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Modern and Contemporary Fiction and Upmarket Bestsellers
Modern and Contemporary Fiction and Upmarket Bestsellers
| FORD MADOX FORD Book Number: 84226 |
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Ford Madox Ford chose his name in honour of his grandfather, the pre-Raphaelite painter Ford Madox Brown and he founded two influential journals, The English Review in 1908 and The Transatlantic Re...
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| JOYCE CAROL OATES Book Number: 84692 |
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America's queen of gothic writing taps into our deepest fears in her harshly beautiful novel. Have they found Robbie? They waited. Each hour of the day they waited. No one told her the latest n...
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| MADELEINE BRENT Book Number: 84975 |
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Written by the winner of the Romantic Novelists' Association Award in 1978, these novels are now available in paperback editions. Madeleine Brent was the pseudonym used by Peter O'Donnell, creator...
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| VIRGINIA WOOLF Book Number: 85304 |
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'A Room of One's Own' is probably the most influential feminist essay of the 20th century, imitated, acted on and quarrelled over for over 70 years. The history it tells so vividly and dramaticall...
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| JESSIE BURTON Book Number: 85066 |
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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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| MARK MORRIS Book Number: 85077 |
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Part crime novel, part fantasy, part science fiction, Mark Morris is now known as one of the best horror writers we have. Alex Locke is a reformed ex-con, forced back into London's criminal underw...
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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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| CHRISTINE MANGAN Book Number: 85970 |
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The novel opens in Tangier 1956 where we are transported to the most glamorous possible milieu, an ideal setting for a story of heated passion in which friendship becomes obsession and finally a ki...
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| TRENTON LEE STEWART Book Number: 86164 |
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Welcome to the mysterious Benedict Society. Are you a gifted child looking for special opportunities? When this peculiar advert appears in the newspaper, dozens of children enrol to take a series...
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| JESSICA SHATTUCK Book Number: 86181 |
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Set at the end of World War Two in a crumbling Bavarian castle that once played host to all of German high society, here is a story of three widows whose lives and fates become intertwined. Amid t...
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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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| DANIEL ANSELME Book Number: 86413 |
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Daniel Rabinovitch was born in 1927 and adopted the name Anselme while serving in the French Resistance and this novel was first published in Paris in 1957. France's engagement in Algeria was beco...
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| JESSE WILEY Book Number: 86552 |
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Go West, young pioneer! It's 1850 and you're setting off on the treacherous Oregon Trail. In this first book of four your goal is to get you and your family to Chimney Rock on time, but many dang...
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| LISA SEE Book Number: 86563 |
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It's 1938 and the exclusive Oriental nightclub in San Francisco's 'Forbidden City' is holding auditions for showgirls. In the dark, scandalous glamour of the club, three girls from very different ...
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| PATRICIA HIGHSMITH Book Number: 86569 |
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Edith Howland's precious diary provides a reflective interlude in her busy day. This 'fine and chilling character study' (Newsweek) charts a diary gone wrong. As Edith's American 1950s suburban l...
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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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| KATHERINE WEBB Book Number: 86865 |
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Joan Seabrook, a fledgling archaeologist, has fulfilled her lifelong dream to travel to Arabia and has arrived in the ancient city of Muscat with her fiancé Rory. Desperate to escape the pain of a...
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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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| DAVID ZINDELL Book Number: 87106 |
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"By the time we reached the open ocean, the water tasted almost as it should: of seaweed and sacred salt, of starlight and storms..." "Early in the Moon of Owls, I watched Helen pace the deck of t...
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| CHRIS PETIT Book Number: 87136 |
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Berlin 1943. August Schlegel hadn't touched anyone in years and even avoided shaking hands. He lives in a dark world. Why has he been placed on a homicide case when he works in financial crimes? ...
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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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| JOSEPH HELLER Book Number: 87241 |
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"Blessedly, monstrously, bloatedly, cynically funny, and fantastically unique. No one has ever written a book like this." - Financial Times. Subversive, wild and funny, 50 years on, the novel's st...
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| JOHN FOWLES Book Number: 87278 |
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Now regarded as a classic, the clue to this novel is in its original title, The God Game. 25 year old brigadier's son, Oxford graduate and recently-orphaned Nicholas Urfe has a vast addiction to b...
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| ZADIE SMITH Book Number: 87283 |
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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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| ROBERT ANTONI Book Number: 86903 |
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A seductive collection of folk tales told by an exotic grandmother to her innocent young grandson. Set amid the lush landscape of the island of Corpus Christi during WWII, the tales were originall...
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