Contemporary fiction titles are those which focus on the present or near past. Stories rooted in the current cultural, social, and political landscape which feature characters we can all recognise.
Contemporary Fiction Books
Coffee House Press Fog Car
Book SynopsisLong out of print, Eugene Lim''s wry and haunting debut novel returns to shelves with a new introduction from Renee Gladman and a fresh, reversible cover.Jim Fog is marooned in a small Midwest town shortly after his divorce, succumbing to aimless nostalgia. His ex, Sarah Car, has moved to New York City, hoping to skip right over any mourning period for their marriage. Despite everything, Jim and Sarah find they''re still connected through an old, shared friend. When they both decide to chase him down, the resulting coincidences and cryptic occurrences culminate in a trading of souls that blurs the lines between reality and something much stranger.A moving mystery about loss, grief, and the loneliness of the human condition, Fog & Car was hailed as the arrival of a masterful new voice in American fiction on its initial publication; now, more than a decade later, it reads as nothing less than prophetic.
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NewSouth, Incorporated The Trial of Lee Harvey Oswald: A Novel
Book SynopsisThe assassination of Lee Harvey Oswald by Jack Ruby robbed the nation of the closure it so desperately needed following the death of John F. Kennedy. The Trial of Lee Harvey Oswald asks what might have happened if the assassin had lived to stand trial for his murder of America’s beloved president. This meticulously researched and riveting courtroom drama follows prosecutors Abe Summer and Elaine Navarro as they work to bring Oswald to justice despite the legend in Oswald’s corner: famed attorney Percy Foreman. With mysteries and coincidences swirling around the case, Oswald’s conviction doesn’t seem set in stone. After Ruby fails to assassinate the assassin, can Summer and Navaro bring peace of mind back to the American people by sending a murderer to prison?Author William Alsup’s fair and thrilling novel is all the more compelling thanks in no small part to his experiences and expertise as a federal judge. With his background in research and jurisprudence, Alsup has become an expert on the Oswald case. From newspaper clippings to the Warren Report, The Trial of Lee Harvey Oswald is based on real and complicated history. Readers with a passion for the procedural will relish the details Alsup provides behind the scenes of a prosecution, demonstrating just how much time and effort goes into even cases that seem cut and dry. America never recovered from the killing of its king of Camelot, but The Trial of Lee Harvey Oswald provides a window into what might have been.
£35.55
The New York Review of Books, Inc The Other
Book SynopsisHolland and Niles Perry are identical thirteen-year-old twins. They are close, close enough, almost, to read each other?s thoughts, but they couldn?t be more different. Holland is bold and mischievous, a bad influence, while Niles is kind and eager to please, the sort of boy who makes parents proud. The Perrys live in the bucolic New England town their family settled centuries ago, and as it happens, the extended clan has gathered at its ancestral farm this summer to mourn the death of the twins? father in a most unfortunate accident. Mrs. Perry still hasn?t recovered from the shock of her husband?s gruesome end and stays sequestered in her room, leaving her sons to roam free. As the summer goes on, though, and Holland?s pranks become increasingly sinister, Niles finds he can no longer make excuses for his brother?s actions. Thomas Tryon?s best-selling novel about a homegrown monster is an eerie examination of the darkness that dwells within everyone. It is a landmark of psychological horror that is a worthy descendent of the books of James Hogg, Robert Louis Stevenson, Shirley Jackson, and Patricia Highsmith.
£15.29
The New York Review of Books, Inc The Black Spider
Book SynopsisAn NYRB Classics OriginalIt is a sunny summer Sunday in a remote Swiss village, and a christening is being celebrated at a lovely old farmhouse. One of the guests notes an anomaly in the fabric of the venerable edifice: a blackened post that has been carefully built into a trim new window frame. Thereby hangs a tale, one that, as the wise old grandfather who has lived all his life in the house proceeds to tell it, takes one chilling turn after another, while his audience listens in appalled silence. Featuring a cruelly overbearing lord of the manor and the oppressed villagers who must render him service, an irreverent young woman who will stop at nothing, a mysterious stranger with a red beard and a green hat, and, last but not least, the black spider, the tale is as riveting and appalling today as when Jeremias Gotthelf set it down more than a hundred years ago. The Black Spider can be seen as a parable of evil in the heart or of evil at large in society (Thomas Mann saw it as foretelling the advent of Nazism), or as a vision, anticipating H. P. Lovecraft, of cosmic horror. There?s no question, in any case, that it is unforgettably creepy.
