AF: Contemporary Fiction
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The new sun-drenched summer read from the bestselling author and TV presenter 'Soak up the glamour' PRIMA You’re invited to the most glamorous wedding of the year… The guests are gathering under the Mediterranean sun, and as the champagne flows, so do the secrets…...
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One woman discovers the beauty in chaos in this poignant and heartwarming story about the threads that hold family together from No.1 New York Times bestselling author Susan Mallery.With her divorce settlement about to run out and a mortgage she can’t afford, Robyn Caldwell needs a...
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Lucy English's third novel is set in a Suffolk commune in the Seventies where, beneath the blissful summer surface, the young inhabitants are caught in a downward spiral ending in tragedy. When Don, an aristocratic young Notting Hill poet, inherits a stately home in...
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British sprinter Rob Taylor is the fastest man on earth. World record holder in the 100 metres, he seems certain to win the gold at the Sydney 200 Olympics. But a mystery illness and long-hidden secrets lay low the nation's hero. The pressures of...
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Thirtysomething Claire feels trapped in the small Cornish village of Trevarne, although her husband, a native, loves their quiet lifestyle. Claire reaches a crossroads in her life when her son tells her he wants to leave home, and an exciting new man arrives in...
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Full of dark comic invention, teasing eroticism, and culinary joie de vivre, Vinegar Soup is spicy and delectable, a fantasy with a flavor all its own about food and sex, growing up and growing old. Gilbert Firestone, fat and fifty, works in the kitchen...
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Igi Heitmann is being stalked. In the suburb of Oslo where she lives with her cross-dressing husband and their daughter, someone is spray-painting the walls of the houses. HEITMANN = CHILD KILLER, the graffiti says. Who would think this, and how do they know...
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The Great Gatsby is a dazzling social satire, F. Scott Fitzgerald's masterpiece and a milestone in twentieth-century literature, now beautifully repackaged as part of the Penguin Essentials range. 'There was music from my neighbour's house through the summer nights. In his blue gardens men and...
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1864. After three years of service in the Russian navy and a gruelling expedition to Greenland, Captain Frederik Ziege of the Royal Danish Navy is enjoying a season on the Riviera with his mother, sister and two marriageable nieces. There he meets Emmeline Leslie,...
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Funny, feisty and all-too-true, A Not Quite Perfect Family by Claire Sandy is for anyone who loves their family so much they d just like a weekend away from them. Fern Carlile has a lot on her plate. It s a good thing she loves her...
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More than five hundred years on from Columbus's first voyage to America, the Spanish conquest of the Caribbean is brought to fresh and vivid life in this dazzling novel. Sea of Lentils interweaves four narratives: one explores the ambitions and disappointments of Philip the...
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A debut novel by a bestselling non-fiction author, this is a witty, wholly entrancing story of the pleasures, pains and obsessions of contemporary life. Lisa Blaize – teacher, and would-be fashion writer, mother and second wife – feels out of place when her high-flying...
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After the end of a long-term relationship, local weather girl Bea Armstrong has been avoiding her family, and their inevitable ‘I-told-you-sos.’ But with Christmas fast approaching, she is finally on her way home to Charis House, the school in Sherwood Forest that her mum...
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Can love survive long-term in the twenty-first century? Julie is beginning to doubt it. When her husband of twenty years announces that he is chucking his job to embark on an adult gap year leaving his salary and Julie behind, she puts her marriage...
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From the author of The Night Guest comes a collection of fourteen scintillating short stories: surprising, wise, thought-provoking and superbly wrought. The wife was driving on the night they hit Mr Ronald.‘My first drive since getting married,’ she said. ‘First this, first that,’ said her husband....
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Sean O'Reilly's debut novel is a journey into the dark pysche of Niall, a young man on the run from the past and denying himself a future. Arriving in Derry, years after he left for a wandering life - from city to city in...
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Vogelstein is a loner who has always lived among books. Suddenly, fate grabs hold of his insignificant life and carries him off to Buenos Aires, to a conference on Edgar Allan Poe, the inventor of the modern detective story. There Vogelstein meets his idol,...
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Ian Blackwater was surprised when film rights to his novel Volkswagens and Velociraptors were sold. And more surprised to find himself on location in California, particularly as the novel was set in London. However Ian knows better than to interfere with the creative process...
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Nine-year-old Tom Boler comes back from school one day to find his mother gone. What happens next is his story - told in his naive, trusting, baffled voice - as he negotiates a new, perilous, adult world. He is visited by Uncle Dustman, who...
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Janet grew up with her father; her mother, she was always told, died when she was three. Her father's stories were of her mother's beauty, their early love - tales stopping short of tragedy. But now, living an ocean away from her childhood home,...
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