Contemporary fiction Books 1240 results

Elena Ferrante / Ann Goldstein

Vikram Seth

John Le Carre

James Baldwin

Louis De Bernieres

Roger Hargreaves

Jodi Picault

Baek Sehee

Anjet Daanje

Oisin Fagan

Abdulrazak Gurnah

Megha Majumdar

Rozie Kelly

Shahrnush Parsipur

Madeleine Watts (

Thomas Pychton

Allende, Isabel

Orange, Tommy

Alan Hollinghurst

Andre Aciman

Javier Marías

Cormac Mccarthy

Madeleine Dunnigan

Olga Ravn

It was a black night in the year 1620 when Christenze Krukow made the wax child, when she melted down beeswax and set it in the image of a small human. For days, she carried it tucked beneath her arm, shaping it with the warmth of her flesh, giving it life. She fashioned for it eyes and ears that cannot open, and yet - it watches and listens. It looks on as Christenze is haunt...

Leanne Betasamosake Simpson

Satoshi Yagisawa / Eric Ozawa

Annie Ernaux

One Sunday in Yvetot, August 1950. Annie is playing outside in the sun. Her mother steps out of the grocery to chat with a customer, a few metres from her. The two women's conversation is perfectly audible; its scraps become etched forever in Annie's memory. Before she was born, her parents had another daughter. She died at the age of six from diphtheria. Annie will never hear ...

Claire Keegan

From the bestselling author, Claire Keegan, an exquisitely written story which finds an unsatisfied man on his bus journey home reflect on the love that got away. 'A genuine once-in-a-generation writer.' THE TIMES 'Every word is the right word in the right place, and the effect is resonant and deeply moving.' HILARY MANTEL 'Claire Keegan makes her moments real - and then she m...

Justin Myers

Karim Kattan / Karim Kattan / Jeffrey Zuckerman

Faysal receives a mysterious letter about the death of aunt he can't remember. Leaving his lover and his life in Europe behind, he returns to the village of his birth in Palestine and to his family's extraordinary, deserted house, the palace on the higher hill. With a backdrop of violence and the permanent threat from settlers, Faysal wanders the once-lavish rooms as characters...