Modern & contemporary fiction

The First Rivers of London novel

‘My name is Peter Grant and until January I was just a probationary constable in the Metropolitan Police Service. Then one night, in pursuance of a murder inquiry, I tried to take a witness s...

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My Cousin Rachel

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Ambrose Ashley, Philip’s cousin, guardian and god, married Rachel in Italy, and died there. Jealous of his marriage and grief-stricken by his death, Philip prepares to meet his cousin’s...

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Catch-22: 50th Anniversary Edition

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At the heart of Joseph Heller’s bestselling novel is a satirical indictment of military madness and stupidity, and the desire of the ordinary man to survive it. It is the tale of Captain Yoss...

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Passage

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Amy Harper Bellafonte is six years old & her mother thinks she’s the most important person in the whole world. She is. Anthony Carter doesn’t think he could ever be in a worse plac...

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Day Of Jackal

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An adventure thriller in which an anonymous Englishman who in the spring of 1963, was hired by Colonel Marc Rodin, Operations Chief of the OAS to assassinate General De Gaulle.

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Lolita

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Poet and pervert, Humbert becomes obsessed by 12 year-old Lolita and seeks to possess her, first carnally and then artistically. This is Nabokov’s best known novel which brought him worldwide...

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Started Early Took My Dog

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‘Started Early, Took My Dog’ is the fourth novel in the bestselling sequence that started with ‘Case Histories’. It again features the beguiling former detective Jackson Bro...

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The Visitor

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Sergeant Amy Callan and Lieutenant Caroline Cooke have a lot in common. Both were army high-flyers. Both were aquainted with Jack Reacher. Both were forced to resign from the service. Now they̵...

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The other family

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Chrissie knew that Richie had loved her for all the 23 years they’d been together, loved their three daughters & their house in Highgate. Richie gave her everything, except the one thing...

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In a hidden corner of London, Henri Lachapelle is teaching his granddaughter and her horse to defy gravity, just as he had done in France, 50 years previously. But when disaster strikes, 14-year-ol...

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Remains Of The Day

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During the summer of 1956, Stevens, the aging butler of Darlington Hall, embarks on a leisurely motoring holiday that will take him deep into the heart of the English countryside and thence into hi...

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Brooklyn

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In a small town in the south-east of Ireland in the 1950s, Eilis Lacey is among many of her generation who cannot find work at home. So when she is offered a job in America, she leaves her family t...

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Catcher In The Rye

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A 16-year-old American boy relates in his own words the experiences he goes through at school and after, and reveals with unusual candour the workings of his own mind. What does a boy in his teens ...

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Never Let Me Go

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Kathy, Ruth and Tommy were pupils at Hailsham – an idyllic establishment situated deep in the English countryside. The children there were tenderly sheltered from the outside world, brought u...

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Gone Tomorrow

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Suicide bombers are easy to spot. They give out all kinds of tell-tale signs. Mostly because they’re nervous. Riding the subway in New York at two o’clock in the morning, Reacher knows ...

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One Day

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15th July 1988. Emma and Dexter meet for the first time on the night of their graduation. Tomorrow they must go their separate ways. So where will they be on this one day next year? And the year af...

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When Will There Be Good News?

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In rural Devon, six-year-old Joanna witnesses an appalling crime. 30 years later the man convicted of the crime gets out of prison. In Edinburgh, 16-year-old Reggie works as a nanny for a doctor. B...

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On Chesil Beach

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It is July 1962. In a hotel on the Dorset coast, overlooking Chesil Beach, Edward and Florence, who got married that morning, are sitting down to dinner in their room. Neither is entirely able to s...

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Beach

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Richard lands in East Asia in search of an earthly utopia. In Thailand, he is given a map promising an unknown island, a secluded beach – and a new way of life. What Richard finds when he get...

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Blind Willow Sleeping Woman

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Included in this collection of stories is one in which a mirror appears out of nowhere and a night-watchman is unnerved as his reflection tries to take control of him, and another in which a couple...

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Christine

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Christine, blood-red, fat and finned, was 20. Her promise lay all in her past. There was still power in her – a frightening power that leaked like sump oil, staining and corrupting. A malign ...

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Wicked

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When Dorothy triumphed over the Wicked Witch of the West in Wizard of Oz, we heard only Dorothy’s side of the story. Maguire tells the other side – where the witch came from, why she wa...

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Island

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On the brink of her own life-changing decision, Alexis Fielding longs to find out about her mother’s past. But Sofia has never spoken of it. All she admits to is growing up in a small Cretan ...

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Kafka On The Shore

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At the age of 15, Kafka Tamura runs away from home, either to escape a gruesome oedipal prophecy or to search for his long-lost mother and sister. Instead, he finds himself setting out on an odysse...

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Neverwhere

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Under the streets of London there’s a world most people could never even dream of. A city of monsters and saints, murderers and angels, and pale girls in black velvet. Richard Mayhew is a you...

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Smoke and mirrors

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An elderly widow finds the Holy Grail beneath an old fur coat in a second-hand store. A young couple receive a wedding gift that will reveal a chilling alternative history of their marriage and a l...

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Shell Seekers

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Artist’s daughter Penelope Keeling can look back on a full and varied life, yet she is far too energetic and independent to settle sweetly into pensioned-off old age. Now she is faced with a ...

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Cloud Atlas

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A reluctant voyager crossing the Pacific in 1850, and a young Pacific Islander witnessing the nightfall of science and civilization – these and the other narrators of ‘Cloud Atlas’...

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The Main Cages

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The acclaimed first novel by one of Flamingo’s most gifted young writers, author of ‘The Bronski House’ and ‘The Spirit Wrestlers’.

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My Cousin Rachel

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Ambrose Ashley, Philip’s cousin, guardian and god, married Rachel in Italy, and died there. Jealous of his marriage and grief-stricken by his death, Philip prepares to meet his cousin’s...

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Modern & contemporary fiction

The First Rivers of London novel

My Cousin Rachel

Catch-22: 50th Anniversary Edition

Passage

Day Of Jackal

Lolita

Started Early Took My Dog

The Visitor

The other family

Horse Dancer

Remains Of The Day

Brooklyn

Catcher In The Rye

Never Let Me Go

Gone Tomorrow

One Day

When Will There Be Good News?

On Chesil Beach

Beach

Blind Willow Sleeping Woman

Christine

Wicked

Island

Kafka On The Shore

Neverwhere

Smoke and mirrors

Shell Seekers

Cloud Atlas

The Main Cages

My Cousin Rachel

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