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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

Orders For New York

That Old Gang of Mine

The Adventures of Goodnight and Loving

The Complete Dangerous Davies

David Foster Wallace

To Marry a Prince

The Sentimentalists

Johanna Skibsrud

Charlotte Bingham

The Nightingale Sings

Charlotte Bingham

Broken Promises

Elizabeth Hoffman

The Alpine Vengeance

Tales From the Yoga Studio

The Strange Crime Of John Boulnois

Malcolm Lowry

22 Britannia Road

Amanda Hodgkinson

Katherine Scholes

Elisabeth Rynell

Heather Sharfeddin

Breyten Breytenbach

Enigmatic Pilot

Kris Saknussemm

A Mind at Peace

Ahmet Hamdi Tanpinar, Erdag Goknar

Ryunosuke Akutagawa

Breyten Breytenbach

When We Were Friends

Elizabeth Arnold

Deceived: Star Wars (The Old Republic)

Paul S. Kemp

Children Of The Tide

Selected Poems of Anthony Hecht

Hummingbird Lake

Emily March

In A Land Of Plenty

A Wartime Nurse

Lovers and Liars

Brenda Joyce

Sisters of the Quilt

Cindy Woodsmall

10th Anniversary

James Patterson

All That Glitters

Barbara Jean Hicks

The Story of Us

Felicity Everett

Cynthia Holz

The Price of Love

No Ordinary Love

Kathleen Winter

Alexander Yates