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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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This Old Homicide

Violetta Rand

Dirty Girls Social Club

Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez

Requiem for a Woman's Soul

Omar Rivabella

Wicked All Night

Shayla Black

While We're Apart

Sait Faik Abasiyanik, Maureen Freely

Cabin Pressure: Zurich

The Three Leaps of Wang Lun

Meet Me in Scotland

Patience Griffin

Planet Name Game (Dr. Seuss/Cat in the Hat)

Tish Rabe

Diners, Drive-Ins, And Death

Christine Wenger

All That Glitters

Michael Murphy

Mr. Monk and the New Lieutenant

For Whom The Bluebell Tolls

Catherine Anderson

Ghost In The Guacamole

Sue Ann Jaffarian

Montana Actually

All the President's Menus

Lie Of The Needle

No Ghouls Allowed

Victoria Laurie

Feta Attraction

Dictatorship of the Dress

The Maxwell Sisters

Five Minutes Alone

Peyton Marshall

A German Picturesque

The Last Days of Video

James Patterson

Beneath the Ice

Patrick Woodhead

The Portable Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The Bishop's Wife

Mette Ivie Harrison

The Tejano Conflict

Stormy Persuasion

Johanna Lindsey

Scott Alexander

Harvey Kurtzman's Jungle Book

Harvey Kurtzman

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