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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

The Bomb Girl Brides

Call of the Curlew

Elizabeth Brooks

Girl, Balancing

The Death of Mrs Westaway

Your Closest Friend

Amber Brock

My Purple Scented Novel

A View of the Empire at Sunset

Christina Henry

Murder Made to Order

Chuck Palahniuk

A Lifetime of Impossible Days

After The Party

Cressida Connolly

The Angels Will Not Care

Cold Water Burning

Revolution Sunday

Buried In Books

Clifford "Spud" Johnson

Who HQ 3-Book Collection: Presidents

Carl Weber's Kingpins: The Girls of South Beach

The Diva Cooks Up a Storm

Girl, Balancing & Other Stories

Our Homesick Songs

The Accidental Mistress

Like Wildfire Blazing

Rosanna Chiofalo

Irvine Welsh, A.L. Kennedy, Meera Syal, John Niven, Pauline Melville, Christopher Brookmyre, Zoe Venditozzi, Nina Stibbe, Mike Gayle, Murray Lachlan Young, Barney Farmer

Fatima Farheen Mirza

Stacey Lynn

The Sound of Munich

Death and a Pot of Chowder

The Body in the Ballroom

Death Comes to Dogwood Manor

SANDRA BRETTING

The House That Lou Built

The Real Michael Swann

New Ruth Ware Thriller

Anthony Trollope

Kelleigh Greenberg-Jephcott

Incredible Women: Series 1-6

Rebecca Front, Jeremy Front

Nick White

Andromeda Romano-Lax