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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

Lascivious Something/Roadkill Confidential/That Pretty Pretty; Or, The Rape Play

Sheila Callaghan

Ghouls, Ghouls, Ghouls

Victoria Laurie

A Desirable Residence

Madeleine Wickham

The Gatecrasher

Madeleine Wickham

Three Elegies For Kosovo

The Tennis Party

Madeleine Wickham

The Wedding Girl

Madeleine Wickham

Cocktails For Three

Madeleine Wickham

Elizabeth McGregor

How to Bake a Perfect Life

Lady Of Kynachan

James Irvine Robertson

I Married Madam

The Walking Drum (Louis L'Amour's Lost Treasures)

All I Want for Christmas

The Violet Hour

Richard Montanari

Last Sacrifice: A Vampire Academy Novel Volume 6

Alexander's Bridge

The Diva Cooks a Goose

If Walls Could Talk

Juliet Blackwell

Threats at Three

Nectar in a Sieve

Kamala Markandaya

A Tale of Two Cities and Great Expectations (Oprah's Book Club)

Charles Dickens

Christmas with Tucker

Fellowship of Iron

The Discipline Of Nurse Riding

Yolanda Celbridge

The Confessions of an English Slave

Yolanda Celbridge

Hairdos of the Mildly Depressed

Christ In The Fields

The Correction Of An Essex Maid

Yolanda Celbridge

The Black Rubber Dress

Lauren Henderson

Doctor Who: Monsters Inside

Steve Cole, Steve Cole, Doctor Who

Half Asleep In Frog Pyjamas

Bartleby the Scrivener

Herman Melville

The Beach of Falesa

Robert Louis Stevenson