Modern Fiction (post 1945)

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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...
Retrospective

Retrospective

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"One of the great novels to have been written in our language" MARIO VARGAS LLOSA "Beautifully written and gripping" Guardian He thought that memories were invisible like light, and just...
Super Host: the charming, compulsively readable novel of life, love

Super Host: the charming, compulsively readable novel of life, love

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Being lost in a place you know by heart is one of life's most disconcerting feelings - a wry, warm and insightful novel of life, love and loneliness 'She writes...
Eudora Welty

Eudora Welty

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Eudora Welty's works are treasures of American literature. When her first short-story collection was published in 1941, it heralded the arrival of a genuinely original writer who over the decades...
Caroline: A Mystery

Caroline: A Mystery

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Mr Shaw works for an insurance company, at a desk, in an office, in a city. One year, during his family summer holiday, his world is turned upside down when...
One August Night: Sequel to much-loved classic, The Island

One August Night: Sequel to much-loved classic, The Island

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'A return to Hislop's thyme-scented, Aegean-lapped fictional Greece' The Sunday Times Beloved author Victoria Hislop returns to Crete in this long-anticipated sequel to her multi-million-copy Number One bestseller, The Island...
Gump & Co

Gump & Co

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In his celebrated novel, Forrest Gump, Groom created a great American hero (Rima Firrone, Ocala Star-Banner), a lovable man for all ages. Now in a rollicking sequel, Forrest guides readers...
BIRTHDAY PARTY THE

BIRTHDAY PARTY THE

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Poppy was about to be eighty, and to celebrate the birthday the whole of her family is gathering. Capable, bossy daughter Beryl, and her meek and mild husband Rodney, are...
Getting Colder

Getting Colder

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Shortlisted for the Encore Award for best second novel. They were colour-supplement darlings of the 1980s: Patrick, the sexy, ferocious young playwright, scourge of an enthralled establishment, and Sara, who...
The Parrot's Theorem

The Parrot's Theorem

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'Superb' a beautiful book glorying in great adventures of the human mind'' Le Point When Mr Ruche, a reclusive Parisian bookseller, receives a letter from a long lost friend in...
The President's Child

The President's Child

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Author: Fay WeldonBinding: HardbackPublished: Hodder & Stoughton, 1982Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: Aging or markingMarkings: No markingsA compelling narrative unfolds around a child whose existence is inextricably linked to...