Modern & contemporary fiction

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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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  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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  Yesterday’s weather

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  In ‘Yesterday’s Weather’, Anne Enright presents a series of deeply moving stories about women stirred, bothered, or fascinated by men they cannot understand.

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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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  Gathering

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  ‘The Gathering’ is a family epic, condensed and clarified through Anne Enright’s unblinking eye. It is also a sexual history: tracing the line of hurt and redemption through three...

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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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  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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  House On The Strand

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  Dick Young is lent a house in Cornwall by his friend Professor Magnus Lane. During his stay he agrees to serve as guinea pig for a new drug Magnus has discovered in his biochemical research. On tak...

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  After The Quake

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  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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  Atonement

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  Atonement is the novel for which Ian McEwan will always be remembered. Enthralling in its depiction of childhood, love and war, class and England, at its centre is a profound and profoundly moving ...

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  Giovanni’s room

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  Tackling the conflict between homosexual and heterosexual love, this novel tells of David, a young man awakening to his true homosexual nature, through a relationship with a barman named Giovanni, ...

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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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