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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) titles - 119,776 results
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Vengeance
Ian Irvine
Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945); Fantasy
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In Cython s underground slave camps, only the timid and obedient survive but Tali is neither of these. In Cython, having magic... [more]
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The Mountain
Drusilla Modjeska
Fiction & Literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
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In 1968 Papua New Guinea is on the brink of independence, and everything is about to change. Amidst the turmoil filmmaker... [more]
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The Red House
Mark Haddon
Fiction & Literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
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Family, that slippery word, a star to every wandering bark, and everyone sailing under a different sky. After his mother's... [more]
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Thrall: Twilight of the Aspects
Christie Golden
Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945); Science fiction; Fantasy
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When Azeroth was young, the noble titans appointed the five great dragonflights to safeguard the budding world. Each of the... [more]
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Stonemouth
Iain Banks
Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945); Science fiction
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Stewart Gilmour is back in Stonemouth. After five years in exile his presence is required at the funeral of patriarch Joe... [more]
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1Q84: Books 1, 2 and 3
Haruki Murakami
Fiction & Literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
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The year is 1984. Aomame sits in a taxi on the expressway in Tokyo. Her work is not the kind which can be discussed in public... [more]
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All That I am
Anna Funder
Fiction & Literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
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When Hitler came to power I was in the bath. The wireless in the living room was turned up loud, but all that drifted down... [more]
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The New Republic
Lionel Shriver
Fiction & Literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
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'A wondrously fanciful plot, vividly drawn characters, clever and cynical dialogue, anda comically brilliant and verisimilar... [more]
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The Hanging Garden
Patrick White
Fiction & Literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
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Two children are brought to a wild garden on the shores of Sydney Harbour to shelter from the Second World War. The boy's... [more]
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Stephen King
Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945); Horror & ghost stories
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WHAT IF you could go back in time and change the course of history? WHAT IF the watershed moment you could change was the... [more]
The Prague Cemetery
Umberto Eco
Fiction & Literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
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Nineteenth-century Europe, from Turin to Prague to Paris, abounds with the ghastly and the mysterious. Conspiracies rule history.... [more]
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What the Family Needed
Steven Amsterdam
Fiction & Literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
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Okay, tell me which do you want: to be able to fly or to be invisible? And so begins the tale of one particularly gifted... [more]
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Foal's Bread
Gillian Mears
Fiction & Literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
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The sound of horses' hooves turns hollow on the farms west of Wirri. If a man can still ride, if he hasn't totally lost the... [more]
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Cold Light
Frank Moorhouse
Fiction & Literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
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It is 1950, the League of Nations has collapsed and the newly formed United Nations has rejected all those who worked and... [more]
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Poor Man's Wealth
Rod Usher
Fiction & Literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
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Part fable, part love story, part comi-tragedy, Poor Man's Wealth is narrated, somewhat unreliably, by El Gordo - the Fat... [more]
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The Marriage Plot
Jeffrey Eugenides
Fiction & Literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
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There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel. Anthony Trollope It's the early 1980s. In American... [more]
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Daniel Stein, Interpreter
Ludmilla Ulitskaya
Fiction & Literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
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Daniel Stein, Interpreter is already seen by many as the great Russian novel of our time. The novel tells the story of Daniel... [more]
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Smythe's Theory of Everything
Robert Hollingworth
Fiction & Literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945); Humour
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In 2004 the author found a little diary of 386 pages written by a 62-year-old man in a nursing home. This story is inspired... [more]
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The Night Circus
Erin Morgenstern
Fiction & Literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
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In 1886, a mysterious travelling circus becomes an international sensation. Open only at night, constructed entirely in black... [more]
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The Street Sweeper
Elliot Perlman
Fiction & Literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
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How breathtakingly close we are to lives that at first seem so far away. From the civil rights struggle in the United States... [more]
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Shelter
Frances Greenslade
Fiction & Literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
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Maggie's father is 'Mr Safety'. He knows the woods of Duchess Creek in Northern Canada like the back of his hand, and he has... [more]
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War and Peace and Sonya
Judith M. Armstrong
Fiction & Literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
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In 1862, Sonya Tolstoy married the greatest author the world has ever known, Leo Tolstoy. For forty-eight years they shared... [more]
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Reamde
Neal Stephenson
Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945); Science fiction
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A brilliant and compelling thriller cast in the mould of his cult classic Cryptonomicon , Reamde promises to be Neal Stephenson's... [more]
Animal People
Charlotte Wood
Fiction & Literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
Paperback
He could not find one single more word to say. I just want to be free. He could not say those words. They had already withered... [more]
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All That I Am
Anna Funder
Fiction & Literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
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'When Hitler came to power I was in the bath. The wireless in the living room was turned up loud, but all that drifted down... [more]
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