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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.  

Sophomore Songs by Clarke Geddes
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Sophomore Songs by Clarke Geddes

The Conrad Press

Two passionate musicians, Nick and Dom, have grappled for years to become the chart-busting, hard-gigging success story their band is today. They'v...

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Beach Read by Emily Henry
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Beach Read by Emily Henry

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Two writers. One holiday. A romcom waiting to happen...-------'One of my favourite authors' Colleen Hoover, It Ends With Us 'A great love story' Jo...

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The Final Strife : Book 1 by Saara El-Arifi
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The Final Strife : Book 1 by Saara El-Arifi

HarperCollins Publishers

THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'Epic in scope, its worldbuilding as intricate as filigree,THE FINAL STRIFE sings of rebellion, love, and the c...

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The Return of John Macnab by Andrew Greig
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The Return of John Macnab by Andrew Greig

Quercus Publishing

'Highly Engaging' - Sunday Herald'You could easily make a case that Andrew Greig has the greatest range of any living Scottish writer' - Scotsman T...

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In Another Light by Andrew Greig
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In Another Light by Andrew Greig

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A stunning novel set in the stark beauty of Orkney and the heady atmosphere of Penang in the 1930s 'Two small, confined communities in which establ...

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Electric Brae by Andrew Greig
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Electric Brae by Andrew Greig

Faber & Faber

At the centre of Electric Brae is the crumbling sea-stack of the Old Man of Hoy and the consuming relationship between a young artist, Kim, coldly ...

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Haunted Voices
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Haunted Voices

Haunt Publishing

Scotland has a stunning tradition of oral storytelling, from the firesides of the nation’s legendary storytelling families to the physical and virt...

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Where Decay Sleeps by Anna Cheung
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Where Decay Sleeps by Anna Cheung

Haunt Publishing

Where Decay Sleeps lays 36 poems on the undertaker’s table, revealing to us the seven stages of decay: pallor mortis, algor mortis, rigor mortis, l...

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When Other People Saw Us, They Saw the Dead
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When Other People Saw Us, They Saw the Dead

Haunt Publishing

A faceless man stalks a woman’s nightmares in Hollywood. A Kanontsistóntie is summoned to seek revenge in a monastery. A move from the projects to ...

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Unspeakable
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Unspeakable

Haunt Publishing

Unspeakable contains nineteen Gothic tales with uncanny twists and characters that creep under your skin. Its stories feature sapphic ghosts, terri...

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Unthinkable
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Unthinkable

Haunt Publishing

Unthinkable: A Queer Gothic Anthology collects eighteen original Gothic tales primed to unsettle and entertain. From a Southern Gothic tale of dest...

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

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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 Pavilion in the Clouds : A new stand-alone novel
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The Pavilion in the Clouds : A new stand-alone novel

Birlinn General

It is 1938 and the final days of the British Empire. In a bungalow high up in the green hills above the plains of Ceylon, under a vast blue sky, li...

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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

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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

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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

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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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Where the Crawdads Sing
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Where the Crawdads Sing

Corsair

For years, rumors of the 'Marsh Girl' have haunted Barkley Cove, a quiet town on the North Carolina coast. So in late 1969, when handsome Chase And...

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The Midnight Library
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The Midnight Library

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Nora's life has been going from bad to worse. Then at the stroke of midnight on her last day on earth she finds herself transported to a library. T...

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The Gloaming - KINGDOM BOOKS LEVEN
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The Gloaming

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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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Cock-A-Doodle-Doo! by Michael Morpurgo - KINGDOM BOOKS LEVEN
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Cock-A-Doodle-Doo! by Michael Morpurgo

HarperCollins Publishers

Join the fun on the farm! A charming story from award-winning author Michael Morpurgo, hilariously illustrated throughout by Shoo Rayner, and perf...

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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

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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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Adoring Venus by Lorn Macintyre - East  Neuk Books Ltd
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Adoring Venus by Lorn Macintyre

Priormuir Press

In Adoring Venus Alan Mackilligin, a recently bereaved professor at the University of St Andrews and an authority on the portrayal of the nude fema...

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A Time of Love and Tartan by A. McCall - East  Neuk Books Ltd
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A Time of Love and Tartan by A. McCall

Birlinn General

If only Pat Macgregor had an inkling of the embarrassment - romantic, professional, even aesthetic - that flowed from accepting narcissistic ex-boy...

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