Modern and Contemporary

A permanently frozen London is the setting for a harrowing yet lyrical tale of survival in a dystopian near-future by Costa-shortlisted author Roma Tearne.

Discover Ali Smith's dazzling, once-in-a-generation series, the Seasonal Quartet, a tour-de-force quartet of novels about love, time, art, politics, and how we live right now.

This sweeping novel explores many timely topics, including oppression, women's rights, class, race, and interracial marrige. It also sheds light on the tumultuous history of Iran from a new perspective.

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.

A Pastor and Professor Quaker Mystery. “I readily admit I am a mystery reader—most often of the "cozy" variety, meaning fun characters and situations without too much violence and horror. But I am even more a lover of spiritual writing.

The young free-spirited florist Frieda grew up in a strictly Catholic environment in the 1960s. When she steps onto a frozen river on a late winter afternoon, little does she know that everything is about to change for her.

Ever gotten lost in a book? Or on your bicycle? Or both at once, by falling through a portal on the page? Anything is possible in this collection of fifteen very short stories and one comic.

Six-year-old Gracie Lynn is perpetually curious and bighearted. Convinced she knows how to save her beloved grandfather John from the 'worm' that is eating his brain - a metaphor her mother once used to explain John's dementia and sundown syndrome -