Modern Fiction (post 1945)

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A Gorgeous Sense Of Hope

A Gorgeous Sense Of Hope

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Magenta is a girl who has known little joy in love, until an auspicious encounter with an Aztec love interest breakes the drought. Although the omens assure a victorious union,...
The Parting Gift

The Parting Gift

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An erotic tale of jealousy, obsession, and revenge suffused with the rich flavors and intoxicating aromas of Israel's Mediterranean coast An unnamed narrator writes a letter to an old college...
Yeonnam-dong's Smiley Laundromat: The Heartwarming Korean Bestseller

Yeonnam-dong's Smiley Laundromat: The Heartwarming Korean Bestseller

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*THE HEARTWARMING KOREAN BESTSELLER* *A new book from Shanna Tan, translator of Welcome to the Hyunam-Dong Bookshop* Situated at the heart of a rapidly gentrifying district of Seoul, the Yeonnam-dong...
The Life I was Meant to Live: cosy up with this uplifting and

The Life I was Meant to Live: cosy up with this uplifting and

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'A charming and heart-warming read that will warm your cockles this winter' Heat Thirty-nine-year-old Romane is a doctor and hypochondriac. Her usually uneventful life changes when one of her patients...
North: A Novel

North: A Novel

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As a late spring blizzard brews, Brother Christopher, a cloistered monk at Blue Mountain Monastery in Vermont, rushes to tend to his Ida Red and Northern Spy apple trees in...
Extreme Denial

Extreme Denial

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Careering: 'I loved loved loved it' Marian Keyes

Careering: 'I loved loved loved it' Marian Keyes

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' So perceptive and wise about the media, privilege, the differing but equally troubling pressures that women of all ages face, while still being moving, laugh out loud funny, and...
Knocking on

Knocking on

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From man-about-Mitcham and leading diarist de nos jours, Simon Crisp: 'It is impossible to exaggerate the gratitude I owe the late Sir Alec Guinness. Had I not happened to meet...
Small World

Small World

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Friends, family, workmates. The woman you see at the bus stop every morning; the man who reaches for the last newspaper just before you get to it. Everyone you meet,...
Tremor

Tremor

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Strangers: A Family Romance

Strangers: A Family Romance

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Based on fact, but told with the imagination of a novelist, Strangers is the story of the author's family, the Tennants. Margot Asquith and Pamela Tennant (nee Wyndham), warring sisters-in-law;...
Acts of Faith

Acts of Faith

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Banal Nightmare

Banal Nightmare

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' Banal Nightmare will end summer with a bang. It's about turning 37 and realising you hate everybody you know. So funny, so smart, utterly vicious - just brilliant' Zadie...
Dead Centre

Dead Centre

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It is 1887, the year of Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee, and London is in turmoil, particularly at the dead centre, Trafalgar Square. Here, the angry unemployed gather daily to protest...
In Zanesville: A Novel

In Zanesville: A Novel

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The beguiling fourteen-year-old narrator of IN ZANESVILLE is a late bloomer. She is used to flying under the radar-a sidekick, a third wheel, a marching band dropout, a disastrous babysitter,...
Goldengrove: A Novel

Goldengrove: A Novel

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At the centre of Francine Prose's profoundly moving new novel is a young girl facing the consequences of sudden loss after the death of her sister. As her parents drift...
The Amber Amulet

The Amber Amulet

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Dear Sir/Ma'am, Please find enclosed this AMBER AMULET. That must sound unusual to a citizen, but you will have to trust me on this count because the science is too...
Nanny Returns

Nanny Returns

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In the highly anticipated follow-up to the #1 New York Times bestseller, Nan returns to New York City after 10 years away. Discover how she--and the city--has changed in her...
Giovanni's Gift

Giovanni's Gift

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The Mutual Friend: the unmissable debut novel from the co-creator of

The Mutual Friend: the unmissable debut novel from the co-creator of

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New York, 2015. In a city of more than 8 million people, there are always new places to visit, new connections to be made, new experiences to be shared. But...
False Value: Book 8 in the #1 bestselling Rivers of London series

False Value: Book 8 in the #1 bestselling Rivers of London series

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Peter Grant is facing fatherhood, and an uncertain future, with equal amounts of panic and enthusiasm. Rather than sit around, he takes a job with emigre Silicon Valley tech genius...
The Betrayal

The Betrayal

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Encounters

Encounters

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Three Weeks in Paris

Three Weeks in Paris

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From the bestselling author of A Sudden Change of Heart and Where You Belong comes the spellbinding story of four women transformed by old memories and surprising revelations when they...
The Tusk That Did the Damage

The Tusk That Did the Damage

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From the critically acclaimed author of Atlas of Unknowns and Aerogrammes , a tour de force set in South India that plumbs the moral complexities of the ivory trade through...
Advances

Advances

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Agnes and the Hitman

Agnes and the Hitman

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Take one food writer named Cranky Agnes, add a hitman named Shane, mix them together with a Southern mob wedding, a missing necklace, two annoyed flamingos, and a dog named...
The Geographer's Library

The Geographer's Library

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A twelfth-century Sicilian cat burglar snatches a sack of artefacts from the king's geographer's library, and the tools and talismans of transmutation and eternal life are soon scattered all over...
The Runaway

The Runaway

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When Dana and Caitlin meet by chance on the ferry from Ireland, they tell each other that they are simply going to search for work, but they soon realise they...
Bel Canto: Annotated Edition

Bel Canto: Annotated Edition

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A beautifully designed edition of number-one New York Times bestselling author Ann Patchett's prized classic, annotated and with an introductionby the author herself. 'A book that works both as a...
Metro Girl

Metro Girl

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The brilliantly funny, unputdownable new novel from Janet Evanovich, No. 1 bestselling author of the Stephanie Plum books Alexandra Barnaby knows how to change a guy's oil and rotate his...