Modern Fiction (post 1945)

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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...
Lust

Lust

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Author: Roald Dahl Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 Roald Dahl takes on Lust . . . From Roald Dahl, the master of the sting in the tail,...
Fear

Fear

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Author: Roald Dahl Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 Roald Dahl collects fourteen classic tales of terror and suspense . . . Do you like feeling scared? Featuring...
Innocence

Innocence

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Author: Roald Dahl Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 Roald Dahl's tales of innocence, youth and guile . . . What makes us innocent and how do we...
The Girl in The Tower: (Winternight Trilogy)

The Girl in The Tower: (Winternight Trilogy)

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Author: Katherine Arden Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 A spellbinding fairytale full of magic and wonder, perfect for fans of Erin Morgenstern's The Night Circus and Philip...
Wyrd Sisters: Introduction by Joanne Harris

Wyrd Sisters: Introduction by Joanne Harris

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Author: Terry Pratchett Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 One of the new PB editions of three classic Discworld titles introducing new readers to the wonderful world of...
Good Omens

Good Omens

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Author: Neil Gaiman Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 The classic, bestselling dark and hilarious take on mankind's final judgement by two genre giants, now an Amazon Prime...
Rodham: The SUNDAY TIMES bestseller asking: What if Hillary hadn't married Bill?

Rodham: The SUNDAY TIMES bestseller asking: What if Hillary hadn't married Bill?

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Author: Curtis Sittenfeld Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 What if Hillary hadn't married Bill? RODHAM is the latest addictive Sunday Times and New York Times bestseller from...
A Ladder to the Sky

A Ladder to the Sky

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Author: John Boyne Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 Maurice Swift is an aspiring novelist struggling to come up with the story that will make his name, and...
Eden

Eden

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Author: Candice Fox Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 Australian author Candice Fox has taken the crime-writing world by storm in the last few years and become a...
Go Set a Watchman: Harper Lee's sensational lost novel

Go Set a Watchman: Harper Lee's sensational lost novel

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Author: Harper Lee Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 From Harper Lee comes a landmark new novel set two decades after her beloved Pulitzer Prize-winning masterpiece, To Kill...
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...
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 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...
Home Remedies

Home Remedies

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Author: Xuan Juliana Wang Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 The twelve stories in Xuan Juliana Wang's funny and wise debut collection capture the unheard voices of a...
Rose Cottage

Rose Cottage

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Author: Mary Stewart Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 When Kate Herrick's grandmother asks her to travel down from Scotland to her childhood home in Todhall to retrieve...
The Republic of False Truths

The Republic of False Truths

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Author: Alaa Al Aswany Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 464 From the bestselling author of The Yacoubian Building. 'Al Aswany is a voice worth hearing from a country...
Melmoth: Sunday Times Bestseller

Melmoth: Sunday Times Bestseller

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Author: Sarah Perry Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 OBSERVER BEST FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR 2018 SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2019 DYLAN THOMAS PRIZE Oh friend, take my...
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...
The Heavens

The Heavens

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Author: Sandra Newman Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 New York, 2000. The United Nations has just planted its flag on Mars, and a Green Party senator is...
A River Called Time

A River Called Time

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Author: Courttia Newland Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 464 The Ark was built to save the lives of the many, but rapidly became a refuge for the elite,...
Ghostwritten

Ghostwritten

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Author: David Mitchell Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 464 REISSUED AS A SCEPTRE 30TH CLASSIC, with a new afterword by the author. Winner of the Mail on Sunday/John...
Mother Night

Mother Night

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Author: Kurt Vonnegut Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 A diabolically funny and macabre novel by the brilliantly wacky Kurt Vonnegut - now rejacketed with brilliant, witty new...
The Woman Who Didn't Grow Old

The Woman Who Didn't Grow Old

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Author: Gregoire Delacourt Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 What happened to Betty is every woman's dream. Isn't it? There are those who never grow old because they are taken...
Who's That Girl?

Who's That Girl?

