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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

Shirley Jackson

The Intoxicated

Shirley Jackson

Varlam Shalamov

Varlam Shalamov

The Marathon Conspiracy

Marianne de Pierres

Morningside Fall

Lodovico Pignatti Morano

Nightingales on Call

The Downstairs Maid

Mark O'Sullivan

Who is Tom Ditto?

Innocent Erendira and Other Stories

Gabriel Garcia Márquez

Only the Animals

The Ticket That Exploded

William S. Burroughs

The Soft Machine

William S. Burroughs

Dog Will Have His Day

Larry Gets Lost in Washington, DC

John Skewes, Andrew Fox

With My Dog Eyes

During the Reign of the Queen of Persia

Fridays At Enrico's

Good Night South Carolina

Harvey Stevenson, Adam Gamble, Cooper Kelly, Mark Jasper

Seasons of Tomorrow

Cindy Woodsmall

Memories of My Melancholy Whores

Gabriel Garcia Márquez

James A. Michener

James A. Michener

Elaine Viets

Eric Jerome Dickey

How to Misbehave: A Rouge Contemporary Romance

Gabriel Garcia Márquez

Gabriel Garcia Márquez

Collected Stories

Gabriel Garcia Márquez

A Man Came Out of a Door in the Mountain: A Novel

The Story Of A Shipwrecked Sailor

Gabriel Garcia Márquez

God of Vengeance

The Best Thing That Never Happened To Me

Laura Tait, Jimmy Rice

Campari for Breakfast

No One Writes to the Colonel

Gabriel Garcia Márquez

The Autumn of the Patriarch

Gabriel Garcia Márquez

The Bambino and Me

Faith Oxenbridge

The Ballad of a Small Player

Lawrence Osborne