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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

Sweet Land Stories

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A Star for Mrs. Blake

Mrs. Lincoln's Rival

Jennifer Chiaverini

Alberto Savinio

I am Amelia Earhart

Brad Meltzer, Christopher Eliopoulos

The Wedding Quilt: An Elm Creek Quilts Novel

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Sonoma Rose: An Elm Creek Quilts Novel

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After the Storm

James A. Levine

Paws for Murder

Tapestry of Lies

Carol Ann Martin

The Best of Comix Book

Various

The Ghoul Next Door

Victoria Laurie

Eggs in a Casket

Mr. Monk Gets on Board

Home of the Braised

More Than a Touch

Return to Tradd Street

Notes From A Turkish Whorehouse

Philip Ó Ceallaigh

All Russians Love Birch Trees

The Big Rock Candy Mountain

Wallace Stegner

The Other Typist

Suzanne Rindell

Numbers in the Dark

The Spectator Bird

Wallace Stegner

The Path to the Spiders' Nests

The Collected Stories of Rumpole

The Thing About December

Thomas Dekker, Alma Katsu

Babette's Feast and Other Stories

Isak Dinesen, Karen Blixen

A Shooting Star

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White Dog Fell From the Sky

Bubble Homes and Fish FaRTs

Jane Anne Peddicord

The Ocean Alphabet Book

At Home in the Coral Reef

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A Very Improbable Story

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The Deep-Sea Floor

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One Night in the Coral Sea

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