Modern fiction

Sage Singer has a past that makes her want to hide from the world. But when she strikes up an unlikely friendship with Josef Weber, a quiet old man and respected pillar of the community, she feels that finally, she may have found someone she can open up to. Until Josef tells her the evil secret h...

Tamsin and her best friend Michelle have been inseparable since they were teenagers. Even now they spend all their time together, along with Patrick, Michelle's handsome husband. So when Tamsin hears a rumour that Patrick is having an affair, she is furious and plots a scheme to catch him in the ...

The unmissable finale to Ali Smith's dazzling literary tour de force: the Seasonal quartet concludes in 2020 with SummerIn the present, Sacha knows the world's in trouble. Her brother Robert just is trouble. Their mother and father are having trouble. Meanwhile the world's in meltdown - and the r...

A seaside holiday at Shell Cottage in Devon has always been the perfect escape for the Tarrant family. But this year, everything has changed. Following her husband's recent death, Olivia is struggling to pick up the pieces. Harriet's looking forward to a break with her lovely husband Robert and t...

Thirty years ago, something terrible happened to Luna’s mother. Something she’s only prepared to reveal after her death. In settling her mother’s affair, Luna finds more questions than answers, until something impossible and magical happens… Luna meets her mother as a young woman back in the summ...

June, 1998. At twenty-seven, Cat Coombs is struggling. She lives in London and parties hard. Discovering the identity of her father sends her into a spiral. She makes mistakes that cost her her only friendships. June, 2014. Cat wants to make amends to those she has hurt. What Cat doesn't realize ...

American documentary maker Daniel O'Connell is renting the beautiful Cable Lodge for the summer. He's hoping that three months researching an old cable station in a remote, Irish village will help him and his traumatised son finally move on from the accident that killed his wife. Meanwhile local ...

It was never easy being one of Ronni Sunshine’s daughters. Publicly, she is the glamorous Hollywood actress. Privately, she is a disinterested, narcissistic mother. Now in her seventies, Ronni has ALS, a degenerative motor neuron disease. Ronni is adamant that her estranged daughters, Nell, Mered...

A startling and gripping novel, Suzy Suzy follows a teenage girl trying to understand the chaos of her family life. Suzy lives in a dysfunctional household. She can't stand her mother; her father is keeping secrets; and her brother only seems to egg on their parents' erratic and unpredictable beh...

It is Amory's photographer uncle Greville who gives her a camera and some rudimentary lessons in photography and unleashes a passion that will irrevocably shape her future. Her search for life, love and artistic expression will take her to the demi monde of Berlin of the late 20s, to New York of ...