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literary fiction

  1. Martyr!

    Martyr!

    Cyrus Shams is a young man grappling with an inheritance of violence and loss: his mother's plane was shot down over the skies of Tehran in a senseless accident; and his father's life in America was circumscribed by his work killing chickens at a factory farm in the Midwest. Cyrus is a drunk, an...
  2. The Maiden

    The Maiden

    "In the end, it did not matter what I said at my trial. No one believed me." Edinburgh, October 1679. Lady Christian Nimmo is arrested and charged with the murder of her lover, James Forrester. News of her imprisonment and subsequent trial is splashed across the broadsides, with headlines that...
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    • Reviews: 1
    • Category: Classical & Historical
  3. Mayflies

    Mayflies

    Everyone has a Tully Dawson: the friend who defines your life. In the summer of 1986, in a small Scottish town, James and Tully ignite a brilliant friendship based on music, films and the rebel spirit. With school over and the locked world of their fathers before them, they rush towards the...
    • Aimie
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    • coming of age contemporary fiction historical fiction literary fiction music scotland
    • Reviews: 2
    • Category: Fiction
  4. Demon Copperhead

    Demon Copperhead

    Set in the mountains of southern Appalachia, this is the story of a boy born to a teenage single mother in a single-wide trailer, with no assets beyond his dead father's good looks and copper-coloured hair, a caustic wit, and a fierce talent for survival. In a plot that never pauses for breath...
    • Hera
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    • coming of age contemporary fiction historical fiction literary fiction
    • Reviews: 6
    • Category: Contemporary & Literary
  5. The Bee Sting

    The Bee Sting

    The Barnes family is in trouble. Dickie's once-lucrative car business is going under―but rather than face the music, he's spending his days in the woods, building an apocalypse-proof bunker with a renegade handyman. His wife Imelda is selling off her jewellery on eBay, while their teenage...
  6. A Man Called Ove

    A Man Called Ove

    A grumpy yet loveable man finds his solitary world turned on its head when a boisterous young family moves in next door. Meet Ove. He's a curmudgeon, the kind of man who points at people he dislikes as if they were burglars caught outside his bedroom window. He has staunch principles, strict...
  7. Hamnet

    Hamnet

    On a summer's day in 1596, a young girl in Stratford-upon-Avon takes to her bed with a sudden fever. Her twin brother, Hamnet, searches everywhere for help. Why is nobody at home? Their mother, Agnes, is over a mile away, in the garden where she grows medicinal herbs. Their father is working...
  8. Prophet Song

    Prophet Song

    A fearless portrait of a society on the brink as a mother faces a terrible choice, from an internationally award-winning author. On a dark, wet evening in Dublin, scientist and mother-of-four Eilish Stack answers her front door to find the GNSB on her step. Two officers from Ireland's newly...
  9. Yellowface

    Yellowface

    Authors June Hayward and Athena Liu were supposed to be twin rising stars. But Athena's a literary darling. June Hayward is literally nobody. Who wants stories about basic white girls, June thinks. So when June witnesses Athena's death in a freak accident, she acts on impulse: she steals...
    • Lisa
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    • Reviews: 4
    • Category: Contemporary & Literary
  10. Great Circle

    Great Circle

    After being rescued as infants from a sinking ocean liner in 1914, Marian and Jamie Graves are raised by their dissolute uncle in Missoula, Montana. Thereafter encountering a pair of barnstorming pilots passing through town in beat-up biplanes—Marian commences her lifelong love affair with...
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