Modern & Literary Fiction Books

Under Cancun's hard blue sky, a beach boy provides a canvas for tourists' desires, seeing deep into the world's underbelly. An enigmatic encounter ...

Growing up in the lagoon town of Batticaloa, a young girl with an unquenchable curiosity and love of the natural world, is entangled in the trauma ...

For fans of Before We Were Yours and Where the Crawdads Sing, "a gripping, poignant tale swathed in both mythical and mystical overtones" (Bob Drur...

The Phoenix Project wowed over a half-million readers. Now comes the Wall Street Journal Bestselling The Unicorn Project!"The Unicorn Project is am...

Find The Lost Daughter by Elena Ferrante from publishers Europa Editions at Books2Door! ; 160 pages; Published: 20/03/2008

Find Severance by Ling Ma from publishers Text Publishing at Books2Door! ; 304 pages; Published: 26/11/2020

Transgressive, foulmouthed, and wildly funny, Brontez Purnell's 100 Boyfriends is a filthy, unforgettable, and brutally profound ode to queer love ...

Find He Used Thought as a Wife: An Anthology of Poems & conversations (From Inside) by Tim Key from publishers "Utter" & Press at Books2Doo...

Find The Lockdown Diary of Tom Cooper by Spencer Brown from publishers Marotte Books at Books2Door! ; ; Published: 12/11/2020

Find All Our Yesterdays by Natalia Ginzburg from publishers Daunt Books at Books2Door! ; 304 pages; Published: 30/06/2022

Find The Pachinko Parlour by Elisa Shua Dusapin from publishers Daunt Books at Books2Door! ; 124 pages; Published: 18/08/2022

From the author of The Red Notebook, described as 'Parisian perfection' by HRH The Duchess of Cornwall, The Readers' Room is a thrilling murder mys...

A young woman drifts through a series of one night stands and truncated love affairs. Finding herself in a series of increasingly bizarre situation...

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...

Cabbages . . . The Turkish variety are prized for their enlarged leaf bud, that's where we put the heroin . . . There's a stash of heroin waiting ...

LONGLISTED FOR THE 2022 BOOKER PRIZESHORTLISTED FOR THE 2022 GORDON BURN PRIZE'A page-turning blast.' Times'Genuinely affecting ... a very funny bo...

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...

Find Mansfield Park by Jane Austen from publishers Chiltern Publishing at Books2Door! ; ; Published: 11/11/2019

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

Find Where The Wild Ladies Are by Aoko Matsuda from publishers Tilted Axis Press at Books2Door! ; ; Published: 13/02/2020

Find Tokyo Ueno Station by Yu Miri from publishers Tilted Axis Press at Books2Door! ; ; Published: 04/03/2019

Find I'm Thinking Of Ending Things by Iain Reid from publishers Text Publishing at Books2Door! ; 208 pages; Published: 27/08/2020

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...

LONGLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD 2020LONGLISTED FOR THE RSL ONDAATJE PRIZE 2019LONGLISTED FOR THE WALTER SCOTT PRIZE FOR HIST...

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...

Bookseller Laurent Letellier comes across an abandoned handbag on a Parisian street, and feels impelled to return it to its owner. The bag contains...

Dining alone in an elegant Parisian brasserie, accountant Daniel Mercier can hardly believe his eyes when President Francois Mitterrand sits down t...

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