Contemporary Fiction

Bo is determined to live his own life in his own way.But his son has other ideas... Bo lives a quiet existence in his small rural village in the north of Sweden. He is elderly and his days are punctuated by visits from his care te…

An explosive bond. In a time of revolution, their fates will lie in the turn of a card . . It is the early days of the French Revolution and, on the streets of Paris, terror reigns. Marie Anne Adelaide Lenormand is a young woman w…

If none of us can be as we want, then what is the point in anything? Danny cannot believe his life should be prescribed for him, written out already.'In a small rural town trapped between two rivers, Danny is on the cusp of adoles…

A writer alone at a retreat is faced with an unwelcome visitor. A priest seeks solace from a romantic memory.A farmhand regrets losing the finest woman in town. In this remarkable collection of stories, Claire Keegan observes an I…

Winifred Notty arrives at Ensor House prepared to play the perfect Victorian governess. She’ll dutifully tutor her charges, Drusilla and Andrew, tell them bedtime stories, and only joke about eating children.But the longer Winifre…

In the Montana backcountry live two brothers who run a saw mill and do a little poaching on the side. Thad is the brains of the operation. His brother Hazen has a talent for tracking and hunting and getting himself into trouble.To…

A mother following her heart. A father with the law on his side.A child caught in the middle. 1982 Dawn is a young wife and mother hemmed in by village life. Then Hazel appears like a torch in the dark.Their attraction is instant …

Mothers are not supposed to go on road trips . .But one winter morning in Dublin, an ordinary woman wakes up in her ordinary home, her husband next to her in bed, her teenage children sleeping nearby. And - without thinking much a…

Nadia is an academic who's been disowned by her puritanical mother and dumped by her lover, Rosy. She decides to make a getaway, accepting a UN job in Iraq.Tasked with rehabilitating ISIS women, Nadia becomes mired in the opaque w…

An enthralling novel and a remarkable narrative feat' John Banville A wild child with a ferocious imagination will stop at nothing to protect his family. After years of moving from place to place, a young family finds shelter in a…

Paulette's the kind of woman who likes the future all mapped out: the wedding to Denton, the Caribbean honeymoon, the gingham quilt on the baby's crib. Until one morning Garfield, Denton's friend, arrives at her door with the news…

Think your family is dysfunctional? Meet the Flynns.For the three Flynn daughters, it s been disastrous since their parents opened up their marriage. Abigail, the eldest, is dating an ex-soldier several years her senior nicknamed …

Dan and Tamma are two Californian teenagers growing up dirt poor in the shadows of the Joshua Tree National Park, one of the world s great rock climbing meccas. Their mothers had once been teenage waitresses and best friends until…

One idol. Four fans. Worship’s never been bloodier.Yosep is a K-pop idol with millions of adoring fans. But for four of them, a poster on the wall just won't cut it. They have a plan—a perfect, foolproof plan—to get their idol all…

A story about identity and place, about finding out who you are, who your people are, and what it means to be a family. Maeve Gaffney arrives in a small West Cork town in pursuit of a dream: to be reunited with Tim, the lad she fe…

Lexi is looking for no-strings-attached fun. Zeke is looking for love. Neither of them were looking for a one-night stand to become their one and only lifeline.But when they wake up after an unforgettable night together, the house…

Tadhg and Laura used to be in a band together. They used to be a lot of things. Now he's a superstar, touring the world with his songs.And Laura tries not to think about all the big dreams she used to have. Then she gets an email …

'Some wrong was done long ago. It can never be righted, and it has not been forgotten. Someone remembers it.' London, 1894.Inspector Henry Cutter is in an unconvivial temper. Then the murders begin. The first to die is Sir Aneurin…

A band on the brink. A love worth playing for.When record executive Theo meets the Future Saints, they're bombing at a dive bar in their hometown. Since the tragic death of their manager, the band has been in a downward spiral and…

Five women. Three generations. A mountain of family history.The Valiat family are in crisis. Elizabeth, the regal matriarch, remained in Tehran despite the revolution with only the Islamic law-breaking Niaz for company. Meanwhile,…

A family on a remote island. A mysterious woman washed ashore. A storm gathering force.Dominic Salt and his three children are caretakers of Shearwater, a tiny weather-lashed island that is home to the world's largest seed bank. A…

Once a slag, always a slag? It’s the 1990s. Sarah is 15, obsessed with sex, getting drunk on Malibu, and her teacher, Mr Keaveney.Fast forward: Sarah is 41, the last of the party girls. But the mad nights out are losing their shin…

#1 New York Times bestselling author Tessa Bailey is back with an all-new marriage of convenience, friends-to-lovers sports romance about a baseball catcher and the burlesque club owner he can’t get out of his head. Madden Donahue…

Dublin. Midsummer. While absent in New York, the celebrated actor Molly Fox has loaned her house to a playwright friend, who is struggling to write a new work.Over the course of this, the longest day of the year, the playwright re…

Books about friendship are not often described as love stories, but this is one. At the age of twelve, Nell has accepted that hers will likely be a friendless existence. She's not interested in boys or makeup or competing to see w…

Rocky, Nick, Willa and Jamie. A normal loving, anxious, messy, relatable, family.Rocky has her own her way of processing disasters: 1.This could happen to us. 2. This couldn t happen to us.And then there s a secret third column: T…

Verónica is late, and Julián is increasingly convinced she won't ever come home. To pass the time, he improvises a story about trees to coax his stepdaughter, Daniela, to sleep. He has made a life as a literature professor, develo…

Jatgeir has come from Vaim to the big city, Bjørgvin, on his wooden boat, Eline, named after the long-lost love of his teenage years. He intends to buy a needle and thread to sew a button but he is cheated, twice. That night, whil…

I never anticipated Charlie Florek.But Charlie Florek changed my life. Good things happen at the lake. That's what Alice's Nan always says.And it's true. It's where Alice took that photo, the one that catapulted her career. But wh…

To the world they are rivals, but to each other they are everything. Ten years. That’s how long Shane Hollander and Ilya Rozanov have been seeing each other.How long they’ve been keeping their relationship a secret. From friends, …