Modern Classics

Synopsis The Bridges of Madison County . . . and Slow Waltz in Cedar Bend (Omnibus Edition). The story of Robert Kincaid, the photographer and fr...

Synopsis The International Bestseller. Longlisted for The Man Booker Prize 2010. . . . at a suburban barbecue one afternoon, a man slaps an unrul...

Synopsis New York Times Bestseller. Winner of The Edgar Award for Best Novel 2014. Winner of The Dilys Award 2014. From New York Times bestsellin...

Synopsis The New York Times Bestseller. Midnight, New Year's Eve, 1976. Nine lives are about to be changed forever. Regan and William Hamilton-Sw...

Synopsis The first novel in the Heaven series from the internationally bestselling author, Mitch Albom. This is  is a wonderfully moving fable th...

Synopsis A daring, moving fictional account of the last moments of a father and his two sons atop the World Trade Centre on September 11 2001. 'T...

Synopsis The International Bestseller. Shortlisted for The Man Booker Prize. Kate Grenville's modern classic of one man's loss, struggle and surv...

Synopsis Berlin, 1940, and the city is filled with fear. At the house on 55 Jablonski Strasse, its various occupants try to live under Nazi rule ...

Synopsis The dark but witty The Patrick Melrose Novels charts the life story of the highly dysfunctional, upper-class Patrick, together in one vo...

Synopsis Michael Frayn's classic is set in the crossword and nature notes department of an obscure national newspaper during the declining years ...

Synopsis Set in seventeenth century Amsterdam - a city ruled by glittering wealth and oppressive religion - a masterful debut steeped in atmosphere...

Synopsis A timeless novel of a straitlaced village's awakening to joy and sensuality - every page offers a description of chocolate to melt in the ...

Synopsis In 1915, two spirited Australian sisters join the war effort as nurses, escaping the confines of their father's dairy farm and carrying a ...

Synopsis Number 98 in The Guardian's 100 Best Novels of All Time (2015). "He speaks in your voice, American, and there's a shine in his eye that's ...

Synopsis "Winter collapsed on us that year. It knelt down, exhausted, and stayed." Linda has an idiosyncratic home life: her parents live in abando...

Synopsis In this novel - a story of irreconcilable loves and infidelities - Milan Kundera addresses himself to the nature of twentieth-century 'Bei...

Synopsis First published in the Soviet journal Novy Mir in 1962, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich stands as a classic of contemporary literat...

Synopsis One boy, one boat, one tiger . . . After the tragic sinking of a cargo ship, a solitary lifeboat remains bobbing on the wild, blue Pacific...