Modern & contemporary fiction

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The bluest eye
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‘The Bluest Eye’ chronicles the tragic, torn lives of a poor black family in 1940s Ohio. Pecola, unlovely and unloved, prays each night for blue eyes like those of her privileged white ...
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Mamele
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‘Haunting’ Telegraph

‘Profoundly moving’ Marie Claire
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Amy & Isabelle
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The compassionate, striking and exquisitely written debut novel of Booker-shortlisted writer Elizabeth Strout
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The figurine
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Of all the ancient art that captures the imagination, none is more appealing than the Cycladic figurine. An air of mystery swirls around these statuettes from the Bronze Age and they are highly sou...
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The ghost cat
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Early morning, 1902. In a gloomy Edinburgh tenement, Eilidh the charlady tips coal into a fire grate and sets it alight. Overhearing, a cat ambles over to curl up against the welcome heat. This is ...
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Land of milk and honey
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A smog has spread. Food crops are disappearing. A chef escapes her career in London to take a job at a decadent mountaintop colony seemingly free of the world’s troubles. There, her enigmatic...
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The last word
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Natalka and Edwin, whom we met in ‘The Postscript Murders’, are running a detective agency in Shoreham, Sussex. Despite a steady stream of minor cases, Natalka is frustrated, longing fo...
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The trouble with Mrs Montgomery Hurst
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1841. Mr Montgomery Hurst of Radcliffe Park is getting married. To the great consternation of the county of Wickenshire, he is not marrying the daughter of an earl, but an impoverished widow with t...
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The beaver theory
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Can everyone’s favourite insurance mathematician, Henri, combine the increasingly dangerous world of adventure parks with the unpredictability of blended-family life? He’s about to f...
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After the funeral
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From the incomparable Tessa Hadley, a masterful collection of stories that plumb the depths of everyday life to reveal the shifting tides and hidden undercurrents of ordinary relationships. In each...
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The wasp factory
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Frank, no ordinary 16-year-old, lives with his father outside a remote Scottish village. His elder brother Eric is confined to a psychiatric hospital. When news comes of Eric’s escape, Frank ...
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A dictator calls
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‘A Dictator Calls’ is inspired by three minutes in June 1934 when Joseph Stalin allegedly telephoned Boris Pasternak. A gripping meditation on Soviet Russia, authoritarianism and litera...
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Has anyone seen Charlotte Salter?
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The gripping and suspenseful new thriller from the acclaimed Nicci French. A woman missing. A family shattered. But can anyone really vanish without a trace?Â
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The exchange
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What became of Mitch and Abby McDeere after they exposed the crimes of Memphis law firm Bendini, Lambert and Locke and fled the country? The answer is in ‘The Exchange’, the riveting se...
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The god of the woods
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A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

WINNER OF JIMMY FALLON’S SUMMER READS BOOK CLUB

SELECTED FOR BARACK OBAMA’S SUMMER 2024 READING LIST

‘I was totall...
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Orbital
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Six astronauts rotate in their spacecraft above the Earth. They are there to collect meteorological data, conduct scientific experiments and test the limits of the human body. But mostly they obser...
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Bruise
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Adrian Markle’s debut tells the story of an injured MMA fighter who returns to his coastal hometown. Arriving on the Greyhound, six months late for his father’s funeral, Jamie Stuart is...
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How to age disgracefully
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Daphne knows that age is just a number. She also knows that society no longer pays her any attention – something she’s happy to exploit to help her hide a somewhat chequered past. But f...
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The making of another major motion picture masterpiece
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Here is a wildly ambitious story of the making of a colossal, star-studded, multimillion-dollar superhero action film, and the humble comic book that inspired it all. Spanning 80 years of a changin...
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What you are looking for is in the library
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‘What are you looking for?’ asks Tokyo’s most enigmatic librarian, Sayuri Komachi. She is no ordinary librarian. Naturally, she has read every book on her shelf, but she also has ...
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Lula Dean’s little library of banned books
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‘A story that’s as furious as it is tender’ EMILY HENRY on The Change

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13 Cornish Ghost Stories
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Four seasons in Japan
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Flo is sick of Tokyo. She is stuck in a rut, her translation work has dried up, and she’s in a relationship that’s run its course. That’s until she stumbles upon a mysterious book...
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The wedding of the year
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It’s set to be a perfect day – until the chauffeur is asked to keep driving the bride around the church. This wedding definitely isn’t going as planned. Lottie is a guest at the w...
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The invisible hour
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A magical novel of women forging their own paths, love, friendship and the timeless power of books, from the bestselling author of Practical Magic.
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