Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary

A tender and funny novel that combines the best of Scottish and Italian culture with the joys of female friendship and a cast of characters reminiscent of Jenny Colgan and Sophie Kinsella.

The poignant story of a man who finds he can reach out to his younger, troubled self through a very familiar bookshop in his home town.

Alice Peterson’s novel about how a marriage is affected by a challenging child, now available in a beautiful new edition.

Jane Austen’s Emma meets bustling Mumbai society in Swati Hegde’s debut friends to lovers romcom. Mumbai.

Things are bad enough when Emily’s life falls apart, and even the cat isn’t speaking to her. Then it gets worse when her black sheep father turns up with one of his plans. The funny, poignant new novel from the author of Swimming for Beginners.

In a town full of secrets the truth must be uncovered before it’s buried forever.When a police detective is found murdered in the town of …

contemporary romance novel in the bestselling ‘next’ series from BookTok sensation Hannah Bonam-Young.

Two bickering strangers trying to care for their younger siblings team up to create a stable home, but the chemistry between them threatens to undo their plans – from the viral TikTok author of Next to You and Out on a Limb.

A young woman returns home with her child, to her ghost-haunted father, while a religious extremist hunts the storm-ridden territory to find the girl who may hold the key to the region’s apocalyptic future. At once elegiac and profound, Salvage This World asks how we keep going – what do we hold onto – in a land where God has…

‘Emily in Paris meets Scandal’ (New York Times) in this propulsive Cold War-era political thriller as one intrepid journalist writes the official biography of the mysterious First Lady – uncovering secrets that could destroy them both….

*LONGLISTED FOR THE CWA HISTORICAL DAGGER* The Western Front, July 1918. Gregor Reinhardt is a young lieutenant in a stormtrooper battalion on the Western Front. One of his subordinates is accused of murdering a group of officers. Not wanting to believe his friend could have done what he is accused of, Reinhardt begins to investigate…

At the center of Foregone is famed Canadian American leftist documentary filmmaker Leonard Fife, one of sixty thousand draft evaders and deserters who fled to Canada to avoid serving in Vietnam. Fife, now in his late seventies, is dying of cancer in Montreal and has agreed to a final interview in which he is determined to bare…