Modern & contemporary fiction

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The Line of Beauty
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Winner of the Man Booker Prize, The Line of Beauty is exquisitely written, wryly funny and powerfully moving – a perfectly realized tale of our times.
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Of Women and Salt
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A sweeping, masterful debut about a daughter’s fateful choice, a mother motivated by her own past, and a family legacy that begins in Cuba before either of them were born. Of Women and Sal...
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Maybe in Another Life
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From the New York Times bestselling author of The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

Â * Named “Best Book of the Summer” by Glamour * Good Housekee...
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The Betrayals
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Dial A for Aunties
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Winner of the Comedy Women In Print Prize 2021

‘Whip-smart, original and so funny. I found it impossible to put down and lost count of the number of times I laughed out loud’ <...
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Dune
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This epic tale is set on the desert planet Arrakis, the focus for a complex political and military struggle with galaxy-wide repercussions. When Duke Atreides and his family take up court there the...
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Piranesi
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Piranesi lives in the House. Perhaps he always has. In his notebooks, day after day, he makes a clear and careful record of its wonders: the labyrinth of halls, the thousands upon thousands of stat...
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Trio
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A producer. A novelist. An actress. It is summer in 1968, the year of the assassinations of Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy. While the world is reeling our trio is involved in making a racket...
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Anxious People
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In a small town in Sweden, it appears to be an ordinary day. But look more closely, and you’ll see a mysterious masked figure approaching a bank. Two hours later, chaos has descended. A bungl...
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Pretending
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He said he was looking for a ‘partner in crime’ which everyone knows is shorthand for ‘a woman who isn’t real’. April is kind, pretty, and relatively normal – ye...
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Olive
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The debut novel from the Sunday Times bestselling author, Emma Gannon.

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Actress
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This is the story of Irish theatre legend Katherine O’Dell, as written by her daughter Norah. It tells of early stardom in Hollywood, of highs and lows on the stages of Dublin and London̵...
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The Blue Hour
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Sisters
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Something unspeakable has happened to sisters July and September. Desperate for a fresh start, their mother Sheela moves them across the country to an old family house that has a troubled life of i...
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Breasts and Eggs
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A strange and beguiling novel from Japan’s most exciting young writer, Mieko Kawakami.
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Blue Ticket
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Calla knows how the lottery works. Everyone does. On the day of your first bleed, you report to the station to learn what kind of woman you will be. A white ticket grants you children. A blue ticke...
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Daughters of Cornwall
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The No.1 Sunday Times bestselling novel!
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Redhead by the side of the road
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Micah Mortimer isn’t the most polished person you’ll ever meet. His numerous sisters and in-laws regard him oddly but very fondly, but he has his ways and means of navigating the world....
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Hamnet
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On a summer’s day in 1596, a young girl in Stratford-upon-Avon takes to her bed with a fever. Her twin brother, Hamnet, searches everywhere for help. Why is nobody at home? Their mother, Agne...
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American Dirt
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‘American Dirt’ explores the experience of attempting to illegally cross the US-Mexico border, a journey which thousands of migrants make each year. Yesterday, Lydia had a bookshop. Yes...
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The authenticity project
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Julian Jessop is tired of hiding the deep loneliness he feels. So he begins The Authenticity Project – a small green notebook containing the truth about his life. Leaving the notebook on a ta...
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Grown ups
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They’re a glamorous family, the Caseys. Johnny Casey, his two brothers Ed and Liam, their beautiful, talented wives and all their kids spend a lot of time together – birthday parties, a...
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The stand
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First came the days of the plague, then came the dreams. Dark dreams that warned of the coming of the dark man. The apostate of death, his worn-down boot heels tramping the night roads. The warlord...
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Such a fun age
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Alix Chamberlain is a woman who gets what she wants and has made a living showing other women how to do the same. So she is shocked when her young black babysitter, Emira Tucker, is accused by a se...
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Mum & dad
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Their parents made a choice years ago. Now they’re counting on the children to step in. After so much time, can old wounds heal? Mum & Dad by the Sunday Times bestseller...
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