Modern and Contemporary Fiction

For years, the residents of Lake Haven, Wisconsin ignored the whispered troubles about the Chao family, if only to keep eating at the best restaurant in town. But when tyrannical patriarch 'Big' Leo Chao is found frozen to death i

A powerful and beautiful Syrian novel set in Aleppo during the early days of the civil war that followed the Arab Spring. 'Masterful... Kaleidoscopic: personal and collective, serendipitous and fatalistic, marked by a bitter irony

Miri thinks she has got her wife back, when Leah finally returns after a deep sea mission that ended in catastrophe. It soon becomes clear, though, that Leah may have come back wrong. Whatever happened in that vessel, whatever it

What if the person you thought you'd lost forever walked back into your life?On a sunny morning in March 1987, four-year-old Stephen Nelson welcomes his new baby sister, Emily. Holding her for the first time, he vows to love and p

'It takes the most ferocious intelligence, skill, and a deep reservoir of sadness to write a novel as funny as this. I adored it' - MEG MASON'A devastating treat of a novel: funny, furious, dark and delicious' - SARAH WATERSThe lo

From the acclaimed author of Immigrant, Montana comes a one-of-a-kind novel about memory, politics, a world of lies, and the ways in which truth can be not only stranger than fiction, but a fiction of its own. 'A shimmering assaul

'Ella Baxter's debut novel is drenched in sex and death . . .
there's also much love . . .
An intense, viscerally affecting book, with the quotient of tenderness to violence in an equal scale.' Sydney Morning HeraldAmelia is no

From the author of the modern classic A Little Life, a bold, brilliant novel spanning three centuries and three different versions of the American experiment, about lovers, family, loss and the elusive promise of utopia. In an alt

'An astonishingly accomplished debut - the Brennans leap fully formed onto the page in this brilliantly judged novel of the intricacies of family life . . .Wholly engrossing.' - Cathy KellySome secrets you keep from your family.

'A wonderfully written story of art, but also of obsession, friendship and love - I absolutely adored this novel' Jillian Cantor, author of The Lost Letter and In Another Time'Oh, my god, I love this book! Extraordinarily inventiv

A new novel about art, love, loss and time from the author of Motherhood and How Should A Person Be?Here we are, just living in the first draft of creation, which was made by some great artist, who is now getting ready to tear it

'Deeply humane, quietly devastating, mesmerisingly beautiful.' Olivia Sudjic'Haunting, irresistible.' Brandon Taylor'Marvelous.' Lauren GroffA student moves to the city to research Gothic nudes, renting an apartment from a painter

'Nostalgic' The Independent'Heart-warming' Platinum 'Uplifting' Cosmopolitan 'Beautiful' Stylist 'Quirky' Best If you could go back in time to find answers to the past, would you? For Faye, the answer is yes. There is nothing she

The sparkling new novel from Caroline Bishop, author of The Other Daughter. Perfect for fans of Tracy Rees, Elizabeth Noble and Rachel Hore.

'A voice that shakes the walls of the old literary comfort zone' The New Yorker 'Goes toe to toe with the original then surpasses it. A masterwork' Marlon James, Booker Prize-winning author of a Brief History of Seven Killings'Fie