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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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Deadly Director's Cut

Sisters of Night and Fog

Peril on the Page

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Nowheresville #5

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This Might Hurt

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The Memory Quilt

Murder at the Lobstah Shack

A Counterfeit Suitor

Marriage Can Be Mischief

Crazy like a Fox

Isabel Puddles Investigates

Bear a Wee Grudge

Murder at the Bake Sale

A Murder Yule Regret

Claret and Present Danger

Sarah Fox

Playing with Fire

The Last Station

Nicole Alexander

Daughter of Scandal

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The Fourth Species

Nicholas Freeling: Van der Valk & Castang

Nicholas Freeling

Dee T. Mitchell Investigates

Nigel Baldwin

Where Blood Runs Cold

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The Secret Love Letters of Olivia Moretti

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Strength in the Storm

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The Stone World

Custody of the Eyes

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The Magnificent Makers #5: Race Through Space

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Alexander von Humboldt

Danica Novgorodoff

She Professed Herself Pupil of the Wise Man (Light Novel) Vol. 3

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Galton & Simpson: The Collection

Ray Galton & Alan Simpson

A Perfect Equation

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Woman Running in the Mountains

Batman: Urban Legends Vol. 1

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