Modern and Contemporary Fiction

To Dare is the hotly-anticipated new novel by Jemma Wayne, whose debut novel After Before was longlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction in 2015 and shortlisted for the Waverton Good Read Award.

Discover a beautiful story of what it is to be human from Pulitzer prize-winning Sunday Times bestselling Anne TylerHow does a man addicted to routine - a man who flosses his teeth before love-making - cope with the chaos of every

This is the story of Lizzie Vogel, a 15 year old girl who finds herself working in an old people's home in Leicestershire in the 1970s. The place is in chaos and it's not really a suitable job for a schoolgirl

'This is an old and wicked island. An island of Phoenicians and merchants, of bloodsuckers and frauds'
Expelled from her convent school for kicking the prioress, and abandoned by her father when her mother dies, rebellious teenag

'The first Italian feminist writer' La Repubblica
'To love, to sacrifice oneself, and to submit! Was this what all women were destined for?'
When her carefree, aspirational childhood in a seaside town is brought brutally to an e

The hilarious romantic comedy from NUMBER ONE BESTSELLING AUTHOR Sophie KinsellaIf you suddenly had a friend that only you could see or hear, what would you do?You could worry that your stressful life has tipped you over the edge

The Help is the phenomenal international bestseller (that inspired the Oscar nominated film) by Kathryn Stockett, published as a Penguin Essential for the first timeEnter a vanished and unjust world: Jackson, Mississippi, 1962. Wh

Nancy Mitford's The Pursuit of Love is one of the funniest, sharpest novels about love and growing up ever written. 'He was the great love of her life you know.''Oh, dulling,' said my mother, sadly, 'One always thinks that. Every,

Coming soon as a major Netflix film - produced by Barack and Michelle Obama and starring Riz Ahmed
SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2017
*A Barack Obama top ten book of 2017*
WINNER of the LA Times Prize for Fiction * WINNE

Now a major motion picture starring Domhnall Gleeson, Ruth Wilson, Will Poulter and Charlotte Rampling, and directed by Lenny Abrahamson. Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize'Sarah Waters's masterly novel is . .

"Lizzie Benson slid into her job as a librarian without a traditional degree. But this gives her a vantage point from which to practice her other calling: she is a fake shrink. For years, she has tended to her God-haunted mother a

This masterpiece is not only a page-turning thriller but also a rich and compelling novelabout a very mixed group of characters, all seeking some sort of salvation or redemption.'So good you almost want to keep him to yourself' }I

Paperback edition of Cooper's latest equestrian bonkbuster, featuring a young rider who rescues an injured horse. Cooper's last novel, }Wicked!{ sold over 646,000 copies, and her other novels include }Riders, Score!, Polo, Rivals{

1946, and Claire Randall goes to the Scottish Highlands with her husband Frank. It's a second honeymoon, a chance to learn how war has changed them. But one afternoon, Claire walks through a circle of standing stones and vanishes

Brooding hero Jake Lovell, under whose magic hands even the most difficult horse or woman is charmed, is driven by his loathing of the dashing darling of the show ring, Rupert Campbell-Black. Having pinched each other's horses and