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 Publishing Group Her Time Traveling Duke
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£14.44
Epoque Press Sweep the Cobwebs off the Sky
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£10.44
Europa Editions (UK) Ltd. The Burning Origin
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£13.49
Cinnamon Press Sparky
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£12.59
Cinnamon Press The Choice
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£12.34
DC Comics FBP Federal Bureau of Physics Vol. 1 The Paradigm Shift New Edition
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£15.29
Canelo Seaside Dreams on the Scottish Isle
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£8.54
Seagull Books London Ltd Places in the Dark
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£18.99
Footnote Press Ltd Saoirse
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£15.29
Atlantic Books Evensong
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£13.49
Pushkin Press Hollow Inside
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£9.49
Troubador Publishing Old Guy Music
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£9.49
Rowanvale Books Coldharbour
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£11.69
Bookouture The Housewarming
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£9.49
Bookouture New Dreams for the Village Nurse
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£9.49
Troubador Publishing Humeccan
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£10.44
Penny Post Gravity and Rust
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£10.44
Diffusion Breaking the Chain – Would you give up your freedom for your family?
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£7.99
Tippermuir Books Limited Curious Histories Questionable Tales Galloway Stories
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£9.50
And Other Stories Landscape with Landscape
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£16.12
The Conrad Press Boy Evil
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£10.44
Partnership Publishing Mayfield Blooms Balloons
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£9.49
Lyle Books Gifts
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£11.69
MIT Press Letters from the Madhouse
£16.58
Pushkin Press The Fishermen
Book SynopsisIn a small town in western Nigeria, four young brothers - the youngest is nine, the oldest fifteen - use their strict father's absence from home to go fishing at a forbidden local river. They encounter a dangerous local madman who predicts that the oldest brother will be killed by another. This prophecy breaks their strong bond and unleashes a tragic chain of events of almost mythic proportions. Passionate and bold, The Fishermen is a breathtakingly beautiful novel firmly rooted in the best of African storytelling. With this powerful debut, Chigozie Obioma emerges as one of the most original new voices of modern African literature.
£9.49
Sixth Element Publishing The Episode
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£11.24
Valley Press Spun Glass
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£11.69
World Editions Ltd The Performance
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£11.89
Fairlight Books Small Wars in Madrid
Book SynopsisDavid Aguilera's life is falling apart. Faced with the prospect of losing his family, he turns to those who are most important to him - his closest friend Marce; his Catholic adoptive mother; his Jewish birth mother; and his estranged wife Margalit, herself Jewish - to confront his conflicting identities and decide the man he wants to become.
£8.54
i2i Publishing Brexit Opportunities: A Novel
Book SynopsisPaul Torce, Memoirs Vol. 1: Brexit Opportunities. “There are plenty of opportunities to be had from the Brexit, if you know how to spot them.” Take it from Paul Torce, American Patriot, and Senior Partner in the hugely successful global consulting phenomenon known, to a select and extremely wealthy few, as Morgan-Torce Associates, Paul sees opportunities everywhere. It's the secret of his humungous success. The Brexit was obviously going to have opportunities coming out of its ears. All Paul had to do was to be in exactly the right place at precisely the opportune moment and spot them before anyone else did. This, the first volume of Paul's riveting memoirs, traces some of his movements around London, Brussels, Washington DC and Moscow between June 2016 and September 2017, a period so filled with opportunities he could hardly keep pace with them. From the selection of the new Prime Minister through the negotiating quagmire of the Exit talks to the General Election of June 2017, Paul's influence was both invisible and characteristically decisive. Of course, things don't always go to plan, even if you're Paul Torce. There's his loyal but gaffe-prone business partner, Charles, to contend with; and there are the occasional moments when he feels the political sands shift beneath his feet, and fears he's been hung out to dry. But on the whole, Paul has the Brexit opportunities market pretty well sewn up, subject to one piece of wisdom he acquired during those tumultuous months. The world is an increasingly volatile place, in which nothing can be taken for granted.
£9.48
Cinder House Big Time
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£10.44
Filament Publishing Ltd Mockers
Book SynopsisMockers is a romantic novel set in the swinging sixties, where the warring gangs of the mods and rockers did battle by the seaside.
