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
Vintage Publishing Cutting For Stone
Book SynopsisBorn and brought up of Indian parents in Ethiopia, Abraham Verghese qualified as a doctor in Madras and is currently professor of medicine at Stanford University, California. He is the author of My Own Country, an NBCC finalist made into a film directed by Mira Nair, and The Tennis Partner, a New York Times Notable Book. His essays and stories have appeared in the New York Times, The New Yorker, Esquire, Granta, New York Times Magazine, and The Wall Street Journal. He lives in Palo Alto, California.Trade ReviewThis huge, rich, ambitious tapestry of a novel makes insomnia a pleasure...tremendous * The Times *There is a gravity and beauty in his writing that sets it apart from much contemporary fiction * Daily Telegraph *Tremendous, compassionate, exuberant * Independent *The reader feels there really is something at stake - birth, love, death, war, loyalty * Guardian *Tremendousm compassionate, exuberant -- Michael Bywater * Independent *
£10.44
Faber & Faber The Gentleman From Peru
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HarperCollins Publishers The Future
Book SynopsisGripping' MARGARET ATWOOD''A fabulous, witty writer on the digital world' SUNDAY TIMES''A little Atwood, a little Gibson, all Alderman, it's brilliant and I loved it'' LAUREN BEUKESThe latest novel from the Women's Prize-winning author of The Power, The Future is a white-knuckle tour de force and dazzling exploration of the world we have made and where we are going.Lai Zhen is about to die. As an Internet-famous survivalist, she's spent her life prepping for the end of the world. But now, desperate and cornered in a mall in Singapore, she's mad she might go out not knowing what the hell is going on. If she makes it out alive, what kind of a future will be waiting for her?Across the world, Martha Einkorn works the room at a gathering of mega-rich companies hell-bent securing a future just for them. Covert weapons, private weather, technological prophecy, when Martha fled her father's compound she may have left the cult behind, but if the apocalyptic warnings of his fox and rabbit sermon are starting to come true, how much future is actually left?Martha and Zhen's worlds are about to collide. While a few billionaires assured of their own safety lead the world to destruction, Martha's relentless drive and Zhen's insatiable curiosity could lead to something beautiful or the cataclysmic end of civilization.A rollicking, fun-packed thriller' ALASTAIR REYNOLDSNaomi Alderman''s novel The Power won the Women''s Prize for Fiction in 2017.
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HarperCollins Publishers Roar
Book SynopsisCecelia Ahern at her quirky, magical best' Daily MailNow an Apple Original series from Apple TV+A story for every woman.A story for every moment.Whether you want to laughTo be movedTo loveTo feel less guiltTo cryTo be comfortedTo ROARThere is a story for you.From Sunday Times bestselling author Cecelia Ahern comes a collection of witty, original and moving stories for women everywhere.Funny, wise and weighty, in a very good wayread one or two of Ahern's fables at a time [to] truly appreciate their wit, pathos and imagination.' IndependentWitty, playful, entertaining but also thought-provoking, salutary and empowering' Daily MailA Radio 2 Bookclub Choice.Trade Review‘A wonderful, inspiring collection…the kind of book everyone should have on their shelf’ Libby Page, bestselling author of The Lido ‘These provocative and witty stories prove it’s time to recognise Cecelia Ahern as one of our finest writers’ John Boyne, bestselling author of The Heart’s Invisible Furies ‘These stories sing from the page … sharp, clever, witty: a joy to read’ Donal Ryan, bestselling author of The Spinning Heart ‘An impressive, timely and entertaining collection’ Observer ‘Confidential, sympathetic and witty’ The Times ‘Funny, magical, her most powerful, most feminist work yet’ Irish Sunday Independent ‘Smart and provocative…told with wit and verve.’ Mirror ‘Intriguing, substantial and impactful…The quiet call to arms that women never knew they needed’ Irish Independent ‘Witty, smart, perpetually readable, this is the perfect collection’ Heat ‘Inventive and ingenious, with a doffing of the cap to Angela Carter and Margaret Atwood’ Stylist ‘Witty and relatable’ Woman and Home ‘Stories worth waiting for’ Image ‘Rich, challenging and comic’ Daily Express ‘Thought-provoking, clever and humorous… startlingly original and very enjoyable’ Women’s Weekly
£9.35
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Madame Sosostris the Festival for the
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St Martin's Press Automatic Noodle
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Orion Publishing Co Shadows in the Moonlight
Book SynopsisShadows in the Moonlight is the first book in the sensational new series from Number One bestselling author Santa Montefiore.
