Modern & Literary Fiction Books

Aspiring writer Sterling is arrested one morning, without having done anything wrong. Plunged into a terrifying and nonsensical world, Sterling - w...

A teacher asked me a question, and I opened my mouth as a sort of formality but closed it softly, knowing with perfect certainty that nothing would...

Find Ducks, Newburyport by Lucy Ellmann from publishers Galley Beggar Press at Books2Door! ; 1020 pages; Published: 17/09/2019

Every family has its own mythology, but in this family none of the myths match up. Claudia's mother says she met her husband when she stopped him f...

Asle is an ageing painter and widower who lives alone on the southwest coast of Norway. In nearby Bjorgvin another Asle, also a painter, is lying i...

In her brilliantly inventive debut collection, Vanessa Onwuemezi takes readers on a surreal and haunting journey through a landscape on the edge of...

MINOR DETAIL begins during the summer of 1949, one year after the war that the Palestinians mourn as the Nakba - the catastrophe that led to the di...

The Witch is dead. After a group of children playing near the irrigation canals discover her decomposing corpse, the village of La Matosa is rife w...

Celestial Bodies is set in the village of al-Awafi in Oman, where we encounter three sisters: Mayya, who marries Abdallah after a heartbreak; Asma,...

'Sleeping is a modern superpower. Stories are old magic.'Whether you find yourself struggling to fall asleep, awake in the middle of the night or s...

In the wake of a mysterious environmental cataclysm that has wiped out the rest of humankind, the Matriarch, her brother, and the family descended ...

Find Filthy Animals by Brandon Taylor from publishers Daunt Books at Books2Door! ; 272 pages; Published: 24/06/2021

Find Our Lady of the Nile by Scholastique Mukasonga from publishers Daunt Books at Books2Door! ; 224 pages; Published: 18/03/2021

Find Real Life by Brandon Taylor from publishers Daunt Books at Books2Door! ; 336 pages; Published: 30/07/2020

Find Indelicacy by Amina Cain from publishers Daunt Books at Books2Door! ; 168 pages; Published: 03/09/2020

Find Winter in Sokcho by Elisa Shua Dusapin from publishers Daunt Books at Books2Door! ; 128 pages; Published: 20/02/2020

Find Family Lexicon by Natalia Ginzburg from publishers Daunt Books at Books2Door! ; 224 pages; Published: 20/09/2018

Selected for the 2012 Man Booker Prize shortlist. As he arrives with his family at the villa in the hills above Nice, Joe sees a body in the swimmi...

Find Love in the Big City by Sang Young Park from publishers Tilted Axis Press at Books2Door! ; ; Published: 28/10/2021

Find Strange Beasts of China by Ge Yan from publishers Tilted Axis Press at Books2Door! ; ; Published: 26/11/2020

The author of the multi-prize-winning The Year of the Runaways returns with a novel of forbidden love that echoes across the generations'China Room...

Feverish and forthright, Pond is an absorbing chronicle of the pitfalls and pleasures of a solitudinous life told by an unnamed woman living on the...

LONGLISTED FOR THE 2021 BOOKER PRIZE'An Island concerns itself with lives lived on the margins, through the story of a man who has exiledhimself fr...

His name was Joseph, but for years they had called him Panenka, a name that was his sadness and his story. Panenka has spent 25 years living with t...

Variations is the debut short story collection from one of Britain's most compelling voices, Juliet Jacques. Using fiction inspired by found materi...

WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE 2022A searing satire set amid the murderous mayhem of Sri Lanka beset by civil warColombo, 1990. Maali Almeida, war phot...

Find The Crow Eaters by Bapsi Sidhwa from publishers Daunt Books at Books2Door! ; 304 pages; Published: 16/04/2015

'Gloriously romantic, the perfect summer escape!' Cathy Bramley 'Beach House Summer is a perfect slice of joyful summer escapism from Sara...

A no.1 Kindle and Apple and top three Sunday Times bestseller. 'Christmas isn't Christmas without a Sarah Morgan novel to inhale...A fe...

Don't miss the new feel-good novel from Sarah Morgan, The Summer Seekers - out May 2021! 'Joyful, uplifting and overflowing with love. Sar...

The No.1 bestselling novel of the Great Irish Famine from one of Ireland's most beloved writersIreland's hopes for freedom are dashed with the arri...

A SUNDAY POST TOP PICK FOR SUMMER READING'This latest DCI Daley thriller is deftly plotted and peopled with sympathetically drawn local characters ...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2018WINNER OF THE GILLER PRIZE SHORTLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD 2020FINALIST FOR THE CA...

Take a story and shrink it. Make it tiny, so small it can fit in the palm of your hand. Carry the story with you everywhere, let it sit with you wh...

Yoshiro thinks he might never die. A hundred years old and counting, he is one of Japan's many 'old-elderly'; men and women who remember a time bef...

Gwangju, South Korea, 1980. In the wake of a viciously suppressed student uprising, a boy searches for his friend's corpse, a consciousness searche...

Publishing in English for the very first time, Japan's beloved coming-of-age classic on what really matters in life The streets of Tokyo swarm belo...

By the author of Black Narcissus and The River'Her craftsmanship is always sure; her understanding of character is compassionate and profound; her ...

Chinua Achebe is considered the father of African literature in English, the writer who 'opened the magic casements of African fiction' for an inte...

Winner of The Women's Prize for Fiction and the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. The poignant - and at times very funny - nove...

With the verve and bite of Ottessa Moshfegh and the barbed charm of Nancy Mitford, Marlowe Granados's stunning debut brilliantly captures a summer ...

'Funny about death, real about anxiety, witty about the things that worry us the most' Emma Gannon, author of Olive 'So fundamentally kind that you...

A SUNDAY TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR'This feels like a vision for the 21st-century novel... It made me happy' Ocean Vuong, author of On Earth We're Brie...

If you loved The Midnight Library, read How to Stop Time next!HOW MANY LIFETIMES DOES IT TAKE TO LEARN HOW TO LIVE?Tom Hazard has a dangerous secre...

In the wake of the 2011 tsunami, Ruth discovers a Hello Kitty lunchbox washed up on the shore of her beach home in British Columbia. Within it lies...

What if going back means you could begin again?Rocked by a terrible accident, homeless Kelly needs to escape the city streets of Glasgow. Maybe she...