Modern Mainstream Fiction

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

Synopsis Born in a remote part of Iceland, and named after a volcano, Hekla always knew she wanted to be a writer. She heads for Reyjkavik, with ...

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 New York Times Bestseller & Shortlisted for The Women's Prize for Fiction 2013. Flight Behaviour is a captivating, topical and deeply ...

Synopsis Seasonal Quartet #4. Winner of the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction 2021. Longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2021. The unmissa...

Synopsis Sunday Times Bestseller. Erica is eighteen and ready for freedom. It's the summer of 1960. The world is dancing on the edge of revolutio...

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 When everything is lost, it's our stories that survive . . . How do we weather the end of things? Cloud Cuckoo Land brings together an unf...

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. Tru...

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 A short, intense and profoundly moving debut novel about race, identity, sex and death - from one of the National Book Foundation's 5 Un...

Synopsis Seasonal Quartet #2. Shortlisted for The Orwell Prize 2018. From the Baileys Prize-winning, Man Booker-shortlisted author of Autumn and Ho...

Synopsis A compelling emotional drama of love and guilt that grips from the very first moments, by the UK's bestselling women's fiction author. Luk...

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 ...

Synopsis The Women's Prize for Fiction 2018 Winner. From the Man Booker-longlisted author comes an urgent, explosive story of love and a family t...