Modern & contemporary fiction
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A bird in winter
£9.99A bird in winter
Bird is a woman on the run. One minute, she’s in a meeting in her office in Birmingham – the next, she’s walking out on her job, her home, her life. It’s a day she thought might come, and one she’s prepared for – but nothing could prepare her for what will happen next. As she flees north using multiple disguises, Bird has to work out who exactly is on her trail, and who – if anyone – she can trust. Like many people, she has fantasised about escape for a long time, but now it’s actually happening. Is her greatest fear that she will be hunted down, or that she will never be found?
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A Clockwork Orange
£8.99A Clockwork Orange
In a cult classic that rivals ‘Pulp Fiction’ for its portrayal of violence in the postmodern society, Anthony Burgess’s novel is part horror farce, part social prophecy and part penetrating study of human choice between good and evil.
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A French Christmas
£12.99A French Christmas
Bringing together the best French Christmas stories of all time, this lovely book includes classics by Guy de Maupassant and Alphonse Daudet, plus stories by the esteemed 20th century author Irène Némirovsky and contemporary writers Dominique Fabre and Jean-Philippe Blondel.
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A good life
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A haunting in the Arctic
£9.99A haunting in the Arctic
Something has walked the floors of the Ormen for over a century.
Something that craves revenge?
*Longlisted for the Wilbur Smith Adventure Writing Prize*
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A Kestrel For A Knave
£9.99A Kestrel For A Knave
This is the unsentimental story of the remarkable relationship between the desperate Billy, a friendless boy living in a soulless northern town, and the equally destructive, fierce kestrel, Kes, which he raises from the nest.
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A lesson in cruelty
£9.99A lesson in cruelty
The propulsive new thriller from Sunday Times bestseller Harriet Tyce, author of Blood Orange, The Lies You Told and It Ends at Midnight
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A little trickerie
£16.99A little trickerie
Born a vagabond, Tibb Ingleby has never had a roof of her own. But her mother has taught her that if you’re not too bound by the Big Man’s rules, there are many ways a woman can find shelter in this world. Now her ma is dead in a trick gone wrong and young Tibb is orphaned and alone. As she wends her way across the fields and forests of medieval England, Tibb will discover there are people who will care for her, as well as those who mean her harm. And there are a great many others who are prepared to believe just about anything.
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A Scarab Where the Heart Should Be
£10.99A Scarab Where the Heart Should Be
Jacky ‘The Beetle’ McKenzie is, if you ask her, the most sensible person in the world. To the rest of the world, she is belligerent, weird, obsessive, angry and volatile. A Scarab Where the Heart Should Be invites us into the mind of one of the world’s few true individuals; part visionary architect, part whirlwind of furious artistic chaos.
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A true account
£9.99A true account
From New York Times bestselling author Katherine Howe comes a daring first-hand account of Hannah Masury’s rousing adventure as one of the most feared and admired sea rovers of all time
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A Year of Marvellous Ways
£10.99A Year of Marvellous Ways
Marvellous Ways is eighty-nine years old and has lived alone in a remote Cornish creek for nearly all her life. Lately she’s taken to spending her days sitting on a mooring stone by the river with a telescope. She’s waiting for something – she’s not sure what, but she’ll know it when she sees it. Drake is a young soldier left reeling by the Second World War. When his promise to fulfil a dying man’s last wish sees him wash up in Marvellous’ creek, broken in body and spirit, the old woman comes to his aid. As an unlikely friendship grows between the two, can Drake give Marvellous what she needs to say goodbye to the world, and can she give him what he needs to go on?
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American genius
£12.99American genius
Tillman brings into being a microcosm of American democracy, in which contradictory values – such as rationality and irrationality, generosity and selfishness, love and lust, shame and honour – compete with one another.
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AMONGST OUR WEAPONS
£9.99AMONGST OUR WEAPONS
The London Silver Vaults – for well over a century, the largest collection of silver for sale in the world. It has more locks than the Bank of England and more cameras than a celebrity punch-up. Not somewhere you can murder someone and vanish without a trace – only that’s what happened. The disappearing act, the reports of a blinding flash of light and memory loss amongst the witnesses all make this a case for Detective Constable Peter Grant and the Special Assessment Unit. Alongside their boss DCI Thomas Nightingale, the SAU find themselves embroiled in a mystery that encompasses London’s tangled history, foreign lands and, most terrifying of all, the North! And Peter must solve this case soon because back home his partner Beverley is expecting twins any day now. But what he doesn’t know is that he’s about to encounter something – and somebody – that nobody ever expects.
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An academic question
£9.99An academic question
Set in a provincial university, the story is narrated by Caro Grimstone, the wife of Alan, a rising anthropologist. Caro becomes the means by which Alan obtains a manuscript that will advance his reputation and refute the findings of a colleague.
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An Afterlife for Rosemary Lamb
£8.99An Afterlife for Rosemary Lamb
‘This gripping tale of three women who are suspected in the disappearance of a 9-year-old is a powerful read you won’t want to put down.’ – Pedestrian.tv’An incredible debut full of rich characters and a plot that will keep you guessing. Louise Wolhuter is a writer to watch.’ – J.P. Pomare, author of In The Clearing and The Wrong WomanJessie Else disappeared the summer the Lambs came to Magpie Beach. Not that the two events were connected at all, in reality; only in my own head, in my own world. They marked for me the end of a certain quiet time and the start of a more complicated living.Winifred is a small town full of prejudices and assumptions. Meg and Lily are outsiders who live on its margins at Magpie Beach, where they’ve managed to keep out of each other’s – and everyone else’s – way for years. That is, until Rosemary comes along and draws them into an unlikely friendship. When nine-year-old Jessie Else goes missing, the resident
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And then she fell
£9.99And then she fell
On the surface, Alice is where she should be in life: she’s just given birth to a baby girl, Dawn; her husband Steve – a white academic whose area of study is conveniently her own Mohawk culture – is nothing but supportive; and they’ve moved into a new home in a wealthy neighbourhood in Toronto, a generous gift from her in-laws. But Alice could not feel more like an imposter. She isn’t bonding with Dawn, a struggle made more difficult by the recent loss of her own mother. Every waking moment is spent hiding her despair from Steve and their neighbours, amongst whom she’s the sole Indigenous resident. Her perpetual self-doubt hinders the one vestige of her old life she has left: writing a modern retelling of the Haudenosaunee creation story. And then strange things start happening. Alice finds herself hearing voices she can’t explain and speaking with things that should not be talking back to her.
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