Modern Fiction
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Modern Fiction
By A Picaresque Book
The Fellowship of Puzzlemakers: The instant Sunday Times bestseller that everyone’s talking about!
SAMUEL BURR
£9.99 £9.49
Way Back: The perfect feel-good, springtime read from the bestselling author of Thrown
Sara Cox
£9.99 £9.49
Shy Creatures: From the author of bestselling sensation Small Pleasures
Clare Chambers
£20.00 £19.00
Ordinary Time: The funny and heartbreaking new novel from the Sunday Times bestselling author
Cathy Rentzenbrink
£20.00 £19.00
Pity Party: the hilarious and heartfelt novel you have to read this summer
Daisy Buchanan
£18.99 £18.04
Friends of Dorothy: The funny and brilliant new novel from the star of QI - an instant Sunday Times bestseller
Sandi Toksvig
£22.00 £20.90
The Mighty Red: The powerful new novel from the beloved Pulitzer Prize-winning author
Louise Erdrich
£20.00 £19.00
Juice: A page-turning epic about survival and resilience from the twice Booker-shortlisted author
Tim Winton
£22.00 £20.90
Entitlement: The exhilarating new novel from the author of Leave the World Behind
Rumaan Alam
£16.99 £16.14
The Night of Baba Yaga: Kill Bill meets Thelma and Louise in this gripping Japanese cult thriller
Akira Otani
£9.99 £9.49
Wellness: An epic story of a marriage from New York Times bestselling author of The Nix
Nathan Hill
£10.99 £10.44
The Black Loch: an explosive return to the hebrides and the internationally bestselling Lewis Trilogy
Peter May
£22.00 £20.90
The Stellar Debut of Galactica MacFee: The New 44 Scotland Street Novel
Alexander McCall Smith
£17.99 £17.09
The Three Graces: 'The book everybody should be reading this summer' Andrew O'Hagan
Amanda Craig
£18.99 £18.04
River East, River West: Shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2024
Aube Rey Lescure
£9.99 £9.49
You Are Here: The Instant Number 1 Sunday Times Bestseller, from the author of One Day
David Nicholls
£20.00 £19.00
Hungry Ghosts: Winner of the 2024 Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction
KEVIN JARED HOSEIN
£9.99 £9.49
Small Hours: the spellbinding new novel from the author of ISAAC AND THE EGG
Bobby Palmer
£18.99 £18.04
A House for Alice: From the Women's Prize shortlisted author of Ordinary People
Diana Evans
£9.99 £9.49
Soldier Sailor: 'Intense, furious, moving and often extremely funny.' DAVID NICHOLLS
Claire Kilroy
£9.99 £9.49
For Thy Great Pain Have Mercy On My Little Pain: Winner of the Scottish National First Book Awards 2023
Victoria MacKenzie
£8.99 £8.54
The Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder: the highly anticipated crime novel for fans of the Antiques Roadshow
C L Miller
£16.99 £16.14
The Painter's Daughters: The award-winning debut novel selected for BBC Radio 2 Book Club
Emily Howes
£20.00 £19.00
Lobster: and other things I’m learning to love: 'energising, fearless and joyful' Sara Pascoe
Hollie McNish
£18.99 £18.04
Conversations on Love: with Philippa Perry, Dolly Alderton, Roxane Gay, Stephen Grosz, Esther Perel, and many more
Natasha Lunn
£10.99 £10.44
When Women Were Dragons: an enduring, feminist novel from New York Times bestselling author, Kelly Barnhill
Kelly Barnhill
£8.99 £8.54
Wellness: An epic story of a marriage from New York Times bestselling author of The Nix
Nathan Hill
£20.00 £19.00
Babel: Or the Necessity of Violence: an Arcane History of the Oxford Translators’ Revolution
R.F. Kuang
£9.99 £9.49
Days at the Morisaki Bookshop: The perfect book to curl up with - for lovers of Japanese translated fiction everywhere
Satoshi Yagisawa
£10.99 £10.44
The Door-to-Door Bookstore: The heartwarming and uplifting book about the power of reading
Carsten Henn
£14.99 £14.24
The Christmas Jigsaw Murders: The new deliciously dark Christmas cracker from the bestselling author of Murder on the Christmas
Alexandra Benedict
£14.99 £14.24
Shot with Crimson: An evocative murder mystery plays out on the set of Hitchcock's Rebecca
Nicola Upson
£16.99 £16.14