£13.49
The New York Review of Books, Inc The Prank
Book SynopsisTwelve early comedic short stories by the Russian master of the form.An NYRB Classics OriginalThe Prank is Chekhov’s own selection of the best of his early work, the first book he put together and the first book he hoped to publish. Assembled in 1882, with illustrations by Nikolay Chekhov, the book was then presented to the censor for approval—which was denied. Now, more than a hundred and thirty years later, The Prank appears here for the first time in any language.At the start of his twenties, when he was still in medical school, Anton Chekhov was also busily setting himself up as a prolific and popular writer. Appearing in a wide range of periodicals, his shrewd, stinging, funny stories and sketches turned a mocking eye on the mating rituals and money-grubbing habits of the middle classes, the pretensions of aspiring artists and writers, bureaucratic corruption, drunken clowning, provincial ignorance, petty cruelty—on Russian life, in short. Chekhov was already developing his distinctive ear for spoken language, its opacities and evasions, the clichés we shelter behind and the clichés that betray us. The lively stories in The Prank feature both the themes and the characteristic tone that make Chekhov among the most influential and beloved of modern writers.
£999.99
Kensington Publishing The Cartel 5: La Bella Mafia
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Oceanview Publishing The Far Side of the Desert
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£21.56
Oceanview Publishing Dont Ask Dont Follow
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£14.41
Soho Press Inc Krik? Krak!
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£15.29
Counterpoint Cool For You: A Novel
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£14.39
The New Press From the Ground Up
Book SynopsisAn award-winning author?s powerful exploration of the remarkable women driving transformative change in America?s food systemIt?s well known that our industrialized food system has abandoned priorities of nutrition and environmental stability in the pursuit of profit?a model designed to fail, especially as climate change escalates. Yet this groundbreaking book describes a glimmer of hope: a green wave of diverse female farmers, entrepreneurs, community organizers, scientists, and political leaders who operate with the shared goals of combatting climate change through regenerative agriculture, redesigning the food system, and producing healthy, socially responsible food.From the Ground Up, by award-winning author Stephanie Anderson, offers a journey into the root causes of our unsustainable food chain, revealing its detrimental reliance on extractive agriculture, which depletes soil and water, produces nutritionally deficient food, and devastates communities and farmers. Anderson then delivers an uplifting, deeply reported narrative of women-led farms and ranches nationwide, supported by women-led investment firms, farmer training programs, restaurants, supply chain partners, and advocacy groups, all working together to create a more inclusive and sustainable world.From the Ground Upsheds light on a set of inspiring journeys, with stories that will transform the way we think about the food chain?one that can weather the storms of climate change, conflicts, and global pandemics.
£17.99
Kensington Publishing The Cartel 2
Book SynopsisAn edge-of-your-seat thriller following the takedown of a family drug business and the sequel to The Cartel
£13.49
Interlink Publishing Group, Inc Kassandra and the Wolf
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PM Press Ruin
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Autumn House Press The Neorealist in Winter: Stories
Book SynopsisEleven short stories following Italian characters exploring life in an era of media oversaturation. Salvatore Pane’s The Neorealist in Winter is a collection of eleven short stories that explore what it means to be human in an age of media oversaturation. Utilizing methods of speculative, historical, and postmodern storytelling, Pane grapples with legacies of immigration, poverty, toxic masculinity, and moral failures, while focusing on working-class issues, family drama, and PTSD. Following eleven Italian narrators, Pane builds a cast of cinematic characters across disparate times and places—a struggling director attends a house party in the la dolce vita of 1960s Rome, gangsters chase a low-level lottery runner in coal valley Scranton, a woman contemplates experimental surgery to purge memories of her childhood trauma in Minnesota, and a pro wrestling promoter descends into self-denial through his autobiography.The Neorealist in Winter was selected by Venita Blackburn as the winner of the 2022 Autumn House Fiction Prize. Trade Review"Eleven stories that cast different facets of Italian American identity in a neo-noir light. . . . A cinematic thread weaves through them, and it can feel