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Modern Fiction

Settle into a book that encapsulates modern life and society in an intelligent and contemporary way.

Modern and Contemporary Fiction deals with key themes such as modern society, growing up, personal and social problems and highlights these through the use of thoughtful imaginary characters and situations.

Contemporary Fiction a genre that is still under wide debate by scholars and writers as to what it is exactly. To East Neuk Books, contemporary fiction is the exploration of modern life through a fictional light. 

Whatever Contemporary FIction means to you, we are sure you will find something here on the East Neuk Books online bookstore.  

Trains and Lovers : The Heart's Journey
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Trains and Lovers : The Heart's Journey

Birlinn General

Imagine you're on a train. Think about all the other people on the train with you, what their lives are or have been, and the different experiences...

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Tiny Tales
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Tiny Tales

Birlinn General

Stories do not have to be long. In the space of a couple of sentences - or even a page or two - we can see the human heart exposed in a way that is...

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The Secret of the Dark Waterfall : A School Ship Tobermory Adventure
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The Secret of the Dark Waterfall : A School Ship Tobermory Adventure

Birlinn General

Longlisted for the Highland Book Prize 2019The School Ship Tobermory and its intrepid young crew are back in Hebridean waters. When a violent storm...

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Fatty O'Leary's Dinner Party
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Fatty O'Leary's Dinner Party

Birlinn General

It takes a lot to get under the skin of Cornelius 'Fatty O'Leary, but then there is a lot of skin to get under. The heroically proportioned Fatty c...

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Watchmen: International Edition
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Watchmen: International Edition

DC Comics

In an alternate world where the mere presence of American superheroeschanged history, the US won the Vietnam War, Nixon is still president, and the...

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Tsunami Girl
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Tsunami Girl

Guppy Publishing Ltd

Fifteen-year-old Yuki is struggling at school with her confidence, and goes to Japan to stay with her grandfather, a well-known manga artist and to...

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Oblivion Rouge, Volume 1
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Oblivion Rouge, Volume 1

Rockport Publishers Inc.

Oblivion Rouge follows the career of a young teenage villager named Oumi as she becomes embroiled in a conflict that threatens a futuristic Africa ...

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Mrs Death Misses Death
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Mrs Death Misses Death

Canongate Books LTD

Mrs Death tells her intoxicating story in this life-affirming fire-starter of a novelMrs Death has had enough. She is exhausted by her job and now ...

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Whirligig
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Whirligig

Fledgling Press

Just outside a sleepy Highland town, a gamekeeper is found hanging lifeless from a tree. The local police investigate an apparent suicide, only to ...

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The Gloaming - KINGDOM BOOKS LEVEN
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The Gloaming

Vintage Publishing

Mara’s island is one of stories and magic, but every story ends in the same way. She will finish her days on the cliff, turned to stone and gazing ...

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Conversations with Friends - KINGDOM BOOKS LEVEN
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Conversations with Friends

Faber & Faber

Frances is a cool-headed and darkly observant young woman, vaguely pursuing a career in writing while studying in Dublin. Her best friend and comra...

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The Blackhouse - The Lewis Trilogy - KINGDOM BOOKS LEVEN
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The Blackhouse - The Lewis Trilogy

Quercus Publishing

A brutal killing takes place on the Isle of Lewis, Scotland: a land of harsh beauty and inhabitants of deep-rooted faith.A MURDERDetective Inspecto...

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The Beekeeper of Aleppo - KINGDOM BOOKS LEVEN
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The Beekeeper of Aleppo

Bonnier Publishing

Nuri is a beekeeper; his wife, Afra, an artist. They live a simple life, rich in family and friends, in the beautiful Syrian city of Aleppo - until...

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Beautiful World, Where Are You - KINGDOM BOOKS LEVEN
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Beautiful World, Where Are You

Faber & Faber

Alice, a novelist, meets Felix, who works in a warehouse, and asks him if he'd like to travel to Rome with her. In Dublin, her best friend Eileen i...

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Farm to Trouble - KINGDOM BOOKS LEVEN
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Farm to Trouble

Sourcebooks, Inc

First in a new cozy mystery series from USA Today bestselling author Amanda Flower!Coming home to a run-down farm, gossipy neighbors, and a shady i...

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Blackwood Farm : The Vampire Chronicles 9 (Paranormal Romance) - KINGDOM BOOKS LEVEN
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Blackwood Farm : The Vampire Chronicles 9 (Paranormal Romance)

Cornerstone

Mystery and magic combine in this masterpiece from the mistress of the vampire genre. A terrifying drama of bloodlust and betrayal is unravelling w...

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The Farm - KINGDOM BOOKS LEVEN
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The Farm

Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

A gripping story about race, money and motherhood that asks: what would you sacrifice for a new life?' A luxury retreat transforming the fertility ...

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The Long Weekend : 'By the time you read this, I'll have killed one of your husbands' - KINGDOM BOOKS LEVEN
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The Long Weekend : 'By the time you read this, I'll have killed one of your husbands'

Pan Macmillan

By the time you read this, I'll have killed one of your husbands.In an isolated retreat, deep in the Northumbria moors, three women arrive for a we...

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