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Penguin Books Ltd (UK) A Midnight Pastry Shop Called Hwawoldang
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Simon & Schuster Ltd Just a Taste
Book SynopsisA delightfully delicious Christmas romance, featuring a personal chef who is snowed in with her least favourite client a sexy but miserable technopreneur. The only thing personal chef Noelle Jones loves more than Christmas, is cooking. She has a roster of extremely wealthy clients including the elusive and stoic Alexander Hoxton. When he asks her to cook a last minute business meal he's having, offering triple her pay for the short notice, Noelle jumps at the chance. It's easy money, one of her favourite meals to cook, and will still leave her plenty of time to get to her family's annual Christmas reunion. Just a Taste is contemporary romance at its finest with the perfect blend of ingredients: sexy, angsty, endearing, feel-good and funny.
£10.80
Simon & Schuster Ltd Hollywood Divorces
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Orion Publishing Co Angélique
Book SynopsisAn irresistible and unputdownable thriller set in Paris by the No. 1 internationally-bestselling author
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Hodder & Stoughton My Sisters Keeper
Book SynopsisTHE MILLION-COPY BESTSELLER AND MAJOR MOTION PICTURE''Emotionally riveting and will test your tear ducts to the limit'' Daily ExpressIn all thirteen years of Anna''s life, her parents have never given her a choice: she was born to be her sister Kate''s bone marrow donor and she has always given Kate everything she needs.But when Anna is told Kate needs a new kidney, she begins to question how much she should be prepared to do to save the older sibling she has always been defined by. So Anna makes a decision that will change their family forever - perhaps even fatally for the sister she loves. From internationally bestselling author Jodi Picoult comes a masterpiece which asks us just how much we should do to care for the ones we love. THE BOOK OF TWO WAYS, Jodi''s stunning new novel about life, death and missed opportunities is available to pre-order now.
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Orion Publishing Co Untitled Fiction
Book Synopsis''Literary, thrilling, hugely funny, with a massive heart'' SARA PASCOE''So wild and gripping'' DAVID NICHOLLS''I tore through it'' NUSSAIBAH YOUNIS''A ferocious coming-of-age story'' EMMA JANE UNSWORTH''A truly beautiful story about longing and London'' DAISY BUCHANANGail is in trouble at school. Saint Saviours, the exclusive private girls school that she attends on a scholarship, cannot contain her. Impulsive, bored and looking for someone to adore, she is at that dangerous age when you want to be picked up by men and then driven home by your mother.Ezra is rich, powerful and at the top of his game. His comfortable middle age is tainted only by the knowledge that, in his heady youth, he''d loved new wave music and had people killed - and by his crushing anxieties about his teenage daughter, Agata.When Agata starts at Saint Saviour''s, Gail and Ezra''s paths cross, and with an unstoppable momentum, their lives intertwine in ways more dangerous than either could ever predict.
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Cornerstone Real Americans
Book Synopsis** THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER **''Insightful and heartfelt'' GLAMOUR''Easy to inhale'' GUARDIAN''Mesmerizing'' BRIT BENNETT, author of THE VANISHING HALF***HOW FAR WILL WE GO TO BELONG? On the precipice of Y2K, unpaid intern Lily Chen is attempting to live the American dream in New York City. But her scientist parents imagined so much more for her when they fled Mao''s cultural revolution, hoping for a better life. Despite the glamour of her media job, Lily can barely make rent - until she falls into the arms of Matthew. This young financier can give her a fairy tale life of luxury, and for the first time her dreams appear within reach.High school student Nick Chen and his best friend Timothy are plotting to break free. College promises escape from an isolated and close-knit island in Washington State, space from his strict and secretive mum Lily, and the chance to finally fit in. But when Nick sets out to find his long-lost father, a world of questions opens, and it is one unexpected member of the Chen family who holds the key to it all.Real Americans is a family epic about identity, sacrifice, choices and fate. It is a wildly imaginative and profound story of betrayal and forgiveness that asks us how far we should go for those we love.***''Traverses time with verve and feeling'' RAVEN LEILANI, author of LUSTER''An eye-opener, imaginative and exhilarating'' HA JIN, author of WAITING''Gorgeous, heartfelt, soaring, philosophical and deft'' ANDREW SEAN GREER, author of LESS
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Pushkin Press Elegy Southwest
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Canongate Books Our Numbered Bones
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Penguin Books Ltd The Truth About Ruby Cooper
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McCabe Media SPRING AT FLORAS HOUSE
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Marshall Cavendish International (Asia) Pte Ltd Dearest Intimate
