Modern Fiction

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See also: General Fiction

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  The January Flower
  Orla Broderick - Paperback - Council House
  Mary struggles to find her place in the world. She dances in nature with her small daughter. She uses a man to escape the housing estate. She uses his mother to learn meditation and shamanism. She uses his sister for sex. Yet her focus is the child. She simply wants to be the best mother she can be.
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  Jammy Dodger
  Kevin Smith - Paperback - Sandstone
  Life is sweet for would-be bohemian Artie Conville. So when his cushy number is threatened, he hatches a cunning plan to keep the funds coming in. But events quickly spiral out of control and before long Artie is up to his ears in a bizarre fraud. Can he avert disaster? Will he get the girl?
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  Jericho Sleep Alone
  Chaim Bermant - Paperback - Bloomsbury Reader
  From Bar Mitzvah to an unfulfilling teaching career, Jericho Eli Broock finds himself a perennial outsider and unlucky in love, neither his on-off affair with the flighty Ninna or his financially prudent dalliance with the homely Camilla coming to fruition. Will the oppressive aid of the Jewish community make all well in his world?
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  Jana Bibi's Excellent Fortunes: A Novel
  Betsy Woodman - Paperback - Henry Holt
  Meet Jana Bibi, a Scottish woman helping to save the small town in India she has grown to call home and the oddball characters she considers family.
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  Jamrach's Menagerie
  Carol Birch - Paperback - Canongate
  Jaffy Brown is running through the London backstreets when he comes face to face with an escaped circus animal. His life is transformed by the encounter. Plucked from the jaws of death by Mr Jamrach, the two strike up a friendship. Before he knows it, Jaffy finds himself on board a ship bound for the South Seas.
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  Jamrach's Menagerie
  Carol Birch - Paperback - Canongate
  Jaffy Brown is running through the London backstreets when he comes face to face with an escaped circus animal. His life is transformed by the encounter. Plucked from the jaws of death by Mr Jamrach, the two strike up a friendship. Before he knows it, Jaffy finds himself on board a ship bound for the South Seas.
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  Javascotia
  Benjamin Obler - Paperback - Hamish Hamilton
  Melvin Podgorski is young, naive, American - and a coffee fanatic. It's this passion that leads him from his native Chicago to 1990s Glasgow to scout out the prospects for a US coffee franchise.
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  Joseph's Box
  Suhayl Saadi - Paperback - Two Ravens
  Zuleikha MacBeth wades into the Clyde one morning and recovers a large box with which she becomes obsessed. The discovery of the box brings her together with Alex, a lute-playing clerk, and they manage to open the box only to find six further boxes inside which they can only open once they have followed cryptic clues.
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  Benjamin Obler - Paperback - Hamish Hamilton
  Melvin Podgorski is young, naive, American - and a coffee fanatic. It's this passion that leads him from his native Chicago to 1990s Glasgow to scout out the prospects for a US coffee franchise.
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  The Juggler
  Sebastian Beaumont - Hardback - Myrmidon
  Sebastian Beaumont weaves another compulsive and bizarre tale of fractured reality - of a world both seductive and menacing, and where nothing is quite as it seems.