windswept ports, Gabriel García Márquez introduces a host of extraordinary characters and co...

Gabriel García Márquez's News of a Kidnapping is a powerful retelling of actual events from a turbulent period of Colombian history. 'She looked ov...

Spring, 1947. In a few months' time the British flag will be lowered all over India, and with Independence thousands of those who made their lives ...

Two sisters unravel a tangle of lies in this intriguing and unputdownable novel from the Sunday Times bestselling author.Beneath the shimmering sur...

From Mark Mills, author of the award-winning THE SAVAGE GARDEN comes THE LONG SHADOW, a first-class thriller in the vein of Robert Harris and Willi...

This ISN'T a book about babies. It's not about sleepless nights, nappies or nurseries. It IS about two people, one unexpected pregnancy and a quest...

Lucy is different - 'I don't have right words for things and I have no good behavior' - and she doesn't understand why her mother has sent her to l...

FROM THE BESTSELLING LOUISE BAGSHAWE, NOW WRITING AS LOUISE MENSCHBlend it. Sculpt it. Shape it. Use it...There isn't a woman on earth who doesn't ...

If you love Lindsey Kelk and Mhairi McFarlane's YOU HAD ME AT HELLO, you'll love this book . . .What if you found The One, then lost him again? Or ...

In the bestselling tradition of Douglas Kennedy. A rich, tense and absorbing novel of a woman's journey to Jerusalem from Manhattan to follow her h...