Modern Mainstream Fiction

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 Longlisted for the Miles Franklin Literary Award, 2021. A fierce and beautiful debut novel about our capacity for harming ourselves, eac...

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 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 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 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 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 . . . 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 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 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 Winner of The Man Booker Prize 2008. The White Tiger clearly tells of the vast gulf between the rich and poor in India and between the mod...

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 First edition / first printing from the author of Notes On A Scandal. A comic, tragic, supremely entertaining novel about one family's str...

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

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

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...