Modern & contemporary fiction

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Coin locker babies
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Two babies are left in a Tokyo station coin locker and survive against the odds, but their lives are forever tainted by this inauspicious start. As they grow up, they join the ranks of Toxitown: a ...
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Forgotten on Sunday
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An unforgettable story of an unlikely friendship and the scars of a broken past. The first novel from the million copy bestselling author of Fresh Water for Flowers
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All the broken places
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91-year-old Gretel Fernsby has lived in the same mansion block in London for decades. She leads a comfortable, quiet life, despite her dark and disturbing past. She doesn’t talk about her esc...
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The housemaid’s secret
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It’s hard to find an employer who doesn’t ask too many questions about my past. So I thank my lucky stars that the Garricks miraculously give me a job, cleaning their stunning penthouse...
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Carrie Soto is back
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Carrie Soto is fierce, and her determination to win at any cost has not made her popular. By the time Carrie retires from tennis, she is the best player the world has ever seen. She has shattered e...
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Days at the Morisaki bookshop
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Hidden in Jinbocho, Tokyo is a booklover’s paradise. On a quiet corner in an old wooden building lies a shop filled with hundreds of second-hand books. Twenty-five-year-old Takano has never l...
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Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow
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Two kids meet in a hospital gaming room in 1987. One is visiting her sister, the other is recovering from a car crash. The days and months are long there. Their love of video games becomes a shared...
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Berlin
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When Daphne Ferber arrives in Berlin for a fresh start in a thrilling new city, the last thing she expects is to run into more drama than she left behind. Of course, she knew she’d need to do...
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The ink black heart
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When frantic, dishevelled Edie Ledwell appears in the office begging to speak to her, private detective Robin Ellacott doesn’t know quite what to make of the situation. The co-creator of a po...
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The winners
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The breath-taking new novel from the multi-million copy bestselling author of A Man Called Ove beautifully captures all the complexities of daily life and explores questions of friendship, l...
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Horse
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Kentucky, 1850. An enslaved groom named Jarret and a bay foal forge a bond of understanding that will carry the horse to record-setting victories across the South. When the nation erupts in civil w...
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The double life of Daisy Hemmings
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For fans of The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo and The Talented Mr Ripley, this is an unforgettable novel about how far people will go to get the life they think they deserve . . .
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The satsuma complex
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Gary Thorn goes for a pint with a work acquaintance called Brendan. When Brendan leaves early, Gary meets a girl in the pub. He doesn’t catch her name, but falls for her anyway. When she sudd...
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The measure
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‘GRIPPING AND POIGNANT’RUTH HOGAN, bestselling author of The Keeper of Lost Things

‘CLEVER AND ENTERTAINING’ GO...
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The perfect golden circle
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England, 1989. Over the course of a burning hot summer, two very different men – traumatised Falklands veteran Calvert, and affable, chaotic Redbone – set out nightly in a clapped-out c...
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The white hare
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The White Valley in the far west of Cornwall cuts through bluebell woods down to the sea. The house above the beach has lain neglected since the war. It comes with a reputation, which is why Mila a...
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Everyone in my family has killed someone
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I was dreading the Cunningham family reunion even before the first murder. Before the storm stranded us at the mountain resort. The thing is, us Cunninghams don’t really get along. We’v...
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The bewitching
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Alice Samuel might be old and sharp-tongued, but she’s no fool. Visiting her new neighbours in her Fenland village, she suspects Squire Throckmorton’s household is not as God-fearing as...
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All The Lovers In The Night
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From the bestselling author of Breasts and Eggs and international literary sensation Mieko Kawakami comes a deeply moving story about a woman searching for meaning in contemporary Tokyo.
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Venomous lumpsucker
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The near future. With tens of thousands of species dying out every year, our last hope is the biobanks, impregnable vaults where their remnants can be preserved forever. Until one day an audacious ...
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Demon Copperhead
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This is the tale of Demon Copperhead: our hero. A boy with no assets beyond his dead father’s good looks and copper-coloured hair, bucket-loads of charm and a talent or two the world is yet t...
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The maid
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Get swept away by the million-copy bestseller . . .

*THE NO.1 NEW YORK TIMES & SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER
*WINNER OF THE GOODREADS CHOICE AWARD FOR BEST MY...
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With a mind to kill
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It is M’s funeral. One man is missing from the graveside: the traitor who pulled the trigger and who is now in custody, accused of M’s murder – James Bond. Behind the Iron Curtain...
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The it girl
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The compulsive new thriller from Sunday Times bestseller Ruth Ware.Â
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The housemaid
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Every day I clean the Winchesters’ beautiful house top to bottom. I collect their daughter from school. And I cook a delicious meal for the whole family before heading up to eat alone in my t...
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