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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

Wallander's First Case

Henning Mankell

Marita Conlon-McKenna

Moonlight Plains

The Tale of the Heike

The Iron Sickle

The $25,000 Flight (Totally True Adventures)

Lori Haskins Houran

Earth Space Moon Base

Ben Joel Price

This Is How I'd Love You

Hazel Woods

Frank Einstein and the Antimatter Motor

Sigmund Brouwer

Tod Goldberg

The Hollywood Trilogy

The Case of the Missing Kitchen

Yet Another Ghastly Christmas

Call Nurse Jenny

The Dream of Nikau Jam

The Quotable Fulton Sheen

Swamp Bones: A Temperance Brennan Short Story

The Lotus and the Storm

Julia Llewellyn

The Supernatural Enhancements

Howard Jacobson

Love of Fat Men

Behind Closed Doors

The Girls from Corona del Mar

Your Face in Mine

The Scatter Here is Too Great

The Abbess of Castro

The Yankee Club

Michael Murphy

Who Was Marie Curie?

Megan Stine, Who HQ, Ted Hammond

Elizabeth Little

The Smell of Hay

Giorgio Bassani

The Table Of Less Valued Knights

Belva Plain

Extra Sensory Deception

Allison Kingsley

Elizabeth Lynn Casey

Elizabeth Craig