Modern Mainstream Fiction

Synopsis The Booker Prize Winner 2022. A magical realism whodunnit set amid Sri Lanka's civil war. Colombo, 1990. Maali Almeida, war photographer...

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

Synopsis Subtitled : One Library. Infinite Lives. Shortlisted for the British Book Awards Fiction Book of the Year 2021. Between life and death the...

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 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 Richard & Judy Book Club Pick and Sunday Times Bestseller. London, 1941. Emmeline Lake and her best friend Bunty are trying to sta...

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 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 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 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...