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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

The Good Girl's Guide to Bad Men

Anyone Who Had a Heart

Some Other Eden

Natasha Farrant

Other People's Husbands

The Rainbow and the Rose

Trustee from the Toolroom

Confessions of a Reluctant Recessionista

Guy de Maupassant

Summer Will Show

Sylvia Townsend Warner

Albert Einstein

William S. Burroughs

William S. Burroughs

White Picket Fences

At Home on Ladybug Farm

The Chocolate Snowman Murders

Sweet Seduction

The Queen's Mistake

The Black Prince (Vintage Classics Murdoch Series)

Richard Flanagan

James Patterson

Charlotte Bingham

Her Fearful Symmetry

Audrey Niffenegger

The Clayton Account

Unseen Academicals

Terry Pratchett

Train to Trieste

Domnica Radulescu

Caroline Overington

The First Boxer

Christopher Ride

Sexy Little Numbers

Holly's Jolly Christmas

Nancy Krulik, John and Wendy

The Night Before Christmas

How to Rob an Armored Car

Indiana Jones and the Army of the Dead

The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum

Killer Crab Cakes

Livia J. Washburn

Dearest Creature

McKnight in Shining Armor