Modern & contemporary fiction

Sitting on a California beach at summer’s end, Jane Marsh thinks back to her childhood at the estate called Elvie in a remote corner of Scotland. She remembers not only the heather-covered hi...

Set in the hard world of back-street New York, Selby tells the story of 2 young men and their companion, a directionless young woman, hustling their way to the good life, smoking dope, rapping and ...

Poet and pervert, Humbert becomes obsessed by 12 year-old Lolita and seeks to possess her, first carnally and then artistically. This is Nabokov’s best known novel which brought him worldwide...