Modern Mainstream Fiction

Synopsis Winner Dublin Literary Prize 2026. Once upon a time, not very far from now, two children come home to find a line of wet red paint round t...

Synopsis Shortlisted for The Orange Prize for Fiction. Granta Best of Young British Novelists. A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers by X...

Synopsis That They May Face the Rising Sun (published in the UK as By the Lake in some editions) is John McGahern's final novel, published in 2002....

Synopsis From the international bestselling and Booker Prize nominated author of The Slap comes a blazingly brilliant novel. Winner of the 2006 Age...

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. A...

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

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, each ...

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, fate...

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

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 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 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...

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 tor...