Less is Lost: 'An emotional and soul-searching sequel' (Sunday Times) to the bestselling, Pulitzer Prize-winning Less
Andrew Sean Greer
£9.99 £9.49
The Lacuna: Author of Demon Copperhead, Winner of the Women’s Prize for Fiction
Barbara Kingsolver
£9.99 £9.49
The Leviathan: A beguiling tale of superstition, myth and murder from a major new voice in historical fiction
Rosie Andrews
£8.99 £8.54
Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens: WINNER OF THE MILES FRANKLIN LITERARY AWARD
Shankari Chandran
£16.99 £16.14
Black Candle Women: a spellbinding story of family, heartache, and a fatal Voodoo curse
Diane Marie Brown
£20.00
Twelve Secrets: The Sunday Times bestselling thriller everybody is talking about
Robert Gold
£9.99 £9.49
Babel: Or the Necessity of Violence: an Arcane History of the Oxford Translators’ Revolution
R.F. Kuang
£18.99 £18.04
The Cat Who Caught a Killer: Curl Up With Purr-fect Cosy Crime Fiction for Cat Lovers
L T Shearer
£14.99 £14.24
What Just Happened?!: Dispatches from Turbulent Times (The Sunday Times Bestseller)
Marina (Diarist) Hyde
£20.00 £19.00
Bleeding Heart Yard: Breathtaking new thriller from Ruth Galloway's author
Elly Griffiths
£22.00 £20.90
Verity: The thriller that will capture your heart and blow your mind, from the author of IT ENDS WITH US
Colleen Hoover
£22.00 £20.90
Our Missing Hearts: 'Thought-provoking, heart-wrenching' Reese Witherspoon, a Reese's Book Club Pick
Celeste Ng
£20.00 £19.00
Forever Home: The warm, funny and twisty novel about family drama from the bestselling author of FRANKIE
Graham Norton
£20.00 £19.00
The Family Retreat: 'Few psychological thrillers ring so true.' The Sunday Times Crime Club Star Pick
Bev Thomas
£14.99 £14.24
The Glass Pearls (Faber Editions): 'A wonderful noir thriller and tremendous rediscovery' - William Boyd
Emeric Pressburger
£9.99 £9.49
Mayflies: From the author of the Sunday Times bestseller Caledonian Road
Andrew O'Hagan
£9.99 £9.49
The Mad Women's Ball: The prize-winning, international bestseller and Sunday Times Top Fiction selection
Victoria Mas
£9.99 £9.49
Sorrow and Bliss: The funny, heart-breaking, bestselling novel that became a phenomenon
Meg Mason
£9.99 £9.49
The Man Who Planted Trees: A novel from the Vintage Earth collection
Jean Giono and Harry Brockway
£7.99 £7.59
The Wall: Discover this addictive dystopia from the Vintage Earth series
Marlen Haushofer
£9.99 £9.49
The Museum of Ordinary People: The uplifting new novel from the bestselling author of Half a World Away
Mike Gayle
£16.99 £16.14
Nightcrawling: Longlisted for the Booker Prize 2022 - the youngest ever Booker nominee
Leila Mottley
£16.99
there are more things: Shortlisted for the Goldsmiths Prize and Orwell Prize for Fiction
Yara Rodrigues Fowler
£18.99 £18.04
Meantime: An absolutely gripping detective novel from one of Britain's best known comedians
Frankie Boyle
£14.99 £14.24
The Push: The Richard & Judy Book Club Choice & Sunday Times Bestseller About Motherhood
Ashley Audrain
£20.00The most astonishing book you'll read in 2021 - selected as one to watch by Vogue, Grazia and Marie Claire 'I will never forget her eyes in that moment - I couldn't look away from them. But I knew what happened as soon as I heard it. 'I think she pushed him,' I said to you quietly. 'I think she pushed him...' ___ 'I read it in one sitting. Not to be missed' LISA JEWELL 'Unsettling, visceral, provocative, compulsive' SARAH VAUGHAN ___ The arrival of baby Violet was meant to be the happiest day of my life. But as soon as I held her in my arms I knew something wasn't right. I had always known that the women in my family aren't meant to be mothers. My husband Fox says I'm imagining it. He tells me I'm nothing like my own mother, and that Violet is the sweetest child. But she's different with me. Something feels very wrong. Is it her? Or is it me? Is she the monster? Or am I? ___ The Push is an unsettling, breathtaking and powerful read about obsession and our deepest fears that will stay with you long after you turn the final page.
