Modern Fiction (post 1945)

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The Harmony Silk Factory

The Harmony Silk Factory

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Author: Tash Aw Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 A landmark work of fiction from one of Britain's most exciting new writers: The Harmony Silk Factory is a...
Four Minutes to Save a Life: A feel-good story that will make you laugh and cry

Four Minutes to Save a Life: A feel-good story that will make you laugh and cry

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Author: Anna Stuart Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 Everyone would spare a moment of kindness for a stranger when they were in trouble... wouldn't they? Supermarket delivery...
The French Art of War

The French Art of War

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Author: Alexis Jenni (Author) Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 624 'It was the beginning of the Gulf War. I watched it on TV and did little else. I...
The Hungry and the Fat A bold new satire by the author of LOOK WHOS BACK

The Hungry and the Fat A bold new satire by the author of LOOK WHOS BACK

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Author: Timur Vermes Format: Paperback / softback 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...
Certain American States

Certain American States

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Author: Catherine Lacey Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 Certain states are hard to shake, or so Catherine Lacey's characters find in these twelve tales of love, loss...
The Fall of Kelvin Walker

The Fall of Kelvin Walker

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Author: Alasdair Gray Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 128 It is the Swinging Sixties and Kelvin Walker has moved from Scotland to London to make his fortune. Through...
So Lucky

So Lucky

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Author: Dawn O'Porter Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 'A total joy' Matt Haig 'Very, very funny' Sara Pascoe 'Thought-provoking' Daily Mail 'Unputdownable' Marian Keyes Fearless, frank and...
A Good Enough Mother

A Good Enough Mother

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Author: Bev Thomas Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 The most dangerous lies are the ones we tell ourselves. 'Taut, absorbing and psychologically astute, in A Good Enough...
Gutshot Straight: A Novel

Gutshot Straight: A Novel

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Author: Lou Berney Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 "Lou Berney's novel is so energetic, so droll, and so wheezingly funny that it accomplished what no book ever...
Seventeen

Seventeen

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Author: Hideo Yokoyama Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 FROM THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF SIX FOUR: AN INVESTIGATIVE THRILLER SET AMID THE AFTERMATH OF AN AIR...
Deep River

Deep River

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Author: Karl Marlantes (Author) Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 736 'An unforgettable novel.' - Washington Post At the turn of the twentieth century, as the oppression of Russia's...
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...
In/Half

In/Half

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Author: Jasmin B. Frelih Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 It's 2036, twenty-five years after the 'Great Shutdown' destroyed the global communications network. In this post-Internet world, three...
The Marriage Plot

The Marriage Plot

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Author: Jeffrey Eugenides Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 The new novel from the bestselling author of Middlesex and The Virgin Suicides. Brown University, 1982. Madeleine Hanna, dutiful...
The Little Paris Bookshop

The Little Paris Bookshop

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Author: Nina George Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 The international bestseller, translated from the German by Simon Pare. On a beautifully restored barge on the Seine, Jean...
How Much the Heart Can Hold: the perfect alternative Valentine's gift: Seven Stories on Love

How Much the Heart Can Hold: the perfect alternative Valentine's gift: Seven Stories on Love

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Author: Carys Bray Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 'Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.' Zelda Fitzgerald Love is not a...
The Other Side of Beautiful

The Other Side of Beautiful

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Author: Kim Lock Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 What happens when fate says 'go'? Lost & Found meets The Rosie Project in a stunning break-out novel where...
Now We Shall Be Entirely Free: The Waterstones Scottish Book of the Year 2019

Now We Shall Be Entirely Free: The Waterstones Scottish Book of the Year 2019

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Author: Andrew Miller Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 * WINNER OF THE HIGHLAND BOOK PRIZE * * SHORTLISTED FOR THE WALTER SCOTT PRIZE * The rapturously acclaimed...
The Little Drummer Girl (Movie Tie-In): A Novel

The Little Drummer Girl (Movie Tie-In): A Novel

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Author: John le Carre Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 560 The classic le Carre spy novel comes to AMC as a 6 part mini-series starring Alexander Skarsgard, Michael...
Freeman's Love

Freeman's Love

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Author: John Freeman Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 Day by day, tweet by tweet, it often feels like our world is run on hate. Invective. Cruelty and...
News of the World Movie Tie-in: A Novel

News of the World Movie Tie-in: A Novel

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Author: Paulette Jiles Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 Now a Major Motion Picture It is 1870 and Captain Jefferson Kyle Kidd travels through northern Texas, giving live...
The Most Wonderful Time of the Year: a heart-warming and hilarious festive romance

The Most Wonderful Time of the Year: a heart-warming and hilarious festive romance

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Author: Joanna Bolouri Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 Thirty-eight year old Emily has a satisfying job, fab friends, an amazing car and, most importantly, a wonderful flat,...
Hot Mess

