Modern & contemporary fiction

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  Dial A for Aunties

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  Winner of the Comedy Women In Print Prize 2021

  ‘Whip-smart, original and so funny. I found it impossible to put down and lost count of the number of times I laughed out loud’ <...

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  Piranesi

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  Piranesi lives in the House. Perhaps he always has. In his notebooks, day after day, he makes a clear and careful record of its wonders: the labyrinth of halls, the thousands upon thousands of stat...

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  Trio

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  A producer. A novelist. An actress. It is summer in 1968, the year of the assassinations of Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy. While the world is reeling our trio is involved in making a racket...

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  Ghosts

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  Nina Dean has arrived at her early thirties as a successful food writer with loving friends and family, plus a new home and neighbourhood. When she meets Max, a beguiling romantic hero who tells he...

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  Olive

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  The debut novel from the Sunday Times bestselling author, Emma Gannon.

  ‘Explores such an important topic with a lightness and warmth’ Dolly Alderton Add to basket

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  Actress

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  This is the story of Irish theatre legend Katherine O’Dell, as written by her daughter Norah. It tells of early stardom in Hollywood, of highs and lows on the stages of Dublin and London̵...

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  The Blue Hour

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  Sisters

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  Something unspeakable has happened to sisters July and September. Desperate for a fresh start, their mother Sheela moves them across the country to an old family house that has a troubled life of i...

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  Breasts and Eggs

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  A strange and beguiling novel from Japan’s most exciting young writer, Mieko Kawakami.

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  Blue Ticket

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  Calla knows how the lottery works. Everyone does. On the day of your first bleed, you report to the station to learn what kind of woman you will be. A white ticket grants you children. A blue ticke...

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  A Song for the Dark Times

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  When his daughter Samantha calls in the dead of night, John Rebus knows it’s not good news. Her husband has been missing for two days. Rebus fears the worst – and knows from his lifetim...

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  Daughters of Cornwall

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  The No.1 Sunday Times bestselling novel!

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  Redhead by the side of the road

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  Micah Mortimer isn’t the most polished person you’ll ever meet. His numerous sisters and in-laws regard him oddly but very fondly, but he has his ways and means of navigating the world....

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  Hamnet

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  On a summer’s day in 1596, a young girl in Stratford-upon-Avon takes to her bed with a fever. Her twin brother, Hamnet, searches everywhere for help. Why is nobody at home? Their mother, Agne...

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  American Dirt

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  ‘American Dirt’ explores the experience of attempting to illegally cross the US-Mexico border, a journey which thousands of migrants make each year. Yesterday, Lydia had a bookshop. Yes...

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  The authenticity project

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  Julian Jessop is tired of hiding the deep loneliness he feels. So he begins The Authenticity Project – a small green notebook containing the truth about his life. Leaving the notebook on a ta...

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  The whale at the end of the world

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  It all began with the whale.When a young man washes up on the sands of St Piran in Cornwall, it is clear to the villagers that this is not a regular day. What has brought him here? And what is the ...

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  Grown ups

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  They’re a glamorous family, the Caseys. Johnny Casey, his two brothers Ed and Liam, their beautiful, talented wives and all their kids spend a lot of time together – birthday parties, a...

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  Kim Jiyoung, born 1982

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  Kim Jiyoung is a girl born to a mother whose in-laws wanted a boy. Kim Jiyoung is a sister made to share a room while her brother gets one of his own. Kim Jiyoung is a female preyed upon by male te...

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  Such a fun age

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  Alix Chamberlain is a woman who gets what she wants and has made a living showing other women how to do the same. So she is shocked when her young black babysitter, Emira Tucker, is accused by a se...

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  Mum & dad

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  Their parents made a choice years ago. Now they’re counting on the children to step in. After so much time, can old wounds heal? Mum & Dad by the Sunday Times bestseller...

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  Harry Potter and the philosopher’s stone

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  Harry Potter lives in a cupboard under the stairs at his Aunt and Uncle’s house. He is bullied by them and his spoilt cousin, and lives a very unremarkable life. But then Harry is transported...

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  The daylight gate

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  Good Friday 1612. Pendle Hill. A mysterious gathering of thirteen people is interrupted by a local magistrate. Is it a witches’ Sabbat? In Lancaster Castle two notorious witches await trial a...

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  Pine

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  Lauren and her father Niall live alone in the Highlands, in a small village surrounded by pine forest. When a woman stumbles out onto the road one Halloween night, Niall drives her back to their ho...

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  Rita Hayworth & Shawshank redemption

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  A mesmerising tale of unjust imprisonment and offbeat escape, ‘Rita Hayworth & Shawshank Redemption’ is one of Stephen King’s most beloved and iconic stories, and it helped m...

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