Modern & contemporary fiction

Millions of Amor Towles fans are in for a treat as he shares some of his shorter fiction: six stories based in New York City and a novella set in Golden Age Hollywood. The New York stories, most of which take place around the year 2000, consider the fateful consequences that can spring from brief...

A woman has an unexpected outburst at a corporate group therapy session for returning parents. A couple find some long-overdue time to rekindle their relationship and make an ill-advised home movie. A pregnant film director plots her revenge on the actress who betrayed her. An ex-wife deliberatel...

Yiyun Li is one of our most celebrated living authors. 'Wednesday's Child' collects together 15 stunning short stories and a remarkable novella, never before published in the UK, gathered from 15 years of her writing. These stories carry the weight of history, sorrows, secrets and all things unre...

In the temples, slums, and gated estates of late-20th century Bangkok, 'Welcome Me to the Kingdom' exposes the schemes and strategies, the lies and betrayals, that inch its characters tantalisingly closer to 'the good life'. Wildly imaginative and ambitious, Mai Nardone's immersive debut announce...

King writes to feel 'the exhilaration of leaving ordinary day-to-day life behind', and in 'You Like it Darker', readers will feel that exhilaration too, again and again.

Zero-sum games are played for lethal stakes in these arresting stories by one of America's most acclaimed writers. A brilliant young philosophy student bent on seducing her famous philosopher-mentor finds herself outmaneuvered; diabolically clever high school girls wreak a particularly apt sort o...