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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

Ocean Vuong

The instant Sunday Times bestseller, a vibrant and heartbreaking story of unexpected friendship and how far people go to find a second chance

Rytual

Chloe Elisabeth Wilson

I support women’s rights, but more importantly I support women’s wrongs.

It Should Have Been You

Andrea Mara

The Correspondent

Virginia Evans

Great Big Beautiful Life

The Sex Lives of Married Women

Saman Shad

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Popular contemporary fiction

Return to Sweetheart Lake

Evelyn Jordan

The Perishing

Natashia Deón

This Weightless World

Kelly Starling Lyons, Nneka Myers

It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Murder

Maria DiRico

A Thorn in the Saddle

Rebekah Weatherspoon

Deck the Donuts

Ginger Bolton

Murder at the Mistletoe Ball

J.D. Griffo

Strangers on a Skein

Anne Canadeo

Murder at Mallowan Hall

Colleen Cambridge

The Pickwick Murders

Heather Redmond

To the Tome of Murder

Lauren Elliott

Christmas Dessert Murder

Joanne Fluke

Perfectly Fine Christmas

La Jill Hunt

The Wedding Ringer

Kerry Rea

Dinner on Primrose Hill

Henrik Ibsen

The Attic on Queen Street

Jocelyn Nicole Johnson

Where You Come From

Sasa Stanisic

The Letters of Mina Harker

Dodie Bellamy

Santa in the City

Tiffany D. Jackson, Reggie Brown

Elbow Grease Saves Christmas

John Cena, Dave Aikins

Buckaroo Banzai Against the World Crime League, Et Al: A Compendium of Evils

Good Night Sea Monsters

Adam Gamble, Mark Jasper

One More Christmas at the Castle

Trisha Ashley

Inspector Purbright

Colin Watson

HER Story: Women’s Untold Histories

Abigail Youngman, Nan Woodhouse, Theresa Ikoko, Judy Upton, Colin Teevan, Sarah Wooley, Charlotte Williams, Melissa Murray, Stephen Lowe, Shelia Hamilton, David and Caroline Stafford, Carine Adler, Frances Byrnes,