Contemporary Fiction

The most profound book yet from the visionary author of Milk Fed and The Pisces, a darkly funny novel about grief that becomes a desert survival story.A woman arrives alone at a Best Western seeking respite from an emptiness that …

Ren Yu is a swimmer. Her daily life starts and ends with the pool.Her teammates are her only friends. Her coach, her guiding light. If she swims well enough, she will be scouted, get a scholarship, go to a good school.Her parents …

Justine is 21 years old and has lived with her grandparents and cousin Jules since the death of her parents. She works as a carer at a retirement home and spends her days listening to her residents’ stories. After bonding with Hél…

Juan Gay lies dying in a room in The Palace: a monumental, fading institution in the desert. There, a young man cares for him - someone whom Juan met only once, but who has haunted the edges of his life ever since. As the end appr…

A man returns home to sub-Saharan Africa after twenty-six years living in exile in America. When he arrives, he finds that he doesn't recognize the country or anyone in it. Thankfully, someone at the airport knows him-a man who ca…

Micheál Burns lives alone in his family's bungalow at the end of Kerry Head in Ireland. It is a picturesque place, but the cliffs have a darker side to them: for generations they have been a suicide black spot. Micheál's mother sa…

I’ve never eaten a person but today I might . . .A queer and dangerously hungry mountain lion lives in the drought-devastated land under the Hollywood sign, overlooking the city that humans call ‘ellay’. Lonely and fascinated by h…

An inspirational tale of the love, comfort and growth you can find in the pages of a good book. What are you looking for? So asks Tokyo's most enigmatic librarian, Sayuri Komachi. But she is no ordinary librarian.Sensing exactly …

Everyone tells Martha Friel she is clever and beautiful, a brilliant writer who has been loved every day of her adult life by one man, her husband Patrick.A gift, her mother once said, not everybody gets. So why is everything brok…

Kate is the ultimate planner. She has her happily-ever-after all plotted out, starting with her dream wedding to successful dental surgeon, Norman, and an iconic Las Vegas hen party with her three best girlfriends.Even running int…

Caithleen 'Kate' Brady and Bridget 'Baba' Brennan are growing up in a repressive Irish village after World War II. Kate is a romantic, looking for love; Baba is a reckless survivor. After being expelled from convent school, they d…

A warm, tender and funny story about unlikely friendships, second chances, and the magic of soul music - perfect for fans of Nick Hornby, David Nicholls and Jonathan Coe. Dinah has always lived in Scarborough. Trapped with her fec…

Andy loves Jen. Jen loved Andy.  And he can't work out why she stopped. Now he is… 1. Without a home 2. Waiting for his stand-up career to take off 3. Wondering why everyone else around him seems to have grown up while he wasn't l…

When she’s having sex with her boss, Iris likes to have the lights on so he can see how much younger she is than his wife. She likes watching her colleagues eat unhealthy lunches at their desk while her stomach aches with emptines…

A searing, sunlit debut about the powerful bonds that make and break an Iranian-American family. Three young brothers leave Los Angeles in the dead of night for Iran, taken by their father from their mother to a country and an anc…

This is a second-hand, used copy of this book. Please check “condition” in product details before ordering. Used - Very Good: Shows some small signs of wear - but no tears - on either binding or paper. Used - Good: Average used wo…

A brilliant young philosophy student bent on seducing her famous philosopher-mentor finds herself outmaneuvered; diabolically clever high school girls wreak a particularly apt sort of vengeance on sexual predators in their communi…

The stunning new novel from the author of international million-copy bestseller Cold Mountain Hurtling past the downtrodden communities of Depression-era America, painter Val Welch travels westward to the rural town of Dawes, Wyom…

Eight women. Eight stories. One reality.  A woman is born. A woman is filmed in public without consent. A woman suffers domestic violence.A woman is gaslit. A woman is discriminated against at work. A woman grows old.A woman becom…

The runaway global bestselling novel by Colleen Hoover - soon to be a major motion picture starring Blake Lively. Lily hasn’t always had it easy, but that’s never stopped her from working hard for the life she wants. She’s come a …

Best friends and sisters, the four Padavano girls bring loving chaos to their close-knit Italian American neighbourhood. William Waters grew up in a house silenced by tragedy, where his parents could hardly bear to look at him, mu…

In 1998, an apparently ordinary Australian man is arrested and charged for a series of brutal murders. The news shocks the nation, bringing both horror and resolution to the victims' families, but its impact travels even further: …

In the run up to Christmas, we meet Frank Bascombe in the twilight of his days. He is a man who has occupied many colourful lives – sportswriter, father, husband, ex-husband, friend, real estate agent – but now Frank finds himself…

Katherine lives by the rules, ticks all the boxes and prepares for the worst, even while she hopes for the best.Then the worst actually happens and, as she tries to navigate life as a young widow, it turns out she was not prepared…

Ji-won's life is in disarray. Her father's affair has ripped her family to shreds, leaving her to piece their crappy lives back together.So, when her mother's obnoxious new white boyfriend enters the scene, bragging about his flaw…

The #1 Sunday Times bestseller is back with a powerful, riveting new novel, as maverick investigator Ray Lennox discovers that confronting his past could cost him everything. OLD TRUTHS HAVE NEW CONSEQUENCESRay Lennox is determine…

This is a second-hand, used copy of this book. Please check “condition” in product details before ordering. Used - Very Good: Shows some small signs of wear - but no tears - on either binding or paper. Used - Good: Average used wo…

Sometimes a person passes through your world and you don't forget them. She is like that. She is crossing continents, searching for her missing child.Everyone she comes into contact with has a tale to tell: the truck driver who mi…

An ambitious and compelling first novel about a key moment in Irish history. November 1917. With tensions in Ireland, war in Europe and revolution in Russia, Victor Lennon returns to his home village after a long exile.Radicalised…

The Hachette Essentials series comprises a collection of titles that are regarded as modern classics. A carefully and lovingly curated selection of distinctive, ground-breaking fiction and non-fiction titles published since 1950. …