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Modern and Contemporary Fiction and Upmarket Bestsellers
Modern and Contemporary Fiction and Upmarket Bestsellers
| SALMAN RUSHDIE Book Number: 83200 |
Published price: $28
Bibliophile price: £3.00
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"Rushdie invents his own cultural narrative - one that blends elements of 'One Thousand and One Nights', Homeric epics and sci-fi and action-adventure comic books... referencing Henry James, Mel Br...
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| EDWARD WILSON Book Number: 83381 |
Published price: £14.99
Bibliophile price: £6.00
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An MI6 officer, haunted by the ghosts of an SS atrocity, kills a Nazi war criminal in the ruins of a bunker. The German turns out to be a CIA asset being rat-lined to South America. As a hungry B...
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| CORNELIUS MEDVEI Book Number: 83666 |
Published price: £8.99
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Born 16th October 1958 Andrew Lynch is otherwise known as 'Mr Bolsover'. Civil servant, librarian, columnist, local councillor, revolutionary, his recreations include shooting squirrels, skinning ...
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| STEVEN MILLHAUSER Book Number: 83725 |
Published price: £9.99
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This collection of short stories was the winner of the Pulitzer Prize and they are elegantly told and charming stories. The Barnum Museum is a combination waxworks, masked ball and circus side-sho...
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| ANTHONY BURGESS Book Number: 83902 |
Published price: £7.99
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Composer, screenwriter, librettist, poet, playwright, journalist, essayist, travel writer, translator and critic, Anthony Burgess is best known for 'A Clockwork Orange'. 'Why can't a goddess of lo...
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| JENNIFER RYAN Book Number: 83965 |
Published price: £12.99
Bibliophile price: £4.00
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In the idyllic village of Chilbury in Kent, the year is 1940 and change is afoot. Hearts are breaking as sons and husbands leave to fight, and when the Vicar decides to close the choir until the m...
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| DEAN KOONTZ Book Number: 84268 |
Published price: £8.99
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Chyna Shepherd's violent childhood taught her to be a survivor, but nothing prepared her for Edgler Vess. A sociopath intent on murder, Vess lives for one purpose only - to satisfy all appetites a...
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| COLIN RODERICK FULTON Book Number: 84360 |
Published price: £8.99
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Germany's state bank, the Reichsbank received 21 direct hits in February 1945 when the US Air Force launched the largest daytime bombing offensive against Berlin ever, dropping over 2,250 tons of b...
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| FORD MADOX FORD Book Number: 84226 |
Published price: $19
Bibliophile price: £3.50
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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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| STEWART O'NAN Book Number: 84529 |
Published price: £8.99
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A dazzling, intimate novel of F. Scott Fitzgerald's Hollywood years. In 1937, Fitzgerald was a troubled, uncertain man whose literary success was long behind him. In poor health, with his wife con...
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| AMANDA COE Book Number: 84546 |
Published price: £8.99
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They were colour-supplement darlings of the 1980s - Patrick, sexy, ferocious young playwright, scourge of an enthralled establishment and beautiful Sara, who abandoned her two children to fulfil he...
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| JOYCE CAROL OATES Book Number: 84692 |
Published price: £7.99
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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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| SUE WILSHER Book Number: 84734 |
Published price: £19.99
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Tilbury 1950s and the Empire is a boarding house run by Vi, Doris's mother. When Doris falls pregnant out of marriage, she is kicked out of the house and forced to fend for herself. Desperate to ...
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| LOUISE ERDRICH Book Number: 84736 |
Published price: £18.99
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The Mail on Sunday said, 'Erdrich is the Poet Laureate of the contemporary Native American experience' and she is a writer of great emotional intelligence and old-fashioned storytelling. Evolution...
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| JOHN PARKER Book Number: 84958 |
Published price: £10.99
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The author is a dear customer of ours and describes his own novel as 'in the style of Neville Shute.' Dave and Sue Harrison are beginning their new life and Dave, a metallurgist, is taking up a ne...
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| JOE HILL Book Number: 85111 |
Published price: £13.99
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George R. R. Martin himself called this 'Original and gripping' and here we have the Sunday Times bestseller splendid outsize softback edition. The bestselling author of The Fireman and Horns link...
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| BEATRIZ WILLIAMS Book Number: 84917 |
Published price: $16
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Star-crossed lovers in pre-World War Two Europe collide with a woman on the run in the swinging sixties in a novel by the bestselling author of 'Tiny Little Thing'. It is the autumn of 1966 and Pe...
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| KIM EDWARDS Book Number: 84925 |
Published price: £14
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In 1964, a blizzard forces Dr David Henry to deliver his own twins. His firstborn, his son, is perfectly healthy, but the doctor immediately recognises that his daughter has Downs Syndrome. For m...
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| LOUISE MURPHY Book Number: 84930 |
Published price: $16
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A Penguin paperback edition with reader's guide inside, here is the poignant and suspenseful retelling of a famous fairy tale set in a war-torn world. In the last months of the Nazi occupation of ...
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| PATRICK DEVILLE Book Number: 85237 |
Published price: £8.99
Bibliophile price: £1.75
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An international bestseller which was shortlisted for many literary prizes, the novel is not just a brilliant reimaginating of a fascinating life, it is a hymn to the beauty and destruction of the ...
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| MADELEINE BRENT Book Number: 84965 |
Published price: £16.99
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When Bridie Chance discovers that her much loved father is a highly successful criminal and now dead, her world is shattered. With no home or friends and almost no money, she has to care for her f...
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| MADELEINE BRENT Book Number: 84975 |
Published price: £16.99
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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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| RANSOM RIGGS Book Number: 85037 |
Published price: $10.99
Bibliophile price: £4.00
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A New York Times bestseller we have imported for our bibliophiles, this is a tense and moving novel which works brilliantly with the photographs included. A mysterious island. An abandoned orphan...
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| VIRGINIA WOOLF Book Number: 85304 |
Published price: £6.99
Bibliophile price: £3.00
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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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| WILLIAM FAULKNER Book Number: 85305 |
Published price: £9.99
Bibliophile price: £3.50
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First published in 1937, we have the Vintage Classic facsimile reprint in paperback from 1995 in a new reprint edition by the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature. 'By universal consent, Faulkn...
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| RICHARD YATES Book Number: 85396 |
Published price: £9.99
Bibliophile price: £2.50
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Described by Michael Chavon as 'a devastating novel', this deft ironic novel is becoming a classic of its time, a full-bloodied 1950s essay on doomed middle-class relationships. Flawless, 'his pro...
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| ALEXANDER MCCALL SMITH Book Number: 85397 |
Published price: £16.99
Bibliophile price: £2.75
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For seven year old Bertie Pollock, life in Edinburgh's most celebrated fictional street has just got immeasurably better. The enforced absence of his endlessly pushy mother Irene, currently consci...
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| VICTORIA HISLOP Book Number: 85317 |
Published price: £19.99
Bibliophile price: £7.00
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Inspired by a visit to Spinalonga, the abandoned Greek leprosy colony, Victoria Hislop wrote 'The Island' in 2005 and her number one bestseller 'The Return' was about the painful secrets of the Spa...
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| ANITA SHREVE Book Number: 85440 |
Published price: £18.99
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It is 1947 and fires are racing along the coast of Maine in the USA after a summer-long drought, ravaging thousands of acres and causing unprecedented confusion and fear. Five months pregnant, Gra...
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| JESSIE BURTON Book Number: 85066 |
Published price: $15.99
Bibliophile price: £3.25
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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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