Book SynopsisThe famous cross-dressing Cantonese opera singer, Chan Kam Foong, passes away, leaving her secret journal to her granddaughter, Xiu Yin, an archival officer at the Singapore National Archives. Xiu Yin reads through the journal that chronicles her grandmother’s relationship with Dearest Intimate in their village in China to their respective escapes to the Nanyang before WWII and her desperate search for Dearest Intimate in Singapore. Her grandmother’s reflections and letters to Dearest Intimate forces Xiu Yin to examine her marriage to an abusive husband and she plucks up the courage to leave him. A surprise encounter with her first love, a rising Cantonese opera singer, brings a period of calm and joy. But when Meng proposes marriage, Xiu Yin backs off and he leaves for Hong Kong. It takes three years of loneliness and letter writing before they reunite again.Trade Review"Singaporean novelist Lim paints an evocative, atmospheric portrait of old Singapore. . . . A fine, deeply felt saga of lives caught up in progress that's as heartbreaking as it is hopeful." --Kirkus Reviews on The River's Song
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Headline Publishing Group Stardust
Book SynopsisA fairy tale for everyone from 'one of the best fabulists of our age' (Financial Times).Trade ReviewIt's virtually impossible to read more than ten words by Neil Gaiman and not wish he would tell you the rest of the story * Observer *To give him his full title: Neil Gaiman, Architect of Worlds, Svengali of Plot, Shaman of Character, Exploder of Cliche, Master Craftsman of Style, Dreamer, Laureate of the Republic of Letters -- David MitchellGaiman is, simply put, a treasure-house of story -- Stephen KingWhile we might come to his writing for gods and monsters, actually all human life * Independent *A god in the universe of story -- Stephen FryMuch too clever to be caught in the net of a single interpretation -- Philip PullmanIntimate, erudite and illuminating -- Guillermo del ToroA very fine and imaginative writer * The Times *'Gaiman has a rich imagination...and an ability to tackle large themes' * Philip Pullman *
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HarperCollins Publishers The Hobbit
Book Synopsis For the first time ever, a special enhanced edition of the enchanting prelude to The Lord of the Rings, illustrated throughout with over 50 sketches, drawings, paintings and maps by J. R. R. Tolkien himself and with the complete text printed in two colours. Trade Review‘One of the most influential books of our generation’The Times ‘Finely written saga of dwarves and elves, fearsome goblins and trolls … an exciting epic of travel, magical adventure, working up to a devastating climax’The Observer ‘The English-speaking world is divided into those who have read The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings and those who are going to read them’Sunday Times ‘One of the best loved characters in English fiction … a marvellous fantasy adventure’Daily Mail ‘A flawless masterpiece’The Times
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HarperCollins Publishers Faithbreaker
Book SynopsisTHE EPIC FINALE TO THE INSTANT NO. 1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING FALLEN GODS TRILOGYIn the epic finale to the #1 internationally bestselling Fallen Gods trilogy that started with Godkiller, the fate of Middren hangs in the balance as mighty gods and mortal heroes clash in a final battle for supremacy.War has come. The fire god Hseth is leading an unstoppable army south, consuming everything in her path. Middren's only hope of survival is to unify allies and old foes against a common enemy.Elo navigates an uneasy alliance with Arren; his friend, his enemy, and his king. Now they each must decide how much they''re willing to sacrifice to turn the tides of war.Meanwhile, Inara joins her mother on their ship, the Silverswift, to seek aid. Still grappling with her powers, Inara must reconcile who she is and where she belongs, while Skediceth has to question if their bond will be enough to keep them safe.Kissen has no allegiance to the old ways of Middren. But, as she tries to find her family,
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Pan Macmillan Salt Slow: From the author of OUR WIVES UNDER THE
Book Synopsis'Wickedly clever prose and a sense of humour that seems to loom up like a character in itself' – M John Harrison, GuardianIn her brilliantly inventive and haunting debut collection of stories, Julia Armfield explores the body, mapping the skin and bones of her characters through their experiences of isolation, obsession, love and revenge.Teenagers develop ungodly appetites, a city becomes insomniac overnight, and bodies are diligently picked apart to make up better ones. The mundane worlds of schools and sleepy sea-side towns are invaded and transformed, creating a landscape which is constantly shifting to hold on to its inhabitants. Blurring the mythic and the gothic with the everyday, Salt Slow considers characters in motion – turning away, turning back or simply turning into something new entirely.Winner of The White Review Short Story Prize 2018, Armfield is a writer of sharp, lyrical prose and tilting dark humour – Salt Slow marks the arrival of an ambitious and singular new voice.'Salt Slow is exemplary. A distinct new gothic, melancholy, powerful and poised.' – China Miéville, author of The City & The City'Armfield is an enormous, gut-wrenching talent.' – Daisy Johnson, author of Everything UnderTrade ReviewSalt Slow is exemplary. A distinct new gothic, melancholy, powerful and poised. -- China Miéville, author of The City & The CityUnafraid to venture beyond realism’s limits, Julia Armfield refashions