Modern & Contemporary Fiction ‘J’ Book Titles

1. Jimfish - Christopher Hope

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In the 1980s, a small man is pulled up out of the Indian Ocean in Port Pallid, SA. The Sergeant whose job it is to sort the local people by colour, peers at the boy before he gives his verdict... "If he's white he is not the right sort of white. But if he's black, who can say? I’ll give his age as 18, and call him Jimfish. Because he's a real fish out of water, this one is." So begins the odyssey of Jimfish. His journey through the last years of Apartheid will extend beyond the borders of South Africa to the wider world.

2. Juliet, Naked - Nick Hornby

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Annie lives with her partner of convenience, Duncan, who immerses himself in the esoterica of American singer-songwriter TuckerCrow. When Tucker releases a demo version of his album, Juliet, Duncan's&Annie's divergent reactions pull them apart.

3. Juliet, Naked - Nick Hornby

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Annie lives with her partner of convenience, Duncan, who immerses himself in the esoterica of American singer-songwriter Tucker Crow. When Tucker releases a demo version of his album, Juliet, Duncan's and Annie's divergent reactions pull them apart.

4. J: A Novel - Howard Jacobson

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Two people fall in love, not yet knowing where they have come from or where they are going. Kevern doesn't know why his father always drew two fingers across his lips when he said a word starting with a J. Ailinn too has grown up in the dark about who she was or where she came from. On their first date Kevern kisses the bruises under her eyes. They aren't sure if they have fallen in love of their own accord, or whether they've been pushed into each other’s arms. But who would have pushed them, and why?

This book was shortlisted for the 2014 Man Booker Prize.

5. Jakob's Colours - Lindsay Hawdon

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Austria, 1944: Jakob, a half Roma, half Yenish, gypsy boy runs as he has been told to do. With shoes made of sack cloth, a stone clutched in one hand and a small wooden box in the other, he runs blindly, full of fear and empty of hope. He knows how to read the land, the sky. When to seek shelter, when not. He has grown up directing himself with the wind and the shadows. 'Don't be afraid, Jakob,' his father has told him, his voice weak and wavering. 'See the colours, my boy,' he has whispered. So he does. On and on, Jakob runs.

6. Jeff Briggs's Love Story, Flip A California Romance, A Drift from Redwood Camp (Large Print) - Bret Harte

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This large print title is set in Tiresias 16pt font as recommended by the RNIB.

7. Jess (Large Print) - H Rider Haggard

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This classic large print title is printed in 16 point Tiresias font as recommended by the Royal National Institute for the Blind

8. Johnny Angel - Steel Danielle

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9. Joseph Andrews Vol. 1 - Henry Fielding

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This large print title is set in Tieras 16pt font as reccomended by the RNIB.

10. Joseph Andrews Vol. 2 - Henry Fielding

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This large print title is set in Tieras 16pt font as reccomended by the RNIB.

11. Joyland (Large Print 16pt) - Emily Schultz

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Welcome to 1984 and the town of South Wakefield. Chris Lane is 14 and he's sure that he can see the future, or at least guess what's inside of Christie Brinkley's mind. But he can't foresee the closing of Joyland, the town's only video arcade. With the arcade's passing comes a summer of teenage lust, violence, and a search for new entertainment. Never far away is Chris's younger sister, Tammy, who plays spy to the events that will change the lives of her family and town forever. Joyland is a novel about the impossibility of knowing the future. Schultz bring the Cold War home in a novel set to the digital pulse of video games and the echoes of hair metal. Joyland is illustrated throughout by graphic novelist Nate Powell, whose work has been praised by Sin City creator Frank Miller as ''observant, intimate cartooning [that] surgically cuts to the bone.''

12. Just for the Holidays - Sue Moorcroft

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In theory, nothing could be better than a summer spent basking in the French sun. That is, until you add in three teenagers, two love interests, one divorcing couple, and a very unexpected pregnancy. Admittedly, this isn't exactly the relaxing holiday Leah Beaumont was hoping for - but it's the one she's got. With her sister Michele's family falling apart at the seams, it's up to Leah to pick up the pieces and try to hold them all together. But with a handsome helicopter pilot staying next door, Leah can't help but think she might have a few distractions of her own to deal with...

13. Just One More Summer (Large Print 16pt) - Julie McGowan

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Devastated by the breakdown of her marriage, Allie flees to the one place her heart can seek comfort: Cornwall, where she hopes childhood memories of a holiday with her father will sustain her while she sorts out her plans for the future. But fate has other ideas, and she finds herself drawn into an almost obsessive friendship with a band of strange bedfellows led by Marsha, an intense, ageing hippy with a powerful life force that at once comforts, stimulates and infuriates Allie. Her growing attraction to one of the golden group's men, Adam, bewilders her as she discovers that nothing in life is what it seems. Heading back to London, her life - complications only deepen - husband wants her back, father arrives unannounced from France, loopy mother proclaims yet another marriage - and the hardest part is yet to come for them all. Finally, Allie realises that she must confront the secrets and lies of her past - and Marsha's - before she can face her own future.

14. Just Scandalous - Cassandra Reynolds

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15. Jeeves and the Wedding Bells - Sebastian Faulks

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A gloriously witty novel from Sebastian Faulks using P. G. Wodehouse’s much-loved characters, Jeeves and Wooster, fully authorised by the Wodehouse estate.