AF: Contemporary Fiction
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"Ito is a Japanese sushi chef, recently arrived in New York City, haunted by his past. Mariane, an alcoholic waitress in her 30s who longs for the baby daughter she left behind in Virginia, exudes a frail, broken beauty that captivates Ito. There is...
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Curl up with this gorgeously romantic tale and let the glistening snow and the roaring fires of Stardust Lake Hotel get you in the festive spirit this Christmas.Piper Chesterfield lives a glamorous life travelling the world and reviewing the finest hotels. She calls nowhere...
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From the writer of BBC smash hit drama Crossfire, and the bestselling author of Apple Tree Yard - now a major BBC One series - a masterful novel about the secrets in one man's past, and the possibility of redemption.John Harper lies awake at night in an isolated hut on...
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Rose Woodrowe has just got engaged to Tyler Masson - a wonderful, sensitive man who is head-over-heels in love with her. The only problem? This isn't the first time for either of them, and their five grown-up children have strong opinions on the matter...
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When ice traps John MacLennan's ship in the Bering Strait in 1910, the youthful sailor blows up his hands trying to widen a small fissure with dynamite.Local Chukchi men take him by dogsled to a medicine woman, but gangrene sets in and John's hands...
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There are more than seven billion people on the planet.They have, on average, over 100 billion nerve cells in their brains and 5 litres of blood pumping through their bodies. Their skeletons are made up of 206 bones and their hearts beat approximately 72...
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The Kilburn Social Club is a Premiership football team of opera singers, academics and South African freedom fighters. It's a dream, a club where no one is more equal than anyone else, managed by an enigmatic war hero, inspired by a gay Argentinian millionaire...
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A brilliantly perceptive and moving novel, that announced Jonathan Franzen as one of our greatest living writers. One of the ten books – novels, memoirs and one very unusual biography – that make up our Matchbook Classics’ series, a stunningly redesigned collection of some...
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An inventive, blackly funny novel about an adolescent boy trying to escape from his parents' past. It is a melancholy slapstick about how the individual experiences history, about our colonial legacy and modern paranoia. It is funny, troubling and moving.
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Joseph Stone loves being a father to his 3 young children but finds he has to radically revise his Perfect Father game plan when his partner leaves him and he is left to bring them up on his own. Surely Single Fatherhood is no...
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On her uncle Jacob's death Johanna discovers a mysterious box of photographs amongst his belongings. Inspired to investigate Jacob's early life in London, where he trained as a photographer, she uncovers a macabre history laced with scandal.In 1905, Jacob is apprenticed to Herbert Burrows...
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Shy student Alexandra - `X' to her friends - arrives in Naples desperate for adventure beyond the sheltered life she's led. As she explores the sun-soaked Italian city streets, she meets a man like none she has ever met before. Lord Marcus Roscarrick is...
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Three escapist novels from T.A. Williams for you to pack away in your suitcase this summer. They will leave you beaming from ear to ear as you follow the loves and lives of three different women in gorgeous locations.Dreaming of Florence follows Debbie Waterson...
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Smart, blonde, and self-destructive, Elizabeth Mann thinks that leaving New York for a London travel-writing job will solve all her problems with her father, a well-known American infertility specialist. She couldn?t be more wrong: in a museum of medical curiosities at the Royal College...
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Professor Theo Ryan lives a quiet life teaching drama at Cavendish University in North Carolina, but everything gets turned upside down when he meets Ford Rexford―America's best-known playwright. Ford is the most talented and the most impossible man Theo has ever met. And Ford's...
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In the sleepy town of Dingley Falls, Connecticut, something funny is going on. Strange forces are pulling together the oddest of couples: a mild-mannered matron and a lascivious avant-garde poet; a sleek headmaster and a shy young curate; and, a hippie librarian and the...
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City girl by day, city stripper by night...Geri Carson is fed up with life in the City. Forced to act as one the boys in order to climb the ladder of one of London's biggest investment banks, it seems however hard she tries, she's...
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Faith Dangerfield is attracted to Jack Cummings, but is shocked when he testifies against her father at a court martial.
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Ailsa has just left school and should be living it up on a summer trip, but her plans are scuppered by her needy and secretive mother. In desperation she takes up with local fishmonger Ian. He's good for her soul and her sex-life, but...
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This is the story of a young homosexual trying to make his way in 1950s and '60s Chelsea. Edwin Carpenter has run away from a brutal father and is in the grip of a terrible compulsion: he steals, compulsively, without any interest in financial...
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