Modern & contemporary fiction

  • Flesh

    £9.99

    Once a shy young man from a town in Hungary, István is carried gradually upwards on the currents of the 21st century’s tides of money and power, moving from the army to the company of London’s super-rich, with his own competing impulses for love, intimacy, status and wealth winning him unimaginable riches, until they threaten to undo him completely. Spare and penetrating, ‘Flesh’ asks profound questions about what drives a life: what makes it worth living, and what breaks it.

  • Mrs Jekyll

    £9.99

    Schoolteacher Rosy Winter is dying. But, beyond the homeopathic remedies, the dinner party obligations, the snatched whispers on wards and in staffrooms, a force – murderous, feminine, feverish – is stirring within her. A story of power and powerlessness, light and dark, life and death, ‘Mrs Jekyll’ embraces the paradoxes and paroxysms of modern womanhood, in a story every bit as gripping as the original.

  • Sisters in Yellow

    £16.99

    International Booker shortlisted literary sensation Mieko Kawakami serves us a thrilling, stylish noir of buried secrets and shocking acts.

  • So Good to See You

    £10.99

    2004. Serge, Rosie and Daniel are enjoying their final weeks of university. They are young, inseparable and full of optimism. Fifteen years later, they are guests at a lavish three-day wedding in Provence – and no longer friends. Life has not turned out quite as planned since their heady days at Oxford. Film-maker Serge is winning awards, but hiding a huge debt and fractured relationship. Behind Rosie’s social ease, she is heartbroken. And with Daniel’s fame has come spiralling anxiety. Now, with four days of organised fun ahead, all three are armed with their best conversation and brightest smile. At least everyone is following the same script: do not bring up the past. But as the Champagne flows, appearances slip and true feelings emerge.

  • Look What You Made Me Do

    £20.00

    Kate, thirty years into her marriage, has a seemingly idyllic metropolitan, North London life. Phoebe, a young screenwriter, is the creator of the year’s hit TV show, Cheating. When Kate’s world takes a darker turn, she thinks she sees details and intimacies in the show that only she and her husband Jack could possibly have known. But who has betrayed who? Who gets to tell whose story?

  • Women Without Men

    £12.99

    This internationally acclaimed masterpiece traces the interwoven destinies of five women – including a wealthy middle-aged housewife, a sex worker and a schoolteacher – as they arrive by different paths to live together in an abundant garden on the outskirts of Tehran. Drawing on elements of Islamic mysticism and recent Iranian history, this unforgettable novel depicts women escaping the narrow confines of family and society, and imagines their future living in a world without men.T.

  • The Memory Bookshop

    £14.99

    THE KOREAN SENSATION

    For lovers of The Midnight Library and Days at the Morisaki Bookshop, discover a spellbinding novel about a mysterious bookshop that exists outside of time and space, where the past is only a page away?

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  • Vanishing World

    £9.99

    In our near-future world, children are solely conceived by artificial insemination. Even sex between married couples is viewed as taboo. Amane’s family is irregular. Her parents copulated to create her and hope that she too will find love and have a child with the person she marries. But Amane falls in line with society’s way of thinking and wants a regular ‘clean’ marriage. Then she hears of a place that is the subject of a social experiment. Everyone in Paradise-Eden will act as one big family. Could this be the perfect third way?

  • Lake Effect

    £18.99

    From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of THE NEST, a stunning new novel about adultery, first love and other family secrets?

    ‘Sparkling? a joyful classic in the making’ JENNY JACKSON, New York Times bestselling author of Pineapple Street

    ‘I could not put it down!’ SHELBY VAN PELT, author of Remarkably Bright Creatures

  • Hooked

    £14.99

    ‘Tender and thrilling it’s Yuzuki at her best’ELLE

    ‘Deliciously satisfying’iPAPER

    ‘I couldn’t stop reading’ COSTANZA CASATI

    ‘Unsettling, compelling, richly written’ JODIE HARSH

    The unmissable new novel of friendship and dangerous obsession from Asako Yuzuki, the award-winning author of the global bestselling sensation Butter.

  • Portrait of an Unknown Woman

    £14.99

    A saga inspired by the incredible but true story of the iconic Klimt painting

  • Elegy, Southwest

    £10.99

    Eloise and Lewis rent a car in Las Vegas and take off on a two-week road trip across the American Southwest. While wildfires rage, the couple trace the course of the Colorado River, the aquatic artery on which the Southwest depends for survival. Eloise, an academic, researches the Colorado River as it threatens to run dry, while Lewis grieves his mother and struggles to find a place for himself in the desert where he never felt quite at home. Together they cruise past gaping canyons, blinking motels and lonely stretches of wilderness, trying to understand this uncanny landscape where Georgia O’Keeffe built her home and avant-garde artists dig mysterious installations in the sand. When Eloise begins to suspect she might be pregnant, she hopes to turn Lewis’s attention from the past to the future, but their relationship continues to fracture as they head towards a destination unknown.