Modern Mainstream Fiction

Synopsis Waterstones Scottish Book of the Month for June 2021. Shortlisted for the Portico Prize 2022. Winner of the Christopher Isherwood Prize....

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 When everything is lost, it's our stories that survive . . . How do we weather the end of things? Cloud Cuckoo Land brings together an unf...

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 Vinel...

Synopsis Shortlisted for The Booker Prize 2019. In a tour-de-force that is a modern masterpiece about the quest for love and family, Booker Prize-w...

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 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 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 Winner of The Booker Prize 2019 & Multi-Award Winning Bestseller. This is Britain as you've never read it.This is Britain as it has ...

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 The Man Booker Prize Winner 2019. In the village of al-Awafi in Oman, we encounter three sisters: Mayya, who marries after a heartbreak;...

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...

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...