Modern fiction

Sean has returned to Dublin from Berlin. He feels a constant dislocation, never quite arriving in his place of birth. Everything comes to him in a confusion of three languages.Irish: the ghost language, the one his father spoke, the one added to road signs, the one in which they sing the old song...

Eleanor Oliphant leads a simple life. She wears the same clothes to work every day, eats the same meal for lunch and buys the same two bottles of vodka every weekend. Nothing is missing from her life... Except, sometimes, everything. One simple act of kindness is about to shatter the walls Eleano...

When pickpocket Danny accidentally bids for Maharajah the elephant at an Edinburgh auction, he's swept up on an unforgettable journey. His new employer, a zookeeper, transforms Danny into a bejewelled Indian prince. As he rides Maharajah from Scotland to his new home in England, even Queen Victor...

Maud is forgetful. She makes a cup of tea and doesn’t remember to drink it. She sometimes thinks her daughter Helen is a total stranger. But there’s one thing Maud is sure of: her friend Elizabeth is missing. The note in her pocket tells her so. And no matter who tells her to stop going on about ...

When Mirka gets a job in a country house in rural England, she has no idea of the struggle she faces to make sense of a very English couple, and a way of life that is entirely alien to her. Richard and Sophie are chaotic, drunken, frequently outrageous but also warm, generous and kind. Mirka find...

Evelyn and Muriel Axon, mother and daughter, lead a haunted existence. Objects of horror to their neighbours, they evade or terrorise any social worker who crosses their path. Inside their house, they pursue a covert persecution of each other, shrinking from the unseen occupants of their spare ro...

When Charlie’s husband Matt tells her he wants a divorce she has to start from scratch. Single, broke and approaching 40 she is forced to return to her childhood home. Charlie finds her new life refreshing. Now that she’s single she’s got no need to be the perfect wife. But just as she begins to ...

The follow up to the bestselling The Secret Lives of the Amir Sisters from the nation’s favourite and former Bake Off winner Nadiya Hussain.The four Amir Sisters, Fatima, Farah, Bubblee and Mae, are as close as sisters can be but sometimes even those bonds can be pushed to their limits. Becoming ...

How far would you go to find the truth?Since Amber lost her child ten years ago, her sole focus has been keeping her small business afloat. Her life seems to be on hold, until the morning she finds a girl on the beach outside her gift shop. A girl who has no shoes, no name, and no idea where she ...

Maeve Binchy's bestselling novels not only tell wonderful stories, they also give an insight into how Ireland has changed over the decades, but how people remain the same. They still fall in love, sometimes unsuitably, they still have hopes and dreams, they have deep, long-standing friendships an...