our contemporary existence as an eerie, care-worn dreamworld, taking our quotidian anxieties and desires and handing them back to us empathetically remade . . . Armfield is a significant, exciting talent. -- Sam Byers, author of Perfidious Albion and judge of The White Review Short Story Prize 2018This debut collection is both wild and wonderful, packed with mythical transformations that take place in the most ordinary of contemporary settings . . . vivid . . . visceral . . . marvellous. * Daily Mail *Reading this collection is the only thing you need to do right now. Reading this collection is the only thing you ever need to do. Armfield is an enormous, gut-wrenching talent. -- Daisy Johnson, Man Booker Prize shortlisted author of Everything UnderTruly dazzling . . . Horror for the Instagram generation. There is a melancholy sense in reading such a wonderful collection of short stories and finding them so subtle, intelligent and imaginative. When I put the book down I wondered: will her first novel be as good? -- Stuart Kelly * The Scotsman *These exquisitely written stories are like the quietly surreal lovechild of Anne Michaels and Julio Cortazar. Both moving and poetic, salt slow introduces Julia Armfield as a writer to watch and greatly admire. -- Sharlene Teo, author of PontiThe stories in this collection look at women’s bodies and their experiences in society with an eerie, otherworldly lense . . . For fans of Carmen Maria Machado, Sophie Mackintosh and Megan Hunter * Elle *Remember the name Julia Armfield as this will be the year that salt slow bubbles under then pops up everywhere on best-of lists and literary prizes . . . Visceral, perturbing and exhilarating. * Stylist *Writers should take risks and Julia Armfield does this fearlessly with stories that unnerve and delight in equal measure. There are echoes of Leonora Carrington and Carmen Maria Machado, but Armfield's distinct voice is her own: singular, visceral and eerie. A hugely impressive first collection. -- Sinéad Gleeson, author of ConstellationsVisceral, fierce and beautifully unsettling, Armfield's writing has an astonishing power. This collection haunted me with its brilliance. -- Elizabeth Macneal, author of The Doll FactoryHer work has a timelessness to it, and a generosity of emotion that’s brave and affecting. -- Chloe Aridjis, author of Book of Clouds and judge of The White Review Short Story Prize 2018These are brilliantly addictive, barbed, illusive stories. Armfield creates a cleverly unsettling, iridescent world that we are all the better for entering. -- Irenosen Okojie, author of Speak GigantularIn the tradition of Kelly Link and Aimee Bender, Julia Armfield's salt slow places a surrealist lens on women's bodies, interactions and relationships to expose their mythic, metamorphic potential. Subversive in viewpoint, these stories achieve a simplicity and crispness of tone, setting and story that gives them the timeless, evocative quality of fables. -- Caoilinn Hughes, author of Orchid and the Wasp'Armfield’s debut introduces a significant new voice in contemporary writing; original and challenging . . . each story seems as strange and troubling as a dream; illogical and inevitable, and all the more powerful for that.' * The Herald *These short stories portray tender cruelties and macabre metamorphoses in wickedly clever prose . . . and a sense of humour that seems to loom up like a character in itself, having been lying in wait in a corner all along. -- M John Harrison * Guardian *Thrilling . . . A writer whose next move you wouldn’t want to miss. * Observer *Filled with magic, insight, and a rare level of creativity that mark Armfield as a fresh new voice . . . Artistic and perceptive, Armfield's debut explores the ebbs and flows of human connection in lives touched by the bizarre. * Kirkus *
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Peninsula Press Ltd Weird Fucks
Book SynopsisA young woman drifts through a series of one night stands and truncated love affairs. Finding herself in a series of increasingly bizarre situations, she turns her curious and savage eye out on the foibles of the world around her. The men of this world evade and simper, they prey, and preen, and fall hopelessly in love. Through these snapshots we get a biting psychopathology, not just of masculinity in its various masks, but of sex and desire in the early 1970s.
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Random House You Dreamed of Empires
Book SynopsisÁlvaro Enrigue was born in Mexico and lives in New York City. He is a literature professor at Hofstra University. Sudden Death - his first novel to be translated into English - was awarded the prestigious Herralde Prize in Spain, the Elena Poniatowska International Novel Award in Mexico, and the Barcelona Prize for Fiction.
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Orion Publishing Co Eyes Guts Throat Bones
Book Synopsis''GAVE ME SERIOUS WRITER ENVY'' KIRSTY LOGAN''ONE OF MY FAVOURITE STORYTELLERS'' KIRAN MILLWOOD HARGRAVE''AN INCREDIBLE AND UNIQUE IMAGINATION'' IRISH TIMES''I WAS DELICIOUSLY HORRIFIED'' JENN ASHWORTHThe belly groan of a face unpeeled. A break-up poem recited knee-deep in bog water. An ancient burial mound rising and falling like a chest. The ghost of Stephen Gately reading the ingredients on a ham and cheese sandwich.Startling, sinister and irresistible, Moïra Fowley''s award-winning debut collection about queer, female bodies at the end of the world unravels all of our darkest impulses and deepest fears.
