Modern & contemporary fiction

Blake Morrison has lost a sister and a half-sister in recent years, and both are the subjects of this remarkable and heart-breaking memoir, along with a forensic examination of sibling relationships in history and literature.

A collection of seventeen wonderful short stories showing that two-time Oscar winner Tom Hanks is as talented a writer as he is an actor. A hectic, funny sexual affair between two best friends. A World War II veteran dealing with his emotional and physical scars. A second-rate actor plunged into ...

Using fiction inspired by found material and real-life events, 'Variations' explores the history of transgender Britain with lyrical, acerbic wit. Variations travels from Oscar Wilde's London to austerity-era Belfast via inter-war Cardiff, a drag bar in Liverpool just after the decriminalisation ...

'Voices' brings together a collection of short stories by some of Ireland's greatest writers, all of which are written and crafted specifically for the emerging adult reader.

A comprehensive and entertaining collection of urban legends from around the world, with a history and analysis of the origin of each tale, compiled by a leading authority in the field.

A.L. Kennedy's collection of stories show us women and men wrestling with the lives they have been given and the times spinning out around them. Humour, fantasy, rage and despair both help and hinder individuals as they navigate their changing circumstances, their accumulating losses, their momen...

Set in Caerphilly, a diminished castle town in South Wales, Thomas Morris' debut collection reveals its treasures in unexpected ways, offering vivid and moving glimpses of the lost, lonely and bemused. By turns poignant, witty, tender and bizarre, these entertaining stories detail the lives of pe...

In this collection of short stories, Helen Oyeyemi's ensembled cast of characters slip from the pages of their own stories only to surface in another. Enter into a world of lost libraries and locked gardens, of marshlands where the drowned dead live and a city where all the clocks have stopped.

The daughters, wives and mothers in Lesley Nneka Arimah's remarkable debut collection find themselves in extraordinary situations: a woman whose mother's ghost appears to have stepped out of a family snapshot, another who, exhausted by childlessness, resorts to fashioning a charmed infant out of ...