Contemporary fiction
House on the Cliff
By Charlotte Williams
Hardback
Published 28-Feb-2013
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One woman's quest to discover the dark secret at the heart of a family
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Golden Mean
By Annabel Lyon
Paperback
Published 01-Aug-2011
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Now in paperback, this gripping historical novel plunges into the anicent world of Aristotle and his pupil, later the virtual psychopath and world conqueror, Alexander the Great.
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Sharp Objects
By Gillian Flynn
Paperback
Published 17-Sep-2007
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Some scars never heal... An addictive and haunting thriller from award-winning author Gillian Flynn.
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Austerlitz
By W G Sebald
Paperback
Published 03-Nov-2011
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In 1939, five-year-old Jacques Austerlitz is sent to England on a Kindertransport and placed with foster parents. This childless couple erase from the boy all knowledge of his identity and he grows up ignorant of his past.
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Mr Chartwell
By Rebecca Hunt
Paperback
Published 05-May-2011
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July, 1964. At home in Kent Winston Churchill wakes to a visitor: someone he hasn't seen for a while, a dark, mute bulk, watching him. It's Mr Chartwell. In Battersea, Esther Hammerhans, young, vulnerable and alone, answers the door to her new lodger. Through the glass she sees a vast silhouette. It's Mr Chartwell.
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London Belongs to Me
By Norman Collins
Paperback
Published 26-Feb-2009
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It is 1938 and the prospect of war hangs over every London inhabitant. But the city doesn't stop. Everywhere people continue to work, drink, fall in love, and struggle to get on in life. At the lodging-house at Number 10 Dulcimer Street, Kennington, the buttoned-up clerk Mr Josser returns home with the clock he has received as a retirement gift.
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Monster Calls
By Patrick Ness
Paperback
Published 06-Sep-2012
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An extraordinary novel of love, loss and hope.
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Absolution
By Patrick Flanery
Paperback
Published 01-Mar-2013
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Patrick Flanery is an exceptionally gifted novelist, and he is just getting started' Philip Gourevitch, New Yorker Following the critical acclaim for this muscular debut novel, Flanery has confirmed himself, quite simply, as a literary star.
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Dark Lies the Island
By Kevin Barry
Paperback
Published 04-Apr-2013
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Offers a collection of unpredictable stories about love and cruelty, crimes, desperation, and hope from the man Irvine Welsh has described as 'the most arresting and original writer to emerge from these islands in years'.
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Harmony Silk Factory
By Tash Aw
Paperback
Published 16-Jan-2006
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A landmark work of fiction from one of Britain's most exciting new writers: 'The Harmony Silk Factory' is a devastating love story set against the turmoil of mid-twentieth-century Malaysia.
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