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Faber & Faber Nightwood
Book SynopsisLose yourself in the tortured love lives of expats in 1920s Paris in this iconic cult classic.''Nightwood is itself. It is its own created world, exotic and strange, and reading it is like drinking wine with a pearl dissolving in the glass ... From now on, a part of you is pearl-lined.'' Jeanette Winterson''Like a dark lesbian genius rolling in a giant heap of damp, dead leaves. What a great, shaking, grieving party this book is the best.'' Eileen Myles''I read with the aching intensity of a person possessed ... The story of passion and grief, of exile and loneliness, spoke directly to me, a young woman who [never] felt she quite belonged ... A hymn to the dispossessed, the misbegotten and those who love too much.'' Siri HustvedtNightwood tells the stories of the love-lives of a group of American expats and Europeans in Paris in the 1920s - an exotic, night-time underworld, eccentric, see
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Little, Brown Book Group MaddAddam
Book SynopsisBy the author of The Handmaid's Tale and Alias GraceToby, a survivor of the man-made plague that has swept the earth, is telling stories.Stories left over from the old world, and stories that will determine a new one. Listening hard is young Blackbeard, one of the innocent Crakers, the species designed to replace humanity. Their reluctant prophet, Jimmy-the-Snowman, is in a coma, so they've chosen a new hero - Zeb, the street-smart man Toby loves. As clever Pigoons attack their fragile garden and malevolent Painballers scheme, the small band of survivors will need more than stories.Trade ReviewA fierce, learned intelligence . . . MaddAddam is a wild ride * Guardian *A fierce, learned intelligence . . . MaddAddam is a wild ride * Guardian *Mordant satire, deadpan wit and verbal brio sizzle through this concluding book in Atwood's global disaster trilogy * Sunday Times *Mordant satire, deadpan wit and verbal brio sizzle through this concluding book in Atwood's global disaster trilogy * Sunday Times *[Atwood's] vivid wit and essential humanity make MaddAddam an invigorating read. A fitting conclusion to a genre-defying series * Mail on Sunday *[Atwood's] vivid wit and essential humanity make MaddAddam an invigorating read. A fitting conclusion to a genre-defying series * Mail on Sunday *Moving, but also very funny . . . MaddAddam is an extraordinary achievement * Independent on Sunday *A fierce, learned intelligence . . . MaddAddam is a wild ride . . . great fun * Guardian *Atwood has brought the previous two books together in a fitting and joyous conclusion . . . Atwood's prose miraculously balances humor, outrage and beauty . . . This finale to Atwood's ingenious trilogy lights a fire from the fears of our age, then douses it with hope for the planet's survival * New York Times *There are few writers able to create a world so fiercely engaging, so funny, so teeming - ironically - with life. MaddAddam is ultimately a paean to the enduring powers of myth and story, and like the sharpest futuristic visions, it's really all about the here and now * Daily Mail *This final volume deploys its author's trademark cool, omniscient satire, but adds to that a real sense of engagement with a fallen world. Atwood has created something reminiscent of Shakespeare's late comedies; her wit and dark humour combine with a compassionate tenderness towards struggling human beings . . . Since almost everything in the world has been broken or has broken down, the novels' form, whirling as brilliantly as the bits of glass in a kaleidoscope, or the pixels in a complex computer game, seems simply to replicate that chaos. However, behind the apparent disorder Atwood the conjuror remains in firm control, juggling her narrative techniques with postmodern glee * Independent *A haunting, restless triumph . . . A writer of virtuoso diversity, with an imagination that responds as keenly to scientific concerns as it does to the literary heritage in which she is steeped . . . A dystopia over which Atwood sets swirling a glitterball of different kinds of fiction * Sunday Times *It may have been a decade in the making, but it has been well worth the wait . . . Margaret Atwood not only completes one of the most harrowing visions of a near-future dystopia in recent fiction, but lures us even further into new zones of existential terror * The Times *
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Pan Macmillan Ripeness
Book SynopsisFrom the bestselling author of Summerwater comes a story of love, loss and belonging that moves between 1960s Italy and modern day Ireland.
