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
Penguin Random House Group The Only Black Girl in the Room
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£24.64
Crooked Lane Books Its a Privilege Just to Be Here
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£23.99
Counterpoint Colorful: A Novel
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£14.39
Counterpoint None But The Righteous: A Novel
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£18.74
Counterpoint The Lights Of Earth
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£12.79
Counterpoint Seven Stories: Stories
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£9.49
Counterpoint The Perishing: A Novel
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£11.99
Counterpoint A Conference Of Victims: A Novella
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£12.79
Counterpoint The Future Was Color
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£20.39
Penguin Random House Group Olive Days
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£22.09
Soho Press The Night Swimmers
Book SynopsisA bold, lyrical work of autobiographical fiction in the vein of Ben Lerner and other Sebaldian reinventors of the genre.
£12.59
Soho Press Dark Constellations
Book SynopsisA visionary new novel races from the world of 19th-century science to an ultra-surveilled near future, exploring humanity s quest for knowledge and control.
£13.49
Soho Press Sensation Machines
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£13.49
Penguin Random House Group I Wished
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£17.84
Soho Press The Usual Santas: A Collection of Soho Crime
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£8.54
Soho Press Tante Eva
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£12.59
Soho Press The Light At The End Of The World
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£21.24
Soho Press Ash Dark as Night
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£22.94
Penguin Random House Group Exposure
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£24.64
Soho Press Alcestis
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£15.29
Penguin Random House Group The Light at the End of the World
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£16.19
World Editions On The Isle Of Antioch
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£14.39
World Editions Where The Wind Calls Home
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£16.19
World Editions Dendrites
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£15.29
Algonquin Books Everywhere You Don't Belong
Book Synopsis “A comically dark coming-of-age story” (Tommy Orange, The New York Times Book Review) about a young black man growing up on Chicago’s South Side, this visceral, vivid, and urgent novel follows him on his journey towards acceptance, safety, and success. In this alternately witty and heartbreaking debut novel, Gabriel Bump gives us an unforgettable protagonist, Claude McKay Love. Claude isn’t dangerous or brilliant—he’s an average kid coping with abandonment, violence, riots, failed love, and societal pressures as he steers his way past the signposts of youth: childhood friendships, basketball tryouts, first love, first heartbreak, picking a college, moving away from home. Claude just wants a place where he can fit. As a young black man born on the South Side of Chicago, he is raised by his civil rights–era grandmother, who tries to shape him into a principled actor for change; yet when riots consume his neighborhood, he hesitates to take sides, unwilling to let race define his life. He decides to escape Chicago for another place, to go to college, to find a new identity, to leave the pressure cooker of his hometown behind. But as he discovers, he cannot; there is no safe haven for a young black man in this time and place called America. Percolating with fierceness and originality, attuned to the ironies inherent in our twenty-first-century landscape, Everywhere You Don’t Belong marks the arrival of a brilliant young talent.A New York Times Book Review Notable Book of 2020 Winner of the Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence
£13.29
Workman Publishing Moonrise Over New Jessup
Book SynopsisIt's 1957, and after leaving the only home she has ever known, Alice Young steps off the bus into the all-Black town of New Jessup, Alabama, where residents have largely rejected integration as the means for Black social advancement. Instead, they seek to maintain, and fortify, the community they cherish on their "side of the woods." In this place, Alice falls in love with Raymond Campbell, whose clandestine organizing activities challenge New Jessup's longstanding status quo and could lead to the young couple's expulsion-or worse-from the home they both hold dear. But as Raymond continues to push alternatives for enhancing New Jessup's political power, Alice must find a way to balance her undying support for his underground work with her desire to protect New Jessup from the rising pressure of upheaval from inside, and outside, their side of town.Jamila Minnicks's debut novel is both a celebration of Black joy and a timely examination of the opposing viewpoints that attended desegregation in America. Readers of Brit Bennett's The Vanishing Half and Robert Jones, Jr.'s The Prophets will love Moonrise Over New Jessup."With compelling characters and a heart-pounding plot, Jamila Minnicks pulled me into pages of history I'd never turned before." -Barbara Kingsolver "An immersive and timely recasting of history by a gloriously talented writer to watch. You will fall in love with New Jessup: the town and the book." -Margaret Wilkerson Sexton, author of The Revisioners
£14.24
Workman Publishing Endpapers
Book SynopsisIt's 2003, and artist Dawn Levit is stuck. A bookbinder who works at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, she spends all day repairing old books but hasn't created anything of her own in years-and with nothing ready to show at her major gallery debut in six weeks, time is of the essence. What's more, although she doesn't have a word for it yet, Dawn is genderqueer and she's struggling to feel safe expressing herself.One day at work, Dawn discovers something hidden under the endpapers of an old book: the torn-off corner of a 1950s lesbian pulp novel, with an illustration of a woman looking into a mirror and seeing a man's face. Even more intriguing is the queer love letter written on the back. Dawn becomes obsessed with tracking down the author of the letter, convinced the mysterious writer can help her find a place in the world and also solve the trickiest puzzle of all: how she truly wants to live her life.A sharply written, evocative debut, Endpapers is both a page-turning bookish mystery and an unforgettable story about the journey toward authenticity and the hard conversations we owe ourselves in pursuit of a world where no one has to hide.
£13.49
Crooked Lane Books Sweetheart Lake: A Novel
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£13.59
Crooked Lane Books The Damage Done: A Novel
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£20.24
Seven Stories Press,U.S. Can You See The Wind?
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£11.04
Seven Stories Press,U.S. The Man With The Golden Arm
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£14.39
Seven Stories Press Ghost Years
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£12.59
Seven Stories Press,U.S. Out of the Rain
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£13.49
Seven Stories Press A Kid From Marlboro Road
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£18.00
Kensington Publishing Carl Weber's Kingpins: Harlem
Book SynopsisKleigh never wanted Tron to fall in love with her. How can she tell him that the kingpin he's after is her big brother?
£7.59
Kensington Publishing Carl Weber's Kingpins: Detroit
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£8.54
Kensington Publishing The Family Business 6
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£19.49
Kensington Publishing Wrath
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£8.54
Kensington Publishing Carl Weber's Kingpins: Memphis
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£8.54
Kensington Publishing A Father's Sacrifice: Daddy's Girl
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£12.79
Kensington Publishing Imitation Of Wife
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£8.54
Kensington Publishing Bronx, The: Part 3
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£14.39
Kensington Publishing My Hustler, My Enemy: Rise of a Street Queen
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£12.79
Kensington Publishing Platinum Persuasion
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£8.54
Kensington Publishing I Didn't Think You Existed
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£8.54
Kensington Publishing Whipped
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£8.09
Kensington Publishing Benita Renee Jenkins 2: Boxing Rings and Cages
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£8.09
Kensington Publishing I Didn't Think You Existed 2: A Fool in Love
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£12.79
