Modern Fiction (post 1945)

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Author: Marilynne Robinson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 'Grace and intelligence . . . [her work] defines universal truths about what it means to be human' BARACK OBAMA 'Radiant...

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Author: Adrien Bosc Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 'A beautiful book about the best minds of a generation and the devastation of war - an outrageous voyage from the...

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Author: Alex Hyde Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 A young woman, Violet, lies in a hospital bed in the closing days of the war. Her pregnancy is over and...

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Antoine de Saint-Exupery's timeless tale of love and loneliness, now widely available in Penguin Modern Classics for the first time Antoine de Saint-Exupery first published The Little Prince in 1943,...

Irina is in a rut. She obsessively takes explicit photographs of average-looking men she scouts from the streets of Newcastle while her dead-end bar job slips away; she's more interested...

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