Contemporary fiction

 
Sort by:
Showing 1-10 of 932 results

All That is

By James Salter

Hardback

Published 23-May-2013


RRP: £18.99
Our price: £12.99
You save: £6.00

'Sentence for sentence, Salter is the master' Richard Ford


In stock, usually despatched within 24 hours.

Delicate Truth

By John le Carre

Hardback

Published 25-Apr-2013


RRP: £18.99
Our price: £13.00
You save: £5.99

A counter-terror operation, codenamed Wildlife, is being mounted in Britain's most precious colony. Its purpose: to capture and abduct a high-value jihadist arms-buyer. Its authors: an ambitious Foreign Office Minister, and a private defence contractor who is also his close friend.


In stock, usually despatched within 24 hours.

Grace and Mary

By Melvyn Bragg

Hardback

Published 09-May-2013


RRP: £18.99
Our price: £15.19
You save: £3.80

By 'quite simply one of the best writers we have' (Sunday Telegraph), a profoundly moving story spanning three generations.


In stock, usually despatched within 24 hours.

Bring Up the Bodies

By Hilary Mantel

Paperback

Published 07-May-2013


RRP: £9.99
Our price: £7.99
You save: £2.00

Winner of the Man Booker Prize 2012, the 2012 Costa Book of the Year and shortlisted for the 2013 Women's Prize for Fiction.


In stock, usually despatched within 24 hours.

Between Friends

By Amos Oz

Hardback

Published 02-May-2013


RRP: £12.99
Our price: £9.99
You save: £3.00

Ariella, unhappy in love, confides in the woman whose husband she stole; Nahum, a devoted father, can't find the words to challenge his daughter's promiscuous lover; the old idealists deplore the apathy of the young, while the young are so used to kibbutz life that they can't work out if they're impassioned or indifferent.


In stock, usually despatched within 24 hours.

Flight Behaviour

By Barbara Kingsolver

Paperback

Published 18-Apr-2013


RRP: £7.99
Our price: £6.39
You save: £1.60

On the Appalachian Mountains above her home, a young mother discovers a beautiful and terrible marvel of nature. As the world around her is suddenly transformed by a seeming miracle, can the old certainties they have lived by for centuries remain unchallenged?


In stock, usually despatched within 24 hours.

Poisonwood Bible

By Barbara Kingsolver

Paperback

Published 11-Apr-2013


RRP: £8.99
Our price: £7.19
You save: £1.80

Tells the story of an American family in the Congo during a time of tremendous political and social upheaval. This is the story told by the wife and four daughters of Nathan Price, a fierce evangelical Baptist who takes his family and mission to the Belgian Congo in 1959.


In stock, usually despatched within 24 hours.

Life After Life

By Kate Atkinson

Hardback

Published 14-Mar-2013


RRP: £18.99
Our price: £14.99
You save: £4.00

What if you had the chance to live your life again and again, until you finally got it right? During a snowstorm in England in 1910, a baby is born and dies before she can take her first breath. During a snowstorm in England in 1910, the same baby is born and lives to tell the tale. What if there were second chances? And third chances?


Usually despatched within 7-10 days.

Skios

By Michael Frayn

Paperback

Published 04-Apr-2013


RRP: £7.99
Our price: £6.39
You save: £1.60

The Fred Toppler Foundation's annual lecture is to be given by Dr Norman Wilfred, the world-famous authority on the scientific organisation of science. He turns out to be surprisingly young and charming - not at all the intimidating figure they had been expecting.


In stock, usually despatched within 24 hours.

Outsiders

By Ben Faccini

Paperback

Published 28-Feb-2013


RRP: £12.00
Our price: £9.60
You save: £2.40

Six Italians writing from the margins: these stories are linked by common themes of belonging, dislocation and identity, and together they take the pulse of a country in turmoil.


This item is currently re-printing. You may still order this book and we will despatch it as soon as it becomes available.

1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | Next >

This week's bestsellers

1
12.99
2Intuition Pumps and Other Tools for Thinking
Daniel C Dennett
3A303
Tom Fort
4Clampdown
Rhian Jones
5Sting in the Tale
Dave Goulson
6Making of the English Landscape
W G Hoskins
7Winning without Losing
Martin Bjergegaard
8Blood and Beauty
Sarah Dunant
9Facts are Sacred
Simon Rogers
10All That is
James Salter
Follow us on twitter