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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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In Touch With Grace

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Dare Truth or Promise

My Bones Will Keep

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Spotted Hemlock

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Wise Acres: The Seventh Circle of Heck

DALE E. BASYE, Bob Dob

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The Next Big Thing

The Devil's Scribe

The Great American Bachelor

Sally Goldenbaum

Taming the Pirate

Ruth Owen

The Last American Hero

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Sandra Chastain

Imaginary Lover

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Faraway Smell of Lemon

The Trial of Fallen Angels

Home for the Haunting

Juliet Blackwell

Mr. Monk Helps Himself

Undressing Mr. Darcy

Karen Doornebos

Billionaire Blend

Estrella Flores-Carretero

Murder, She Barked

The Sayers Swindle

Victoria Abbott

Gabriel's Redemption

Sylvain Reynard

A Treatise on Shelling Beans

Wieslaw Mysliwski, Bill Johnston

The Black Obelisk

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Elizabeth Craig

Home for the Homicide

Surrender to Summer 2

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Mr Hoddy (A Roald Dahl Short Story)

The Christmas Story

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The Animals' Christmas Eve

The Hen Who Dreamed She Could Fly

Sun-mi Hwang

James A. Michener