Modern Fiction (post 1945)

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June 2022
Cloud Cuckoo Land

Cloud Cuckoo Land

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Author: Anthony Doerr Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 640 'Serious novels are rarely this fun' The Times 'A gift' Guardian 'Buoyant with humanity' Daily Mail 'Worth the seven...
Bring Up the Bodies (The Wolf Hall Trilogy)

Bring Up the Bodies (The Wolf Hall Trilogy)

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Author: Hilary Mantel Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 528 Winner of the Man Booker Prize 2012, the 2012 Costa Book of the Year and shortlisted for the 2013...
Normal People

Normal People

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Author: Sally Rooney Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 'THE LITERARY PHENOMENON OF THE DECADE' - Guardian NOW A MAJOR TV SERIES WHICH WILL PREMIERE IN AUSTRALIA ON...
Secrets at the Little Village School: Book 5 in the beautifully uplifting Little Village School series

Secrets at the Little Village School: Book 5 in the beautifully uplifting Little Village School series

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Author: Gervase Phinn Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 'It's a small village is Barton-in-the-Dale, Mrs Stirling,' said the shopkeeper. 'You ought to know that by now. Nothing can be...
The Royal Game

The Royal Game

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Author: Anne O'Brien Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 496 'I was completely captivated' Barbara Erskine The spellbinding new historical novel from the Sunday Times bestseller Anne O'Brien. England,...
Blonde

Blonde

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Author: Joyce Carol Oates Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 752 A sweeping, mesmerising novel of the most enduring and evocative cultural icon of the 20th century. Joyce Carol...
Interpreter of Maladies

Interpreter of Maladies

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Author: Jhumpa Lahiri Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: Pulitzer-winning, scintillating studies in yearning and exile from a Bengali Bostonian woman of immense promise. A couple exchange unprecedented confessions...
Weather

Weather

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Author: Jenny Offill (Y) Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2020 'This is so good. We are not ready nor worthy'...
The Jump: A compelling thriller of crime and corruption

The Jump: A compelling thriller of crime and corruption

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Author: Martina Cole Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 832 Donna Brunos worships her husband and is devastated when he is jailed for armed robbery. Georgio swears he s...
Hitman Anders and the Meaning of It All

Hitman Anders and the Meaning of It All

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Author: Jonas Jonasson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 A madcap new novel from the author of The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and The...
Mouth to Mouth

Mouth to Mouth

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Author: Antoine Wilson (author) Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 A struggling author is stuck at the airport, his flight endlessly delayed. As he stares at the departure...
Brown Girls

Brown Girls

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Author: Daphne Palasi Andreades Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 ONE OF THE MOST ANTICIPATED BOOKS OF 2022 IN THE NEW YORK TIMES, GUARDIAN, INDEPENDENT, GLAMOUR, STYLIST, INEWS,...
The Shipping News

The Shipping News

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Author: Annie Proulx Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 Annie Proulx's highly acclaimed, international bestseller and Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. Quoyle is a hapless, hopeless hack journalist living and...
The Dead Fathers Club

The Dead Fathers Club

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Author: Matt Haig Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 Philip Noble is an eleven-year-old in crisis. His pub landlord father has died in a road accident, and his...
Dog Park

Dog Park

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Author: Sofi Oksanen (DOB 7-1-1977) Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 Helsinki, 2016. Olenka sits on a bench, watching a family play in a dog park. A stranger...
Escape to Honeysuckle Hall

Escape to Honeysuckle Hall

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Author: Rebecca Raisin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 'Absolutely adored this book, what a brilliant read... Would highly recommend.' NetGalley reviewer, A fresh start brings a second...
Femlandia

Femlandia

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Author: Christina Dalcher Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 The gripping new thriller from the bestselling author of VOX and Q 'A compelling, fast paced read.' Guardian 'The...
The Sea Is My Brother (Expanded Critical Edition): The Lost Novel

The Sea Is My Brother (Expanded Critical Edition): The Lost Novel

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Author: Jack Kerouac Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 In the spring of 1943, twenty-one-year old Jack Kerouac set out to write his first novel. Working diligently day...
Em & Me

Em & Me

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Author: Beth Morrey Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 'Glorious!' CLARE POOLEY 'Compelling' SUNDAY EXPRESS 'Beautiful, uplifting and deeply moving' FREYA SAMPSON From the Sunday Times bestselling author...
The Book of Not

The Book of Not

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Author: Tsitsi Dangarembga Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 As Zimbabwe emerges into independence, Tambudzai Sigauke embarks on her second year at the Young Ladies' College of the...
Then the Fish Swallowed Him: A Novel

Then the Fish Swallowed Him: A Novel

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Author: Amir Ahmadi Arian Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 An critically-acclaimed Iranian author makes his American literary debut with this powerful and harrowing psychological portrait of modern...
The Earthspinner

The Earthspinner

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Author: Anuradha Roy Format: Hardback 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...
The Heap: A Novel

The Heap: A Novel

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Author: Sean Adams Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice Featured on recommended reading lists by the New York Times *...
Platform Seven