£14.39
i2i Publishing All You Need Is Love
£9.48
Peirene Press Ltd Half Swimmer
Book SynopsisHalf Swimmer. Noun. A German term for one who has recently learnt to swim but hasn''t yet mastered the technique. Growing up in 1980s East Germany, as the daughter of an army officer and a teacher, Tanja seems set up to become a model citizen of the German Democratic Republic. Except she has other ideas. And so, it turns out, does the course of history. Half Swimmer is a collection of stories from one life, following a young girl as she attempts to forge her own identity under the social pressures of both the GDR, and the capitalism of a unified Germany.
£11.69
The Conrad Press Lenswoman in Love
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£10.44
The Conrad Press On Calm Water
Book SynopsisA novel
£10.44
Cipher Press Romeo Seahorse
Book SynopsisA frantic love letter to love itself, Romeo & Seahorse is a sexy, frightening, tender, and visceral rush through Berlin''s chemsex scene. Romeo has Hepatitis again. It''s no surprise, and when you haven''t slept for days staying awake is easy. And anyway, there''s the promise of more drugs, more sex. Leaving his boyfriend at home he heads out for hookups, getting abjectly high and pushing his body to grotesque extremes in an urgent but dissociated quest for romance. What follows is a delirious trip through squalid rooms, hospital wards, and nighttime parks, broken by memories of first loves, European travels, and meditations on what it means to be a Romeo. With chaotic chemsex escapades and musings on romantic love, art and belonging, Romeo & Seahorse takes us to places not often explored in fiction. Written in a relentless, frenzied first-person narrative with moments of mind-bending wisdom and poignancy, this is a one-of-a-kind novel about addiction, desire, belonging, and want that'
£10.79
The Conrad Press The Prime Ministers Son
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£10.44
The Conrad Press Tempered
£10.44
John F Blair Publisher Behind the Waterline
Book SynopsisWinner of the Lee Smith Novel Prize, Behind the Waterline takes readers to the home of a teenager and his grandmother in a New Orleans neighborhood on the eve of Katrina, where there are few resources and little warning of what is about to happen, in this novel that mixes magical realism with reality.When Hurricane Katrina approaches New Orleans, teenaged Eric and his grandmother and many of their neighbors decide to ride out the storm. Kionna Walker LeMalle’s masterful debut novel brings her readers, like the rising water, onto Eric’s street in the Third Ward, where stranded dogs bark for a time, where neighbors are floating on doors, and where Eric and his grandmother must take refuge in his second floor bedroom. After days of heat, dwindling supplies, and relentless rising water, neighbors begin to disappear and Eric’s grandmother, already known as an eccentric, begins to falter. It is then that Eric—in a dream, a hallucination, or something else—discovers a room beyond his closet wall, a place he has never seen. What he discovers inside will send him on a path to discover secrets to survival, bitter progress, and, ultimately, the history of his own people—those he sorely misses and those he never even knew.
£17.99
Wakefield Press Scorpions
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£999.99
Fernand Nathan T'choupi et la cuisine
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£10.49
Rupa Publications India Pvt Ltd. Braving Mussoorie's Madding Crowd
Book SynopsisIn this rib-tickling anthology, Ruskin Bond brings together funny stories, humourous articles and comic verse. These hilarious encountersfrom a lunatic who escapes the asylum to watch a cricket match to a goat that goes berserk in a posh drawing roomwritten by renowned humourists such as Stephen Leacock, Jerome K. Jerome, C.A. Kincaid and, of course, Ruskin Bond himself, are guaranteed to make you smile, chuckle, snort, giggle and laugh out loud!
