Modern & contemporary fiction

This volume contains a collection of short stories by Alfred Edgar Coppard. Within these stories, Coppard explores the proximity of the spiritual world to the material, analysing the sudden impulses which cause secrecy to dissolve - and, for a moment, personality to be revealed. This collection w...

Evie Lang's life is in shambles. On the heels of losing her beloved aunt, she's unceremoniously fired from her poetry professorship. Lacking income and inspiration, she has no idea how to move forward - until hope arrives in the form of a surprising letter. Auntie Hao has left her house in San Fr...

This story was written on the eve of the Holocaust as a series of letters between an American Jew living in San Francisco and his former business partner and friend who returned to his native Germany.

Adelaide Williams is a 20-something American, living in dreamy London. With wonderful friends and fierce ambitions, Adelaide has little interest in finding 'the one' right now, but when she meets Rory Hughes on a dating app - a charming Englishman who has been placed there by fate, she swears - t...

Kate Mundy's life is not going to plan. Nearing 30, she's been made redundant from her job, her oldest friends have quietly left her behind, and she can barely admit her biggest secret: she's never even been on a date, let alone taken her underwear off with a member of the opposite sex. Freddie W...

Jenny McLaine is an adult. Supposedly. At 35 she owns her own house, writes for a cool magazine and has hilarious friends just a message away. But the thing is: she can't actually afford her house since her criminally sexy ex-boyfriend Art left, her best friend Kelly is clearly trying to break up...

Jenny McLaine is an adult. Supposedly. At thirty-five she owns her own house, writes for a cool magazine and has hilarious friends just a message away. But the thing is: she can't actually afford her house since her criminally sexy ex-boyfriend Art left, her best friend Kelly is clearly trying to...

Amina al-Sirafi has survived backstabbing rogues, vengeful merchant princes, several husbands, and one actual demon to retire peacefully with her family to a life of piety, motherhood, and absolutely nothing that hints of the supernatural. But when she's offered a job no bandit could refuse, she ...

This is a riotous romp taking the reader from the turbulent frontier culture of the pampas deep into indigenous territories. It charts the adventures of China Iron, Martin Fierro's abandoned wife, in her travels across the pampas in a covered wagon with her new-found friend and lover, Scottish wo...

March 1997. A woman has her throat cut behind a bar in Carter Crossing, Mississippi. Just down the road is a big army base. Is the murderer a local guy - or is he a soldier? Jack Reacher, still a major in the military police, is sent in undercover.