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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

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Winter Crime Month 2024

What would you do?

Blooming beautiful

Families in the foreground

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Few and Far Between

Wedding Bells at the Wartime Bookshop

Emma Nanami Strenner

The Curse of Great Winter Academy

Jessika Fleck, Gabhor Utomo

Murder at the High School Reunion

The Devoted Husband

Stamford Hospital

Thammika Songkaeo

The Last Time I Saw Her Alive

Songs of No Provenance

Yrsa Daley-Ward

Killer Instinct

Nicola Williams

Gregory Galloway

Terms of Service

Of Flesh and Blood

N. L. Lavin, Hunter Burke

The Nantucket Restaurant

When the Museum is Closed

A Sky of A Thousand Colours

Claire Daverley

Gun-Britt Sundström

Infinite Archive

The Spirit of Love

Murder, She Wrote: A Body in Boston

Jessica Fletcher, Terrie Farley Moran

The Unicorn Woman

The Summer of the Serpent

How to Hold Someone in your Heart

Mizuki Tsujimura

The Memoirs of Miss Chief Eagle Testickle: Box Set

My Father Always Finds Corpses

We Are Only Ghosts

Jeffrey Richards

A Town with Half the Lights On

Gary Brown, Steve Sunderland, Jim Poyser, Michael Stewart, Sharon Oakes and Shakeel Ahmed

The Whyte Python World Tour

In Places We Find Ourselves

Patrick Sagaram

Adachi and Shimamura (Light Novel) Vol. 99.9

Murder on Sex Island

The Diva Poaches a Bad Egg

The Spirit Moves

A Cyclist's Guide to Villains & Vines

She Professed Herself Pupil of the Wise Man (Light Novel) Vol. 13

Ryusen Hirotsugu, Fuzichoco

Beyond This Place of Wrath and Tears

Making Love to a Dope Boy

When a Good Girl Falls for a Boss