Modern and Contemporary Fiction

A multi-generational saga with cultural and political depth, drawing on the rich, often troubling recent history of Israel, for fans of A History of Seven Killings or The White Tiger. How do you build a nation?It takes statesmen a

"Stylish, mordant, and pitch-perfect - I read it in one sitting. If Rachel Cusk or Sally Rooney had been junior doctors they might have come up with something like this" - Gavin Francis, author of RecoverIntravenous lines, cathete

The Furrows (Serpell, Namwali)

The Queen of Dirt Island (Ryan, Donal)

The Hollow Sea (Kirby, Anne)

The Last White Man (Hamid, Mohsin)

Mika In Real Life (Jean, Emiko)

The Paper Palace (Heller, Miranda Cowley)

Keera is a killer. As the king's Blade and his most gifted assassin, she is called upon to hunt down a mysterious figure called the Shadow who is moving against the Crown.
She tracks the Shadow into the magical lands of the Fae

By the middle of the twenty-first century, war, famine, economic collapse, and climate catastrophe had toppled the world's governments. In the 2050s, the insurrections reached the nerve center of global capitalism--New York City.

AT 35, MIKA SUZUKI IS STRUGGLING.

She's been fired (again). Her last relationship went up in flames.

Her mother is perpetually disappointed in her. And now, she's had a phone call from sixteen-year-old Penny Calvin: the baby

Delphi is a compact miracle of a book' Evie Wyld, author of The Bass Rock'Bold, brave and uncompromising, Pollard has found a way to write about the last couple of years which is both truthful and enjoyable to read, which I

"A debut novel about an odd assortment of residents living in a crumbling apartment building in the post-industrial Midwest"--

As a millworkers' strike in the northern lumber town of Roberval drags on, tensions start to escalate between the workers--but when a lockout renews their solidarity, they rally around the mysterious and magnetic influence of Quer