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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

Stories of Southern Italy

Various

Never Let Me Go

The Man Upstairs

Barmy in Wonderland

The Archive of Feelings

Murder of an Amish Bridegroom

Callie Carpenter

Of Talons and Teeth

Niall Griffiths

The Girl on the Boat

Sniffing Out Murder

Kallie E. Benjamin

The Fairytale Life of Dorothy Gale

Virginia Kantra

Mr Willow's Wife

Ray Cooney & John Chapman

Communications Breakdown

Jonathan Strahan

Untitled Giovanna Fletcher

Giovanna Fletcher

Microserfs & Girlfriend in a Coma

Douglas Coupland

The Woman Back from Moscow: In Pursuit of Beauty

Girls from Da Hood 15

Treasure Hernandez, Katt, Marcus Weber

Dating Can Be Deadly

Love on the Ninth Floor

In Their Shadows

The Family Business: To Paris with Love

Carl Weber, Eric Pete

Tatum Comes Home

Tatum Talks, Mica Stone

The Side Effects of Loving You

Kaylha Karrington

Journey's Revenge

Murder Uncorked

James W. Jennings

Many Thousand Gone: An American Fable

Take the Long Way Home

Reasonable Adults

Rumer Godden: Black Narcissus, The Greengage Summer & The Dark Horse

Rumer Godden

Share and Share Alike

Harold Snoad & Michael Knowles

Poor Helpless Comics!

Liliana Corobca

Sister of Starlit Seas

Murder Checks Out

Victoria Gilbert

Trotting into Trouble

CAROLINE HARDAKER

Bulletproof Barista

The Book of Ayn

The Last Train Home

Pick Ups: The Complete Series 1 and 2

The Long Hot Satsuma

Last Christmas at Ballyclare