Modern & contemporary fiction

Representing Huxley's vision of the ruin of humanity, this is the story of an expedition to California in the wake of the nuclear war which has reduced Earth to ruins. Although the party reaches Los Angeles expecting physical destruction, they are quite unprepared for the moral degradation they m...

Rami Elhanan's license plate is yellow. Bassam Aramin's license plate is green. It takes Rami fifteen minutes to drive to the West Bank. The same journey for Bassam, down the same streets, takes an hour and a half. Both men are fathers of daughters. Both daughters were there, before they were gon...

Rami Elhanan's license plate is yellow. Bassam Aramin's license plate is green. It takes Rami fifteen minutes to drive to the West Bank. The same journey for Bassam, down the same streets, takes an hour and a half. Both men are fathers of daughters. Both daughters were there, before they were gon...

As the industrial revolution gathers pace, business should be booming for talented apothecary Amelia Boden. But her no-good husband has disappeared, and a disreputable chemist now owns the family shop. Vowing never again to trust her fate to a man, Amelia needs all her ingenuity and skill to avoi...

Joy Delaney and husband Stan have done well. Four wonderful grown-up children. A family business to envy. The golden years of retirement ahead of them. So when Joy Delaney vanishes - no note, no calls, her bike missing - it's natural that tongues will wag. How did Stan scratch his face? Why no an...

Joy Delaney and husband Stan have done well. Four wonderful grown-up children. A family business to envy. The golden years of retirement ahead of them. So when Joy Delaney vanishes - no note, no calls, her bike missing - it's natural that tongues will wag. How did Stan scratch his face? Why no an...

'Are they paying you extra for this? You'd better be getting something. For the inconvenience, I mean. Here for the whole weekend is what they said. What if we'd had guests? They never asked. And in any case what are the dangers? Being tested like lab rats, we are. Did they even try to provide an...

Though she can barely see above his head, she holds forth about her life and desires, her struggles with her sexuality and identity. Born and raised in Germany, she has been living in London for several years, determined to break free from her family origins and her haunted homeland. But the rece...

35-year-old Ursula Byrne is successful, witty, smart, and single. She's tried all the dating apps, and let's just say: she's underwhelmed by her options. Enter The Arc - a mysterious, super-sophisticated matchmaking service that relies on a complex series of emotional, psychological and physiolog...

The earth beneath the Refuge begins to tremble, endangering not only angelkind's precious and fragile young, but the very place that has held Raphael and Elena's most innocent safe for eons. Amid the chaos, Elena's father suffers a heart attack that threatens to extinguish their last chance to he...