Contemporary Fiction

Meet Gosia.She's a sensitive soul with a filthy mind and problems with intimacy.Between shifts in a well-lit budget supermarket and nights in a badly lit Zone 3 flatshare, she spends hours inside her own head. That is, until a cha…

She’s stayed quiet for too long.Now it’s time to speak her truth. Until twenty-four hours ago, Mickey Hayward was living the life she’d always dreamed of: - Working as a full-time writer for a trendy media company (tick)- In a com…

You know how we say we devoured a story, and also that we were consumed by it? Eating and being eaten. It was like that with Claire, for me.From humble beginnings, Therese has let herself grow used to a life of luxury after marryi…

The BookTok sensation with over 22.8 million views. A situationship, a heartbreak, a mistake—you can call it what you want. But was it love? It’s 2016, and Sloane Hart’s senior year of college is bound to be the best one yet. Her …

With his smooth, warm, ruddy face which radiated light in all directions, Chairman Mao Zedong was a fixture in Chinese propaganda posters produced between the birth of the People’s Republic in 1949 and the early 1980s. Chairman Ma…

She's been driving him wild for years . . . the good kind of wild.The kind of wild that comes with wanting your best friend's little sister and knowing you can't have her. Forbes may have labeled Ford Grant the World's Hottest Bil…

DISCOVER YOUR BOOK OF THE SUMMER FROM TASHA GHOURI, LOVE ISLAND STAR AND DISABILITY CAMPAIGNER! Cassie needs a change. She's in a job she hates, dating a guy who couldn't care less about her, and secretly dreaming of making her da…

Adrift in her early thirties, Mary sets out to change her life, one ill-advised decision at a time.First, she books a spontaneous flight to Ibiza where she meets Tom, a brilliant young chemist working on an experimental drug calle…

An epic story of love, loss and pining for fans of One Day. It's the year 2000. I'm fourteen. I'm trying really hard to be a grunger right now in a Foo Fighters t-shirt and a spiked choker.There were rumours that the world was goi…

New in paperback: the conversation-starting, engrossing novel about power and consent in the pressure cooker of a high-end restaurant. When Hannah learns that famed chef Daniel Costello is facing accusations of sexual assault, she…

The author of THE MOST FUN WE EVER HAD returns with a brilliantly observed family drama, in which a long marriage faces imminent derailment from events both past and present At fifty-seven, Julia Ames has found herself with an imp…

From one of the most celebrated imaginations in American literature, Lorrie Moore's new novel is a magic box of longing and surprise. High up in a New York City hospice, Finn sits with his beloved brother Max, who is slipping from…

A powerful, sensual novel of the forbidden love between a young woman and the headmaster’s wife, unfolding across a single a heatwave summer. In an elite English boarding school where the girls kiss the marble statue of the famou…

I used to have this line I saved and brought out for grant applications and writers festivals - that having been Jane Eyre, Anna Karenina and Esther Greenwood all my life, my writing was an opportunity for the reader to have to be…

A debut novel “as astute, funny, and loving as your best friend from college”* about a young bisexual woman who is pulled between a new sense of community and loyalty to a friendship she’s outgrown*Isle McElroySavannah "Sav" Henry…

Meet Queenie. Your problematic fave hits Channel 4 as an 8-part series, written and executive produced by Candice Carty-Williams. A darkly comic and bitingly subversive take on life, love, friendship, race and family, Queenie will…

Margo Millet's got money troubles. As the child of a Hooter's waitress and an ex-Pro-Wrestler, she's always known she'd have to make it on her own. When she finds herself pregnant by her college professor - who is very keen not to…

The return of Joseph O'Neill, with a story on the scale of the international phenomenon Netherland: the odyssey of two brothers crossing the world in search of an African football prodigy who might change their fortunes. Mark Wolf…

Following the death of her best friend, Erin has to get out of London. Returning home to Belfast, an au pair job provides some refuge from her grief and her relentless mother. She spends her spare daytime sitting in quiet churches…

Jess first meets Josh at their Ivy League college. He is an entitled white guy in chinos, ready to inherit the world. She is almost always the only Black woman in their class.And she’s not expecting to inherit anything. After grad…

Will and Rosie meet as teenagers. They're opposites in every way. She overthinks everything; he is her twin brother's wild and unpredictable friend.But over secret walks home and late-night phone calls, they become closer – destin…

The international bestseller: a hilarious, heartfelt story of all-consuming and unexpected love, nominated for a TikTok Book Award. Everyone in Cork remembers the Rachel Incident. But what really happened? It's simple. It's compli…

Shamed schoolteacher, Mathilde, moves to a dairy farm in the Norwegian countryside for an ‘easier life’, but she’s soon up to her old tricks … upending and unsettling the lives of two reclusive farmers.  Exquisitely written, razor…

"I am not asking you to agree with me. In fact, I'd be happier if you didn't. I am afraid of self-censorship in a place of supposed radicalism like a liberal arts school because I am afraid that one day we will all be too afraid o…

Jamaica, 1976.  Seven gunmen storm Bob Marley's house, machine guns blazing. The reggae superstar survives, but the gunmen are never caught. In A Brief History of Seven Killings, Marlon James reimagines the story behind this near-…

The sensational debut novel about love, friendship and finding happiness in the most unexpected places. ‘Could I one day inspire happiness in others, the same way he seemed to do in me?’ Harley is a young queer Black man strugglin…

A child will be born who will change everything. Tech billionaire Lukas Parn has an ambitious plan. Behind the doors of the IVF clinic in his London institute, a daring switch is made. Young academic Talissa Adam believes she is s…

Summer's almost over and Alex is no longer welcome... Alex is a young woman teetering on the edge. Behind on her rent and with nothing to keep her in New York she agrees to spend August by the beach, in the lavish house of the ol…

The brand-new novel from million-copy bestseller and national treasure Graham Norton. Always on the periphery, looking on, young Frankie Howe was never quite sure enough of herself to take centre stage - after all, life had alread…

The remarkable new novel from the author of the multimillion-selling international sensation The Midnight Library.'What looks like magic is simply a part of life we don't understand yet . . .'When retired Maths teacher Grace Winte…