Modern Fiction (post 1945)

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Who's That Girl?

Who's That Girl?

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Author: Mhairi McFarlane Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 544 'The perfect balance of romcom and drama!' GRAZIA She kissed the groom. She's not the bride... Edie thought she'd...
The Old Man and the Sea

The Old Man and the Sea

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Author: Ernest Hemingway Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 112 'The best story Hemingway has written. No page of this beautiful master-work could have been done better or differently'...
Consolation: Winner of the 2021 Best Crime Fiction Ned Kelly Award

Consolation: Winner of the 2021 Best Crime Fiction Ned Kelly Award

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Author: Garry Disher Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 Australia's favourite country cop, Hirsch, is back in this new edition of Consolation, the follow-up to Peace and Bitter...
Islands in the Stream

Islands in the Stream

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Author: Ernest Hemingway Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 464 Ernest Hemingway's last novel written before his death and his most autobiographical novel. Hemingway's last major novel, set in...
61 Hours: (Jack Reacher 14)

61 Hours: (Jack Reacher 14)

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Author: Lee Child Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 512 Get ready for the most exciting count-down of your life! Winner of the prestigious Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Novel...
Nineteen Eighty-Four: Popular Penguins

Nineteen Eighty-Four: Popular Penguins

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Author: George Orwell Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 356 In the Record Department of the sprawling Ministry of Truth, Winston Smith skilfully rewrites the past to appease the...
Beloved

Beloved

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Author: Toni Morrison Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 A haunting yet beautiful story that moves the reader from start to finish. INCLUDES A READING GUIDETerrible, unspeakable things...
The Children's Bach

The Children's Bach

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Author: Helen Garner Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 A captivating and deeply personal novel from one of Australia's most respected authors, now available in a smaller and...
The Catcher in the Rye

The Catcher in the Rye

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Author: J. D. Salinger Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 The Catcher in the Rye is the ultimate novel for disaffected youth, but it's relevant to all ages....
Nadja

Nadja

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Author: Andre Breton Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 NADJA is a Surrealist romance, and has come to be known as a book which defined that movement's attitude...
Go Tell it on the Mountain

Go Tell it on the Mountain

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Author: James Baldwin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 "Nothing but the darkness, and all around them destruction, and before them nothing but the fire--a bastard people, far...
The Eighth Life: (For Brilka) The International Bestseller

The Eighth Life: (For Brilka) The International Bestseller

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Author: Nino Haratischvili Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 944 'That night Stasia took an oath, swearing to learn the recipe by heart and destroy the paper. And when...
Love in the Time of Cholera

Love in the Time of Cholera

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Author: Gabriel Garcia Marquez Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 New to Penguin Modern Classics Florentino Ariza has never forgotten his first love. He has waited nearly a...
Burnt Sugar: Shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2020

Burnt Sugar: Shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2020

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Author: Avni Doshi Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 A searing and addictive literary debut about mothers and daughters, obsession and betrayal In her youth, Tara was wild....
The Course of Love

The Course of Love

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Author: Alain de Botton Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 This is a modern love story. It is a story about learning to survive, endure and flourish in...
Make Me: (Jack Reacher 20)

Make Me: (Jack Reacher 20)

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Author: Lee Child Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 512 This pacy, nailbiting new Jack Reacher thriller is one of Lee Child's darkest and most addictive yet. Prepare to...
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

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Author: Ken Kesey Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 At long last Ken Kesey's 1962 cult classic novel has entered Modern Classics series. Boisterous, ribald, and ultimately shattering,...
All That I Am

All That I Am

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Author: Anna Funder Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 Based on real people and events, All That I Am is a masterful and exhilarating exploration of bravery and...
Nine Days

Nine Days

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Author: Toni Jordan Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 One family. Nine momentous days. An unforgettable novel of love and folly and heartbreak. It is 1939 and although...
Cherry: Now a Major Film Starring Tom Holland

Cherry: Now a Major Film Starring Tom Holland

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Author: Nico Walker Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 Jesus' Son meets Reservoir Dogs in a breakneck-paced debut novel about love, war, bank robberies, and heroin NOW A...
Mort: Introduction by Neil Gaiman

Mort: Introduction by Neil Gaiman

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Author: Terry Pratchett Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 One of the new PB editions of three classic Discworld titles introducing new readers to the wonderful world of...
Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone

Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone

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Author: James Baldwin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 In this tender, angry 1968 novel, James Baldwin created one of his most striking characters- a man struggling to...
The Fiery Cross: (Outlander 5)

The Fiery Cross: (Outlander 5)

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Author: Diana Gabaldon Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 1424 THE FIFTH NOVEL IN THE BESTSELLING OUTLANDER SERIES. ___________________________________THE FIFTH NOVEL IN THE BESTSELLING OUTLANDER SERIESNow a major TV...
Italian Folktales

Italian Folktales

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Author: Italo Calvino Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 800 Meticulously selected and artfully recreated, the selection of stories in Italian is vast and ranges geographically from Corsica and...
The Cedar Tree

