Modern & contemporary fiction

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; ...

Sela Gordon, shy owner of a Tennessee general store, prefers solitude. If anyone can chip away at her protective shell it's the handsome, mysterious, ex-military man who's been hiding for two years in the wilds of Cove Mountain. But when he warns her that a catastrophic solar storm with the capab...

Immortal Enforcer Valerian just wants to relax. His last assignment had been more grueling than he'd care to admit, and golf has always helped him unwind. If golf course owner Natalie thinks it's a little odd for him to tee off at sunset every evening, she's keeping it to herself. The single mom ...

According to legend, after murdering the father of a woman he attempted to seduce, the evil Don Juan is dragged by demons down to hell. But what happens next? Set in the Spanish countryside, and featuring a diverse cast of peasants, aristocrats and vengeful ghosts, this novel was Sylvia Townsend ...

Max and Pip are the strongest couple you know. Only now they're facing the most important decision of their lives - and they don't agree. As the consequences of an impossible choice threaten to devastate them both, nothing will ever be the same again. But anything can happen after the end.