Modern and Contemporary Fiction

This is not a romance, but it is about love
Two kids meet in a hospital gaming room in 1987. One is visiting her sister, the other is recovering from a car crash. The days and months are long there. Their love of video games beco

Beschikbaar per 30-8-2022: From the Sunday Times bestselling author of MALIBU RISING, DAISY JONES AND THE SIX and the phenomenal TikTok sensation THE SEVEN HUSBANDS OF EVELYN HUGO

From the prize-winning author of Reasons to be Cheerful comes a story about the ebb and flow of female friendship over half a lifetime'A true gift of a novel, I utterly adored it. For as long as I could make it last, the world jus

'A truly beautiful and haunting novel, and an incredible feat of storytelling' DONAL RYAN, author of FROM A LOW AND QUIET SEA'A tender, unusual and gorgeously wrought love story' RACHEL JOYCE, author of THE UNLIKELY PILGRIMAGE OF

From the prize-winning author of Supper Club comes a wickedly funny and slyly poignant new satire on modern life - for fans of My Year of Rest and Relaxation, Convenience Store Woman, and J. G. Ballard's High Rise'This book is a s

"A wonderland of fantastical and frightening, magical and real." Marlon James"A fantastical, fierce reckoning... Sorrowland is gorgeous." Roxanne Gay"Dark, magical and incredibly satisfying." Independent"An exhilarating journey to

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'Compulsively readable, realistic, funny, touching' The TimesWhen eighteen-year-old Ian Bedloe pricks the bubble of his family's optimistic self-deception, his brother Danny drives into a wall, his sister-in-law falls apart, and h

'A wonderful book' - Tana French'This novel is astonishing, uplifting and wise. Don't miss it' - Chris Cleave'No historical novel this year was more witty, insightful or original' - Sunday Times, Books of the Year'[A] supremely up

Eliott is a TV writer with a perfect-penised boyfriend. He's living the dream.

But behind the glossy veneer he's been papering over cracks, and they're starting to show.

He's creatively stifled, he's drinking a little too

"Arlo Dilly is young, handsome, and eager to meet the right girl. He also happens to be DeafBlind, a Jehovah's Witness, and under the strict guardianship of his controlling uncle. His chances of finding someone to love seem slim t

Twelve exquisitely written stories depicting the search for human connection and the attempt to fit in far from home.

All the Shining People explores migration, diaspora, and belonging within Toronto's Jewish South African

'Original, tender, thoughtful and true. Can't wait for people to read!' Reese Witherspoon

A transporting novel that follows a year of seismic romantic, political, and familial shifts for a teacher and her students at a boarding

"Tense, twisty and full of toxic secrets - a chilly fight for survival guaranteed to give you shivers" - T.M. LOGAN, author of Lies and The Vacation

Seven friends. One killer. You can run, but you can't hide..

Olivia Prior has grown up in Merilance School for Girls, and all she has of her past is her mother's journal--which seems to unravel into madness. Then, a letter invites Olivia to come home to Gallant. Yet when Olivia arrives