Modern & contemporary fiction

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4.50 from Paddington
£14.99

Agatha Christie’s classic Miss Marple railway mystery, reissued in a beautiful new classic hardcover edition designed to appeal to the latest generation of Agatha Christie fans and bo...
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Most Wanted Man
£9.99

A half-starved young Russian man in a long black overcoat is smuggled into Hamburg at dead of night. He has an improbable amount of cash secreted in a purse round his neck. He is a devout Muslim. O...
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If Cats Disappeared From The World
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A million-copy bestseller, a poignant and thought-provoking Japanese tale that asks what it really is that makes life worth living.
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Thousand Splendid Suns
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‘A Thousand Splendid Suns’ is a chronicle of Afghan history, and a deeply moving story of family, friendship, and the salvation to be found in love.
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Kite Runner
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Winter, 1975: Afghanistan, a country on the verge of an internal coup. 12-year-old Amir is desperate to win the approval of his father, one of the richest merchants in Kabul. He’s failed to d...
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Life of Pi
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Pi lives in Pondicherry, India, where his father owns the city’s zoo. The family decides to emigrate to Canada, but tragedy strikes at sea. In the lifeboat are five survivors: Pi, a hyena, a ...
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Without Merit
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From the No. 1Â New York TimesÂ bestselling author ofÂ It Ends With UsÂ andÂ November 9Â comes a moving and haunting novel of family, love, and the power of the tru...
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The Scandal
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Beartown is a small town in a large Swedish forest. For most of the year it is under a thick blanket of snow, experiencing the kind of cold and dark that brings people closer together – or pu...
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Notes From An Exhibition
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When troubled artist Rachel Kelly dies painting obsessively in her attic studio in Penzance, her saintly husband and adult children have more than the usual mess to clear up. She leaves behind an e...
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Resurrection Of Joan Ashby
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‘A stunning debut – because there is nothing debut about it’
A.M. Homes
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Lincoln In The Bardo
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The American Civil War rages while President Lincoln’s beloved eleven-year-old son lies gravely ill. In a matter of days, Willie dies and is laid to rest in a Georgetown cemetery. Newspapers ...
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Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine
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Over 2.5 million copies sold

‘Funny, touching and unpredictable’ Jojo Moyes

‘Heartwrenching and wonderful’ Nina Sti...
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Heart’s Invisible Furies
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Cyril Avery is not a real Avery – or at least that’s what his adoptive parents tell him. And he never will be. But if he isn’t a real Avery, then who is he? Born out of wedlock to...
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A Gentleman in Moscow
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In 1922 Count Rostov is deemed an unrepentant aristocrat by a Bolshevik tribunal. He is sentenced to house arrest in The Metropol, a grand hotel across the street from the Kremlin. Rostov, an indom...
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Hanging Tree: The Sixth Rivers of London novel
£9.99

Suspicious deaths are not usually the concern of PC Peter Grant or the Folly, even when they happen at an exclusive party in one of the most expensive apartment blocks in London. But Lady Ty’...
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Poisonwood Bible
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A fiery evangelist takes his family and mission to the Belgian Congo in 1959, carrying all they need from home, but find it is calamitously transformed on African soil. The tale recounts the family...
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Days Without End
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Having signed up for the US army in the 1850s, aged barely 17, Thomas McNulty and his brother-in-arms, John Cole, go on to fight in the Indian wars and, ultimately, the Civil War. Orphans of terrib...
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Desire
£5.99

You’ve just passed someone on the street who could be the love of your life, the person you’re destined for – what do you do? In Murakami’s world, you tell them a story. The...
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Work Like Any Other
£8.99

From an astonishing new voice, this debut charts the life of Roscoe T Martin, first as a farm owner with a fractured family, then as prison inmate…
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Sometimes I Lie
£9.99

* SOON TO BE A MAJOR TV SERIES STARRING SARAH MICHELLE GELLAR AS AMBER REYNOLDS *

‘Marvellous’ A. J. Finn

‘A bold and original voice’ Clare...
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Hystopia
£8.99

At the bitter end of the 1960s, after surviving multiple assassination attempts, President John F. Kennedy has created a vast federal agency, the Psych Corps, dedicated to maintaining the nation...
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Wind Pinball
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‘Hear the Wind Sing’ and ‘Pinball’, 1973 are Haruki Murakami’s earliest novels. They follow the fortunes of the narrator and his friend, known only by his nickname, th...
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Career Of Evil
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When a mysterious package is delivered to Robin Ellacott, she is horrified to discover that it contains a woman’s severed leg. Her boss, private detective Cormoran Strike, is less surprised b...
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The Queen’s Gambit
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Beth Harmon becomes an orphan when her parents are killed in an automobile accident. At eight years old, she is placed in an orphanage in Mount Sterling, Kentucky, where the children are given a tr...
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Loney
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If it had another name, I never knew, but the locals called it the Loney – that strange nowhere between the Wyre and the Lune where Hanny and I went every Easter time with Mummer, Farther, Mr...
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