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Vintage Publishing In Watermelon Sugar
Book Synopsis''A charming and original work... The parable itself is extremely relevant'' The TimesiDEATH is a place where the sun shines a different colour every day and where people travel to the length of their dreams. Rejecting the violence and hate of the old gang at the Forgotten Works, they lead gentle lives in watermelon sugar. In this book, Richard Brautigan discovers and expresses the mood of the counterculture generation.Delicate, fantastic and very funny... A highly individual style, a fertile, active inventiveness... It''s cool, joyous, lucid and pleasant to read' Malcolm BradburyTrade ReviewDelicate, fantastic and very funny... A highly individual style, a fertile, active inventiveness... It's cool, joyous, lucid and pleasant to read -- Malcolm BradburyRichard Brautigan is joining Hesse, Golding, Salinger and Vonnegut as a literary magus to the literate young * Look *A charming and original work... The parable itself is extremely relevant * The Times *
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Vintage Publishing The Morning Star: The compulsive new novel from
Book SynopsisExperience a major new literary universe in the making'I read The Morning Star compulsively and stayed awake all night after finishing it' Brandon TaylorNine lives will be forever changed . . .One long night in August, Arne and Tove are staying with their children in their summer house in southern Norway. Kathrine, a priest, is flying home from a Bible seminar, questioning her marriage. Journalist Jostein is out drinking for the night, while his wife, Turid, a nurse at a psychiatric care unit, is on a nightshift when one of her patients escapes.Above them all, a huge star suddenly appears blazing in the sky, and so begins a series of mysterious events. For these six, and three others, life is about to become ever more surprising and unruly...'Brilliant storytelling' Independent'Addictive' Daily Telegraph'Captivating' ObserverTrade ReviewKnausgaard retains the ability to lock you, as if in a tractor beam, into his storytelling... Knausgaard is among the finest writers alive. -- Dwight Garner * New York Times *Grippingly crafted storytelling... prose that is keenly aware of the value of suspense and surprise... [The Morning Star] has that beguiling, elusively compulsive quality that Knausgaard seems to have made his own. -- Andrew Anthony * Observer *I read The Morning Star compulsively, and stayed awake all night after finishing it... The novel's revelation is not that something terrible is coming for us all but that it is already in our midst. -- Brandon Taylor * New Yorker *Knausgaard's sentences, in Martin Aitken's translation, are both plainly direct and lyrically, emotionally elevated . . . Symphonic. -- Heidi Julavits * New York Times Book Review *A true Scandinavian epic... Knausgaard's brilliant storytelling is as bright as the celestial body from which the book takes its title. -- Roddy Brooks * Independent *
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Penguin Books Ltd Sweet Collide
Book SynopsisTHE MUST-READ NEW ICE HOCKEY ROMANCE Perfect for fans of Icebreaker, Right Move, Collide and Pucking Around They thought they''d forgotten their past, but will it come back to destroy them?----- Aiden Slate may be the captain of the Redville Saints and NHL's hottest hockey hero, but he has a tarnished past that he's still running from. Desperate to get one area of his life under control, he seeks the help of a stranger. One night with Cassidy was supposed to be enough to turn things around and get his head back in the game. Instead, Cassidy made herself an integral part of his routine, helping him to control his compulsive nature. She's gotten under his skin, and he doesn't want to let her go. Unfortunately for Aiden, his past has caught up with him. He learns this the hard way when the truth about Cassidy is revealed. She isn't some random woman, but the girl he left behind w
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Vintage Publishing Greene G Dr Fischer of Geneva
Book SynopsisGraham Greene was born in 1904. He worked as a journalist and critic, and in 1940 became literary editor of the Spectator. He was later employed by the Foreign Office. As well as his many novels, Graham Greene wrote several collections of short stories, four travel books, six plays, three books of autobiography, two of biography and four books for children. He also wrote hundreds of essays, and film and book reviews. Graham Greene was a member of the Order of Merit and a Companion of Honour. He died in April 1991.Trade ReviewDemonstrates once again Greene's talent as a riveting storyteller * Newsweek *A brilliantly accomplished handling of the Russian roulette theme * Guardian *Manages to say more about love, hate, happiness, grief, immortality, greed and the disgustingly rich than most contemporary English novels three times the length * The Times *
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Penguin Books Ltd Hello Mum
Book SynopsisFROM THE BOOKER PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OF GIRL, WOMAN, OTHERIt''s a hot summer afternoon. Tension is in the air. A gang of youths on bikes gathers outside a chip shop. A teenage boy is stabbed and left bleeding on the street.The boy''s mother wonders how this could have happened to her son. She is full of questions, but when the answers lie so close to home, are they really what she wants to hear?
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Penguin Books Ltd As If
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Little, Brown Book Group Kingfishers Catch Fire
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Baker Publishing Group With Every Memory
Book SynopsisAfter a tragic accident robs her of the last nine years of memories, Lori Mendenhall comes home to a family completely different than she remembers. As her memory returns and past secrets resurface, it will take all of them to repair what's been broken and find a new future together.
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Pan Macmillan Eclipse
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC The Revenge Club
Book Synopsis''Fast moving and frothing with the fun kind of female fury'' JO BRANDWHEN THE ODDS ARE AGAINST YOU, IT''S TIME TO GET EVEN.Matilda, Jo, Penny and Cressy are all women at the top of their game; so imagine their surprise when they start to be personally overlooked and professionally pushed aside by less-qualified men. Only they're not going down without a fight.Society might think the women have passed their amuse-by dates but the Revenge Club have other plans.After all, why go to bed angry when you could stay up and plot diabolical retribution? Let the games begin...PRAISE FOR KATHY LETTE:Deliciously rude and darkly funny' Nicole KidmanUnputdownable' Stephen FryThe thinking lady's hornbag' Kath and Kim
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Hodder And Stoughton Ltd. Story Of My Life
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Headline Publishing Group History
Book SynopsisThe brilliant debut novel from acclaimed comedian, writer and presenter Miles Jupp.