Hot Mess

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Author: Lucy Vine Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 HOT MESS [n.] - someone who is attractive, but often in a state of disarray, repeatedly finding themselves in...
Sanctuary Youll be shocked by the ending to 2020s most addictive thriller

Sanctuary Youll be shocked by the ending to 2020s most addictive thriller

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Author: V.V. James Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 464 Sanctuary. It's the perfect town. . . to hide a secret. To Detective Maggie Knight, the death of Sanctuary's...
True Grit

True Grit

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Author: Charles Portis Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 There is no knowing what lies in a man's heart. On a trip to buy ponies, Frank Ross is...
We Germans

We Germans

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Author: Alexander Starritt Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 When a young British man asks his German grandfather what it was like to fight on the wrong side...
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...
A Book of American Martyrs

A Book of American Martyrs

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Author: Joyce Carol Oates Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 752 "Oates' American saga captivates because it exists within an actual drama playing out across the country...Martyrs is a...
The Rector's Daughter

The Rector's Daughter

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Author: F.M. Mayor Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 Dedmayne Rectory is quietly decaying, its striped chintz and darkened rooms are a bastion of outmoded Victorian values. Here...
The Night Visitor

The Night Visitor

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Author: Lucy Atkins Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 496 "A COMPLEX, CREEPY, AND INSIDIOUS NOVEL ABOUT AMBITION." --THE GUARDIAN "READERS OF RUTH WARE AND GILLIAN FLYNN WILL LOVE...
The Glass Lake

The Glass Lake

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Author: Maeve Binchy Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 704 Kit McMahon lives in the small Irish town of Lough Glass, where everyone knows everyone; children who walk to...
How Beautiful We Were

How Beautiful We Were

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Author: Imbolo Mbue Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 'Sweeping and quietly devastating' - New York Times 'A David and Goliath story for our times' - O, the...
The Pages

The Pages

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Author: Hugo Hamilton Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 'A rich, strange book. Very truthful and moving' Tessa Hadley 'A terrific, engrossing novel' Roddy Doyle 'A masterpiece' Sebastian...
Deviation

Deviation

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Author: Luce D'Eramo Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 Lucie was brought up by bourgeois parents as a passionate young fascist. At the age of eighteen, she decides...
Nightingale

Nightingale

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Author: Marina Kemp Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 A moving novel about sex, death, passion and prejudice in a sleepy village in the south of France Marguerite...
Unknown Soldier Vol. 3

Unknown Soldier Vol. 3

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Author: Joshua Dysart Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 144 Written by JOSHUA DYSART Art by ALBERTO PONTICELLI Cover by DAVE JOHNSON A brutal murder at an IDP camp...
Lost In The Spanish Quarter

Lost In The Spanish Quarter

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Author: Heddi Goodrich Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 As seen in the New York Times Book Review. Set in the passionate, intense, and crumbling neighborhood known as...
Sad Girls

Sad Girls

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Author: Lang Leav Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 School is almost out for Audrey, but the panic attacks are just beginning. Because Audrey told a lie and...
Mothering Sunday

Mothering Sunday

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Author: Graham Swift Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 ***LONGLISTED FOR THE WALTER SCOTT PRIZE*** From the Booker-winning author of Last Orders and Waterland comes a long-awaited new...
Doxology

Doxology

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Author: Nell Zink Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 Two generations of an American family come of age - one before 9/11, one after - in this moving...
Dinner Party: A Tragedy

Dinner Party: A Tragedy

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Author: Sarah Gilmartin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 Kate meticulously plans a dinner to mark the anniversary of a death in the family, from the fancy table...
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...
Rock Star

Rock Star

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Author: Jackie Collins Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 496 Rock Star International bestselling sensation Jackie Collins, "the queen of glamour fiction" (San Antonio Express-News) captures the raw, electric...
None to Accompany Me

None to Accompany Me

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Author: Nadine Gordimer Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 In an extraordinary period immediately before the first non-racial election and the beginning of majority rule in South Africa,...
Doctor Sax

Doctor Sax

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Author: Jack Kerouac Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 Jack Kerouac called Doctor Sax, the enigmatic figure who haunted his boyhood imagination, 'my ghost, personal angel, private shadow,...
Les Enfants Terribles

Les Enfants Terribles

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Author: Jean Cocteau Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 144 A tragedy about the power of the imagination and the strange, claustrophobic world of childhood At home, Paul shares...
Saturday Bloody Saturday

Saturday Bloody Saturday

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Author: Alastair Campbell Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 Football manager Charlie Gordon is struggling with one defeat after another at the club he loves. Only a decent...
Frost In May

Frost In May

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Author: Antonia White Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 'Frost in May is the unsurpassed novel of convent school life. This story of a clash between a determined...