Luckenbooth
Jenni Fagan
£16.99Featured in Damian Barr's picks for 2021'If this addictive slice of Edinburgh Gothic isn't on all prize lists, there is no justice.' iNews 'Over time, 10 Luckenbooth Close sinks from grand residence to condemned squat with secrets seething in its walls ... Luckenbooth is a place of compacted time, where the past manifests as unquiet ghosts and the future bleeds into the present ... There's a force in Luckenbooth's bizarre assemblage.' The Times'Definitely going to be one of my books of 2021, a gloriously transgressive novel of Edinburgh denizens past and present.' IAN RANKIN________________________Stories tucked away on every floor. No. 10 Luckenbooth Close is an archetypal Edinburgh tenement. The devil's daughter rows to the shores of Leith in a coffin. The year is 1910 and she has been sent to a tenement building in Edinburgh by her recently deceased father to bear a child for a wealthy man and his fiancee. The harrowing events that follow lead to a curse on the building and its residents - a curse that will last for the rest of the century. Over nine decades, No. 10 Luckenbooth Close bears witness to emblems of a changing world outside its walls. An infamous madam, a spy, a famous Beat poet, a coal miner who fears daylight, a psychic: these are some of the residents whose lives are plagued by the building's troubled history in disparate, sometimes chilling ways. The curse creeps up the nine floors and an enraged spirit world swells to the surface, desperate for the true horror of the building's longest kept secret to be heard. Luckenbooth is a bold, haunting and dazzlingly unique novel about the stories and secrets we leave behind, and the places that hold them long after we are gone. ________________________'One of the most stunning literary experiences I've had in years. Luckenbooth, sprawling the decades with its themes of repression and revenge, brings back something that has long been lacking in the British novel: ambition. If Alasdair Gray's Lanark was a masterly imagining of Glasgow, then this is the quintessential novel of Edinburgh at its darkest.' IRVINE WELSH 'A deeply powerful, compellingly vivid novel ... Luckenbooth is a major work of Scottish fiction - possibly one of the most significant novels of the last ten years' ALAN WARNER'Luckenbooth is seedy, sexy and strange, a haunted house story soaked in booze and bad weather ... Fagan's prose is fast and impressionistic.' Sunday Telegraph' With Luckenbooth, [Jenni Fagan] gives us nine of Edinburgh's wildest and loneliest misfits ... Piles on claustrophobia and menace ... As we move between the characters' perspectives, gritty realism takes over from the gothic. This isn't fancy Edinburgh: at No 10 it's cigarettes, cocaine and Benzedrine for breakfast ... There are memorable creations ... Fagan's prose is poetic, high-octane, built on punchy sentences. Arresting descriptions of the city and its weather abound. This is not a novel that lacks energy.' Sunday Times'Jenni Fagan's Luckenbooth reminded me of one of my favourite novels, Georges Perec's Life: A User's Manual. Set in an Edinburgh tenement, it leaps across decades to tell the story of the curse that haunts No 10 Luckenbooth Close and its eccentric inhabitants.' Alex Preston, Observer 'Structures and structuralism obsess Jenni Fagan. Those obsessions intertwine spectacularly in Luckenbooth, her third novel, about an Edinburgh tenement and the curse that haunts it, infecting the lives of all who live across the building's nine floors over nine decades of mystery and uproarious change ...
The Living Sea of Waking Dreams: From the Booker prize-winning author of The Narrow Road to the Deep North
Richard Flanagan
£16.99 £16.14
Insatiable: ‘A frank, funny account of 21st-century lust' Independent
Daisy Buchanan
£12.99 £12.34
Hot Stew: a riotous novel about sex and money in Soho, from the Booker-shortlisted author of Elmet
Fiona Mozley
£16.99 £16.14
Common Ground: Did you ever have a friend who made you see the world differently?
