Modern Mainstream Fiction

Synopsis Longlisted for The Booker Prize 2023. Waterstones Science Fiction & Fantasy Book of the Month for February 2024. Winner of the Arthur ...

Synopsis A BBC Radio 2 Book Club Pick. In Tokyo - one of the world's largest megacities - a stray cat is wending her way through the back alleys. ...

Synopsis Shortlisted for The Encore Award 2020. On a bitterly cold winter’s afternoon, Michael and Caitlin escape their unhappy marriages to keep a...

Synopsis The Sunday Times & New York Times Bestseller. Carrie Soto is fierce, and her determination to win at any cost has not made her popul...

Synopsis The International Bestseller. Now a major Apple TV series starring Brie Larson. Laugh-out-loud funny, shrewdly observant, and studded with...

Synopsis Full Title : Communion Town - A City in Ten Chapters. The Man Booker-longlisted novel explores how each of us conjures up our own city. ...

Synopsis Our foremost storyteller returns with an audacious novel, Machines Like Me. Britain has lost the Falklands war, Margaret Thatcher battles ...

Synopsis Beautifully written and compelling, About Grace is the brilliant debut novel from Anthony Doerr. Growing up in Alaska, young David Winkler...

Synopsis The Booker Prize Winner 2022. A magical realism whodunnit set amid Sri Lanka's civil war. Colombo, 1990. Maali Almeida, war photographer...

Synopsis Longlisted for the Miles Franklin Literary Award, 2021. A fierce and beautiful debut novel about our capacity for harming ourselves, eac...

Synopsis The Sunday Times & New York Times Bestseller. Now also a Smash Hit Amazon Prime Series. They were the new icons of rock and roll, fa...

Synopsis The Number One bestselling novel by the author of Cloud Atlas, 'one of the most brilliantly inventive writers of this, or any country' (...

Synopsis Award-winning American novelist Nicole Krauss first captivates readers with her groundbreaking debut novel Man Walks into a Room, a novel ...

Synopsis The beautiful and heart-rending first novel from the author of Plainsong. The Tie That Binds is a novel by Kent Haruf. It is the story of ...

Synopsis #1 New York Times Bestseller. Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize & The Women's Prize for Fiction. An exquisite story of mothers and d...

Synopsis A Radio 2 Book Club Choice. Shortlisted for 'Best Novel' in the 2021 Ngaio Marsh Awards. "Three hostages, one cafe and a man on the brink ...

Synopsis Unsheltered is a 2018 novel by Barbara Kingsolver. It follows two families living in the same house at two separate time periods in Vinela...

Synopsis The definitive post-Brexit novel, and long-awaited sequel to the bestselling A Very British Coup. Brexit Britain was a gloomy place. True,...

Synopsis Shortlisted for The Orange Prize for Fiction 2012. There were people on the banks of the river. Among the tangled waterways and giant anac...

Synopsis The New York Times Bestseller. A stunning new novel about life, death, and missed opportunities. Who would you be, if you hadn't turned ou...

Synopsis Synopsis A short, intense and profoundly moving debut novel about race, identity, sex and death - from one of the National Book Foundatio...

Synopsis Winner of The Booker Prize 2019 & Multi-Award Winning Bestseller. This is Britain as you've never read it.This is Britain as it has ne...

Synopsis Following the astonishing Plainsong and Eventide, this is Kent Haruf's third novel set in the imaginary landscape of Holt, Colorado. Short...

Synopsis At the eastern edge of Long Island, far from the hustle of New York City, stands Orient, a village that has been home to a few families fo...