Modern British Fiction

Charlie Avery wanted some purpose in life...but never expected that direction would lead her into the arms of a man with a secret. When Charlie arrives in Ireland, she's hoping to find direction. Instead, she feels more lost than ever. That is, until she meets the mysterious Aiden who offers her the adventure of a lifetime. The only catch? She has to pretend to be his girlfriend at a family wedding. A Royal Wedding. Aiden, the second eldest prince of Lochland, is used to being recognized, so when he meets Charlie and realizes she thinks he’s a normal guy, he takes a chance and invites her...

Step back into Baker Street with a Sherlock Holmes who feels as sharp and readable as if he were written today. This refreshed edition of The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes presents Arthur Conan Doyle’s classic tales in clean, contemporary typography and carefully clarified language, preserving every twist, deduction, and dry joke. Archaic phrasing and cluttered layouts have been gently updated, making Holmes’s brilliance and Watson’s narration instantly accessible for modern readers and new fans alike. Set against the fog-bound streets and drawing rooms of Victorian London, these stories...

Rediscover the timeless romance and keen social commentary of Jane Austen's "Pride and Prejudice," now thoughtfully adapted for the modern reader. This refreshed edition features clean formatting and contemporary typography, enhancing readability while maintaining Austen's original tone and intent. Lightly clarified language ensures that the wit and wisdom of Elizabeth Bennet's world remain accessible to today's audience, inviting both new readers and longtime fans to enjoy the beloved tale with renewed ease. Step into Regency-era England, where love and societal expectations clash in a ...

In contemporary Paris, a narrator and two companions explore the life and work of Gertrude Stein: a subversive imagining of a truly subversive female artist. This program is read by Audie Award–winning narrator Kristin Atherton. "[Narrator Kristin] Atherton's delivery of [author Deborah]...

Ex-spy Kendal was one of the best, but now she’s wearing the toughest disguise of her career: Mom. "[Narrator Ell] Potter skillfully uses accent and tone to convey personalities and keep the fast-paced story humming along." —Kirkus “An incisive feminist thriller and heaps of fun...

'The Manual For Good Wives, a fast-paced tale of courage and resilience is beautifully written and remarkably moving. An absolute masterpiece' - Mike Gayle, author of All the Lonely People 'Simply brilliant' - Alexandra Potter, bestselling author of Confessions of a Forty-Something F**k Up *****...

• Adapted in clear contemporary language for modern readers • Faithfully preserves the plot, wit, characters, and charm • Clean chapter navigation for relaxed reading or classroom use A dreary London afternoon, a newspaper advertisement, and the promise of “wistaria and sunshine” set four very different women on an unexpected journey to a small Italian castle by the Mediterranean. This Adapted for Modern Readers edition refreshes Elizabeth von Arnim’s beloved British social comedy with clearer, contemporary language while preserving the story’s elegant humor, emotional warmth,...

Selected by Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of the century, this "absolutely delightful" novel (New York Times) movingly and comically chronicles the breakdown of a marriage and the disintegration of English society in the years after World War I. After seven years of marriage, the...

#1 New York Times bestselling author Rosamunde Pilcher’s The Carousel is “a romantic tale imbued with several comforting lessons on loving, friendship, and family ties” (Booklist). Enroute to Cornwall by train, Prue Shackleton makes the acquaintance of little Charlotte Tolliver. Prue is...

In #1 New York Times bestselling author Rosamunde Pilcher’s Another View—now a major motion picture—a woman’s estrangement from her family affects her love life. There were only two men in Emma’s life—her father, a remote artist in Cornwall who left her in boarding school and saw her...

Be careful what you wish for. Even fairy godmothers can get it wrong. A Comedy Mixing Dark Humour with Light Valerie Anthrope insists she’s perfectly fine. She manages a financial brokerage, owns her own home, drives a new Vectra, and doesn’t need anyone, least of all love. Enter Ellen Semple: an overbearing, well-meaning whirlwind who answers Valerie’s advert for a PA and promptly starts reorganising her entire life. Then there’s Lex Kendal, Ellen’s charming, exasperating nephew, a millionaire used to getting everything he wants. Everything except a woman who says no. When Ellen ...

