Modern Fiction (post 1945)

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The Island Home: The uplifting page-turner making life brighter in 2022

The Island Home

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Author: Libby Page Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 480 Two decades. Hundreds of miles. A lifetime of secrets. Could coming home mean starting again? 'A perfect, warm escape from these...
The Wallcreeper

The Wallcreeper

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Author: Nell Zink Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 'Heady and rambunctious ... Wake up, this book says: in its plot lines, in its humour, in its philosophical...
Wild Fires

Wild Fires

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Author: Sophie Jai Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 Grief is like an inside joke: you have to have been there to really get it. The only things Cassandra knows...
Assorted Fire Events

Assorted Fire Events

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Author: David Means Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 192 Upon its publication, Assorted Fire Events won a Los Angeles Times Book Prize, was nominated for a National Book Critics Circle...
Pandemonium (Delirium Trilogy 2): From the bestselling author of Panic, now a major Amazon Prime series

Pandemonium (Delirium Trilogy 2)

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Author: Lauren Oliver Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 The eagerly anticipated sequel to the international bestseller DELIRIUM, one of the most addictive books of last year. Unflinching, heartbreaking and...
The Rules of Revelation

The Rules of Revelation

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Author: Lisa McInerney Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 REUNIONS. RECRIMINATIONS. RECKONINGS. Ireland. Great nationalists, bad mothers and a whole lot of secrets. Ryan Cusack is ready to deliver its...
Man Alive!

Man Alive!

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Author: Mary Kay Zuravleff Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 All it takes is a quarter to change pediatric psychiatrist Dr. Owen Lerner's life. When the coin he's feeding into...
Fire Down Below: Introduced by Kate Mosse

Fire Down Below: Introduced by Kate Mosse

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Author: William Golding Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 I think there has been death in my hands. On the last stretch of its epic voyage from England to Australia,...
Lambda

Lambda

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Author: David Musgrave Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 Outwardly alien arrivals from a distant sea, the lambdas are genetically human. They slip quietly into low- to middle-income jobs and...
The Republic of False Truths

The Republic of False Truths

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Author: Alaa Al Aswany Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 464 From the bestselling author of The Yacoubian Building. 'Al Aswany is a voice worth hearing from a country of which...
Scar Tissue

Scar Tissue

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Author: Professor Michael Ignatieff Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 212 At the heart of Michael Ignatieff's riveting novel about a woman's descent into Alzheimer's are the tangled threads of a...
Johnny Mad Dog

Johnny Mad Dog

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Author: Emmanuel Dongala Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 Set amid the chaos of West Africa's civil wars, Emmanuel Dongala's striking new novel tells the story of two teenagers growing...
A Summer at the Castle

A Summer at the Castle

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Author: Kate Lord Brown Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 'A wonderful setting full of food and intrigue, this is a novel to curl up with' Katie Fforde 'Smart, sexy,...
Home for Christmas

Home for Christmas

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Author: Florence McNicoll Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 2020's most perfect pick-me-up! Home For Christmas is essential reading for animal lovers and readers who love uplifting, heartwarming and hopeful...
Sunrise by the Sea: Escape to the Cornish coast with this brand new novel from the Sunday Times bestselling author

Sunrise by the Sea

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Author: Jenny Colgan Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 'Nobody does cosy, get-away-from-it-all romance like Jenny Colgan' Sunday Express 'An evocative, sweet treat' Jojo Moyes ___________________________________ In a quaint seaside...
Ridley Road

Ridley Road

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Author: Jo Bloom Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 A dark love story set in the Swinging Sixties SUMMER, 1962. Twenty-year-old Vivien Epstein, a Jewish hairdresser from Manchester,...
I Give It To You

I Give It To You

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Author: Valerie Martin Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 Jan Vidor seems like the ideal tenant for a long summer holiday in a Tuscan villa. Unobtrusive and quietly sociable, the...
Breaking Point: The most gripping debut of the year - you won't be able to look away

Breaking Point

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Author: Edel Coffey Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 'Breaking Point is raw, compelling, and ground-breaking; Coffey puts the life of working mothers under a microscope. To say I loved...
Decoded

Decoded

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Author: Mai Jia Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 Mai plays adroitly with literary genre and crafts a story of Borgesian subtlety and complexity.--The New Yorker Rong Jinzhen, an autistic...
Soot

Soot

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Author: Dan Vyleta Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 560 Welcome to a world where every desire is visible, rising from the body as a plume of Smoke. A world where...
The Wrong End of the Telescope

The Wrong End of the Telescope

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Author: Rabih Alameddine Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 WINNER OF THE PEN/FAULKNER AWARD FOR FICTION 'A beautiful, well paced, enraging, funny and heartbreaking book' the Guardian 'Favorite novel of...
Freight Dogs

Freight Dogs

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Author: Giles Foden Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 416 1996: in a Ugandan dive bar, the 'freight dogs' gather. An anarchic group of mercenary pilots from Texas, Russia, Kenya and...
The Hungry and the Fat: A bold new satire by the author of LOOK WHO'S BACK

The Hungry and the Fat: A bold new satire by the author of LOOK WHO'S BACK

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Author: Timur Vermes Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 576 By the author of LOOK WHO'S BACK, a radical and bold satire in inequitable times. "Whizz-bang energy and gleeful imaginative savagery"...
Carnivore

Carnivore

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Author: Jonathan Lyon Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 Shortlisted for the Polari First Book Award 2018 'So you liked Irvine Welsh? Read Carnivore' Cosmopolitan Meet Leander: lover, fighter, liar....
Nevada Days

Nevada Days

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Author: Bernardo Atxaga Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 A seductive, unclassifiable blend of autobiography and fiction set in Reno, from the preeminent Basque author Nine months as a writer...
Larchfield: The moving, gripping and wonderful debut about finding human connection

Larchfield: The moving, gripping and wonderful debut about finding human connection

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Author: N/a Polly Clark Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 'Mysterious, wondrous, captivating' Louis de Bernieres 'We need the courage to choose ourselves' W. H. Auden It's early summer when...
Crazy

Crazy

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Author: Jane Feaver Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 'Perhaps my problem all along is that I've never understood or recognized the difference between story and life...' Crazy is an...
Everything's Perfect

Everything's Perfect

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Author: Nicole Kennedy Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 'Funny, timely and absolutely pitch perfect. I loved this unfiltered look at the world of influencers' Clare Mackintosh Can you filter...
The Earthspinner

The Earthspinner

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Author: Anuradha Roy Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 Sara is studying at a prestigious British university and seeks a reprise from her loneliness by practising the traditional craft she...
Olympus, Texas

Olympus, Texas

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Author: Stacey Swann Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 'The most wildly entertaining novel I've read in a long time' Richard Russo, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction When...
Under the Blue

Under the Blue

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Author: Oana Aristide Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 'A book of insight and foresight, lit with wit and gorgeous with intelligence', Jay Griffiths, author of Wild: An Elemental Journey...
The Great Offshore Grounds: Longlisted for the National Book Award for Fiction

The Great Offshore Grounds

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Author: Vanessa Veselka Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 448 'A magnificent beast of a book: epic' Roxane Gay 'Large in scope and heart' Patrick deWitt 'It blew me away' Emma...