Modern & contemporary fiction

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  • Never Let Me Go

    £9.99

    Kathy, Ruth and Tommy were pupils at Hailsham – an idyllic establishment situated deep in the English countryside. The children there were tenderly sheltered from the outside world, brought up to believe they were special, and that their personal welfare was crucial. But for what reason were they really there?

  • Any Human Heart

    £9.99

    This is the story of Logan Mountstuart, told through his journals. His travels take the reader from Uruguay to Oxford, Paris, the Bahamas, New York and Africa. This is the story of a life lived to the full – and a journey deep into a very human heart.

  • Snow Falling On Cedars

    £12.99

    The classic, worldwide bestseller from the author of East of the Mountains. With an introduction by Nicholas Evans

  • American Wife

    £9.99

    On one of the most important days of her husband’s presidency, Alice Blackwell considers the strange and unlikely path that has led them to the White House, and faces contradictions years in the making. Weaving race, class, wealth and fate into a tapestry, this novel lays bare the pleasures and pain of intimacy and love.

  • Remember Me?

    £9.99

    What if you woke up and your life was perfect? This is the dilemma facing Lexi when she recovers after a car accident. What happened to her? Will she remember? What will happen if she does?

  • Love In The Time Of Cholera

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    Florentino Ariza has never forgotten his first love. He has waited nearly a lifetime in silence since his beloved Fermina married another man. Following the death of her husband, Florentino has another chance to declare his eternal passion and win her back. Will love that has survived half a century remain unrequited?

  • Rainbow Fish

    £7.99

    The Rainbow Fish, with his shimmering scales, is the most beautiful fish in the ocean. But he is proud and vain and none of the other fish want to be his friend – until he learns to give away some of his most prized possessions.

  • On Beauty

    £9.99

    When Howard Belsey’s oldest son Jerome falls for Victoria, the stunning daughter of the right-wing Monty Kipps, both families find themselves thrown together, enacting a cultural and personal war against each other.

  • Shantaram

    £12.99

    In 1978 Greg Roberts turned to heroin, feeding his addiction with a string of robberies. Sentenced to prison, he escaped and fled to Bombay. Based on his life in Bombay, this is a tale of slums and mansions, Mafia and movies, and much more.

  • Summer Book

    £9.99

    ‘The Summer Book’ is a fresh, vivid and magical novel about seemingly endless summers of discovery. An elderly artist and her six-year-old granddaughter while away the summer together, on a tiny island in the Gulf of Finland, their solitude disturbed only by migrating birds and sudden storms.

  • Ginger Tree

    £14.99

    The story of an adventurous love affair that took place at the beginning of the 20th century, between an innocent Scottish girl, far away from home, and a Japanese count.

  • Can You Keep A Secret

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    Emma is a nervous flyer and she can’t help but tell the man next to her – quite a dishy American, but she’s too frightened to notice – all her innermost secrets. At least, she thought he was a stranger.