Modern & contemporary fiction

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In this sign
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Two young deaf people, Abel and Janice, leave their punitive school and begin their life as a married couple ‘Outside’ – in the unwelcoming world of the hearing. A misunderstandin...
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The women behind the door
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At 66, Paula Spencer – mother, grandmother, widow, addict, survivor – is finally living her life. A job at the dry cleaners she enjoys, a man – Joe – with whom she shares wh...
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Day one
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*The breathtaking new novel from the bestselling author of Girl A*
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Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
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1806. England is beleaguered by the long war, and centuries have passed since magicians faded from view. But one remains: the reclusive Mr Norrell. Proceeding to London, he raises a woman from the ...
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The vaster wilds
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Part of a loose trilogy based on the end of empire, ‘The Vaster Wilds’ is the story of a young girl who is servant to a minister and his young mistress, and in charge of their young dau...
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Small bomb at Dimperley
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It’s 1945, and Corporal Valentine Vere-Thissett, aged 23, is on his way home. But ‘home’ is Dimperley, built in the 1500s, vast and dilapidated, up to its eaves in debt and half-f...
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The masquerades of spring
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New York City, New York. Meet Augustus Berrycloth-Young – fop, flaneur, and Englishman abroad – as he chronicles the Jazz Age from his perch atop the city that never sleeps. That is, un...
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Elaine
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Standing by the mailbox in Ithaca, New York, Elaine thinks of her child and husband, an Ivy League academic, inside her house and wonders – is this it? As she begins to push back against the ...
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Gabriel’s moon
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Gabriel Dax is a young man haunted by the memories of his youth: every night, when sleep finally comes, he dreams about his childhood home in flames. His days are spent on the move as a travel writ...
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We’ll prescribe you a cat
£12.99

On the top floor of an old building at the end of a cobbled alley in Kyoto lies the Kokoro Clinic for the Soul. Only a select few – those who feel genuine emotional pain – can find it. ...
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The secrets of flowers
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‘I was in awe reading this book, wonderfully written, fascinating history and brought with it the scent of all those flowers. A delight for my senses.’ Milly Johnson Add to basket
Safe enough
£22.00

Here are twenty meticulously plotted, intimate portraits of humanity at its best and worst, featuring assassins, CIA agents, gangsters, and more. A drug-dealing hit man unburdens his fears to a str...
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Bewilderment
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Theo Byrne is a promising young astrobiologist who has found a way to search for life on other planets dozens of light years away. He is also the widowed father of a most unusual nine-year-old. His...
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The life impossible
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When retired Maths teacher Grace Winters is left a run-down house on a Mediterranean island by a long-lost friend, curiosity gets the better of her. She arrives in Ibiza with a one-way ticket, no g...
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Shy creatures
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Croydon, 1964. Helen Hansford is in her thirties and an art therapist in a psychiatric hospital where she has been having a long love affair with Gil: a charismatic, married doctor. One spring afte...
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The lantern of lost memories
£14.99

A charming and uplifting story from Japan about our most cherished memories, time travel and what life is all about.
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Death at the sign of the rook
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Welcome to Rook Hall. The stage is set. The players are ready. By night’s end, a murderer will be revealed. Ex-detective Jackson Brodie is staving off a bad case of midlife malaise when he is...
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The lifeline
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For Kate, having a newborn baby means she is almost never alone. But that doesn’t mean she isn’t lonely. The move from London to Somerset with her husband Jay was supposed be the start ...
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Frank and Red
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Sometimes, the friend you need is the one you never saw coming. Frank and Red are a mess. Frank is a grumpy old curmudgeon. A recluse whose only company is the ‘ghost’ of his dead wife,...
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Blood like mine
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Let the Right One In meets Stephen King in this chilling thriller about a mother’s love, a daughter’s devotion, a man’s obsession – and the darkness that li...
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Mina’s matchbox
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After the death of her father, twelve-year-old Tomoko is sent to live for a year with her uncle in the coastal town of Ashiya. It is a year which will change her life. The 1970s are bringing change...
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There are rivers in the sky
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This is the story of one lost poem, two great rivers, and three remarkable lives – all connected by a single drop of water. In the ruins of Nineveh, that ancient city of Mesopotamia, there li...
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Annihilation
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‘A contemporary masterpiece’GUARDIAN

‘Creepy and fascinating’ STEPHEN KING

‘A psycho-geograpical tour ...
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Authority
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‘Astonishing, frightening, spectacular’NEW STATESMAN

‘A lasting monument to the uncanny’GUARDIAN

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The Burgess boys
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Two brothers’ lives are irrevocably altered when their 19-year-old nephew is embroiled in a scandal of his own making
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Modern & contemporary fiction

In this sign

The women behind the door

Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell

The vaster wilds

Small bomb at Dimperley

The masquerades of spring

Elaine

Gabriel’s moon

We’ll prescribe you a cat

The secrets of flowers

‘I was in awe reading this book, wonderfully written, fascinating history and brought with it the scent of all those flowers. A delight for my senses.’ Milly Johnson Add to basket

Safe enough

The life impossible

Shy creatures

The lantern of lost memories

Death at the sign of the rook

The lifeline

Frank and Red

Blood like mine

Mina’s matchbox

There are rivers in the sky

Annihilation

Authority

The Burgess boys

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