as though scenes are written with the camera in mind, what with dramatic last-minute trains to Siena, British hand models riding in shiny cars, and deals made while picking at shrimp cocktails. . . . It’s in these stories that Pane’s sense of play is most evident, and they buoy the collection. Vivid fiction that asks how you can run from your past when it made you who you are." * Kirkus *“These stories ache and bend into the convex shapes of despair without necessarily pining for seasons of respite. In the scratch that is ordinary tragedy and extraordinary expectations, a light pulses in these characters filled with language for obsession, adoration, and fury.” -- Venita Blackburn, author of Black Jesus and Other Superheroes“A wildly inventive book that’s both hilarious and heartbreaking, about the strange comforts we find in desperate moments: a man holds off his sorrows by obsessively watching Goodfellas; a son copes with his absent father via professional wrestling; a woman works through trauma by way of a talking-animal sitcom. Pane is a writer alert to all the puzzling paths that healing sometimes takes, a writer of profound insight and honesty and pure gracious human compassion.” -- Nathan Hill, author of Wellness: A Novel“Take a breath between these thrilling stories: you’re about to meet characters on the verge of something great or calamitous, navigating a range of worlds from the hyper-real present to the sepia-toned past. Pane builds delivers each cinematic scene with deft narrative urgency and economy, blending fact and fiction in a way that feels thematically true not only to the Italian American experience, but to the harrowing experience of being alive.” -- Christopher Castellani, author of Leading MenTable of Contents1) The Neorealist in Winter2) Her Final Nights3) The Electric City4) The Complete Oral History of Monkey High School5) Do I Amuse You?6) Take It Out of Me7) Mamma-draga8) The Faith Center9) Zeitgeist Comics, 194610) The Absolutely True Autobiography of Tony Rinaldi, the Man who Changed Pro Wrestling Forever11) The Last Train to Siena
£12.80
Counterpoint The Forest Brims Over: A Novel
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Soho Press Where The Dead Sit Talking
Book SynopsisA spare, lyrical Native American coming of age story set in rural Oklahoma in the late 1980s.
£13.29
Crooked Lane Books The Mermaid From Jeju: A Novel
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£16.14
Kensington Publishing The Streets Have No Queen
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£14.39
Kensington Publishing Brooklyn: Part 1: Brooklyn
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£8.54
Kensington Publishing Carl Weber's Kingpins: Raleigh-durham
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£14.39
Pixel+Ink Shiver-by-the-Sea 2: The Were-woof
Book SynopsisFor fans of Eerie, Elementary, Bailey School Kids, and The Notebook of Doom, the second book in a magical, spooky new chapter book series about friendship, community restoration and involvement, and helping your neighbors . . . even if some of them may be monsters.The local humane society is hosting a puppy adoption day on the Shiver-by-the-Sea town common, and Bella Gossi, her friend, Cooper, and his basset hound, Casper go to check out the dogs. Bella?s immediately drawn to a shy, scruffy, scraggly puppy at the far edge of the pen. When every other puppy gets adopted, Bella, feeling sorry for the little pup, agrees to foster her over the weekend while the shelter figures out what to do with her.But when the sun goes down, the sleepy, scruffy pup goes positively wild in Uncle Van?s house?racing around, chewing everything she can get her teeth on, and howling at the moon. Can Bella figure out what?s up with the pup before some unsuspecting family takes her home?
£11.04
Regal House Publishing LLC The Late Rebellion
Book SynopsisThe Greaves family is the pillar of Germantown, a small South Carolina community that nestles in the folds of the Appalachian Mountains. Richard and Clara Greaves live in a stone manor paid for by the bank Richard founded three decades ago. Their oldest son, Jack, is the high school athletic director, their daughter, Emily, the county solicitor. Their youngest son, Tom, is a former champion on American Ninja. Their lives appear charmed, at least until the October weekend when they begin to unravel, quickly and publicly. In the wake of shady business transactions, a floundering marriage, and Tom? s new Leonard Cohen tattoo? the Greaves are so harried no one seems to have realized the family matriarch has suffered a stroke. Into this chaos comes Nayma, a young Mexican-American woman in a very white town, lonely Elvis, war veteran and high school groundskeeper, and Dr. Elias Agnew, a high school teacher existing behind a facade of dissimulation? all of whom challenge traditional notions of what it means to be southern, and what it means to be accepted, particularly when the old ways begin to crumble.
