Modern & contemporary fiction

After The Quake

This is a collection of six short stories from the cult Japanese writer, exploring the violence beneath the surface of modern Japan.

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Doctor Zhivago

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The story of Yuri Zhivago, physician and poet, is both a panoramic, epic portrait of a country in the throes of the most radical revolution in history, and an intense love story.

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Toru Watanabe is looking back on the love and passions of his life and trying to make sense of it all. As his first love, Naoko, sinks deeper and deeper into mental despair, he is inexorably pushed...

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Vintage Classics Our Man In Havana

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Wormold’s daughter had reached an expensive age – so he accepted a mysterious Englishman’s offer of extra income. All he has to do is run agents, file reports, and spy. But his fa...

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Elephant Vanishes

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This collection of stories exposes Japan as it is experienced from the inside. The stories take place in parallel worlds, not so much remote from normal life as hidden beneath its surface.

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The Monkey King

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Timothy Mo’s witty insider’s account of a dysfunctional family living in colonial Hong Kong, opened a trapdoor into an unknown world for British readers

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House Of Leaves

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Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Will Navidson and his partner Karen Green move into a small home on Ash Tree Lane. But something is terribly wrong – their house is bigger on the inside than...

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Vintage Classics The Sea

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When Charles Arrowby, a 60+ demi-god of the theatre, retires from his glittering London world in order to become a hermit, it is to the sea that he turns. He hopes at least to escape from the women...

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London Fields

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The narrator of this tale, Samson Young, enters the Black Cross, an undesirable public house, and finds the main characters of his drama waiting to begin.

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Wind Up Bird Chronicle

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Okada is apparently a happy man – his domestic life seems familiar and comfortable, but admittedly he has just quit his job, the cat has disappeared and a strange woman is bothering him with ...

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Human Croquet

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Written by the Whitbread prizewinner Kate Atkinson, ‘Human Croquet’ is an exhilarating and witty novel which provides an audacious blend of history, Shakespeare, and a hilariously dysfu...

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Comfort Of Strangers

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As their holiday unfolds, Colin and Maria are locked tightly in their own intimacy. Then they meet a man with a disturbing story to tell, and, almost against their will, Colin and Maria are drawn i...

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Behind The Scenes At The Museum

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Moving with stark contrast between the Coronation year celebrations and life in the trenches during the First World War, this debut novel tells the story of a family observed by one of its members....

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Hocus Pocus

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This is a satirical, fiction autobiography of a West Point-trained Vietnam veteran. In the year 2001, the old soldier has been arrested for masterminding the largest prison break in history. Now hi...

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September

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‘September’ is a moving family saga in the vein of the author’s bestselling ‘The Shell Seekers’. As summer comes to Scotland, a dance is planned for September. The inv...

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The yellow wallpaper

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Narrated with superb psychological skill and dramatic precision, this book tells the story of a nameless woman driven mad by enforced confinement after the birth of her child.

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Modern & contemporary fiction

After The Quake

Doctor Zhivago

Norwegian Wood

Vintage Classics Our Man In Havana

Elephant Vanishes

The Monkey King

House Of Leaves

Vintage Classics The Sea

London Fields

Wind Up Bird Chronicle

Human Croquet

Comfort Of Strangers

Behind The Scenes At The Museum

Hocus Pocus

September

The yellow wallpaper

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