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Modern and Contemporary Fiction and Upmarket Bestsellers
Modern and Contemporary Fiction and Upmarket Bestsellers
| JESSIE BURTON Book Number: 85066 |
Published price: $15.99
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By the bestselling author of 'The Miniaturist' here is a simmering historical love story. It's 1967 and Odelle Bastien is a Caribbean émigré trying to make her way in London. She takes a job at the...
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| TILLY BAGSHAWE Book Number: 85525 |
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Home Secretary. Sir Edward Manning, a bastion of the Westminster political establishment, would be Alexia De Vere's constant companion advising, cautioning and expertly guiding her through the maze...
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| Michelle Magorian Book Number: 85733 |
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Calling all thespians! It is only when she finds herself watching the recently established Theatre Workshop Company in a dress rehearsal that Josie realises how thrilling acting can be. First tho...
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| PAULA MCLAIN Book Number: 86328 |
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Prologue: 'Near dawn on July 13, 1936, as three assassins scaled a high garden wall in Tenerife hoping to catch the band of armed guards unaware, I was asleep in a tiny room in Stuttgart, waiting f...
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| LOUISA HALL Book Number: 86345 |
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A kaleidoscopic novel about Robert Oppenheimer, father of the atomic bomb, as told by seven fictional characters. A brilliant scientist, champion of liberal causes and a complex and often extraord...
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| NICK HORNBY Book Number: 86581 |
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Annie has put 15 years into safe, slightly obsessed Duncan but now it's time to move on. But she lives in Gooleness, and is she really going to find a proper, feel-it-deep-down-in-your-boots love ...
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| LOUISE DOUGHTY Book Number: 87024 |
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By the brilliant creator of Apple Tree Yard. John Harper lies awake at night on an isolated hut on Bali, listening to the rain on the roof and believing his life may be in danger. The present is ...
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| MALIN PERSSON GIOLITO Book Number: 87152 |
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"Lying next to the left-hand row of desks is Dennis...from Uganda. He says he's 17, but he looks like a fat 25 year old... Samir and I are in the same class because Samir managed to be accepted to ...
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| MITCH ABLOM Book Number: 87179 |
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A very light read with guest appearances from Hank Williams, Elvis Presley, Carole King and even KISS. Frankie Presto is one of the world's brightest stars. At just nine years old he is sent to A...
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| CARRIE HOPE FLETCHER Book Number: 87186 |
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In 1952, two young lovers, Fawn Burrows and Walter Brown, meet backstage in a beautiful West End theatre during a production of 'When the Curtain Falls'. Between clandestine meetings and stolen mo...
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| SHUSAKU ENDO Book Number: 86988 |
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Set largely in a modern hospital, the novel is a shocking exposé of the war between new and traditional values in Spain. On a commercial visit, a jaded businessman has a chance encounter that remi...
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| ZADIE SMITH Book Number: 87283 |
Published price: £10
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Winner of multiple awards including the Whitbread First Novel Award. At 06.27 hours on the 1st January 1975, Alfred Archibald Jones was dressed in corduroy and sat in a fume-filled Cavalier Musket...
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| MICHEL BUSSI Book Number: 87454 |
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Gérôme Morval, a man whose passion for art was matched only by his passion for women, has been found dead in the stream that runs through the gardens at Giverny, where Monet created his famous pain...
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| H. E. BATES Book Number: 87512 |
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"Teetotal!" Ma said. "It's a libel. He'll never live it down. What's he going to say when everybody asks him to have one?" "No" said Dr Conner. "You'll have to strap him down" Ma said. "You'll ha...
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| JOHN BOYNE Book Number: 87537 |
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"I did not become ashamed of being Irish until I was well into the middle years of my life." Father Odran Yates is a good man, dedicated to his vocation since entering Clonliffe Seminary at the ag...
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| H. E. BATES Book Number: 87544 |
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"Christening? We never said nothing about no christening, Ma, did we?" When a letter announces the imminent arrival of Madame Dupont, Ma and Pa Larkin learn that little Oscar and Blenheim, Charley...
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| SHIRLEY CONRAN Book Number: 87548 |
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"The children of the rich never expect anything terrible to happen to them. Armoured with this self-confidence, the young anthropologist - who belonged to one of the oldest, wealthiest and most po...
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| MAX HENNESSY Book Number: 87656 |
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As World War Two explodes around him, and after a devastating loss in the Battle of Narvik, Maguire finds himself washed up at Dunkirk during the perilous evacuation of 1940. Kelly will fight for ...
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| MAX HENNESSY Book Number: 87661 |
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Book two in the Captain Kelly Maguire trilogy. Fresh from his triumph in the Great War, Maguire returns to battle. A hero of the Battle of Jutland, he progresses rapidly through the ranks despite...
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| JOHN UPDIKE Book Number: 87564 |
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Nothing in his previous life could have prepared Colonel Hakim Felix Ellellou for his new role as the President of Kush. Neither the French army nor his American university provided a grounding in...
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| JOHN UPDIKE Book Number: 87585 |
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In this riff on Nathanial Hawthorne's Scarlet Letter, the Reverend Tom Marshfield, a latter-day Arthur Dimmesdale, is sent from his Mid-western parish in sexual disgrace. At a desert retreat dedic...
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| KATE WILLIAMS Book Number: 87680 |
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Celia De Witt is half German, half English, and heiress to her family's vast fortune. As the glittering Twenties plunge into Depression, a shocking revelation sends her far from everything she kno...
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| JORGE GALAN Book Number: 87684 |
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A tragic, horrific story based on true events which took place in November 1989 at the Jesuit University in San Salvador when six Jesuit priests, their housekeeper and her daughter were murdered by...
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| ANNA SEGHERS Book Number: 87688 |
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A rediscovered German classic novel from 1942, never before published in the UK, now in affordable paperback edition, it is both a gripping escape story and a powerful novel of resistance. Written...
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| MICHAEL FRAYN Book Number: 87696 |
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Ever since an obscure Civil Servant called Stephen Summerchild fell to his death from a window in the Admiralty, rumours have circulated about a connection with some secret defence project. Now as...
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| P. H. NEWBY Book Number: 87726 |
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Set in the Egypt of 1956 during the Suez Crisis, this vividly exciting novel boasts a wonderful sense of place. It is not the best place to mislay your background, have a mysteriously motivated lo...
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| AUDREY MAGEE Book Number: 87951 |
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A soldier on the Russian Front marries a photograph of a woman he has never met. Hundreds of miles away in Berlin, that woman marries a photograph of the soldier. It is a contract of business rat...
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| ROBERT KIRKMAN & J. BONANSINGA Book Number: 87954 |
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From the New York Times bestselling series, here is a gruesome zombie read. First came the ground-breaking comic series, then the record-breaking TV show. This is an adventure set in that same bl...
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| JOHN IRVING Book Number: 87960 |
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The funny, heart-breaking worldwide bestseller from 1978, Irving's classic is here reprinted. Jenny Fields is a feminist leader ahead of her time, a writer, icon and deliberately single mother to ...
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| KARIN FOSSUM Book Number: 87982 |
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Riktor doesn't like the way the policeman storms into his home without even knocking. He doesn't like the arrogant way he walks around the house, taking note of its contents. The policeman doesn't...
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