Modern Fiction (post 1945)

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The Parisian

The Parisian

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Author: Isabella Hammad Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 576 A sumptuous historical novel, set against the backdrop of World War I, from 'an enormous talent' (Zadie Smith) 'A...
Hinton

Hinton

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Author: Mark Blacklock Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 Howard Hinton and his family are living in Japan, escaping from a scandal. Hinton's obsession is his work, his...
Beautiful

Beautiful

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Author: Massimo Cuomo Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 Miguel is beautiful. His beauty is so rare and miraculous that it has made him the object of cult-like...
Into the Water: The Sunday Times Bestseller

Into the Water: The Sunday Times Bestseller

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Author: Paula Hawkins Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 The addictive No. 1 psychological thriller from the author of The Girl on the Train, the runaway Sunday Times...
Amsterdam

Amsterdam

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Author: Ian McEwan Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 Re-jacketed in stylish new series style, Amsterdam won the 1998 Man Booker Prize. ***WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE*** Two...
Island Song

Island Song

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Author: Madeleine Bunting (Y) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 1940. Guernsey is first bombed, then occupied, by the Germans. A year earlier, young, naive and recently married Helene, waves...
Mr Loverman: From the Booker prize-winning author of Girl, Woman, Other

Mr Loverman: From the Booker prize-winning author of Girl, Woman, Other

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Author: Bernardine Evaristo Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 A ground-breaking exploration of Britain's older Carribean community, from the Booker Prize-winning author of Girl, Woman, Other Barrington Jedidiah...
Guy Noir and the Straight Skinny

Guy Noir and the Straight Skinny

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Author: Garrison Keillor Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 206 Famous radio private eye Guy Noir leaps from A Prairie Home Companion to the pageOn the 12th floor of...
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...
The Watch Tower

The Watch Tower

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Author: Elizabeth Harrower Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 338 Introduced by Joan London Winner, Patrick White Award 1996 Breaking their poses like trees snapping branches, the women urgently...
Time Must Have a Stop

Time Must Have a Stop

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Author: Aldous Huxley Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 The novel Huxley considered to be his greatest achievement; an absorbing fusion of philosophical exploration and colourful narrative Sebastian...
A Touch of Silk: Drama in and out of the courtroom

A Touch of Silk: Drama in and out of the courtroom

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Author: Caro Fraser (Author) Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 To all the world, Leo Davies is both a successful and charismatic QC, whose flourishing career is the...
The Spy

The Spy

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Author: Paulo Coelho Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 The Spy tells the unforgettable story of a woman who dared to break the conventions of her time, and...
All The Green Year

All The Green Year

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Author: Don Charlwood Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 286 Introduced by Michael McGirr 'The year I remember best from those days is 1929. This was the year I...
The Light Between Oceans

The Light Between Oceans

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Author: M.L. Stedman Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 This mesmerizing Australian novel has been a bestselling book around the world, and Hollywood movie rights were recently snapped...
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...
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...
Secrets of Happiness

Secrets of Happiness

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Author: Joan Silber Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 Ethan, a young lawyer in New York, learns that his father has long kept a second family - a...
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...
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...
The Shadow List

The Shadow List

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Author: Todd Moss Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 A cutting-edge novel of international crime and its consequences, from Nigeria to Russia to Washington, from the former deputy assistant secretary...
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...
Territory

Territory

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Author: Judy Nunn Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 656 A breathtaking story of disaster, courage and passion and that Top End spirit that never says die. A breathtaking...
The Butchers: Winner of the 2021 RSL Ondaatje Prize

The Butchers: Winner of the 2021 RSL Ondaatje Prize

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Author: Ruth Gilligan Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 A photograph is hung on a gallery wall for the very first time since it was taken two decades...
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 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...
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...
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 -...
She Would Be King

She Would Be King

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Author: Wayetu Moore Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 "Wayetu Moore is an inspiration . . . her book is a gift" Imbolo Mbue "The book is unforgettable...
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...
The Gunners

The Gunners

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Author: Rebecca Kauffman Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 What's the point in friends, if you can't share your secrets? The Gunners used to be inseparable. A gang...
The Temple House Vanishing

The Temple House Vanishing

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Author: Rachel Donohue Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 Power. Jealousy. Desire. Twenty-five years ago, a sixteen-year-old schoolgirl and her charismatic teacher disappeared without trace... When Louisa arrives...
Good Eggs

Good Eggs

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Author: Rebecca Hardiman (author) Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 Meet the Gogartys; cantankerous gran Millie (whose eccentricities include a penchant for petty-theft and reckless driving); bitter downtrodden...
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...
Muscle

Muscle

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Author: Alan Trotter Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 In a hard-boiled city of crooks, grifts and rackets lurk a pair of toughs: Box and _____. They're the...
The Tailor of Panama

The Tailor of Panama

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Author: John Le Carre Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 The latest title from the bestselling author John le Carre to come into Penguin Modern Classics Harry Pendel...
The Most Venerable Book (Shang Shu)

The Most Venerable Book (Shang Shu)

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Author: Confucius Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 'A leader Should be loved. Who Should be feared? The people.' The Most Venerable Book is one of the most...
Wilde Women

Wilde Women

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Author: Louise Pentland Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 Meet Robin Wilde: mum, newly-appointed official girlfriend, make-up artist extraordinaire and general plate-spinning, life-juggling, balance-seeking badass. Or so she...
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...
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...
The Other Side of the Story

The Other Side of the Story

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Author: Marian Keyes Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 672 A stunning bestseller from the superstar of women's fiction. 'There are three sides to every story. Your side, their...
Big Sur

Big Sur

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Author: Jack Kerouac Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 Kerouac's stunningly vivid and gritty second novel, new to Penguin Modern Classics In 1960 Jack Kerouac was near breaking...
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time

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Author: Mark Haddon Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 A truly remarkable novel about an autistic boy. 'The dog was lying on the grass in the middle of...
The Emigrants

The Emigrants

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Author: W.G. Sebald Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 An innovative twentieth-century classic from a major European author At first The Emigrants appears simply to document the lives...
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 workings of destiny. Ah...
Actress: LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE 2020

Actress: LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE 2020

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Author: Anne Enright Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 From the greatest living Irish author, a brilliant and moving novel about fame, sexual power, and a daughter's search...