When the bite heals, the nightmares begin. When the moon rises, the hunger takes hold. And when the blood spills, the city remembers. Mick Carter thought he was just another man trying to survive Newcastle’s grey streets — until the night something tore into him beneath the bridge. Now, as bodies wash up along the Tyne, he feels the animal stirring beneath his skin… and the river whispering his name. Greyheart is a brutal, beautiful tale of lycanthropy, loss, and the things a city hides beneath its bones. For readers of The Howling, Let the Right One In, and The Ritual.

The Furies is a psychologically complex, dark and twisting novel about loss, obsession and the deep tragedies that can connect us to each other even as they blind us to our fate, from the bestselling author of A Thousand Ships After losing her fiancé in a shocking tragedy, Alex Morris moves...

Traveler, Cleric, Witch. The villagers in the sleepy hamlet of Lychford are divided. A supermarket wants to build a major branch on their border. Some welcome the employment opportunities, while some object to the modernization of the local environment. Judith Mawson (local crank) knows the...

Bloomsbury presents The Girl I Used To Know by Faith Hogan, read by Flora Montgomery. 'Another heart-warming read from Faith Hogan' Trisha Ashley. 'Heart-warming, poignant and uplifting' Lucy Coleman, author of Snowflakes Over Holly Cove. *** Two women. Two very different lives. One unexpected...

Step into Jane Austen's beloved world of wit and romance with a version of Sense and Sensibility designed for today's reader. This refreshed edition keeps every turn of the story intact while using lightly clarified, modernized language to make the dialogue and narration immediately accessible. Clean formatting, contemporary typography, and careful editing remove distractions, allowing you to experience Austen's humor, insight, and tension without stumbling over archaic phrasing or cramped page layouts. Set in Regency-era England, Sense and Sensibility follows the Dashwood sisters as they ...

A steam-powered elephant. A journey through untamed India. A mission of vengeance that could destroy everything. Ten years after the Indian Rebellion of 1857, Colonel Edward Munro still burns with a single obsession: finding Nana Sahib, the rebel leader whose forces massacred his wife at Cawnpore. When his friend Banks, a brilliant Scottish engineer, invites him on an extraordinary expedition through northern India, Munro seizes the chance to continue his hunt. Their vehicle is unlike anything the world has seen—a massive mechanical elephant named Behemoth, powered by steam and pulling ...

The gardens are pristine. The secrets are deadly. When celebrity television gardener Geoffrey Hawthorne is found murdered at the Brambledene village fête, DCI Rhys Morgan and DC Ben Carter discover that the charming judge had enemies — more than anyone realised. Behind the bunting and the flower displays, the picture-perfect village hides decades of secrets, grudges, and quiet desperation. Hawthorne's carefully cultivated reputation conceals a darker truth, and as the investigation deepens, Rhys and Ben find themselves with an embarrassment of suspects — each with reason to want the ...

From the author of the sensational bestselling Sophie Kinsella novels and the New York Times bestsellers The Wedding Girl and Sleeping Arrangements, this perceptive comedy 40 Love skewers the shallow rich, displaying a wicked backhand along the way. Everyone wins this game of literary tennis, a...

A daughter who has carried her family on four pounds eighty an hour. A son who has come home to discover what his mother did. A debt thirty years in the making — and only one of them knows it exists. On a March morning in 2026, Arthur Clennam-Mensah lands at Heathrow after twenty years in Hong Kong, summoned home by his stepfather's death and his mother's terrible silence. He has come back to a Hackney townhouse that has not changed since he left, a mother in a wheelchair who reads only her Bible, and a locked filing cabinet that no key will open. He has also come back to Amara Dorrit. ...