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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

The instant Sunday Times bestseller, a vibrant and heartbreaking story of unexpected friendship and how far people go to find a second chance

Chloe Elisabeth Wilson

I support women’s rights, but more importantly I support women’s wrongs.

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

Introducing your next travel companion

Winter Crime Month 2024

What would you do?

Blooming beautiful

Families in the foreground

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Popular contemporary fiction

Edward St Aubyn

Lockdown Lovers

Michael O'Sullivan

Picture Perfect Frame

Call Me Elizabeth Lark

MELISSA COLASANTI

Into the Sweet Hereafter

A Deadly Chapter

Off the Wild Coast of Brittany

Juliet Blackwell

Kafka and the Doll

Larissa Theule, Rebecca Green

Everything After

Surviving Savannah

Semezdin Mehmedinovic

Takis Würger

A Funny Kind of Paradise

Escape to Riverside Cottage

Mircea Cartarescu

The Complete Two Pints

The Missing Hancocks: The Complete BBC Radio Series

Ray Galton & Alan Simpson

The Yellow Wall-Paper and Other Writings

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

The Walking People

Mary Beth Keane

Everything Changes

Stephanie Johnson

The Body in the Beauty Parlor

Acts of Desperation

Star Wars: Victory’s Price

Alexander Freed

Welcome To Nowhere River

A Game of Cones

Minecraft: The Mountain

Little Snow Landscape

Haunted Hibiscus

Transient Desires

Behind Closed Doors

Catherine Alliott

Return of the Trickster

Eden Robinson

North by Northamptonshire

Katherine Jakeways

Janice Kay Johnson

Furbidden Fatality

From This Moment

Kim Vogel Sawyer

A Side of Murder

The Mystery of Edwin Drood

Charles Dickens, adapted by Mike Walker

Gudrun: Series 5-7