Contemporary Fiction

From one of the most celebrated imaginations in American literature, Lorrie Moore's new novel is a magic box of longing and surprise. High up in a New York City hospice, Finn sits with his beloved brother Max, who is slipping from…

A powerful, sensual novel of the forbidden love between a young woman and the headmaster’s wife, unfolding across a single a heatwave summer. In an elite English boarding school where the girls kiss the marble statue of the famou…

I used to have this line I saved and brought out for grant applications and writers festivals - that having been Jane Eyre, Anna Karenina and Esther Greenwood all my life, my writing was an opportunity for the reader to have to be…

A debut novel “as astute, funny, and loving as your best friend from college”* about a young bisexual woman who is pulled between a new sense of community and loyalty to a friendship she’s outgrown*Isle McElroySavannah "Sav" Henry…

Meet Queenie. Your problematic fave hits Channel 4 as an 8-part series, written and executive produced by Candice Carty-Williams. A darkly comic and bitingly subversive take on life, love, friendship, race and family, Queenie will…

Margo Millet's got money troubles. As the child of a Hooter's waitress and an ex-Pro-Wrestler, she's always known she'd have to make it on her own. When she finds herself pregnant by her college professor - who is very keen not to…

The return of Joseph O'Neill, with a story on the scale of the international phenomenon Netherland: the odyssey of two brothers crossing the world in search of an African football prodigy who might change their fortunes. Mark Wolf…

In a city rocked by global catastrophe, home-grown terrorism, shortages and wildfires, Cass is quietly raising three small children by herself.Her husband, Nathaniel, has left to serve as a medic in a war overseas. As life in the …

Following the death of her best friend, Erin has to get out of London. Returning home to Belfast, an au pair job provides some refuge from her grief and her relentless mother. She spends her spare daytime sitting in quiet churches…

Jess first meets Josh at their Ivy League college. He is an entitled white guy in chinos, ready to inherit the world. She is almost always the only Black woman in their class.And she’s not expecting to inherit anything. After grad…

Will and Rosie meet as teenagers. They're opposites in every way. She overthinks everything; he is her twin brother's wild and unpredictable friend.But over secret walks home and late-night phone calls, they become closer – destin…

Aisling is almost 32, and she’s still a complete Aisling. Christmas lights are twinkling in the Big Apple, and Aisling is stunned to find her ex-boyfriend John on her doorstep. Can his new-found devotion (and his new sixpack!) lur…

The international bestseller: a hilarious, heartfelt story of all-consuming and unexpected love, nominated for a TikTok Book Award. Everyone in Cork remembers the Rachel Incident. But what really happened? It's simple. It's compli…

Told in an irresistible, heartrending voice, Bad Habit takes us deep into the lives of the residents of a godforsaken Madrid neighbourhood ironically named after a holy saint. An unnamed young trans woman grows up in a working-cla…

Shamed schoolteacher, Mathilde, moves to a dairy farm in the Norwegian countryside for an ‘easier life’, but she’s soon up to her old tricks … upending and unsettling the lives of two reclusive farmers.  Exquisitely written, razor…

"I am not asking you to agree with me. In fact, I'd be happier if you didn't. I am afraid of self-censorship in a place of supposed radicalism like a liberal arts school because I am afraid that one day we will all be too afraid o…

Jamaica, 1976.  Seven gunmen storm Bob Marley's house, machine guns blazing. The reggae superstar survives, but the gunmen are never caught. In A Brief History of Seven Killings, Marlon James reimagines the story behind this near-…

The sensational debut novel about love, friendship and finding happiness in the most unexpected places. ‘Could I one day inspire happiness in others, the same way he seemed to do in me?’ Harley is a young queer Black man strugglin…

A child will be born who will change everything. Tech billionaire Lukas Parn has an ambitious plan. Behind the doors of the IVF clinic in his London institute, a daring switch is made. Young academic Talissa Adam believes she is s…

Summer's almost over and Alex is no longer welcome... Alex is a young woman teetering on the edge. Behind on her rent and with nothing to keep her in New York she agrees to spend August by the beach, in the lavish house of the ol…

Sharp-eyed and sharp-tongued, a multigenerational portrait of small-town life in Ireland from a refreshing new talent in literary fiction. Welcome to Ballyrowan. This sleepy corner of rural Ireland may seem tranquil, but scratch t…

From #1 New York Times bestselling author of Red, White & Royal Blue, comes Casey McQuiston's delicious romantic comedy The Pairing .  Theo and Kit have been a lot of things: childhood best friends, crushes, lovers and now est…

The brand-new novel from million-copy bestseller and national treasure Graham Norton. Always on the periphery, looking on, young Frankie Howe was never quite sure enough of herself to take centre stage - after all, life had alread…

The remarkable new novel from the author of the multimillion-selling international sensation The Midnight Library.'What looks like magic is simply a part of life we don't understand yet . . .'When retired Maths teacher Grace Winte…

With gorgeous prose, European glamour, and an expansive wanderlust, Christine Mangan's The Continental Affair is a fast-paced, Agatha Christie-esque caper packed full of romance and suspense. Meet Henri and Louise. Two strangers,…

For readers who loved The Office US and Really Good, Actually comes the awkward heroine you're about to fall in love with. Would you want to know what your colleagues say behind your back? Jolene certainly doesn't. She's riddled w…

In this "compelling, bighearted, emotionally precise page-turner" (Sunday Times), the New York Times bestselling writer and acclaimed television host explores the aftermath of a tragedy on a small-town to illuminate the shame and …

The Magician opens in a provincial German city at the turn of the twentieth century, where the boy, Thomas Mann, grows up with a conservative father, bound by propriety, and a Brazilian mother, alluring and unpredictable. Young Ma…

Held captive for years in a small shed, a woman and her precocious young son finally gain their freedom, and the boy experiences the outside world for the first time.To five-year-old-Jack, Room is the world. It's where he was born…

The first story collection from Kate Atkinson in twenty years, Normal Rules Don't Apply is a dazzling array of eleven interconnected tales from the bestselling author of Shrines of Gaiety and Life After Life. In this first full co…