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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) titles - 146,906 results
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The Shocks of Adversity
William Leisner
Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945); Science fiction; Space opera
Paperback
An original novel set in the universe of Star Trek: The Original Series! [more]
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Fallen Land
Patrick Flanery
Fiction & Literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
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'Patrick Flanery is an exceptionally gifted novelist, and he is just getting started' --Philip Gourevitch, New Yorker [more]
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Under the Radar: A Novel
James Hamilton-Paterson
Fiction & Literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
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A squadron of Vulcan aircraft, Britain's most lethal nuclear bomber, flies towards the east coast of the United States. This... [more]
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Three Hours Late
Nicole Trope
Fiction & Literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
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Once, so very long ago, she had watched him like this when he came to pick her up from a date...Her stomach fluttered and... [more]
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The Taliban Cricket Club
Timeri N. Murari
Fiction & Literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
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When an infamous Taliban government Minister decrees that a cricket team is to be formed, the ludicrous idea finds a champion... [more]
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The Patron Saint of Lost Dogs
Nick Trout
Fiction & Literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
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A sweet, charming and heartwarming novel about a man who inherits his father's failing veterinary practice and the unlikely... [more]
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Heart Like Mine
Amy Hatvany
Fiction & Literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
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When a young mother dies under mysterious circumstances, those she leaves behind begin looking for answers in the past and... [more]
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The Things We Never Said
Susan Elliot-Wright
Fiction & Literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
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A powerful debut novel perfect for fans of Maggie O'Farrell. [more]
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Undead and Unstable
MaryJanice Davidson
Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945); Horror & ghost stories; Fantasy; Romance; Religious & spiritual fiction
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More information to be announced soon on this forthcoming title from Penguin USA. [more]
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Ride the Star Winds: John Grimes Saga #4
A. Bertram Chandler
Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945); Science fiction; Space opera
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Features pipe-smoking, action-loving spaceship commander Lieutenant John Grimes who moves out of the federation navy and finds... [more]
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War Maid's Choice
David Weber
Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945); Fantasy
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In Wind Rider's Oath, Bahzell became a wind rider - the first hradani wind rider in history. And, even if Bahzell is the War... [more]
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Midnight in St Petersburg
Vanora Bennett
Fiction & Literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
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St Petersburg, 1911: Inna Feldman has fled the pogroms of her native Kiev to take refuge with distant relatives in Russia's... [more]
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The Flight: Jenny Cooper #4
M. R. Hall
Fiction & Literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945); Crime & mystery; Political & legal thriller
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Coroner Jenny Cooper returns in her most explosive journey yet ... [more]
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Toby's Room
Pat Barker
Fiction & Literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
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When Toby is reported 'Missing, Believed Killed', another secret casts a lengthening shadow over Ellen's world: how exactly... [more]
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Letters to the End of Love
Yvette Walker
Fiction & Literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
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Three stories, three secrets, three marriages. In a coastal village in Cork in 1969, a Russian painter and his Irish novelist... [more]
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The Prisoner of Heaven
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Fiction & Literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945); Historical fiction
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The third in a series of novels that began with The Angel's Game and The Shadow of the Wind. The Prisoner of Heaven returns... [more]
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Steeplechase
Krissy Kneen
Fiction & Literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945); Thriller & suspense; Erotic fiction
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I force myself to take the phone away from my ear and search for the last incoming call. I store the number under one word,... [more]
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All That is
James Salter
Fiction & Literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
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'Sentence for sentence, Salter is the master' Richard Ford [more]
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Breakfast at Tiffany's
Truman Capote
Fiction & Literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
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It's New York in the 1940s, where the martinis flow from cocktail-hour to breakfast at Tiffany's. And nice girls don't, except,... [more]
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The Soldier's Wife
Joanna Trollope
Fiction & Literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
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The soldiers are coming home - after six months in Afghanistan. Surely being reunited with their wives and girlfriends and... [more]
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Mr Chen's Emporium
Deborah O'Brien
Fiction & Literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
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In 1872, seventeen-year-old Amy Duncan arrives in the Gold Rush town of Millbrooke, having spent the coach journey day-dreaming... [more]
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The Hanging Garden
Patrick White
Fiction & Literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945); Second World War fiction
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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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The Orphan Master's Son
Adam Johnson
Fiction & Literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
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At a tender age, Pak Jun Do, is plucked from his orphanage of Long Tomorrows to be trained as a tunnel assassin, kidnapper... [more]
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The Golden Egg: Guido Brunetti #22
Donna Leon
Fiction & Literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945); Crime & mystery
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The middle-aged deaf mute with the mental age of a child who helped out at the Guido Brunetti's dry cleaners has been found... [more]
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Jellybird
Lezanne Clannachan
Fiction & Literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
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'Everyone has secrets, even those closest to you. But it's facing your own that takes the greatest courage.' This is what... [more]
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