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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

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Robbie Arnott

Karla Cornejo Villavicencio

Alexander Lernet-Holenia

Francesca Serritella

We Live Here Now

Iman Hariri-Kia

This Kind of Trouble

Tochi Eze

Whispers of Dead Girls

Isn’t It Nice We Both Hate the Same Things

Jessica Seaborn

A Nurse’s Secret

A Northern Lass

Bath Time New York City

Adam Gamble, Mark Jasper

Bath Time Arizona

Adam Gamble, Mark Jasper

Dương Hướng

The Society of Unknowable Objects

The EC Archives: The Complete Moon Girl

Sheldon Moldoff, Gardner Fox

A Twist of Fate

Se-Ah Jang, S. L. Park

Something Whiskered

Time of Silence

Luis Martín-Santos, Peter Bush

An Oral History of Atlantis

A Ghostwriter's Guide to Murder

The Shakespeare Secret

The Girls of Good Fortune

Kristina Mcmorris

Dungeons & Dragons: The Fallbacks: Dealing with Dragons

Jaleigh Johnson

One Night in Paris

Ronald Frame

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Jonathan Hickman, Dale Eaglesham

Swimming Lessons

Ha Ha Halloween!

Jill Howarth

Classroom of the Elite: Year 2 (Light Novel) Vol. 11

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A Catered Bake-Off

There'll Be Shell to Pay

Whispers of the Lake

Shanora Williams

A Purrfect Date

An Amateur Sleuth’s Guide to Murder

Because Love Said So

Nicholas Belardes

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