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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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A Love by Design

Elizabeth Everett

Amazing Grace Adams

Fran Littlewood

Now She is Witch

The Last Love Note

Jojo Moyes Me Before You Collection

The Show What You Wrote

Various

1834 Time Travelling Teacher

Jim Poyser

Dial M for Pizza

Ian Brown and James Hendrie

The Things That We Lost

Andrew Palmer

That Mitchell and Webb Sound: The Complete Series 1-5

David Mitchell and Robert Webb

The Game is a Footnote

Theseus, His New Life

Camille de Toledo, Willard Wood

The Survivalists

Batman Black and White Box Set

Various

A Long Time Coming

Bloodchild and Other Stories

Till Death Do Us Port

A Rose and a Promise

Alison Leonard

The No.1 Ladies’ Detective Agency

Alexander McCall Smith

Our Friends in the North

Peter Flannery and Adam Usden

The One and Only Dolly Jamieson

Art of Coloring: Schoolhouse Rock

Christoffer Carlsson

A Murderous Persuasion

Notes on Her Colour

Getting Nowhere Fast : Series 1-3

Mervyn Stutter

Camilo José Cela

Count to Sleep Kauai

Adam Gamble, Mark Jasper

The Wayward Daughter

Catherine Cookson

The Six Mothers-in-Law of Henry VIII

Barry Grossman

Stephane Metayer

Private Beijing

James Patterson, Adam Hamdy

The Lawrence Sweeney Mix

Rumpole: A BBC Radio Collection

John Mortimer

The Spice Master at Bistro Exotique

Samantha Verant

Where it Rains in Color

Denise Crittendon

Things We Found When the Water Went Down

Tegan Nia Swanson

Twice in a Lifetime

To Get to the Other Side