Contemporary Fiction Books

Laura used to have big dreams, but she gave them up - because that's what grown-ups do. Trying to turn her love of music into a career would have been absolutely ridiculous. But when she hears one of...

Stopping by for a cup of coffee at the Torunka Café, nestled down a beautiful Tokyo side street, locals and tourists from all walks of life experience small, everyday miracles.In this volume, three...

From the No. 1 New York Times bestselling author of Lights Out comes a gripping paranormal romance, perfect for fans of Ali Hazelwood's 

Longlisted for the Booker Prize 2026. In the middle of the countryside, a realtor is showing a disgraced professor around an idyllic house. She speaks not only about the home's many wonderful...

Summer, 1923. Six-year-old Catherine Carolan grows restless on her parents' farm. It's already clear that her intellect will soon outgrow the two-room schoolhouse across the fields.But in post-Civil...

'I want to, like, I don't know how else to say it but, I want to unknow you.'   A moment of silence. Then Margot started laughing. Tania and Margot, best friends for over twenty years, are preparing...

When Mona moved into her glorified broom closet in a broken-down apartment block, she didn't mean to stay long. But somehow, she's spent years with the late night noises, the missing packages, the...

Something terrible has happened to Jack but no one seems to want to talk about it. His uncles can tell him about everything from quantum physics to how to hunt for deer, but they can’t seem to tell...

We Used to Dance Here is a portrait of both Dublin and Dubliners in flux, exploring life on the margins, toxic masculinity and frustrated ambitions. With dog tracks, late-night radio talk shows,...

One evening, Toño Azpilcueta, a Peruvian folk music journalist, witnesses a performance that changes his life. Toño becomes obsessed with hearing the virtuoso guitarist Lalo Molfino play again, but...

An award-winning novel from an international rising star - spanning ancient and modern China - in the dazzlingly inventive style of Haruki Murakami and Kaliane Bradley Inspired by the vacant,...

A luscious summer novel about friends, lovers, and friends' lovers.Five friends from university; seven summer days in a cabin in rural Denmark. A chance to swim, sunbathe, flirt, read and mess around...

LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2026 The acclaimed author of The Doloriad returns with a darkly beautiful novel following a reclusive graduate in a campus love story like no other.

LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2026 'We were charmed by the novel’s meditation on friendship and grief, and its suggestion that the most meaningful truths can be found in the shadows.' - Booker...

LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2026From the Women’s Prize-shortlisted author of First Love, The Palm House is a sharply observed, slyly funny novel of enduring friendships and small mercies.

LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2026 Phillip Tennent makes his living at the tideline, collecting artefacts that wash up from the Channel. It's been years since the crisis changed everything, but its...

A divided Las Vegas family is forced to confront the past and reckon with a dangerous future in the searing new novel from Irvine Welsh. Molly and George Warburton are used to living life their own...

Devi is a fighter. Growing up in the slums of Delhi, she has learnt that survival comes at a cost - and naturally, that means she's made a few enemies along the way.Now she's being held captive, her...

She’s locked the door to the world. Is love strong enough to open it?Following a tragic incident, rising-star Beatrice is struggling.Having retreated from life entirely, she finds herself unable to...

Art, power, desire, and illusion collide in a hypnotic new novel from Olivia Laing, set in the months leading up to the murder of Pier Paolo Pasolini in 1975.It is September 1974. Two men meet in...

THIS IS ONE HELL OF A STORY. IT’S JUST NOT HERS TO TELL. When failed writer June Hayward witnesses her rival Athena Liu die in a freak accident, she sees her opportunity… and takes it.So what if it...

From one of Americas most beloved authors, a posthumous collection of newly discovered short stories and previously published essays and magazine pieces, offering a fresh perspective on the...

DELUXE EDITION-a gorgeous hardcover edition featuring hot pink sprayed edges!From the New York Times bestselling author of The Atlas Six, Girl Dinner is a darkly fun novel about power, lust, and...

Since the series' inception in 1915, the annual volumes of The Best American Short Stories have launched literary careers, showcased the most compelling stories of each year, and confirmed for all...

When Anthony Wistern died, he expected his family to make a bit more of a fuss about it.Especially after he'd died in such dramatic fashion: skewered by an exorbitantly expensive party decoration in...

Elegy plus comedy is the only way to express how we live in the world today, says a character in Sigrid Nunez’s ninth novel. The Vulnerables offers a meditation on our contemporary era, as a solitary...

The debut novel by the acclaimed author of Flaneuse and Art Monsters, Lauren Elkin's Scaffolding is a story of Paris, desire, love, psychoanalysis, and the turbulent affairs of two couples across...

The vibrantly fresh and lustrous stories in Miller's collection explore the multifaceted lives of women in seven arresting portraits. Modern and diverse, these women of different classes and ages...

Award-winning author Willy Vlautin explores the impact of trickle-down greed and opportunism of gentrification on ordinary lives in this scorching novel that captures the plight of a young woman...

From legendary writer Paul Theroux, an international bestseller that is a spellbinding adventure story of an American family that rejects its homeland and tries to find a happier life in the jungles...