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From internationally bestselling author John Boyne, a contemplative story about one man trying to move forward from the trauma of his youth to become a better father to his son.

The Emperor of Gladness

A masterful story of friendship and how much we’re willing to risk to possess one of life’s most treasured mercies: a second chance

Chloe Elisabeth Wilson

New contemporary fiction

It Should Have Been You

The Correspondent

Great Big Beautiful Life

Emma Pignatiello

The Homemade God

The Sex Lives of Married Women

Contemporary fiction collections

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Blooming beautiful

Families in the foreground

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Popular contemporary fiction

Taylor Jenkins Reid

Great Big Beautiful Life

Nobody’s Fool

The Thursday Murder Club

We Solve Murders

The Handmaid's Tale

Margaret Atwood

Samantha Harvey

Wild Dark Shore

Charlotte McConaghy

Yael van der Wouden

Second Chance Family

The Emperor of Gladness

Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

Gabrielle Zevin

We'll Prescribe You a Cat

Syou Ishida

My Favourite Mistake

We All Live Here

The New Neighbours

Penelope Douglas

Chloe Elisabeth Wilson

There are Rivers in the Sky

What You Are Looking for is in the Library

I Who Have Never Known Men

Jacqueline Harpman