Modern and Classic Literary Fiction
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A Time of Love and Tartan Alexander McCall Smith August 2017 Book of the Month With customary charm and deftness, Alexander McCall Smith gives us another instalment in this popular series, now running in its twelfth season in the Scotsman, making it the longest running serial novel ever. What... Format: Hardback - Released: 03/08/2017 
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The Party Elizabeth Day The party is where it all unravels and where the dark secret between rich, aristocratic Ben and poor, middle-class Martin is exposed. We are kept very much in the dark about the secret until nearly the end of the book.... Format: Hardback - Released: 13/07/2017
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Say My Name Allegra Huston August 2017 Debut of the Month As it dances across thoughts and emotions, ‘Say My Name’ proves to be a beautiful, thoughtful, and seductive read. Eve is 48, her life is stagnant until she finds a broken violin and meets... Format: Hardback - Released: 27/07/2017
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Be Frank with Me Julia Claiborne Johnson August 2017 Debut of the Month Meet Frank - he isn't like other kids. Intrepid explorer, sartorial connoisseur; he's as strange as he is brilliant. But Frank discovers the hard way that people don't like brilliant and they hate strange.... Format: Paperback - Released: 03/08/2017
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The Color Purple Alice Walker Set in the deep American south between the wars, this is the classic tale of Celie, a young poor black girl. Raped repeatedly by her father, she loses two children and then is married off to a man who treats... Format: Paperback - Released: 31/08/2017
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Cartes Postales from Greece Victoria Hislop Three years ago Cardiff born Ellie moved into a small block of twelve flats in Kensal Rise, London. Her life is dull. She does tele-ad sales for a trade mag and then suddenly she gets postcards from Greece addressed to... Format: Paperback - Released: 10/08/2017
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Under a Pole Star Stef Penney Flora Mackie leads a remarkable life. Daughter of a whaling captain, with her mother dead, she spent many of her teenage years sailing with him and living with the Inuit of Greenland. When grown, it naturally suits her to join... Format: Paperback - Released: 10/08/2017
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What She Left Rosie Fiore What would make you walk away from your life, your family and friends, in search of a completely fresh start? Format: Paperback - Released: 17/08/2017
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True Love at the Lonely Hearts Bookshop Annie Darling It's a truth universally acknowledged that a single woman in possession of a good job, four bossy sisters and a needy cat must also have want of her one true love. Or is it? Another delightful novel from the author... Format: Paperback - Released: 10/08/2017
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The Lemon Tree Cafe Cathy Bramley When Rosie Featherstone finds herself unexpectedly jobless, the offer to help her beloved Italian grandmother out at the Lemon Tree Cafe - a little slice of Italy nestled in the rolling hills of Derbyshire - feels like the perfect way... Format: Paperback - Released: 24/08/2017
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My Absolute Darling Gabriel Tallent At 14, Turtle Alveston knows the use of every gun on her wall; That chaos is coming and only the strong will survive it; That her daddy loves her more than anything else in this world. And he'll do whatever... Format: Hardback - Released: 29/08/2017
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The People at Number 9 Felicity Everett Solid, surburban couple with two boys at the local school have their safe, perhaps a little monotonous, life disrupted by the arrival of an artistic golden couple next door. All glitter and shine, oozing charisma and chasing fun, they dazzle... Format: Paperback - Released: 24/08/2017
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Forest Dark Nicole Krauss Jules Epstein has vanished from the world. He leaves no trace but a rundown flat patrolled by a solitary cockroach, and a monogrammed briefcase abandoned in the desert. To Epstein's mystified family, the disappearance of a man whose drive and... Format: Hardback - Released: 24/08/2017
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Chasing The Sun Katy Colins The perfect summer escape. Format: Paperback - Released: 01/07/2017
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Trains & Lovers The Heart's Journey Alexander McCall Smith A heart-warming stand-alone novel about a group of passengers on an Edinburgh to London train. They have one thing in common - they have all been in love. Poignant stories full of warmth, romance and charm. A 'Piece of Passion'... Format: Paperback - Released: 17/08/2017
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Lea Pascal Mercier From the author of the giant bestseller, Night Train to Lisbon, comes a finely calibrated heartbreaker of a novel about fathers and daughters, great rises and sudden falls. Format: Paperback - Released: 03/08/2017
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The Music Shop Rachel Joyce A heartrending love story. An ode to vinyl. A poignant evocation of a community of shopkeepers in the late eighties. Like the music beloved by its protagonist, this pitch-perfect novel has an ineffable power to uplift the soul. At the... Format: Hardback - Released: 13/07/2017
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Best Laid Plans Kathy Lette July 2017 Book of the Month. Gosh, what a funny, emotional, romp of a story this is. Lucy begins her tale with the moment she gets arrested for picking up an undercover... Format: Hardback - Released: 13/07/2017
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Borne Jeff VanderMeer Finch, the last VanderMeer that I read, was referred to as ‘fungal noir’, a wonderful phrase. With that in mind Borne could be described as a post-apocalyptic thriller with squishy bits, or possible human drama with tentacles. Scavenger Rachel... Format: Hardback - Released: 15/06/2017
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The Outcasts of Time Ian Mortimer An absolutely riveting walk through time. The moment I heard about ‘The Outcasts of Time’ I knew I had to read it, the premise is just fascinating. In 1348, brothers John and William are informed they have only six days... Format: Hardback - Released: 15/06/2017
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Greatest Hits Laura Barnett A powerfully lyrical day-in-the-life portrait of a successful singer-songwriter reflecting on the ebbs and flows of her life as she prepares her Greatest Hits release after long absence from the industry. Cass Wheeler has been a massive music star since... Format: Hardback - Released: 15/06/2017
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An Almond for a Parrot Wray Delaney A fascinating erotica debut for famed children's book author Sally Gardner and, most definitely, a change in register as a tale of 18th century debauchery unfolds in the tradition of FANNY HILL and other historical jolly naughtiness. Tully Truegood is... Format: Paperback - Released: 27/07/2017
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The Dinner Herman Koch This is one of those books like The Slap and We Need to Talk About Kevin where no one is likeable and the outcome difficult to predict. Here the family drama is related during a posh restaurant dinner... Format: Paperback - Released: 03/08/2017
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The Horseman Tim Pears This begins The West Country Trilogy starting in 1911. It follows two years in the life of young Leo as he skips school as often as he can to help his father, brothers and cousin on one of the six... Format: Paperback - Released: 13/07/2017
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The Secret Diary of Hendrik Groen, 83 Years Old Hendrik Groen Poignant, moving and funny, I chuckled my way through this delightful (but no longer secret) diary from the rather lovable Hendrik Groen. Hendrik has reached the age where his address book is depressingly empty and his life has become an... Format: Paperback - Released: 13/07/2017
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Where Dead Men Meet Mark Mills Absolutely thrilling… this is a fast-paced, firecracker of a read, set in Europe as the Second World War is brewing. Why is Luke Hamilton, intelligence officer at the British Embassy in Paris the target of an assassination attempt? As Luke... Format: Paperback - Released: 13/07/2017
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