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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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A Thorn Among the Lilies

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Another Kind of Hurricane

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Wings in the Dark

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Draw Me In: A Rouge Contemporary Romance

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Caught Read-Handed

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Now It's Time to Say Goodbye

Death Under Glass

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Magic and Macaroons

Spellcasting In Silk

Juliet Blackwell

The Someday Jar

Sense of Deception

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Peaches and Scream

Fatal Reservations

Truly Madly Montana

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Macaroni and Freeze

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Pretty Much Screwed

The Secrets She Keeps

The Blumhouse Book of Nightmares

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CAROLINA DE ROBERTIS

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Death of an English Muffin

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