Contemporary Fiction

None of them would claim to be a particularly good person. But who among them is actually capable of murder?Jen Weinstein and Lauren Parker rule the town of Salcombe, Fire Island every summer. They hold sway on the beach and the t…

Birnam Wood is on the move . . .A landslide has closed the Korowai Pass on New Zealand's South Island, cutting o? the town of Thorndike and leaving a sizable farm abandoned. The disaster presents an opportunity for Birnam Wood, an…

While growing up in West Belfast, Sean does every-thing he's supposed to do. He works hard, he studies, and he - mostly - stays out of trouble. The thirty-year conflict is over, he's told, and his future is lit with promise.But wh…

In Melissa Broder's astonishingly profound new novel, a woman arrives alone at a Best Western seeking respite from an emptiness that plagues her. She has fled to the California high desert to escape a cloud of sorrowfor both her f…

For the sake of women everywhere, Ms Shibata is going to pull off the mother of all deceptions... Ms Shibata refuses to clear away the coffee at work one day, because she's pregnant and can't bear the smell.The only thing is . . …

The family thought the little house they had made themselves in Elmet, a corner of Yorkshire, was theirs, that their peaceful, self-sufficient life was safe. Cathy and Daniel roamed the woods freely, occasionally visiting a local …

Dolores O'Shea’s marriage collapsed when she discovers her husband’s AI sex doll in the garage—but after moving “Zoey” into the house, they become oddly bonded, opening the door to a lifetime of repressed feelings and memories. 43…

A pair of ex-best friends turned high school rivals must work together to survive the great outdoors and each other in this cozy enemies-to-lovers romance from the beloved author of the Brown Sisters trilogy. Bradley Graeme is pre…

In present-day London, Yasmin Ghorami is twenty-six, in training to be a doctor (like her Indian-born father), and engaged to the charismatic, upper-class Joe Sangster, whose formidable mother, Harriet, is a famous feminist. The g…

No one wants what no one wants.And how do we even know what we want? How do we know we're ready to take it?Edie is stumbling her way through her twenties-sharing a subpar apartment in Bushwick, clocking in and out of her admin job…

The acclaimed novel about a couple who, pushing against traditional expectations, move with their dogs to the Irish countryside where they embed themselves in nature and make attempts to disappear from society. It is the winter fo…

A novel about guilt, rage, imagination, and boyhood, about being lost in the dark and learning you're not aloneThis is the story of a few strange hours in the life of a troubled teenage boy.You mustn't do that to yourself Shy. You…

From the author of Skippy Dies comes Paul Murray's The Bee Sting, an irresistibly funny, wise, and thought-provoking tour de force about family, fortune, and the struggle to be a good person when the world is falling apart.The Bar…

A con artist walks into a grief support group. Chaos ensues. After the death of her wife, Shelby is suffering from prolonged grief. Shes increasingly isolated, irritated by her familys stoicism and her friends reliance on the toxi…

From the bestselling author of Ask Again, Yes, a masterful and absorbing novel about a couple in a small town navigating the complexities of marriage, family, and longing.Malcolm Gephardt, handsome and gregarious longtime bartende…

A grieving mother makes a spreadsheet of everyone she's lost. Elsewhere, a professor develops a troubled intimacy with her hairdresser. And every year, a restless woman receives an email from a strange man twice her age and severa…

The haunting debut novel from acclaimed, Irish no. 1 bestselling author, Sinead Gleeson.The sea is steady for now. The land readies itself.What can be done with the women on the cliff?On a wild and rugged island cut off and isolat…

Shirley Jackson meets Ottessa Moshfegh meets My Sister the Serial Killer in a brilliantly unsettling and darkly funny debut novel full of suspense and paranoia.  George March's latest novel is a smash hit. None could be prouder th…

THIS IS ONE HELL OF A STORY. IT’S JUST NOT HERS TO TELL. When failed writer June Hayward witnesses her rival Athena Liu die in a freak accident, she sees her opportunity… and takes it.So what if it means stealing Athena’s final m…

A semi-famous artist turns forty-five and gives herself a gift - a cross-country road trip from LA to New York, without her husband and child. But thirty minutes after setting off, she spontaneously exits the freeway, beds down in…

Moving from 60s Italy to contemporary Ireland, Ripeness is a breathtaking story of love and the search for belonging from Sarah Moss, bestselling author of Summerwater. On the brink of adulthood and just out of school, Edith finds…

A moving and whip smart debut novel, following a former competitive swimmer and granddaughter of a famous Irish poet as she comes of age in the shadow of her familys tragic past, perfect for fans of Sally Rooney, Lily King's Write…

Jules has been divorced from her ex-husband Leon for five years, but she still works alongside him at Gunk, the grotty student nightclub he owns in central Brighton. She spends her nights serving shots and watching, from behind th…

A searing novel about being a wife, a mother, and an artist, and how marriage makes liars of us all. A nuclear family can destroy a woman artist.I’d always known that. But I’d never suspected how easily I’d fall into one anyway. W…

Discover the bitingly witty new novel from the prize-winning author of The Exhibitionist, Charlotte Mendelson. Dr Penny Cartwright is everything that Zoe Stamper is not: glamorous, sophisticated and openly gay. When they begin a p…

An immersive, multi-layered portrait of a marriage, Nathan Hill’s follow-up to The Nix is a work of quiet genius.' – The ObserverAn Oprah's Book Club Pick. Moving from the gritty 90s Chicago art scene to a suburbia of detox diets …

CLOVE HAS BUILT HER DREAM LIFE. IT'S ABOUT TO COME CRASHING DOWN. Everything appears to be going pretty well for Clove.She's built a stable family home in Portland, she has a handsome husband who encourages her to pursue her dream…

Four very different people, each at a crucial point in their lives, arrive at a French vineyard estate for a transformative experience - but not the kind they expected. Wine influencer Avery has given up her exploitative but fier…

For fans of Sebastian Faulks, Donal Ryan and Anne Tyler comes this beautiful novel following two troubled men, separated by nearly a century, bound by the ghosts that haunt a beautiful Irish manorGeorge Allenby is still wrestling …

Rafaela remembers everything that matters: her beautiful childhood in San Juan, her marriage to Peter, uprooting their children, Ruth and Benny, to the American Midwest, and losing all sense of her place in the world. So she tells…