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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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Forgotten Impulses

Todd Walton

This Child of Mine

Sinéad Moriarty

The Cleaner of Chartres

Isaac Bashevis Singer

King of the Fields

Isaac Bashevis Singer

Bastard Out of Carolina

Dorothy Allison

Northern Lights Trilogy

Lisa Tawn Bergren

Her Fantasy Men

Shayla Black

Garfield Older & Wider

Reflected in You

Garfield Pigs Out

Garfield Blots Out the Sun

His Brother's Wife

A Farewell to Arms: The Special Edition

Ernest Hemingway

Good Night Maryland

Adam Gamble, Mark Jasper

Miljenko Jergovic

Living Dead Girl

Larry Gets Lost in San Francisco

John Skewes, Michael Mullin

A Simple Autumn

Larry Gets Lost in Texas

John Skewes, Michael Mullin

Three Bears of the Pacific Northwest

Richard Lee Vaughan, Jeremiah Trammell, Martha Vaughan

Larry Gets Lost in Portland

Michael Mullin, John Skewes

The Graphic Canon, Vol. 1-3

Deb Vanasse, Erik Brooks

Alaska's Three Pigs

Larry Gets Lost in Chicago

John Skewes, Michael Mullin

Larry Gets Lost in New York City

John Skewes, Michael Mullin

Wheedle on the Needle

Stephen Cosgrove, Robin James

Sass & Serendipity

Jennifer Ziegler

Mike and Psmith

Leo Tolstoy, Richard Pevear, Larissa Volokhonsky

The Spinning Heart

Noughties (Enhanced Audio Edition)

Alex the Parrot: No Ordinary Bird

Stephanie Spinner, Meilo So

To Every Thing There Is a Season

Alistair MacLeod

Christmas in Apple Ridge

Cindy Woodsmall

Monica Kulling, David Parkins

Azareen Van Der Vliet Oloomi

The Opposite of Hallelujah

Anna Jarzab