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13 product(s) found for "Contemporary Fiction"
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Two novels that would make a great early Father's Day gift! MATCH DAY BY DARREN FLOYD ( Read reviews here ) A comic thriller about three people having three different days, on the same match day in Cardiff. Cathy is a woman disappointed in life when her dream turns...
£7.19
A Dinner of Bird Bones - Robert Hammond
"A Dinner of Bird Bones" is the story of Lloyd Inchley; of heartbreak, new best friends, a girl called Atom, and how the terrible power of sudden new geometry links a mystery now and in the past - and how it is all witnessed by a presence that has silently observed the unspooling events for...
£9.99
Fates, Flowers Audio book
Read by the author, this is an abridged (2 CDs) audio book of Matthew Waterhouse's dark comedy, 'Fates, Flowers'. Running time approx 140 minutes. Sara Smith is one of the most monstrous characters you can hope to meet. She lives in Greenwich Village on Life Insurance courtesy of her...
£11.99
Life Begins at 40 by Chris Newton and..
Two thirty-something Doctor Who fanatics sharing a flat in Blackpool, out of pocket, out of luck and clinging to the hope that Life Begins at 40... Jeff is a barman, constantly forestalling marriage to his neurotic new-age girlfriend, preferring the company of Pete, an agoraphobic misfit...
£9.99
Flight Risks by Douglas Schofield
Basel, Switzerland, February 2001 : Fifty-six years after the end of World War Two, Switzerland's bankers finally agree to release 21,000 dormant accounts left behind by Jews who died in the Holocaust. Claims from the victims' heirs pour in from across the world... New York and Washington,...
£3.00
Configuration by Ivor Allchin
By the start of that fateful summer, DI Duncan Fairfield thought he was going to breeze through his final two years and get away with retiring quietly. After three lacklustre decades as a copper, especially when compared with the legendary detection career of his father, hes actually beginning to look...
£5.00
Lemon by Barnaby Eaton-Jones
Spencer was an insignificant Data Input Operator and this suited him fine. However, when he is mistaken for someone actually significant, due to a mix-up by the Post Office, then his life becomes complicated. By complicated we're talking murder, sex, violence, car chases, beautiful women, and an annoyed...
£4.00
Cemetery Drive by JT Wilson
Death, it's a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. Alexa cheated death today. Well, at least that's what she was told, but how can you tell, if the Grim Reaper doesn't show up? Lucky she's got Robbie really, who'll go out and confront Death for her, even if it means going to the furthest...
£4.00
Vanitas by Matthew Waterhouse
WHEN YOU WISH UPON A STAR... Your dreams come true...? They did, at any rate, for Florinda Quenby, though not in the way she had planned. When she flew out to Hollywood to become a movie star, she could not imagine the terrible struggles ahead of her, from riches back to rags, or that...
£9.99
Fates, Flowers by Matthew Waterhouse
Sara Smith is one of the most monstrous characters you can hope to meet. She lives in Greenwich Village on Life Insurance courtesy of her late husband, but she has fallen into a dreary routine: work in a card shop by day, where she is the rudest sales clerk imaginable, and weary evenings passed in...
£9.99
Amusements, Carousels and Candy Floss..
Meet Bernard Stint. A marriage guidance counsellor from Hendon, North London. A rather meek and mild man whose idea of a fun day is sitting at the local transport depot collecting bus numbers. Wife, Angela. Son, Sam. Bernard's life is turned upside down one day, when arriving home from work, Angela...
£9.99
Match Day by Darren Floyd
A comic thriller about three people having three different days, on the same match day in Cardiff. Cathy is a woman disappointed in life when her dream turns into a nightmare, and mires her with debt which she doesn't have a hope of paying off. Suddenly she is offered a chance of a...
£6.39
Back to Nature by Sam Bossino & Nigel..
Neil is bored. His two best friends are a broken hearted workaholic and a man who would rather Hoover than have a night on the town. Neil has a wife, two kids and a never decreasing mortgage but what he really wants is a holiday. A chance to get right away from it all, to bring Steve out of his depression...
£5.00