£8.24
Rupa Publications India Pvt Ltd. BOY IN A BLUE PULLOVER
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£8.24
Kodansha America, Inc Tank Chair 6
£12.59
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC 13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl: From the author
Book Synopsis'A beautiful, necessary book' ROXANE GAY 'Luminous... Full of sharp insight and sly humour' KATHERINE HEINY Lizzie doesn't like the way she looks. Though she dates guys online, she's afraid to send pictures: no-one wants a fat girl. So Lizzie starts to lose weight. With punishing drive she counts almonds consumed and pounds dropped, navigating double-edged validation from her mother, her friends, her husband and her own reflection in the mirror. But no matter how much she loses, will she ever see herself as anything other than a fat girl? In this darkly funny, deeply resonant novel, Mona Awad delivers a tender and moving depiction of a young woman whose life is hijacked by her struggle to conform.Trade ReviewIn subject and voice, there are echoes of Margaret Atwood's The Edible Woman and Janice Galloway's The Trick Is to Keep Breathing, but neither has the wit of 13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl * Irish Times *Honest, searing, and necessary... 13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl peels back the curtain on the struggles of entering womanhood from body image, to relationships, to merely navigating the oh-so-cruel world * Elle *Awad deftly captures the many indignities that she – that women – experience around food and weight... Simultaneously tart and tender, 13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl is stunning * Washington Post *Shocking, sad, important and tender; this is a powerful rollercoaster of a read * Daily Mail *[A] clever debut... The themes may be sobering but Awad examines them with a deliciously wry humour * Mail on Sunday *The sharpness of Awad’s humour, incorporates scathing cultural commentary as well as creating, through acidic wit, a credible internal landscape for her tormented protagonist. * Sydney Morning Herald *A beautiful, necessary book -- Roxane GayLuminous... Full of sharp insight and sly humour -- Katherine Heiny
£9.49
Little, Brown Book Group The FakeUp
Book SynopsisTHE RIOTOUSLY FUNNY NEW NOVEL FROM JUSTIN MYERS, MASTER OF THE MODERN-DAY ROM COM''Everything I want from a rom com. It''s warm, funny and whip smart'' Laura Kay, author of THE SPLIT''A brilliantly funny reimagining of the romcom, full of helter-skelter twists'' Adam Kay, author of THIS IS GOING TO HURT''Fresh, funny and full of twists and turns'' DAILY MAIL__________TWO EXES. ONE BIG SECRET. LET THE GAMES BEGIN... Dylan and Flo are in love. The only trouble is, they broke up months ago and everyone was delighted for them.At first, it''s exciting sneaking around, hiding from disapproving friends, climbing through bedroom windows to avoid family, and concocting hilarious disguises. It''s like Romeo and Juliet. With more sex and less poison.But soon it becomes harder to separate truth from lies. Dylan and Flo are in way over their heads, and Trade ReviewThe Fake-Up is everything I want from a rom com. It's warm, funny and whip smart. I feel like I know all the characters, they just leap off the page. I couldn't put it down -- Laura Kay, author of THE SPLITJustin Myers has done it again - a brilliantly funny reimagining of the romcom, full of helter-skelter twists -- Adam Kay, author of THIS IS GOING TO HURTFresh, funny and full of twists and turns * Daily Mail *A mischievous romantic comedy that doubles as a satire of influencers, modern media and phonies . . . It's got heart and bite: Myers uses his razor keen eye for observation, dialogue and character to the wittiest effect * Evening Standard *The Fake-Up is laced with the author's signature wit and wisdom, and is another absolute banger. Myers is the master of the comic metaphor, the mistress of the modern romcom - and nobody does pop culture better! -- Matt Cain, author of THE SECRET LIFE OF ALBERT ENTWISTLEInsightful and deliciously funny * Daily Express *In Flo and Dylan, Justin Myers has created two utterly loveable characters you'll really root for. Cheeky, fun and uplifting, The Fake-Up is just what the world needs right now! -- Laura Price, author of SINGLE BALD FEMALEA quirky, off-beat rom-com from the master of the one-liner * Best *Witty, original and sharply observed - The Fake-Up is an utterly modern rom-com. I loved it -- Phoebe Luckhurst, author of The Lock InRiotously funny and ridiculously clever. Justin somehow manages to make you snort with laughter and move you to tears within a few pages - I don't know how he does it. It's a brilliant story and compelling AF. The Fake-Up absolutely cements Justin as one of my fave writers -- Lucy Vine, author of HOT MESSAdored it. So bitingly funny, brilliantly observed and full of beautifully believable characters - everything you'd expect from Justin Myers. Just a really very good time -- Lauren Bravo, author of WHAT WOULD THE SPICE GIRLS DO?
£12.74
Little, Brown Book Group Dead Lucky
Book SynopsisDead Lucky is a debut dark comedy novel about the secrets of addiction alongside the eccentric realities of the funeral industry. A comic rollercoaster of joy and despair, friendship and love, life and death.
£17.00