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Orion Publishing Co Exciting Times
Book Synopsis''The book of the summer ... Kept me rapt until the final page'' THE TIMES''A sharp, smart, witty modern love story. I loved it'' David Nicholls, author of ONE DAY''More than lives up to the hype ... Likely to fill the Sally-Rooney-shaped hole in many readers'' lives'' IRISH TIMES''Droll, shrewd and unafraid - a winning debut'' Hilary Mantel, author of WOLF HALL''I''ve been pushing Exciting Times on everyone I know. Some of Dolan''s pithy observations of her characters are the best I''ve read since Edward St Aubyn'' OBSERVER''A frankly sensational book'' Pandora Sykes on THE HIGH LOW''In the tradition of Dorothy Parker, Joan Rivers and Nora Ephron ... I found myself purring with pleasure. ...ThisTrade ReviewI had real fun with EXCITING TIMES. It is a very funny, spiky, Marxist, feminist comedy and it's really mean. * Zadie Smith *Droll, shrewd and unafraid - a winning debut * Hilary Mantel, author of WOLF HALL *Fiercely intelligent, brutally funny and written with such heart, EXCITING TIMES announces an impressive new voice in literature.Witty, compelling and with a razor-sharp social commentary. I guzzled it. -- Pandora SykesA modern love story ... astute, sardonic and highly emotionally aware ... Heralding for sure a new star in Irish writing * Irish Times *EXCITING TIMES more than lives up to the hype ... Likely to fill the Sally-Rooney-shaped hole in many readers' lives. * Irish Times *Dazzling ... So brilliantly executed ... Coming-of-age love is told in technicolour ... Banging lines follow banging lines. Your underlining pen destroys the pages ... With EXCITING TIMES comes a rare and indeed exciting talent, a cacophony of our times, a treat for the socially distanced * Irish Independent *Lucky us ... EXCITING TIMES will brighten lockdown ... Very funny ... Extremely sharp ... Insightful and raw * Observer *A funny, smart, contemporary love story. Perfect for fans of Sally Rooney and Emma Jane Unsworth * Sunday Times Style *The funniest writer you will read this year... Every page crackles ... Very funny ... Ultimately a very moving story, one that occupies a small sliver of time and space, but manages a lasting emotional tinnitus ... Naoise Dolan is not the new anyone. She's entirely herself, and that's plenty * Sunday Life, Irish Independent *A sharp, funny account of a contemporary relationship, told tenderly and with biting, bright insight.Hands down one of the most anticipated debuts of the year ... A piercingly provocative look at modern love and power games. * BookRiot *A funny, smart and sensitive exploration of love, privilege and bisexuality that had me gripped from the first page. Dolan's sentences are like a splash of cold water to the faceDevastatingly perceptive and articulate. It's a joy to encounter a book so compulsively readable and painfully funny while simultaneously deeply insightful on love, on sexuality, on social class, on their links as terribly inextricable in the 21st century as they ever were. Dolan is a major talent and this is a formidable debutThis is icily brilliant stuff. A poised and surgical examination of class, sex, language and self-making, with some flat-out enviable jokesRead if you like ANIMALS by Emma Jane Unsworth, TRICK MIRROR by Jia Tolentino, THE BELL JAR by Sylvia Plath * Sunday Times Style *Brilliantly funny, surgically sharp, furiously political. Expect to hear lots about EXCITING TIMES next yearForensically brilliant - an elegant and painfully funny portrait of greed and hunger, love and indifferenceSo wry, witty and insightfulDolan's debut lives up to the hype, a hypnotic tale -- Sarah Hughes * The i newspaper *We're really, um, excited about this sharp, smart debut * Red magazine *A modern love story that will live with you long after you've finished it -- Molly Aitken author of THE ISLAND CHILDFollowing the love triangle between three expats living in Hong Kong, EXCITING TIMES dissects the financial and personal transactions that make up life * Platinum magazine *This debut from Dolan explores a love affair between an English teacher and a banker in Hong Kong and the lawyer who blows the whole thing sky-high. Definitely one to watch. * Stylist, 'Best new books for 2020' *Finance, sex, cynicism and unspoken feelings are swirled together in a can labelled 'Hong Kong' in this modern love triangle * Irish Independent *Among the most hotly tipped debut authors for 2020 * The Bookseller *EXCITING TIMES is more caustic and cynical than Rooney's writing, if just as clever ... All the fretting over love and class could be compared to Austen or Wharton, but her light treatment of bisexuality and polyamory is utterly 2020 * Guardian *Meet the new Sally Rooney... That might sound like hyperbole but this tale brings fresh and on-point insights into modern love that'll make it a hit with lovers of NORMAL PEOPLE * Stylist *2020 is set to be a huge year for Naoise Dolan * Irish Examiner *Echoes of Sally Rooney's CONVERSATIONS WITH FRIENDS resound in this exacting debut novel * Oprah magazine *Ice cool, self aware and very funny. Shades of Lorrie Moore and THE BELL JAR. * Graham Norton *Dry, sharp, meticulously