Contemporary Fiction

In this breathtakingly inventive autobiographical novel, Eileen Myles transforms their life into a work of art. Suffused with alcohol, drugs, and sex; evocative in its depictions of the hardscrabble realities of a young queer arti…

In a country called 'Town', Su is found dead in an abandoned car.The suspected killer is presumed to come from the Saha Estates. Town is a privatised country, controlled by a secretive organisation known as the Seven Premiers. It …

A life without freedom to choose is not worth having. Godwin Baxter's scientific ambition to create the perfect companion is realized when he finds the drowned body of the beautiful Bella, who he brings back to life in a Frankenst…

The highly-anticipated second instalment in the CRIME trilogy, now a hit TV SeriesIn Edinburgh, Detective Inspector Ray Lennox is investigating a brutal crime... Ritchie Gulliver MP is dead. Castrated and left to bleed in an empty…

LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2022 INDEPENDENT BOOK OF THE YEARGUARDIANBOOK OF THE YEAR | NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR | BBC BOOK OF THE YEARIt's 1895. Amid laundry and bruises, Rina Pierangeli Faccio gives birth to the child …

Essential reading for anyone who wants to understand what it is like to be a teenage girl' Catherine PrasifkaHigh-school student Akari has only one passion in her life: her oshi, her idol. His name is Masaki Ueno, best known as on…

An unsettling and emotional riveting thriller about fathers and sons, revenge and forgiveness and ghosts from our past. A book not to read alone in the dark... When single father Todd Nasca is spotted on the beach by an old enemy …

Welcome to the funnest place around . . . Jay is living his best life inside Karloff Country, home of the world's most epic amusement park.He's got his family, his crew, and a dope after-school job at one of the parks. Outside Kar…

She does everything right. So what could go wrong? Mackenzie 'Mac' Cabot is a people pleaser.It's exhausting, really, always following the rules. Mac has dreams of her own but to please her parents she moves to the beachside town …

1949. It is the coldest winter Orcades Island has ever known, when a pregnant sixteen-year-old arrives at Fairmile, a home for 'fallen women' run by the Catholic Church. She and her baby will disappear before the snow melts.2013. …

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 . . …

2014 Kyiv, Ukraine. The city is poised on a knife-edge as tensions mount around a corrupt government's increasing ties to Russia. As protests erupt across the city, the fates of four individuals come together.Katya is a Ukrainian…

Your next one might be closer than you think . . . Tara loved Colin at first sight. Colin loved Tara at first fight.That's when they knew they were meant for each other. But after six years, their marriage has started to crumble.…

After Tova Sullivan's husband died, she began working the night cleaner shift at the Sowell Bay Aquarium. Ever since her eighteen-year-old son, Erik, mysteriously vanished on a boat over thirty years ago keeping busy has helped he…

Frankie has a love-hate relationship with the spotlight.She secretly craves attention, but she is ashamed of that craving. And after a lifetime of comparison to her perfect sister Bean, she has never felt more invisible. She only …

One night in New York City's Chinatown, Lola is at a dinner with former colleagues when she excuses herself to buy a pack of cigarettes. On her way back, she runs into a former boyfriend.The next night, she runs into another ex. A…

M. Forster, spent six months in a jail cell. A century later, Kip Starling has locked himself in his Brooklyn basement study with a pistol and twenty-one gallons of Poland Spring to write Mohammed's story.Kip has only three weeks …

Named a Best Book of the Year by Literary Hub and Library JournalIn 1990, three boys are born, unrelated but intertwined by circumstance: Dayo, Iseul and Youssef. They are adopted as infants and live in a shared bedroom perched at…

Suitear an Cléireach in Éirinn agus ar an Mór-Roinn i lár na 17ú haoise, agus mórthimpeall ar eachtra amháin, ach go háirithe, a thiteann amach le linn ionradh Chromail ar Éirinn, nuair a cruinnítear buíon bheag ar thaobh sléibhe …

Lily and her ex-husband, Ryle, have just settled into a civil co-parenting rhythm when she suddenly bumps into her first love, Atlas, again. After nearly two years separated, she is elated that for once, time is on their side, and…

A woman's life, erupting with brilliance and promise, is fissured by betrayal and the pressures of duty. What had once seemed a pastoral family idyll has become a trap, and she struggles between being the wife and mother she is bo…

On a quiet corner in an old wooden building lies a shop filled with hundreds of second-hand books. Twenty-five-year-old Takako has never liked reading, although the Morisaki bookshop has been in her family for three generations.It…

Carrie Soto is the greatest player the world has ever seen. But six years after her last match, she watches a young British tennis player steal her world record - and Carrie knows she has to go back and reclaim her rightful place …

Hearts and Bones is a book about relationships. It explores what love does to us, and how we survive it. First-time lovers make mistakes; brothers and sisters try to forgive one another; and parents struggle and fail and struggle …

This is the story of Sam and Sadie. It's not a romance, but it is about love. When Sam catches sight of Sadie at a crowded train station one winter morning he is catapulted back to the brief time they spent playing together as chi…

In 1988 Karachi, two fourteen-year-old girls are a decade into their friendship, sharing in-jokes, secrets and a love for George Michael.As Pakistan's dictatorship falls and a woman comes to power, the world suddenly seems full of…

Yu-jin is dead. Min Ford is searching for his place in the world. The Los Angeles native moves to Seoul to connect with his Korean heritage and find the sense of belonging that he's never quite felt before.His girlfriend, Yu-jin, …

This is a small story about big questions. It's a story about family, community, life. It starts with a storm - and a death.But how does it end? Two years have passed since the events that no one wants to think about. Everyone has…

When the world is still counting the cost of the Second World War and the Iron Curtain has descended, young Roland Baines's life is turned upside down. Stranded at boarding school, his vulnerability attracts his piano teacher, Mir…

Before dawn he is taken by an image from his childhood in the West of Ireland, and begins to remember a migrant's life. Haunted by the faces and the land he left behind, he calls forth the bars and boxing booths of England, the po…