The Cedar Tree

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Author: Nicole Alexander Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 Spanning two centuries, Nicole Alexander's compelling novel is a story of love and faith, destiny and betrayal, in a...
The Faces

The Faces

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Author: Tove Ditlevsen Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 144 New to Penguin Modern Classics- a searing novel from Tove Ditlevsen, author of the wildly acclaimed Copenhagen Trilogy Copenhagen,...
Cold Comfort Farm

Cold Comfort Farm

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Author: Stella Gibbons Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 Stella Gibbons' hilarious comic novel of rural life, new to Penguin Modern Classics When sensible, sophisticated Flora Poste is...
Guards! Guards!: Introduction by Ben Aaronovitch

Guards! Guards!: Introduction by Ben Aaronovitch

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Author: Terry Pratchett Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 One of the new PB editions of three classic Discworld novels introducing new readers to the wonderful world of...
A Tall History of Sugar

A Tall History of Sugar

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Author: Curdella Forbes Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 Discovered amidst a tangle of sea grape trees by the childless Rachel Fisher, baby Moshe's provenance is a thing...
Little Faith

Little Faith

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Author: Nickolas Butler Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 Lyle Hovde is at the onset of his golden years, living a mostly content life in rural Wisconsin with...
Spirits of the Ghan

Spirits of the Ghan

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Author: Judy Nunn Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 Master storyteller Judy Nunn has now sold over 1 million books worldwide. In this spellbinding No.1 bestseller she takes...
The Angel's Game

The Angel's Game

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Author: Carlos Ruiz Zafon Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 464 Prequel to the bestselling The Shadow of the Wind, The Angel's Game takes us to the turbulent Barcelona...
Fool Me Once: from the #1 bestselling creator of the hit Netflix series The Stranger

Fool Me Once: from the #1 bestselling creator of the hit Netflix series The Stranger

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Author: Harlan Coben Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 You think you know the truth. The truth is you know nothing. The international number one bestselling author of...
Nabokov's Dozen: Thirteen Stories

Nabokov's Dozen: Thirteen Stories

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Author: Vladimir Nabokov Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 Thirteen strangely wrought stories make up Nabokov's baker's dozen. In some of these stories shadowy people pass through, cooped...
Madness

Madness

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Author: Roald Dahl Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 A woman obsessed with punctuality makes a fateful decision, a wronged woman takes revenge on her dead husband, a...
How to Kill Your Husband (and other handy household hints)

How to Kill Your Husband (and other handy household hints)

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Author: Kathy Lette Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 From the author of the bestselling HRT and Puberty Blues. All women want to kill their husbands some of...
Sex and Vanity: from the bestselling author of Crazy Rich Asians

Sex and Vanity: from the bestselling author of Crazy Rich Asians

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Author: Kevin Kwan Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 The new novel from the iconic author of the bestselling phenomenon Crazy Rich Asians THE ICONIC AUTHOR OF THE...
Deception

Deception

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Author: Roald Dahl Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 A man takes part in a very unusual bet, a wife serves up a dish that utterly baffles the...
Diary of a Madman, The Government Inspector, & Selected Stories

Diary of a Madman, The Government Inspector, & Selected Stories

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Author: Nikolay Gogol Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 The best of Gogol in a single volume - his most famous drama and the most brilliant of his...
Night and Day

Night and Day

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Author: Virginia Woolf Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 496 An immaculately-observed social comedy that explores the boundaries between personal freedom and the demands of love, the Penguin Classics...
Love in the Time of Cholera

Love in the Time of Cholera

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Author: Gabriel Garcia Marquez Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 Fifty-one years, nine months and four days have passed since Fermina Daza rebuffed hopeless romantic Florentino Ariza's impassioned...
The Riders

The Riders

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Author: Tim Winton Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 The Riders, the novel that brought Tim Winton his first Booker Prize shortlisting, charts an odyssey across Europe, a...
The Island

The Island

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Author: Ana Maria Matute Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 A searing coming-of-age tale by one of the greatest Spanish writers of the 20th century, set on the...
HRT: Husband Replacement Therapy

HRT: Husband Replacement Therapy

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Author: Kathy Lette Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 What do you do when you're told you've got terminal cancer at 50? Take up crochet, get religion and...
The Rosie Project

The Rosie Project

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Author: Graeme Simsion Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 The international bestseller. Over three million copies sold worldwide. Don Tillman is getting married. He just doesn't know who...
Sushi for Beginners

Sushi for Beginners

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Author: Marian Keyes Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 592 A stunning bestseller from the superstar of women's fiction 'Dammit,' she realized. 'I think I'm having a nervous breakdown.'Hot-shot...
Memoirs of a Geisha

Memoirs of a Geisha

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Author: Arthur Golden Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 512 Seductive, evocative, exquisite - intimate memoirs spanning half a century of Japanese history, revealing a closed world. A seductive...
Lust

Lust

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Author: Roald Dahl Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 Roald Dahl takes on Lust . . . From Roald Dahl, the master of the sting in the tail,...