observed ... A frankly sensational book that's flawlessly executed * Pandora Sykes on The High Low *Half Sally Rooney love triangle, half glitzy CRAZY RICH ASIANS high living - and guaranteed to please * Vogue, 'Books We Cant Wait to Read in 2020' *An effervescent snapshot of millennial, attachment-avoidant dating * Daily Mail *Constant, breezy fun * Telegraph *A love story about three expats in Hong Kong - teacher Ava, banker Julian, and the alluring Edith - and explores the nuances and uncertainties of modern love * Cosmopolitan, 'Best Books of 2020' *EXCITING TIMES is a joy from start to finish, and the perfect balm for these times-fresh, funny, sharp. Everyone should read it right now. A literary and hilarious tour de force. * Katherine Heiny, author of Standard Deviation * From the opening page, Ava's voice is electrifying and frequently very funny; Naoise Dolan's debut novel really is as good as everyone says it is. * Irish Times *I wouldn't be surprised if it emerges as the book of the summer... A rich, sharply witty story made out of the frictions and complexities of young love ... Kept me rapt until the final page * The Times *I've been pushing Exciting Times on everyone I know: it is the perfect blend of caustically clever and emotionally engaging. Some of Dolan's pithy observations of her characters are the best I've read since Edward St Aubyn * Observer *I tore through EXCITING TIMES, a sharp, smart, witty modern love story. I loved it * David Nicholls *THIS BOOK!!!! It's as BRILLIANT as everyone says!!!! I DEVOURED it and it delighted me with its ideas and made me LAUGH so much and gave me hope. Naoise Dolan is thrillingly honest about class iniquity, sexism, poverty, the after-effects of colonialism - it's so REFRESHING. I kept seizing on paragraphs and shouting, THIS!! THIS IS THE THING I WAS THINKING BUT COULDN'T ARTICULATE!!! * Marian Keyes *A wonderfully sharp, comic writer, adept at making wisecracks in the caustic, knock-em-off, knock-em-down tradition of Dorothy Parker, Joan Rivers and Nora Ephron ... [Ava] is Bridget Jones's sour sister, or Bridget Jones marinaded in vinegar... I found myself purring with pleasure. I loved EXCITING TIMES's snap and its bite ... This is comic writing at the highest level, created with such apparent ease that it seems to dance across the page ... At its best, EXCITING TIMES reminds me of Martin Amis's first novel, The Rachel Papers. In its icy take on consumerism it's also reminiscent of Bret Easton Ellis's American Psycho. Like both those novels it seems to be brilliantly in tune with its times. * Daily Mail *A Book of the Year in The Sunday Times and a Best Book of the Summer in The i newspaper. A wily, caustic story about young love ... Sentence-by-sentence, EXCITING TIMES is both a joy and a triumph... I delighted in the brilliance of Dolan's deadpan style. * The i newspaper *The most talked about novel of the summer * The Sunday Times Style *A dazzling debut... Dolan's writing is precise, acerbic and enviably good, and her characters are perfectly drawn * Evening Standard *Sometimes hilarious, sometimes heart-breaking... Ava is a most interesting literary heroine ... I rarely find myself rooting for a character as much as I did for her ... A whip-smart, funny and poignant story of modern love, accessible to all. It should be on everyone's 2020 must read list * Irish Sunday Independent *A fresh and funny debut about love and self-knowledge ... affecting and powerful * Guardian *What sets Dolan apart is her humour. EXCITING TIMES is riddled with snappy one liners and witty interplay. A fantastic first novel * Metro *Dolan is a writer entirely in command of her craft ... The writing fairly sizzles on the page... EXCITING TIMES is an acerbic tale of sex and love, set in the social media age * The Herald Scotland *Incredibly readable * Belfast Telegraph *With Naoise Dolan on the literary scene, there are EXCITING TIMES ahead * i-D *The Irish debut novel everyone is talking about * The Gloss *I savoured every shrewd line * Dazed *A sharp, witty and ultimately moving debut ... Dolan brings a fresh insight into modern love that will inevitably make this a hit among those who love Normal People * Independent *A wry, stylish debut ... In this witty satire of the haves and have nots, Dolan explores tender, insightful truths about the vagaries of modern love * Esquire *Snappy, sharp and smart [with] painfully funny insight that has drawn justifiable comparisons to Sally Rooney * Sunday Express *Naoise Dolan's debut is whipsmart, sharp and full of delightfully perceptive observations * Daily Express *A bracing book that cuts through the burdens and excesses of the typical love story to deliver the reader to that rare, real thing: raw thought. Naoise Dolan has an uncanny talent for interiority, and her cool prose accommodates equally well a quickening heart and a mind on fire -- Joshua FerrisA sharp, witty debut. * Stylist *We loved Dolan's evisceration of Insta culture - SAVAGE. -- Cosmopolitan * Cosmopolitan *Withering, stylish prose that is at times deceptively simple but always flush with caustic wit, I savoured every shrewd line. * Dazed *
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