Modern Mainstream Fiction

Synopsis Booker Prize-winner Anita Brookner captures the magic and depth of real life with this story of an ordinary man whose unexpected longings,...

Synopsis The beloved Fannie Flagg is back and at her irresistible and hilarious best in I Still Dream About You, a comic mystery romp through the s...

Synopsis "Everything leads to this, he thought. To this elevation." Elevation is a (non-horror) novella by American author Stephen King, published ...

Synopsis In an unnamed town Jugnu and his lover Chanda have disappeared. Rumours abound in the close-knit Pakistani community, and then on a snow...

Synopsis This is the stunning new novel from bestselling author Mike Gayle, for fans of The Keeper of Lost Things and Eleanor Oliphant is Complet...

Synopsis The world is on the brink of disaster. The environment, society and mankind itself are facing extreme challenges in a world that is both...

Synopsis Tara Fraser has a secret. Desperate to escape herself and her past, she changes her name, packs up her London home and moves to a town in...

Synopsis Afghanistan, 1952. Abdullah and his sister Pari live with their father and stepmother in the small village of Shadbagh. Their father, Sabo...

Synopsis From the author of The Power, winner of the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction 2017. Disobedience is the debut novel by British author Naom...

Synopsis Louise is struggling to survive in New York; juggling a series of poorly paid jobs, renting a shabby flat, being catcalled by her creepy n...

Synopsis Winner - Man Booker Prize 2008. The White Tiger clearly tells of the vast gulf between the rich and poor in India and between the modern c...

Synopsis Undue Influence is the nineteenth novel by Anita Brookner, the Booker Prize winning author of Hotel du Lac. Enigmatic Claire is 30 and liv...

Synopsis When a wanted war criminal from the Balkans, masquerading as a faith healer, settles in a small west coast Irish village, the community ar...

Synopsis Selected as a Book of the Year - Observer, Sunday Times, Times, Guardian & i magazine. ‘It’s got a thunderstorm in it. And revenge. De...

Synopsis First edition / first printing from the author of Notes On A Scandal. A comic, tragic, supremely entertaining novel about one family's str...

Synopsis 'If you care about something you have to protect it. If you're lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage t...

Synopsis Sunday Times Best Summer Reads 2018. A Financial Times 2018 Best Book: Critics Pick. A moving story of love, friendship, grief, healing, a...

Synopsis The Richard & Judy Book Club Pick and Sunday Times Bestseller. London, 1941. Emmeline Lake and her best friend Bunty are trying to sta...

Synopsis One of the BBC’s 100 Novels That Shaped Our World. Winner of The Nobel Prize for Literature 2003. Winner of The 1999 Booker Prize. After y...

Synopsis Filled with all the larger-than-life characters and enchanting storytelling that made readers fall for The Reader on the 6.27 comes Jean-P...

Synopsis Welcome To London . . . but not as you know it. In this thought-provoking and lyrical debut novel, a young woman's only hope for survival ...

Synopsis The novel is about a woman who suffers early-onset Alzheimer's disease. Alice Howland, a 50-year-old woman, is a cognitive psychology prof...

Synopsis From the bestselling author of The End of Mr. Y. Oligarchy is Scarlett Thomas' fierce and brilliant new novel about power, privilege and p...

Synopsis A charmingly subversive novel about a library in 1950's England, by the acclaimed author of The Cleaner of Chartres. Sylvia Blackwell, a y...

Synopsis There are three things you should know about Elsie. The first thing is that she's my best friend. The second is that she always knows what...

Synopsis If you could wish for one gift this Christmas, what would it be? Lou Suffern wishes he could be in two places at once. His constant battle...

Synopsis When Barry Fairbrother dies in his early forties, the town of Pagford is left in shock. Pagford is, seemingly, an English idyll, with a co...

Synopsis Purple America begins in a bathtub and ends in Long Island Sound. In between, Rick Moody's latest novel explores the landscape of a family...

Synopsis A brilliant, emotionally wrenching novel from the author of Atonement & Amsterdam. Now a major film adaption. The title is a reference...

Synopsis One unremarkable June morning, Alice Goodwin is, as usual, trying to keep in check both her temper and her tendency to blame herself for h...

Synopsis The Finkler Question is a 2010 novel written by British author Howard Jacobson. The novel won the Man Booker Prize. Julian Treslove, a pro...

Synopsis Lost in Portugal. Lost to grief. With nothing but a chimpanzee. The extraordinary new novel from the author of Life of Pi. In Lisbon in 19...

Synopsis A delightful and quirky story about Monsieur Jean Perdu’s Literary Apothecary: a barge moored on the river Seine. He’s a bookseller with a...

Synopsis A Sunday Times Bestseller. A richly moving novel - the first since the author’s Booker-Prize winning, internationally celebrated debut, Th...