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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

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Rules of Engagement

Stacey Abrams, Selena Montgomery

Only Love Can Hurt Like This

I Am My Country

Murder on Bedford Street

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The EC Archives: Tales from the Crypt Volume 3

Al Feldstein, William Gaines, Jack Davis, Graham Ingels, Jack Kamen

Fifth Avenue Glamour Girl

Bear with Me Now

The Lyrebird Lake Ladies Choir

The Angel of Rome

The Memory of Animals

How to Build a Boat

Caroline Khoury

Conversations from a Long Marriage: Series 4

Jan Etherington

Inspector Coleman and Sergeant Astor

Michael McStay

Sean Lock: 15 Minutes of Misery & 15 Storeys High

Sean Lock

The Last Animal

Andrew F. Sullivan

A Wealth of Deception

Full Figured 18

Monica Walters, Treasure Hernandez

Marked at Birth

Theresa A. Campbell

Lady of Fortune

Pink Lemonade Cake Murder

Irish Knit Murder

A Half-Baked Murder

The Lost World and The Poison Belt

Arthur Conan Doyle

Do Everything in the Dark

Only the Beautiful

Who Cries for the Lost

Carlyn Greenwald

Things I Wish I Told My Mother

Susan Patterson, James Patterson

Ysabelle Lacamp

Courage of the Railway Girls

A Killer in the Family

Peter Tinniswood

Broken Wings and Bright Stars & other stories

Mike Walker

The Kill Lock: The Artisan Wraith

Livio Ramondelli

Paradise Valley

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The Cuban Heiress

The Gift of Faith

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First Comes Summer

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The Disappeared

The Wilsons Save the World: Series 1-3

Marcus Brigstocke & Sarah Morgan