Contemporary Fiction

Two fugitives, a man and a child, drive all night across a stony desert. And as dawn breaks, they roll into an abandoned mine site. From the vehicle they survey a forsaken place – middens of twisted iron, rusty wire, piles of sun-…

Meet Noh Inji: thirty years old, five wedding rings so far, and she’s never once been in love. When Inji takes a job at Wedding & Life, the popular matchmaking service, she never imagines her role will be with NM, their secret…

Outside the Half Moon bar, a blizzard is raging.Inside, bartender Malcolm and his wife Jess are coming face to face for the first time in four months. Malcolm never understood why Jess packed up and left him suddenly, without expl…

Nicola Long is a few years out of a fine arts degree, listless and unenthusiastically employed in London. She begins to spend her hours at a small underfunded archive dedicated to women's art. There she discovers one side of a cor…

Asya and Manu are looking at apartments, envisioning their future in a foreign city.Removed from the web of family and its obligations, what traditions and rituals should they establish together? As they dream about the possibilit…

An unflinching and emotionally insightful debut about cultural identity, homesickness, love and loss. In the five years following his brother's death, Aaron has built himself a life of solitary routines. After moving from Dublin …

Bella is at breaking point. Everyone in her life needs something from her, and there’s only one thing that dulls the pain.  Alcohol smooths the sharp edges and makes it all so much easier.When Bella drinks, she doesn’t feel heartb…

Growing up, TJ was Cam's boy next door. When Cam needed a home, TJ's parents - Mae and Jin - took him in. Their family bakery became Cam's safe place.Until he left, and it wasn't anymore. Years later, Cam's world is falling apart.…

A deliciously gritty and strikingly bold debut novel about discovering love where it has always been. Elsie is a sexy, funny, and fiercely independent woman in South London. But, at just 28, she is also tired.Though she spends he…

An internationally-bestselling, and multi-award-winning, tale of impossible love and family secrets in late-twentieth century Egypt. Cairo, 1980s. Tarek’s whole life is laid out for him.A doctor like his father, he has taken ove…

Seamus, Fyodor, Ivan, Noah and Fatima are running out of time to decide on their futures, in the new novel from the Booker-shortlisted author of Real Life. In a university town, a circle of lovers and friends navigate tangled web…

You lose your virginity to a boy from your gender theory seminar, and the first person you tell is Ella.Ella's with you at the party when you first kiss a girl.And Ella takes you to the hospital the first time you're diagnosed.Ove…

Issy is an artist but the world doesn't know it yet.As someone who self-identifies as 'gay and depressed', Issy keeps her life in Margate small: her mum, her chinchilla, her reliable routine. So when she is offered her dream job a…

Achike Okoro feels like his life is coming together at last. His top-floor flat in Peckham is as close to home as he can imagine and after years of hard work, he's about to get his break as an actor.He's even persuaded his father,…

The future is no more, and eternity has begun. It's 1986 and a nuclear reactor has exploded in Chernobyl. Syvert Løyning returns home from military service to live with his mother and brother on the outskirts of a town in Southern…

In a mysterious town hidden in our collective subconscious there's a department store that sells dreams. Day and night, visitors both human and animal shuffle in to purchase their latest adventure. Each floor specializes in a spec…

If no one ever died, what would happen then?For several days, a bright new star in the sky above Norway has blazed over the restless lives of those below. Tove, an artist, is consumed by intense creativity as she spirals towards p…

After much searching, the happily married young couple, Amber and Stevie think they have found the perfect spot in Grimaldi Square. Despite the rundown pub across the way, the overgrown garden and a decidedly nosy neighbour, numbe…

In Argus, North Dakota, a fraught wedding is taking place.Gary Geist, a terrified young man set to inherit two farms, is desperate to marry Kismet Poe. Gary thinks Kismet is the answer to all of his problems; Kismet can't even ima…

For best friends Renee and Flo, adulthood isn't the party they expected. Renee's dreams of being a writer are going nowhere. Flo's hiding a secret shame. They're both failing in work and love. Why did nobody warn them? Why does ad…

In 1972, when workers in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, were digging the foundations for a new development, the last thing they expected to find was a skeleton at the bottom of a well. Who the skeleton was and how it got there were two …

The breathtaking new novel about the boundaries between worlds and individuals, from the internationally bestselling author of 1Q84. When a young man’s girlfriend mysteriously vanishes, he sets his heart on finding the imaginary c…

THE STUNNING DELUXE HARDBACK EDITION OF THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER AND TIKTOK SENSATION, WITH SPECIAL ENDPAPERS AND EDGE PRINTING SOON TO BE A NETFLIX FILM 'Riveting, heart-wrenching and full of Old Hollywood glamour' BuzzFeed'Th…

An extended meditation on human frailty and the lack of spirituality in the Western world . . . Houellebecq displays compassion and empathy, and a belief in the redemptive power of love. It is 2027. France is in a state of economi…

In the fifth book in the sensational Before the Coffee Gets Cold series, the mysterious cafe where customers arrive hoping to travel in time welcomes four new guests:- The father who could not allow his daughter to get married- A …

Money talks. But what if it lies?An ambitious young Black woman, plotting her way into the world of the one percent.An old white billionaire, facing his own extinction.He's attracted to her intelligence, her refusal to be deferent…

A medical crisis brings one man close to death – and to love, art, and beauty – in a profound and luminous novel by award-winning author Garth Greenwell.A poet’s life is turned inside out by a sudden, wrenching pain. The pain brin…

Rafi and Todd are two polar opposites at an elite high school where they bond over a three-thousand-year-old board game.It sets them up for life: Rafi will get lost in literature, while Todd's work will lead to a startling AI brea…

A team of astronauts in the International Space Station collect meteorological data, conduct scientific experiments and test the limits of the human body. But mostly they observe.Together they watch their silent blue planet, circl…

Headshot is the story of the eight best teenage girl boxers in the United States, told over the two days of a championship tournament and structured as a series of face-offs. As the girls’ pasts and futures collide, the specific j…