Platform Seven

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Author: Louise Doughty Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 496 Platform Seven at 4am: Peterborough Railway Station is deserted. The man crossing the covered walkway on this freezing November...
All of You Every Single One

All of You Every Single One

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Author: Beatrice Hitchman Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 'I know,' he says, 'too much. You'll learn to be too much, too.' Then, gently, 'I think it might help.' When...
We, the Survivors

We, the Survivors

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Author: Tash Aw Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 A murderer's confession - devastating, unblinking, poignant, unforgettable - which reveals a story of class, education and the inescapable...
Asking for a Friend

Asking for a Friend

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Author: Andi Osho Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 No woman gets left behind 'Witty, pacy and joyful. A truly uplifting celebration of friendship' Beth O'Leary Three best...
Red Crosses

Red Crosses

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Author: Sasha Filipenko Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 Tatiana Alexeyevna is 90 years old and she's losing her memory. To find her way in her Soviet-era apartment...
The Extraordinary Hope of Dawn Brightside

The Extraordinary Hope of Dawn Brightside

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Author: Jessica Ryn Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 'This is the book we all need right now: a story of kindness and hope. I absolutely loved it'...
The Imperfect Art of Caring

The Imperfect Art of Caring

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Author: Jessica Ryn Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 One small act can make a big difference Violet Strong is strong by name but not by nature, or...
Dark Horses: One of Oprah Magazine's 'Most Anticipated Books' this year

Dark Horses: One of Oprah Magazine's 'Most Anticipated Books' this year

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Author: Susan Mihalic Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 Fifteen year-old equestrian prodigy Roan Montgomery has only ever known two worlds: inside the riding arena, and out. Both...
Earthlings

Earthlings

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Author: Sayaka Murata Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 Natsuki isn't like the other girls. She has a wand and a transformation mirror. She might be a witch,...
Saturday Lunch with the Brownings

Saturday Lunch with the Brownings

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Author: Penelope Mortimer Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 A mother and her young son arrive at a rental house in rural France only to find themselves locked...
Plume

Plume

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Author: Will Wiles Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 'Wiles is basically Kafka, if Kafka had spent more time in British hotels and pubs' David Baddiel Will Wiles...
The Island of Forgetting

The Island of Forgetting

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Author: Jasmine Sealy Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 'Inventive, excellent ... a pure pleasure to read' THE TIMES In this compelling debut, an unknowable legacy passes through...
Nervous Conditions

Nervous Conditions

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Author: Tsitsi Dangarembga Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 FROM THE BOOKER PRIZE SHORTLISTED AUTHOR OF THIS MOURNABLE BODY,ONE OF THE BBC'S 100 WOMEN FOR 2020 'UNFORGETTABLE' Alice...
Lullaby

Lullaby

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Author: Leila Slimani Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 The baby is dead. It took only a few seconds. When Myriam, a French-Moroccan lawyer, decides to return to...
Remain Silent (Manon Bradshaw, Book 3)

Remain Silent (Manon Bradshaw, Book 3)

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Author: Susie Steiner Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 LONGLISTED FOR THE THEAKSTON OLD PECULIAR CRIME NOVEL OF THE YEAR AN UNMISSABLE NEW NOVEL FROM THE SUNDAY TIMES...
Comrade Aeon's Field Guide to Bangkok

Comrade Aeon's Field Guide to Bangkok

$29.99 AUD$6.00 AUD
Author: Emma Larkin Format: Hardback Number of Pages: In Bangkok, a plot of land behind a city slum resonates with the hopes, dreams and fears of the local community. For...
The Legacy

The Legacy

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Author: Caroline Bond Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 Following Jon's death, his three adult children gather in their childhood home by the sea. But far from being...
Missionaries

Missionaries

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Author: Phil Klay Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 'Expansive, explosive and epic' - Marlon James 'A courageous book' - New York Times Book Review A BARACK OBAMA...
The All True Adventures (and Rare Education) of the Daredevil Daniel Bones

The All True Adventures (and Rare Education) of the Daredevil Daniel Bones

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Author: Owen Booth Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 A gloriously moving and entertaining, picaresque debut novel, about a young man's sentimental education in late 19th-Century Europe; inspired...
The House on Fripp Island

The House on Fripp Island

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Author: Rebecca Kauffman Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 'Brilliant' - The Times 'An absorbing summer read' - Mail on Sunday 'Gripping' - Sunday Times 'A skilful domestic...
The Revolt of Aphrodite: Tunc and Nunquam

The Revolt of Aphrodite: Tunc and Nunquam

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Author: Lawrence Durrell Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 608 'A superb craftsman and stylist.' - New York Times Felix Charlock is a world-famous inventor. His scientific genius draws...
Peaces

Peaces

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Author: Helen Oyeyemi Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 Peaces is the story of Otto and Xavier Shin, a couple who embark on a mysterious train journey that takes them...
Where Are We Now?

Where Are We Now?

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Author: Glenn Patterson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 A topical novel about lost love, growing older and the realities of life in a society that is still...
The Arrest

The Arrest

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Author: Jonathan Lethem Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 The Arrest isn't post-apocalypse. It isn't a dystopia. It isn't a utopia. It's just what happens when much of...