Modern Fiction (post 1945)

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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...
Great Expectations

Great Expectations

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Author: Kathy Acker Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 144 Pip switches identities, sexes, and centuries in Kathy Acker's brilliant experimental explosion of literature, sex and art. Great Expectations...
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...
Chronicle of a Death Foretold

Chronicle of a Death Foretold

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Author: Gabriel Garcia Marquez Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 128 Marquez Day- A celebration of one of the world's most loved writers available in ebook for the first...
Vile Bodies

Vile Bodies

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Author: Evelyn Waugh Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 Evelyn Waugh's acidly funny and formally daring satire, Vile Bodies reveals the darkness and vulnerability that lurks beneath the...
The Member of the Wedding

The Member of the Wedding

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Author: Carson McCullers Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 With delicacy of perception and memory, humour and pathos, Carson McCullers spreads before us the three phases of a...
A Kestrel for a Knave

A Kestrel for a Knave

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Author: Barry Hines Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 With prose that is every bit as raw, intense and bitingly honest as the world it depicts, Barry Hines's...
A Hero of Our Time

A Hero of Our Time

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Author: Mikhail Lermontov Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 A masterpiece of Russian prose, Lermontov's only novel was influential for many later nineteenth-century authors, including Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky and...
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...
Pattern Recognition

Pattern Recognition

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Author: William Gibson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 'A big novel, full of bold ideas. Races along like an expert thriller' GQ One of the most influential...
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...
The Power

The Power

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Author: Naomi Alderman Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 ***Winner of the Women's Prize For Fiction*** What if the power to hurt were in women's hands? Suddenly -...
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...
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

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Author: James Joyce Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 "This edition, published for the novel's centennial, is the definitive text, authorized by the Joyce estate and collated from...
Beneath the Southern Cross

Beneath the Southern Cross

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Author: Judy Nunn Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 560 A riveting novel that tells the story of Sydney and the people who shaped its character, its skyline and...
The Winter of Our Discontent

The Winter of Our Discontent

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Author: Mr John Steinbeck Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 Steinbeck's last great novel focuses on the theme of success and what motivates men towards it. Reflecting back...
The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare

The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare

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Author: G K Chesterton Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 'We dig deeper and we blow you higher. We wish to deny all those arbitrary distinctions of vice...
The Years

The Years

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Author: Virginia Woolf Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 A savage indictment of British society at the turn of the century, from the author of Mrs Dalloway. The...
Freed: The #1 Sunday Times bestseller

Freed: The #1 Sunday Times bestseller

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Author: E. L. James Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 768 E L James revisits the world of Fifty Shades with a deeper new take on the love story...
Dark Places: Text Classics

Dark Places: Text Classics

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Author: Kate Grenville Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 Introduced by Louise Adler Shortlisted, Miles Franklin Literary Award 1995 Winner, Victorian Premier's Literary Award 1995 This is Albion...
Scission

Scission

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Author: Tim Winton Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 Scission, Tim Winton's first collection of short fiction, contains spare, jagged stories in which people struggle with change and...
The Secret Pilgrim

The Secret Pilgrim

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Author: John le Carre Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 The final novel featuring Smiley, Le Carre's most enduring character, and a gripping feat of narrative brilliance 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...
Napoleon's Last Island

Napoleon's Last Island

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Author: Tom Keneally Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 Whilst living in exile on St Helena, Napoleon exerted an extraordinary influence on young Betsy Balcombe. How did she...
The Damned

The Damned

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Author: Joris-Karl Huysmans Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 Huysmans' gaudy, shocking and largely autobiographical novel La-Bas was described by one critic as 'even more disquieting' than 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...
Of Mice and Men

Of Mice and Men

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Author: Mr John Steinbeck Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 128 Drifters in search of work, George and his childlike friend Lennie, have nothing in the world except the...
In Watermelon Sugar

In Watermelon Sugar

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Author: The Estate of Richard Brautigan Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 'A charming and original work... The parable itself is extremely relevant' The Times 'A charming and...
Corporal Hitlers Pistol

Corporal Hitlers Pistol

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Author: Tom Keneally Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 How did Corporal Hitler's Luger from the First World War end up being the weapon that killed an IRA...
Ice

Ice

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Author: Anna Kavan Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 The world is threatened by encroaching ice, creeping down day by day from the polar ice caps. The imminent...
Age of Iron

Age of Iron

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Author: J. M. Coetzee Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 As Text continues the re-release of J. M. Coetzee's major works, this second instalment of four titles -...
Of Love and Other Demons

Of Love and Other Demons

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Author: Gabriel Garcia Marquez Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 A celebration of one of the world's greatest writers, to mark the first ebook publication of his works...
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...
Labyrinths

Labyrinths

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Author: Jorge Luis Borges Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 Jorge Luis Borges's Labyrinths is a collection of short stories and essays showcasing one of Latin America's most...
Of Mice and Men

Of Mice and Men

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Author: Mr John Steinbeck Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 144 A stunning new series look for one of the greatest writers of the 20th century in Penguin Modern...
Cry, The Beloved Country

Cry, The Beloved Country

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Author: Alan Paton Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 First published in 1948, Cry The Beloved Country stands as the single most important novel in twentieth-century South African...
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 First Casualty

The First Casualty

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Author: Ben Elton Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 Ben Elton's first historical thriller Flanders, June 1917- a British officer and celebrated poet, is shot dead, killed not...
Eva Luna

Eva Luna

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Author: Isabel Allende Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 'My name is Eva, which means "life", according to a book of names my mother consulted. I was born...
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...
The Brightest Star in the Sky

The Brightest Star in the Sky

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Author: Marian Keyes Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 640 International best-seller Marian Keyes, author of Sushi for Beginners, This Charming Man and the award-winning Anybody Out There, explores...
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...
Americana

Americana

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Author: Don DeLillo Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 His first novel, Don DeLillo's Americana passionately articulates the neurotic landscape of contemporary American life through a disintegrating embodiment...
Trickery

Trickery

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Author: Roald Dahl Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 Roald Dahl's tales of trickery, deceit and cunning . . . How underhand could you be to get what...
The Real Story of Ah-Q and Other Tales of China: The Complete Fiction of Lu Xun

The Real Story of Ah-Q and Other Tales of China: The Complete Fiction of Lu Xun

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Author: Lu Xun Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 464 Lu Xun (Lu Hsun) is arguably the greatest writer of modern China, and is considered by many to be...
The Unknown Terrorist

The Unknown Terrorist

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Author: Richard Flanagan Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 From the winner of the Man Booker Prize. What would you do if you turned on the television and...
The Bell: Vintage Classics Murdoch Series

The Bell: Vintage Classics Murdoch Series

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Author: Iris Murdoch Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 A novel that offers uplifting lessons in love - now republished as part of the Vintage Classics Murdoch Series...
This Charming Man

This Charming Man

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Author: Marian Keyes Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 912 Marian Keyes, author of Sushi for Beginners and The Other Side of the Story, explores the quirks of love...