Modern & contemporary fiction

Connie and her GP husband Devan have led a charmed life since they married in their twenties. Forty years on they are the couple their whole village envies. Life isn't quite so rosy just now with Devan struggling to adjust to early retirement, but Connie hopes that getting away for a few weeks th...

Rose McCarthy is the legendary editor in chief at one of New York's top fashion magazines. Following the death of her husband some years ago, she and her four daughters have become even closer. All with successful careers, Athena is a TV chef, Venetia, a fashion designer, and Olivia, a court judg...

Rose McCarthy is the legendary editor in chief at one of New York's top fashion magazines. Following the death of her husband some years ago, she and her four daughters have become even closer. All with successful careers, Athena is a TV chef, Venetia, a fashion designer, and Olivia, a court judg...

Brendan has always lived a careful, constrained life. A salesman who never liked the work, he's a man who has stayed in his marriage and his faith because it was what was expected of him. But now, having lost his job after corporate downsizing and on the cusp of sixty, he finds himself scrambling...

Brendan has always lived a careful, constrained life. A salesman who never liked the work, he's a man who has stayed in his marriage and his faith because it was what was expected of him. But now, having lost his job after corporate downsizing and on the cusp of sixty, he finds himself scrambling...

Brendan has always lived a careful, constrained life. A salesman who never liked the work, he's a man who has stayed in his marriage and his faith because it was what was expected of him. But now, having lost his job after corporate downsizing and on the cusp of 60, he finds himself scrambling to...

From Taylor Jenkins Reid, author of 'Forever, Interrupted' comes a novel about modern marriage and the depth of family ties.

Sanna and Gerti see the Fuhrer in a motorcade procession and the crowd goes mad striving to catch a glimpse of Hitler's raised 'empty hand'. Then the parade is over and in the long hours after midnight, Sanna and Gerti face betrayal, death and the heartbreaking reality of being young in an era de...

Three best friends take the same Eurostar to Paris for a girls' weekend, but take separate trains back. What happened that weekend? This is a novel set in Paris about motherhood, friendship, secrets, and the face we present to the world.

Told in a series of cascading vignettes, featuring a multitude of voices, 'After Sappho' is Selby Wynn Schwartz's joyous reimagining of the lives of a brilliant group of feminists, sapphists, artists and writers in the late 19th and early 20th century as they battle for control over their lives; ...