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Author: Mhairi McFarlane Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 544 'The perfect balance of romcom and drama!' GRAZIA She kissed the groom. She's not the bride... Edie thought she'd...
All in Her Head: A page-turning thriller perfect for fans of Harriet Tyce

All in Her Head: A page-turning thriller perfect for fans of Harriet Tyce

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Author: Nikki Smith Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 DISCOVER THE DEBUT THRILLER GETTING INSIDE EVERYONE'S HEAD THIS YEAR 'Tense and moving' - HARRIET TYCE, author of Blood...
Master of the Revels (The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O., Book 2)

Master of the Revels (The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O., Book 2)

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Author: Nicole Galland Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 560 In this brilliant sequel to The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O.- the enthralling, history-bending adventure traversing time and space,...
My Mother, Madame Edwarda, The Dead Man

My Mother, Madame Edwarda, The Dead Man

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Author: Georges Bataille Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 Three works of erotic prose fusing sex and spirituality, new to Penguin Modern Classics In these three works of...
Child of Fortune

Child of Fortune

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Author: Yuko Tsushima Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 The dreamlike story of a single mother and her estranged 11-year-old daughter by Yuko Tsushima, the 'archaeologist of the...
The Heart of the Matter

The Heart of the Matter

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Author: Graham Greene Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 'The truth, he thought, has never been of any real value to any human being. In human relations, kindness...
The Peripheral

The Peripheral

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Author: William Gibson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 496 Drones, murder and a time-travelling crime - a thrilling return to science fiction from the bestselling author of Neuromancer...
A Backward Place

A Backward Place

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Author: Ruth Prawer Jhabvala Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 Six colourful, comic characters inhabit A Backward Place. All but one are Westerners who have come to Delhi...
She's Come Undone

She's Come Undone

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Author: Wally Lamb Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 480 Meet Dolores Price. She's thirteen, wise-mouthed but wounded. Beached like a whale in front of her bedroom TV, she...
Wild, Fearless Chests

Wild, Fearless Chests

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Author: Mandy Beaumont Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 She is the explosion, the clamour, the thunder. She is the beat, the rage. She is every piece of...
Doctor Zhivago

Doctor Zhivago

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Author: Boris Pasternak Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 544 A new translation of one of the greatest love stories ever told, in a beautiful gift edition. From the...
Riceyman Steps

Riceyman Steps

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Author: Arnold Bennett Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 Henry Earlforward, a shabby Clerkenwell bookseller, has retired from life to devote himself (and his wife Violet) to a...
Dancing with Strangers: Text Classics

Dancing with Strangers: Text Classics

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Author: Inga Clendinnen Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 A highly awarded work of non-fiction, Dancing with Strangers is a close analysis of the initial encounter between the...
The Lost Boys (Peter Decker and Rina Lazarus Series, Book 26)

The Lost Boys (Peter Decker and Rina Lazarus Series, Book 26)

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Author: Faye Kellerman Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 The twenty-sixth book in the hugely popular Peter Decker and Rina Lazarus series from New York Times bestselling author...
Marlow's Landing: A John Murray Original

Marlow's Landing: A John Murray Original

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Author: Toby Vieira Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 Goldhaven is after the biggest pink stone in the world. Zog Shikzahl is after Goldhaven. And Boss Macquarie is...
Set My Heart To Five

Set My Heart To Five

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Author: Simon Stephenson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 464 'You shall read this with unadulterated pleasure' Scotland on Sunday 'A beautiful, funny, heartfelt analysis of what it means...
The House of the Spirits

The House of the Spirits

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Author: Isabel Allende Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 496 Allende's magical realist epic is an international classic - 'thick with plot and bristling with characters. A novel to...
Shame and the Captives

Shame and the Captives

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Author: Tom Keneally Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 Will keeping the Japanese, Korean and Italian POWs of the Second World War alive in Australia keep Australian POWs...
And the Ass Saw the Angel: Popular Penguins

And the Ass Saw the Angel: Popular Penguins

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Author: Nick Cave Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 324 Outcast and mute, Euchrid Eucrow of Ukulore inhabits a nightmarish Southern valley of preachers, incest and ignorance. When the...
Three Lives

Three Lives

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Author: Gertrude Stein Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 Gertrude Stein, as a college student at Radcliffe and a medical student at Johns Hopkins Medical School, was a...
Seize the Day

Seize the Day

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Author: Saul Bellow Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 128 Published to coincide with the publication of other Bellow novels. Fading charmer Tommy Wilhelm has reached his day of...
Foucault's Pendulum

Foucault's Pendulum

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Author: Umberto Eco Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 656 "As brilliant and quirky as THE NAME OF THE ROSE, as mischievous and wide-raning....A virtuoso performance" Three book editors,...
Atonement

Atonement

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Author: Ian McEwan Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 'The best thing he has ever written' Observer Discover the modern classic that has sold over two million copies....
The Starless Sea: the spellbinding Sunday Times bestseller

The Starless Sea: the spellbinding Sunday Times bestseller

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Author: Erin Morgenstern Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 512 The magical new bestseller from the author of The Night Circus 'A journey of wonder and imagination' Stylist You...