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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

Broken Colours: The Complete Series 1-3

Matthew Broughton

A Taste of Honey & more

Shelagh Delaney

Ways of Sunlight

Bird Child and Other Stories

The Bone People

What Will Survive of Us

Howard Jacobson

The EC Archives: Weird Science Volume 3

Al Feldstein, William Gaines, Wally Wood, Jack Kamen

Knife Skills for Beginners

365 Days of Jokes: A Year of the Funniest Jokes Ever!

Highlights

The Babysitting Circle

Elizabeth Baines

Elliot Ackerman, Admiral James Stavridis

Kalangadog Junction

Moya O'Shea

Jigsaw: The Complete Series 1-2

Dan Antopolski, Tom Craine and Nat Luurtsema

Relight My Fire

C.K.McDonnell, Caimh McDonnell

Peter Ling and Juliet Ace

Tales of London: Hawksmoor and others

Peter Ackroyd

Stop Messing About!

Johnnie Mortimer, Brian Cooke, Myles Rudge, David Cumming & Derek Collyer

Yvette Christiansë

Sarah-Jane Collins

Walter Benjamin Stares at the Sea

Haunted Holiday

Every Black Girl Dances

Candice Y. Johnson

The Secret of the Lady's Maid

Phil Hester, David Lapham, Maria Lapham, Melissa Flores

A Motive for Murder

Mientras Pudimos

Pablo Herrán De Viu

Yoda: Dark Rendezvous: Star Wars Legends

Sean Stewart

Murder, She Wrote: Fit for Murder

Jessica Fletcher, Terrie Farley Moran

Amish Love Letters

Shelley Shepard Gray, Rosalind Lauer, Charlotte Hubbard

Christina Cooke

Roberto Bolaño

Murder on Lake Garda

The Women in His Life

Barbara Taylor Bradford

Nothing Serious

L.P Hartley: The Go- Between, & More

L.P. Hartley

Hammers and Homicide

Deadly to the Core

The Night of the Storm

The Woman at the Wheel

The Last Resort

HAUNT YOUR HEART OUT

The Gardins of Edin