Modern & Literary Fiction Books

The compelling Sunday Times bestseller about two neighbours brought together by fate, from the million-copy bestselling author of The Family Upstai...

No food, no water, no government, no obligation, no order. Discover a chillingly powerful and prescient dystopian vision from one of Europe's gre...

'A masterpiece... I would urge you to read - and re-read ' Daily Telegraph**Winner of the Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2011**Tony Webster and his c...

**NOW A MAJOR NETFLIX FILM STARRING TOM HOLLAND AND ROBERT PATTINSON**'Some people were born just so they could be buried'In Knockemstiff, Ohio, wa...

Discover the blazing debut novel from the Booker Prize winning author. 'A crazy ambidextrous delight' Michael OndaatjeWhere is Pradeep S. Mathew ...

I read somewhere that the decision to emigrate comes from a need to breathe. The hope of a better life is stronger than any other feeling. My mothe...

When he hears her favourite Beatles song, Toru Watanabe recalls his first love Naoko, the girlfriend of his best friend Kizuki. Immediately he is t...

Read this imaginative masterpiece from the internationally bestselling author of Norwegian Wood The year is 1984. Aomame sits in a taxi on the expr...

This powerful collection of stories, set in the mid-West among the lonely men and women who drink, fish and play cards to ease the passing of time,...

As a girl, Clara del Valle can read fortunes, make objects move as if they had lives of their own, and predict the future. Following the mysterious...

He is a brilliant maths professor with a peculiar problem - ever since a traumatic head injury seventeen years ago, he has lived with only eighty m...

Discover Thomas Pynchon's brilliant writing in this postmodern literature classic. ...

** THE SUNDAY TIMES NO. 1 BESTSELLER **Discover the dystopian novel that started a phenomenon before you read the Booker Prize-winning sequel The T...

'One of the boldest thriller writers working today' TESS GERRITSEN'Her characters, plot, and pacing are unrivalled' MICHAEL CONNELLY_______________...

Welcome to the charming town of Lost River - and an enchanting and unforgettable Christmas... When Oswald moves to the sleepy little town of Lost...

**A BBC BETWEEN THE COVERS BIG JUBILEE READ PICK**'A milestone in the campaign for racial equality' GuardianIn 1945, Rick Braithwaite, a smart, hig...

The death and burial of Addie Bundren is told by members of her family, as they cart the coffin to Jefferson, Mississippi, to bury her among her pe...

'He captures better than anyone the collision of public and private, the intrusion of history into the skin, the pores of every individual alive' G...

Discover Graham Green's prescient political masterpiece'The novel that I love the most is The Quiet American' Ian McEwanInto the intrigue and viole...

A complex, intense American novel of family from the winner of the Nobel Prize for LiteratureWith an introduction by Richard HughesEver since the f...

The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger is a spellbinding blend of science fiction and poignant romance. This debut novel was originally pub...

'This book has one of the most charismatic narrators I've ever met' J K Rowling ...

A marvelous hybrid of mythology and mystery, A Wild Sheep Chase is the extraordinary literary thriller that launched Haruki Murakami's internationa...

A dizzying short story collection that displays Murakami's genius for uncovering the surreal in the everyday, the extraordinary within the ordinary...

A mystery story about love, the cosmos and other fictional universes. Sumire is in love with a woman seventeen years her senior. Miu is glamorous...

'A charming and original work... The parable itself is extremely relevant' The TimesiDEATH is a place where the sun shines a different colour every...

**LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE**A powerful, heart-breaking story about tempting fate and living with the consequencesArthur and Jake are brother...

'A subtle and beautiful meditation' Sunday TimesIn Invisible Cities Marco Polo conjures up cities of magical times for his host, the Chinese ruler ...

'I've been trying to tell everyone I know about Mary Lawson . . . Each one of her novels is just a marvel' Anne TylerOrphaned young, Kate Morrison ...

In the cloud-washed airspace between the cornfields of Illinois and blue infinity, a man puts his faith in the propeller of his biplane. For disill...

______________________NOW CELEBRATING ITS 75th ANNIVERSARYBetty Smith's debut novel is universally regarded as a modern classic. The sprawling tale...

Irving Stone's powerful and passionate biographical novel of Michelangelo. His time: the turbulent Renaissance, the years of poisoning princes, w...

Rome, 63 BC. In a city on the brink of acquiring a vast empire, seven men are struggling for power. Cicero is consul, Caesar his ruthless young r...

'The most outrageously funny book about sex written' GuardianPortnoy's Complaint n. [after Alexander Portnoy (1933-)]:A disorder in which strongly-...

'A work of art...altogether a joyous and lovely thing' New York TimesSet in a remote fishing village in Japan, The Sound of Waves is a timeless sto...

Hemingway's great novel of the Spanish Civil War'The world is a fine place and worth fighting for and I hate very much to leave it'High in the pine...

**A BBC RADIO 4 GOOD READ**'A great novel by one of the finest authors writing in the English language today' The TimesAfter years teaching Romanti...

Because of the boyhood trauma of seeing his mother make love to another man in the presence of his dying father, Mizoguchi becomes a hopeless stutt...

A band of savage thirteen-year-old boys reject the adult world as illusory, hypocritical, and sentimental, and train themselves in a brutal callous...

An intimate reflection on Japanese art and architecture from one of the country's greatest novelists. This is an enchanting essay on aesthetics b...

Tokyo, 1912. The closed world of the ancient aristocracy is being breached for the first time by outsiders - rich provincial families, a new and po...

Read this classic exploration of political violence, traditional samurai values and right wing nihilism. ...

Ernest's Hemingway's powerful autobiographical story of war. 'I don't live at all when I'm not with you'In 1918 Ernest Hemingway went to war. He ...

A BTS fan favorite! A WALL STREET JOURNAL STORIES THAT CAN TAKE YOU ANYWHERE PICK * ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY'S STAY HOME AND READ PICK * SALON'S BEST A...

*The USA Today bestseller* 'An edge-of-your-seat, page-flipping, stay-up-all-night, heart-racing suspense thriller!' Real Re...

'Fun, festive and fabulous. A story that sparkles like Christmas snow.' MILLY JOHNSON 'A page-turner' - Woman's Weekly When Sky T...

Pour yourself a mug of hot chocolate and settle down in front of the fire with this perfect, uplifting festive read! 'Wow, just ...

Introducing the Collins Modern Classics, a series featuring some of the most significant books of recent times, books that shed light on the human ...