Modern & contemporary fiction

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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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In universes
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Raffi is a physicist who spends their days removing stars from pictures of the night sky, dreaming about parallel universes. In this one, they’re falling for a queer sculptor named Britt who ...
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And so I roar
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When Tia accidentally overhears a whispered conversation between her mother – terminally ill and lying in a hospital bed in Port Harcourt, Nigeria – and her aunt, the repercussions will...
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The future future
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It’s the 18th century, and Celine is in trouble. Her husband is mostly absent. Her parents are elsewhere. And somewhere men are inventing stories about her – about her affairs, her sexu...
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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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Trouble in Combe Tollbridge
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Trouble is brought to the doorstep of the tranquil coastal village Combe Tollbridge when new visitors arrive.
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Good material
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Andy’s story wasn’t meant to turn out this way. Living out of a suitcase in his best friends’ spare room, waiting for his career as a stand-up comedian to finally take off, he str...
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Acceptance
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‘Pure reading pleasure’ NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW

‘Genuinely potent and dream-haunting writing’ GUARDIAN

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Rouge
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The breath-taking new novel from the author of Bunny.
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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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Abide with me
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From the Orange Prize-shortlisted author of AMY & ISABELLE, a deeply moving story of love, abandonment, and the peril of family secrets…
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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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Mamele
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‘Haunting’ Telegraph

‘Profoundly moving’ Marie Claire
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Roseland
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The summers spent at Roseland, the sprawling ancestral home of her best friend, Eloise, were among the happiest of Cathy’s life. Tucked away on the Cornish coastline and brimming with history...
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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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Olive Kitteridge
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Acclaimed author Elizabeth Strout gives us thirteen rich, luminous narratives centred on a singular and formidable heroine, Olive Kitteridge.
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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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Everyone I know is dying
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‘I hope the lights are on when we finally have sex so he can see how young I am compared to his wife.’
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The centre
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A darkly comic, boundary-pushing debut following an adrift Pakistani translator in London who attends a mysterious language school which boasts complete fluency in just ten days, but at a secret, s...
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