Modern Fiction (post 1945)

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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...
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...
The Music Shop: From the bestselling author of The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry

The Music Shop: From the bestselling author of The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry

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Author: Rachel Joyce Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 A story about the triumph of a quiet hero. And how music can bring us back to life. The...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
The Other Boleyn Girl

The Other Boleyn Girl

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Author: Philippa Gregory Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 544 The acclaimed international bestseller of the Tudor court, during the years of Henry VIII's pursuit of Anne Boleyn -...
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...
Savages: The Wedding

Savages: The Wedding

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Author: Sabri Louatah Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 A Saturday in May. Paris. It's the eve of the French presidential elections - 'The Election of the Century'...
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...
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...
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...
Perfume

Perfume

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Author: Patrick Suskind Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 The acclaimed bestseller and international sensation, reissued with a new PMC jacket Survivor, genius, perfumer, killer- this is Jean-Baptiste...
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...
The Elephant Vanishes

The Elephant Vanishes

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Author: Haruki Murakami Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 'A remarkable writer-he captures the common ache of contemporary heart and head' Jay McInerney When a man's favourite elephant...
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

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Author: Jay Rubin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 640 ONE OF FIVE NEW VINTAGE FUTURE CLASSIC READING GUIDE EDITIONS INCLUDES A READING GUIDEToru Okada's cat has disappeared and...
The Visitor: (Jack Reacher 4)

The Visitor: (Jack Reacher 4)

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Author: Lee Child Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 528 Lee Child's fourth unputdownable thriller starring Jack Reacher features a chilling serial killer. Two female army high-flyers. Both acquainted...
The Housekeeper and the Professor: Vintage Classics Japanese Series

The Housekeeper and the Professor: Vintage Classics Japanese Series

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Author: Yoko Ogawa Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 VINTAGE JAPANESE CLASSICS - following on from the success of Vintage Russian Classics and European Classics, these are covetable...
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...
Floodtide

Floodtide

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Author: Judy Nunn Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 704 Four men. One unbreakable friendship. Forged in the mighty Iron Ore State. Four men. One unbreakable friendship. Forged in...
The Looking Glass War

The Looking Glass War

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Author: John le Carre Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 Le Carre shows espionage at its best and worst in this novel, new to Penguin Modern Classics When...
Three Dollars

Three Dollars

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Author: Elliot Perlman Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 The groundbreaking classic about economic rationalism and its effect on good, honest people. The groundbreaking novel about economic rationalism...
In the Heart of the Country

In the Heart of the Country

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Author: J. M. Coetzee Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 As Text continues the re-release of J. M. Coetzee's revered works, this second instalment of four titles-with introductions...