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...

In an old mansion in the heart of Barcelona, a young man, David Martin, an aspiring writer, receives a mysterious letter from a French editor, promising literary stardom if he will fulfil just one ...