Modern fiction

Struggling to cope with a tragic loss, Denis Murphy has learned to live a bit differently. Both his friends are used to it, the only problem is his monstrous housemates. When his ex-girlfriend comes back into his life, she threatens to shatter the finely crafted world around him. As Denis begins ...

Heather doesn’t want to remember her childhood, not when her mother’s extreme hoarding cast her family life into disarray.For Heather’s mother, every possession was intimately connected to a memory, so when Heather uncovers a secret about her past that could reveal why her mother never let anythi...

When a devastating discovery tears Nora’s world apart she flees London for her childhood home in Dublin to find that her grandmother’s house is being sold along with all her wonderful belongings. Nora decides to stay and open a shop to find the perfect owner for each of her things. As she lets go...

Across seven tales, Haruki Murakami brings his powers of observation to bear on the lives of men who, in their own ways, find themselves alone. Here are vanishing cats and smoky bars, lonely hearts and mysterious women, baseball and the Beatles, woven together to tell stories that speak to us all...

Brought to you by Penguin.Costa Best Novel Award 2019 Winner.It was tempting to think, at times like this, that some bizarre hysteria had gripped the British people.Beginning eight years ago on the outskirts of Birmingham, where car factories have been replaced by Poundland, and London, where fre...

When Anna Flores' adored older sister goes missing as a teenager, Anna copes by disappearing too and eventually building a life for herself abroad. Thirty years later, the death of her mother finally forces Anna to return home. Tasked with sorting through her mother's possessions, she begins to c...

All Linda wants to do is sleep. She won’t look at her husband. She can’t stand her daughter. And she doesn’t want to have this baby. Having this baby means moving on, and she just wants to go back to before. Before their family was torn apart, before the blame was placed. Alienated by their own g...

On a previous voyage, a mysterious white whale had ripped off the leg of a sea captain named Ahab. Now the crew of the Pequod, on a pursuit that features constant adventure and horrendous mishaps, must follow the mad Ahab into the abyss to satisfy his unslakeable thirst for vengeance. Narrated by...

Jane Moneypenny combines forces with 007 to smoke out a mole that she is convinced is in the office. But as Bond is sacked and M forced into retirement, Moneypenny has to find him alone. 42 years later, Miss Moneypenny's niece, Kate, suspects that her aunt's death was no accident; the clues to wh...

She handles her cohort of unruly 00 agents with good-humoured grace. Yet, behind her polished perfection, she exudes a certain aura of mystery. Indeed there is more to Miss Moneypenny than meets the eye. When she hears that her favourite agent James Bond's secret Cuban mission is jeopardised and ...