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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

Landry Q. Walker

Nick White

Now the Night Begins

Alain Guiraudie

Two Old Men Dying

How Far We Fall

The Light Between Us

Half-truths and Semi-miracles

The Dark Maidens

Rikako Akiyoshi

Out of a Texas Night

Phyliss Miranda

The Escape Room

Twelve Tomorrows

Sophie Mackintosh

Michelle Cusolito, Nicole Wong

Best Beach Ever

Where Is the Bermuda Triangle?

Megan Stine, Who HQ, Tim Foley

The High Season

Anne Marsh

Meet Me at the Museum

Eleanor's Secret

Caroline Beecham

The Brighton Mermaid

Dorothy Koomson

Explore the Salish Sea

Joseph K. Gaydos, AUDREY DELELLA BENEDICT

Nightingale Wedding Bells

The Return of the Carter Boys

Good Night Acadia

Adam Gamble, Mark Jasper

Good Night Niagara Falls

Adam Gamble, Mark Jasper

Good Night Outer Banks

Adam Gamble, Mark Jasper

Cyprian Ekwensi

Fowl of the House of Usher

Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone

My Name Is Nathan Lucius

Michael Ondaatje

Steve Toutonghi

Cake and Punishment

No Cure for the Dead

Christine Trent

Better Off Read

Flowers and Foul Play

Sebastian Faulks