Modern and Contemporary

'This impressive debut follows two young black lives... a beautifully written testament to oppression that reverberates across the centuries' MAIL ON SUNDAY

The long-awaited final volume of the trilogy by Patrick Leigh Fermor. A Time of Gifts and Between the Woods and the Water were the first two volumes in a projected trilogy that would describe the walk that Patrick Leigh Fermor

The Am Spiegelgrund clinic, in glittering Vienna, masqueraded as a well-intentioned reform school for wayward boys and girls and a home for chronically ill children.

Twenty years after his bestselling debut Essays in Love, internationally acclaimed author Alain de Botton returns to fiction with a brilliant new novel about modern relationships.

For a young transgender man, life in late 80s small town America requires one thing - escape. After getting fired from his job, Sam persuades his best friend Gwen, with whom he once had an all-too-brief fling, ...

A house full of history is bound to have secrets... 'It's a beautiful story and written with such wisdom and kindness...

A fashionable house in a London terrace, the House of Journalists is renowned around the world as a place of refuge for exiled writers who have fallen foul of oppressive regimes.

This is the story of Mary, a young girl born in a beautiful city full of rose gardens and fluttering kites. When she is still very small, Mary meets Lanmo, a shining golden snake, who becomes her very best friend. The snake visits Mary many times