Modern & contemporary fiction

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What a way to go
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THE MILLION COPY #1 BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF HOW TO KILL YOUR FAMILY IS BACK WITH THE NEW BOOK OF THE MOMENT

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Frankie
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Frankie Howe has lived a long life, her small flat is crammed full of art, furniture – and memories. Damian, her young carer, listens as she gradually tells him parts of her story – a s...
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A court of betrayal
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The Welsh Marches, 1301. Strong-willed heiress Johane de Geneville is married to Roger Mortimer, Earl of March, at just fifteen years old. Soon Johane finds herself swept up in a world of treachero...
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Think again
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Being an adult isn’t quite what Ellie Allard dreamed it would be when she was 14 years old. Though she’s got her beautiful daughter Lottie, life-long best friends in Magda and Nadine an...
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The berry pickers
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On a hot day in 1960s Maine, six-year-old Joe watches his little sister Ruthie, sitting on her favourite rock at the edge of the blueberry fields, while their family, Mi’kmaq people from Nova...
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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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Wellness
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The story of a marriage, a city and a society over two decades, Wellness is a major novel of our times, in the tradition of Jonathan Franzen and Elizabeth Strout.
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Love marriage
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In this globe-scattered Sri Lankan family, we speak only of two kinds of marriage. The first is the arranged marriage. The second is the love marriage.
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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
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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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Evil eye
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‘Filled with completely relatable yearning and achingly beautifully written, Evil Eye is a wonderful, moving and absorbing story of identity and belonging and learning to lo...
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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
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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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The overstory
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Nine strangers, each in different ways, become summoned by trees, brought together in a last stand to save the continent’s few remaining acres of virgin forest. ‘The Overstory’ un...
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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
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A charming and uplifting story from Japan about our most cherished memories, time travel and what life is all about.
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The accidental Malay
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A deeply nuanced and witty debut novel examining the human cost of Malaysia’s racial policies through the lens of the tenacious Jasmine Leong, who is unwilling to accept the fate history has ...
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