Naomi Ishiguro
£16.99
Hamnet: WINNER OF THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2020 - THE NO. 1 BESTSELLER
Maggie O'Farrell
£20.00
When the Dead Come Calling: The Burrowhead Mysteries: A Scottish Book Trust 2020 Great Scottish Novel
Helen Sedgwick
£8.99 £8.54
Where the Missing Gather: ‘Helen Sedgwick saw into the future and that future is now!’ Lemn Sissay, author of My Name Is Why
Helen Sedgwick
£12.99 £12.34Unputdownable... Helen Sedgwick saw into the future and that future is now! It's an incredible book! READ IT.' Lemn Sissay on When the Dead Come CallingGone but not forgotten... An archaeological dig exposes a brutal history and a witness finally speaks. It seems the wickedness swirling in the harsh sea air of Burrowhead might be excised at last. But before DI Georgie Strachan can lift the veil of evil, a black horse is slaughtered on an altar in the woods and human remains begin to surface. Sinister rituals connect past and present but no one wants to see, or tell, or hear, the truth. Soon Georgie must face the question: where do the missing souls of the village gather?
Unravelling: A gripping tale of dark secrets, lies and murder
Helen Forbes
£9.99 £9.49Incarcerated in the gloom of a Highland asylum, a young mother finds illicit love. And death. Can her daughter unravel the twisted truth and save her own life?Kate Sharp’s family is a mystery. Her mother, Ellen, disappeared into the shadows of Craig Dunain psychiatric hospital when Kate was a child. When her grandmother dies, Kate is desperate for answers. What were the circumstances of her mother’s life and death? Who is her father?Kate’s not the only one trying to uncover the truth. The remains of two bodies with murderous injuries have been found buried in the forest next to the former hospital. And someone else is searching for answers, and he will stop at nothing to find them. As the tale of Ellen’s tragic unravelling unfolds, the secrets that led to her death are exposed, along with the shocking truth about Kate’s father. Unaware of the danger stalking her, Kate continues her search. Will she find the answers? Can she save her own life? Unravelling is a gripping tale of dark secrets,lies and murder, Set in a dual time-frame, Unravelling features the former Craig Dunain Psychiatric Hospitalin Inverness. The idea for the novel came from a visit to the Highland Archive Centre, where the records for the former hospital are kept.
Beautiful World, Where Are You: from the internationally bestselling author of Normal People
Sally Rooney
£16.99 £16.14
The Turnout: 'Impossible to put down, creepy and claustrophobic' (Stephen King) - the New York Times bestseller
Megan Abbott
£14.99 £14.24
A Slow Fire Burning: The addictive new Sunday Times No.1 bestseller from the author of The Girl on the Train
Paula Hawkins
£20.00 £19.00
The Heron's Cry: Now a major ITV series starring Ben Aldridge as Detective Matthew Venn
Ann Cleeves
£20.00 £19.00
Sankofa: A BBC Between the Covers Book Club Pick and Reese Witherspoon Book Club Pick
Chibundu Onuzo
£16.99 £16.14
The Secret Scripture: AN IRISH TIMES BEST IRISH BOOK OF THE 21ST CENTURY
Sebastian Barry
£9.99 £9.49
Exit West: A BBC 2 Between the Covers Book Club Pick – Booker Prize Gems
MOHSIN HAMID
£9.99 £9.49
The Mermaid of Black Conch: The spellbinding winner of the Costa Book of the Year as read on BBC Radio 4
Monique Roffey
£9.99 £9.49
Hamnet: WINNER OF THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2020 - THE NO. 1 BESTSELLER
Maggie O'Farrell
£9.99 £9.49
The Key In The Lock: A haunting historical mystery steeped in explosive secrets and lost love
Beth Underdown
£14.99 £14.24
The Living Sea of Waking Dreams: From the Booker prize-winning author of The Narrow Road to the Deep North
Richard Flanagan
£9.99 £9.49
Mating in Captivity: How to keep desire and passion alive in long-term relationships
Esther Perel
£12.99 £12.34
Insatiable: ‘A frank, funny account of 21st-century lust' Independent
Daisy Buchanan
£9.99 £9.49
Mother's Boy: A beautifully crafted novel of war, Cornwall, and the relationship between a mother and son
Patrick Gale
£20.00 £19.00
Sundial: from the author of Sunday Times bestseller The Last House on Needless Street
Catriona Ward
£14.99 £14.24
Build Your House Around My Body: LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2022
Violet Kupersmith
£8.99 £8.54
The Patron Saint of Second Chances: the most uplifting book you’ll read this year
Christine SIMON
£16.99 £16.14
