Contemporary fiction titles are those which focus on the present or near past. Stories rooted in the current cultural, social, and political landscape which feature characters we can all recognise.
Contemporary Fiction Books
Atlantic Books The Lives of Women
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£9.49
Canongate Books Ltd. Swallows
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£14.39
Rebellion Publishing Ltd. The Sludge 60th Anniversary
Book SynopsisA strange and terrible living jelly-like substance the product of nuclear weapons testing emerged from the depths of the sea near Canada in 1965. Known by the human world as The Sludge', this unique monster posed a threat to anything that stood in its way. Anything it covered became possessed of a frightening, malignant power aimed against Mankind!
£17.09
Diversified Publishing The Dungeon Anarchists Cookbook
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£21.32
Faber & Faber Helm
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£18.00
Sourcebooks Breathe In Bleed Out
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£15.20
HarperCollins Publishers Paper Heart
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£17.60
Vintage Publishing The Gilda Stories
Book SynopsisJewelle Gomez is a writer, activist and the author of the double Lambda Award-winning novel, The Gilda Stories. Her other publications include The Lipstick Papers, Flamingoes and Bears and Oral Tradition. Formerly the executive director of the Poetry Center and the American Poetry Archives at San Francisco State University, she has also worked in philanthropy for many years. She is the former director of the literature programme at the New York State Council on the Arts, the director of Grants and Community Initiatives for Horizon and the President of the San Francisco Library Commission. She lives in San Francisco.
£9.49
Image Comics Spectators
£24.67
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Golgotha
Book SynopsisTwo men, decades apart, traverse the same land in search of fabled treasure in this haunting conclusion to Lavie Tidhar's epic Maror Trilogy.
£17.00
Bedford Square Publishers Blood Pact
Book SynopsisDetective Superintendent Jack Hawksworth and his team have to untangle a terrorist threat from a possible serial killer in the latest book in the series by million-copy bestseller Fiona McIntosh.
£9.49
Bedford Square Publishers People Watching
£9.49
HarperCollins Publishers Your Heart Belongs to Me
Book SynopsisDean Koontz's compelling and high-concept new thriller is the story of a young man who owes his life to a heart transplant … but confronts an imminent and far worse death because of whose heart it was.Trade ReviewPraise for Dean Koontz: ‘A terrific pursuit story … clever, up-to-the-minute, and riveting’ Guardian ‘There’s surprise after surprise, including a killer finale … a read-in-one-go novel’ Independent on Sunday ‘Velocity hits its pace from the first page and races through to a suitably climactic ending’ Sydney Sunday Telegraph ‘Dean Koontz is not just a master of our darkest dreams, but also a literary juggler’ The Times ‘Psychologically complex, masterly and satisfying’ The New York Times
£12.34
Proud Peacock Publishing LLC Afuera A Young Latinos Journey
£8.54
Muse Ink Press The Lost Traveler
£13.88
HarperCollins Publishers Inc The Dilemmas of Working Women
£16.87
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group The Confessions of Edward Day
Book SynopsisA brilliant new novel set in the bohemian, glamorous theater world of 1970s New York, by the Orange Prize-winning author of Property. • “One of the best novels I’ve ever read about the actor’s psyche.” —The New York Times Book Review It’s the 1970s in New York—rents are cheap, love is free, and with the explosion of theater venues off and off-off Broadway, aspiring actors will work for nothing in no clothes. Enter Edward Day, who wants more than anything to move an unsuspecting audience to an experience of emotional truth. But he must also contend with the drama of his own life: he is locked in a bitter rivalry with fellow actor Guy Margate, with whom he shares a marked physical resemblance and a fatal attraction to the beautiful, talented, and all-too-available Madeleine Delavergne. Edward’s pursuit of Madeleine is complicated by the fact that he owes Guy his life. In this riveting tale of para
£13.56
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group The Biographers Tale
Book SynopsisFrom the Booker Prize-winning author of Possession comes an ingenious novel about love and literary sleuthing: a dazzling fiction woven out of one man’s search for certainty.“Elegant ... witty ... intelligent.” —The Washington PostHere is the story of Phineas G. Nanson, a disenchanted graduate student who decides to escape the world of postmodern literary theory and immerse himself in the messiness of “real life” by writing a biography of a great biographer. In a series of adventures that are by turns intellectual and comic, scientific and sensual, Phineas tracks his subject to the deserts of Africa and the maelstrom of the Arctic. Along the way he comes to rely on two women, one of whom may be the guide he needs out of the dizzying labyrinth of his research and back into his own life. A tantalizing yarn of detection and desire, The Biographer’s Tale is a provocative look at “truth” in biography
£14.40
Random House USA Inc Endling
£22.40
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group Whale Fall
£13.60
Random House USA Inc Not Quite Dead Yet
£21.00
Grove Atlantic Vanishing World
£18.99
St Martin's Press We Met Like This
£12.03
