Modern Mainstream Fiction

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...

Synopsis Margaret Atwood's 2nd Novel & Winner of The 2000 Booker Prize. Part detective novel, part psychological thriller, Surfacing is the sto...

Synopsis The Man Booker Prize Winner 2019. In the village of al-Awafi in Oman, we encounter three sisters: Mayya, who marries after a heartbreak;...

Synopsis Melbourne, the late 1940's. A young conservative Australian poet named Christopher Chubb decides to teach his country a lesson about pre...

Synopsis The newest novel from the New York Times bestselling author Susan Wiggs which explores the meaning of happiness, trust, and faith in one...

Synopsis Awarded both the Orange Prize for Fiction and PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. Somewhere in South America, at the home of the country's vic...

Synopsis A woman steps over the line into the unthinkable in this brilliant, powerful, and unforgettable new novel by the author of The Lovely Bone...

Synopsis . . . Terrified, a young prisoner in the Second World War closes his eyes and pictures himself going out to bat on a sunlit cricket ground...

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 The story of how an unexpected romantic encounter irrevocably changes two families’ lives. One Sunday afternoon in Southern California, ...

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 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 Olive Kitteridge is a novel by American author Elizabeth Strout. It presents a portrait of the title character and a number of recurring c...

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 Seasonal Quartet #1. Man Booker Prize Finalist. A New York Times, The Washington Post, NPR, Financial Times, Southern Living, The Guardian...

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 International Bestseller. The beloved, life-affirming international bestseller which has sold over 5 million copies worldwide - now a majo...

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 Meet Maud . . . Maud is forgetful. She makes a cup of tea and doesn't remember to drink it. She goes to the shops and forgets why she wen...

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 England, 1976. Mrs. Creasy is missing and the Avenue is alive with whispers. The neighbours blame her sudden disappearance on the heat wav...

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...