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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
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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
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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 |
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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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| JENNIFER RYAN Book Number: 83965 |
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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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| FORD MADOX FORD Book Number: 84226 |
Published price: $19
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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 |
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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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| 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 |
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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 |
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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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| PATRICK DEVILLE Book Number: 85237 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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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| WILLIAM FAULKNER Book Number: 85305 |
Published price: £9.99
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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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| ALEXANDER MCCALL SMITH Book Number: 85397 |
Published price: £16.99
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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
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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 |
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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
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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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| MICHAEL CRICHTON Book Number: 85498 |
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In the future there will be dinosaurs. On a remote jungle island, genetic engineers have created a dinosaur game park. An astonishing technique for recovering and cloning dinosaur DNA has been di...
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| TILLY BAGSHAWE Book Number: 85525 |
Published price: £6.99
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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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| RUTH PRAWER JHABVALA Book Number: 85625 |
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The Academy Award winner for her screenplays A Room With A View and Howards End and Booker Prize winner for Heat and Dust in 1975, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala died aged 85 in April 2013. Here is her mast...
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| FIONA FORD Book Number: 85638 |
Published price: £19.99
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Wartime fiction which sweeps us back in time nostalgically to rationing, gas masks, military Nissen huts and polishing buttons. A knock on the door early one morning wouldn't normally be cause for...
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| RUTH HOGAN Book Number: 85643 |
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By the author of The Keeper of Lost Things here is a heartfelt story of the power of hope and friendship. Masha's life has stopped. Once a spirited and independent woman, her life has been change...
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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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| SHARON BOLTON Book Number: 85954 |
Published price: £12.99
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The author in her foreword says that the novel is "The story of women, and witches. Of the children we love and must protect. And of the men who fear us." Florence Lovelady's career was made when ...
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