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
Deep Vellum Publishing Lookout
Book SynopsisShortlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize, Lookout tells the story of the Kinzlers, a complex working-class family firmly rooted in northwestern Montana.Josiah and Margaret Kinzler have forged an unusual bond marked by both tenderness and distance; their daughters, Cody and Louisa, grow up watching their parents navigate what it means to be true to yourself and what that costs. Lookout offers a gripping dual coming-of-age: Cody''s from stoic ranch kid to hotshot firefighter to resilient woman learning to rely on others, and Josiah''s as he struggles to thrive in a world that has misunderstood him. Bound by their love of the land, the Kinzlers work to bridge the gaps created by what they leave unspoken. Lookout brings to life a family coming out to itself, at hom in a new and nuanced American West.
£12.34
She Writes Press Inc Tiny Vices
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£15.29
Skyhorse Publishing Some Recollections of St. Ives
Book SynopsisFrom the acclaimed playwright and author of Glengarry Glen Ross and American Buffalo comes Some Recollections of St. Ives, a masterful novel that masquerades as a memoir of the fictional Charles Hollis, a man whose life spanned continents, conflicts, and a decades-long career at one of America's most storied institutionsthe St. Ives School. Written in the final years of Hollis's life, Some Recollections of St. Ives offers a candid yet poignant reflection on his forty years at the school. Through the allegorical tales woven into Hollis's recollections, Mamet delivers a sharp, incisive examination of an isolated institution and, by extension, society as a whole. Once again, Mamet proves himself a master of language, balancing history's weight on our culture with profound emotional depth. With wit and keen insight, he explores the complexities of human nature and the undercurrents of an American institution.
£17.00
Arcade Zone 23
Book SynopsisZONE 23 is a darkly comic dystopian satire about being human, all-too-human, featuring two of the most endearing Anti-Social anti-heroes that ever rebelled against the forces of Normality. Set in the post-catastrophic future, in a peaceful, prosperous, corporate-controlled society where all dissent and non-conformity has been pathologized, and the human race is being genetically corrected in order to establish everlasting peace on Earth, Zone 23 is a hilarious, heartbreaking affirmation of the anarchic human spirit, and a defiant departure from the norms of both the genre sci-fi and literary novel. A brilliant (and hilarious) critique of the emptiness of American life and the meaninglessness of the popular culture that attempts to fill the void.Toronto Globe & Mail
£18.70
Skyhorse Publishing So We Look to the Sky
Book SynopsisThis shocking, boisterous novel was a runaway bestseller and award winner in Japan.
£14.39
Amazon Publishing The Last Letter of Rachel Ellsworth
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£16.99
Amazon Publishing Always the Quiet Ones
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£8.54
Amazon Publishing Biggest Player
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£8.54
Amazon Publishing Mrs. Endicotts Splendid Adventure
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£13.37
Amazon Publishing Mrs. Endicotts Splendid Adventure
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£16.99
Amazon Publishing Whats Yours Is Mine
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£8.54
Amazon Publishing The Fourth Daughter
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£8.54
Amazon Publishing The Truth Is in the Detours
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£8.54
Amazon Publishing Who Is the Liar
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£8.54
Amazon Publishing Falling into Place
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£8.54
Amazon Publishing A Beginners Guide to Forever
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£8.54
Melville House Publishing We Live Here Now
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£13.49
MVH Publishing Hotel Scarbados
Book SynopsisContemporary novel based in Yorkshire, a new hotelier moves to Scarborough during Covid 19.
£999.99
Orion Publishing Co The Good Lord Bird
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£9.49
Orion Publishing Co FiveCarat Soul
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£9.49
Orion Publishing Co Song Yet Sung
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£9.49
Dundurn Group Ltd Bad Juliet
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£17.09
Little, Brown Book Group And Notre Dame is Burning
Book SynopsisThis blistering debut novel tells the story of two writers whose marriage starts to fall apart in the wake of a miscarriage and serial infidelity. It's a gripping depiction of what happens when truth becomes fiction and fiction becomes truth.
£16.14
Cornerstone Catalina
Book SynopsisKarla Cornejo Villavicencio is the author of the National Book Award finalist The Undocumented Americans. Her work, which focuses on race, culture, and immigration, has appeared in The New York Times, The New Yorker, Vogue, Elle, n+1, The New Inquiry, Interview, and on NPR. Catalina is her first novel.
£13.49
Random House The Rich People Have Gone Away
Book SynopsisRegina Porter is an award-winning playwright and author of The Travelers, a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel and longlisted for the Orwell Political Fiction Prize. A graduate of the MFA fiction program at the Iowa Writers' Workshop, her writing has been published in the Harvard Review, Tin House and Oxford Review.
£9.49
Cornerstone This Kind of Trouble
Book SynopsisWhere are the fragments of the life you have lived?'2005In Atlanta, Benjamin, a white-passing man of Nigerian heritage, is wondering what his life has been made up of, broken relationships, attempts to forge an identity from others' memories. In Lagos, Margaret, a Nigerian single mother, is trying to decipher and finally destroy the mental malaise that has troubled her for as long as she can remember, by winding her way through a complex family history. Though they are no longer the twenty-somethings they once were when they met, and the 40 years that have passed since they last saw one another might suggest they are strangers, there is a deep and unsettling history that has bound them together since long before they were born. 1905A well-respected chief in Umumilo village, Nigeria, Okolo has always followed tradition. Then three of the young village women including his sister, who follows the white man's God are shrouded in scandal, and Okolo is forced to choose which path to take: that of least resistance, embracing the ways of the white man to save his village and his sister's pride, or the other, preserving the ways that have sustained generations but at what cost?A beautifully crafted multi-generational story of family history and identity, This Kind of Trouble is a powerful debut that asks what makes up a life, and how when it's broken, we might put it together again.
£15.29
Other Press LLC The Artificial Silk Girl
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£15.29
Biblioasis Sacred Rage
Book Synopsis"Steven Heighton had this stunning range of voice in his stories. He would go anywhere. He always surprised you."—Michael OndaatjeFollowing his New Yorker Best of 2023 collection, Instructions for the Drowning, Sacred Rage selects stories spanning the range of the late Steven Heighton’s career as a fiction writer.
£13.29
Headline Publishing Group False Idols
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£17.00
Headline Publishing Group The Love Fix
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£10.44
Austin Macauley Publishers Kingdom of Flight
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£9.79
Austin Macauley Publishers Embracing Radiance
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£9.49
Austin Macauley Publishers Life of a Boxer
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£10.79
Austin Macauley Publishers Parvon Zins Universe
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£7.59
Austin Macauley Publishers Getting Away With It
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£9.49
Austin Macauley Publishers A Thousand Cuts
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£10.79
Austin Macauley Publishers Parvon Zins Universe Darkzone
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£8.54
Austin Macauley Publishers Secrets
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£10.44
Simon & Schuster Ltd Only Big Bumbum Matters Tomorrow
Book SynopsisThe debut novel from the author of the short story collection, Nearly All The Men In Lagos Are Mad, which was a runaway success and bestseller inm Nigeria.
£9.49
Simon & Schuster Ltd One More Shot
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£9.49
Simon & Schuster Ltd I Want Everything
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£13.49
Orion Publishing Co Marry Me in Italy
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£9.49
Orion Publishing Co It Started With Paris
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£9.49
Orion Publishing Co Influenced
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£17.09
Orion Publishing Co Seduction Theory
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£17.09
Hodder & Stoughton Things We Never Got Over
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£17.00
John Murray Press Beasts of No Nation
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£10.44
Alfred A. Knopf The Unbroken Coast
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£24.00
