Modern Mainstream Fiction

Synopsis Shortlisted for The Encore Award 2020. On a bitterly cold winter’s afternoon, Michael and Caitlin escape their unhappy marriages to keep...

Synopsis The International Bestseller. Now a major Apple TV series starring Brie Larson. Laugh-out-loud funny, shrewdly observant, and studded wi...

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, eac...

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 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 #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 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...

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...