Modern Mainstream Fiction

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

Synopsis A Sunday Times Top 10 Bestseller. A charmingly subversive novel about a library in 1950's England, by the acclaimed author of The Cleaner ...

Synopsis Longlisted for The Women's Prize for Fiction. Sunday Times Bestseller. There are three things you should know about Elsie. The first thing...

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

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 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 The International Bestseller - over 300,000 copies sold. A delightful and quirky story about Monsieur Jean Perdu’s Literary Apothecary: a ...

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