Modern & contemporary fiction

Ari, a free-spirited struggling comedian, likes to keep things casual, and never sleeps over after hooking up. Josh, born-and-bred Manhattanite, has ambitious plans to take the culinary world by storm, to find The One and live happily-ever-after. After a confrontational first meeting (at the apar...

12 summers ago: Poppy and Alex meet. They hate each other, and are pretty confident they'll never speak again. 11 summers ago: They're forced to share a ride home from college and by the end of it a friendship is formed. And a pact: every year, one vacation together. 10 summers ago: Alex discover...

Marnie is stuck. Stuck working alone in her London flat, stuck battling the long afternoons and a life that increasingly feels like it's passing her by. Michael is coming undone. Reeling from his wife's departure, increasingly reclusive, taking himself on long, solitary walks across the moors and...

It is the morning of Ellie Warren's wedding day and she is hiding under her childhood bed. She cannot shake the feeling that she isn't where she's supposed to be - the marriage, that is - but she can't work out how she ended up here or where exactly she should be. Ellie knows there wasn't just on...

Marnie is stuck. Stuck working alone in her London flat, stuck battling the long afternoons and a life that increasingly feels like it's passing her by. Michael is coming undone. Reeling from his wife's departure, increasingly reclusive, taking himself on long, solitary walks across the moors and...

Shay Miller has three strikes against her: no job, no apartment, no love in her life. But when she witnesses a perfectly normal looking young woman about her age make the chilling decision to leap in front of an ongoing subway train, Shay realizes she could end up in the same spiral. She is intri...

The only thing Abi ever wanted was a proper family. So when she falls pregnant by an Australian exchange student in London, she cannot pack up her old life in Croydon fast enough, to start all over in Sydney and make her own family. It is not until she arrives, with three-week-old Jude in tow, th...

Elliot Owen is handsome, charming and basically Hollywood royalty. And, he insists, madly in love with Edie Thompson: an ordinary citizen with Pret tomato soup stains on her coat. Edie is having to learn how to live in the limelight, but they're just too good together not to try. Edie discovers i...

Elliot Owen is handsome, charming and basically Hollywood royalty. And, he insists, madly in love with Edie Thompson: an ordinary citizen with Pret tomato soup stains on her coat. Edie is having to learn how to live in the limelight, but they're just too good together not to try. Edie discovers i...

The wealthy, powerful Snberg clan has gathered for a family reunion at a futuristic hotel set amongst the dark lava flows of Iceland's remote Snaefellsnes peninsula. Petra Snaeberg, a successful interior designer, is anxious about the event, and her troubled teenage daughter, Lea, whose social-me...