£16.11
The New York Review of Books, Inc The Word of The Speechless
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£15.19
Turner Publishing Company Ana Turns
Book SynopsisFeatured in Buzz Books 2023 Great Reads Fall/Winter"A wealth of keen insight and just the right touch of delightful humor." —Sigrid Nunez, author of The FriendA kaleidoscopic story, unspooling over the twenty-four hours of a very contemporary woman’s sixtieth birthday.Nine years have passed since Ana Koehl had sex with her pot-addicted anesthesiologist husband, seven since she began an affair with a gonzo journalist. She’s gratified by her work as a book doula, but burdened by her belief that she need always be on call. Her elderly mother’s birthday greeting is an inflation-adjusted calculation of the cost of raising Ana in a mice-infested house, her brother has hijacked the will of their recently deceased starchitect father, her adult child is changing rapidly before her eyes, and her best friend advocates for “the truth in lies.” Gazing out at the dark moat of Central Park from be
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Turner Publishing Company The Astronaut from Bear Creek
Book SynopsisTen years ago, retired astronaut Jim Mayfield closed himself up inside Bear Creek Inn, and he hasn’t been seen since.Just when the small town of Bear Creek had almost forgotten about their reclusive and mysterious resident, a man from out-of-town flies in on a private jet to meet with the astronaut. The visit prompts the good people of the small town to begin asking questions. Who is Jim Mayfield? Why did he lock himself away? And who is the stranger that visited him? While the small town asks these questions, the most puzzling thing of all occurs when Bear Creek Inn takes in two guests for the first time in ten years.
£13.29
Guernica Editions,Canada The Uniform
Book SynopsisThe year is 1950. A brutal racist attack drives Alfie Bagliato?s family from their small town to New York City, where, at sixteen, Alfie dreams of escaping his Italian American enclave through a career in music and a romance with his distant cousin, Adeline. Soon enough, disappointment and frustration lead Alfie to join the military, to follow Adeline to San Francisco, and then to become a New York City cop, whose clash with protestors during the 1968 Columbia University student uprising nearly kills him, forcing him to confront his inherited bigotry and fear, as he wrestles with his lingering love for Adeline and need to find a new life.
£14.96
Biblioasis The Utopian Generation
Book SynopsisA seminal novel of African decolonization available for the first time in English translation. Lisbon 1961. Aware that the secret police are watching them, four young Angolans discuss their plans for a utopian homeland free from Portuguese rule. When war breaks out, they flee to France and must decide whether they will return home to join the fight. Two remain in exile and two return to Angola to become guerilla fighters, barely escaping capture over the course of the brutal fourteen-year war. Reunited in the capital of Luanda, the old friends face independence with their confidence shaken and struggle to build a new society free of the corruption and violence of colonial rule.Pepetela, a former revolutionary guerilla fighter and Angolan government minister, is the author of more than twenty novels that have won prizes in Africa, Europe, and South America. The Utopian Generation is widely considered in the Portuguese-speaking world an essential nov
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Biblioasis Hello Horse
Book SynopsisTaut, stylish stories take on big moral questions from surprising perspectives.A teenager’s job mucking stalls at a dog track takes a strange turn when his co-worker finds a new religion at odds with winning streaks. Two brothers set out in search of fame upon the frozen waters of a subarctic lake. After her mother''s death, a high school student tries to make rent by winning the Unitarian Church’s Annual Young Writer’s Short Story Competition. An incarcerated man considers the nature of justice between shifts with his fellow inmates at Nations at War, the ultimate live-action experience for tourists eager to learn about the Canadian Civil War.Spanning states and provinces, and featuring an apocalypse, a coterie of ghosts, nuns on ice, and an above-average number of dogs, the stories in Hello, Horse consider the mirage of authenticity and the impact of decisions we make—for better and for worse.
£12.34
Biblioasis The Amethyst Cross
Book SynopsisWorld-renowned cartoonist Seth returns with three new ghost stories for 2024.When Margaret finds a cottage to rent in the moorlands for her visiting Aunt Dorothea, she pays no mind to its rumored dark history. But when Dorothea goes missing only days after her arrival, a haunting tale of greed and murder soon comes to light.
£7.49
Biblioasis A Way to Be Happy
Book SynopsisLonglisted for the 2024 Giller Prize A Globe 100 Best Book of 2024Short stories about disparate characters consider what it means to find happiness. On New Year's Eve, a pair of addicts robs a string of high-end parties in order to fund their own recovery. A recently separated woman relocates to a small northern town, where she receives a life-changing visitation, and a Russian hitman, suffering from a mysterious lung ailment, retrieves long-buried memories of his past. In the nineteenth century, a disparate group of women coalesce in the attempt to aid a young girl in her escape from a hospital for the insane. These are but some of the remarkable characters who populate these stories, all of them grappling with conflicts ranging from mundane to extraordinary. Caroline Adderson's A Way to Be Happy considers what it means to find happinessand how often it comes through the grace of others.
£12.34
Choc Lit Publishing Strictly on Ice
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Pan Macmillan Breath
Book SynopsisTim Winton is widely considered one of the greatest living Australian writers. He has published numerous books, and his work has been translated into twenty-eight languages. Since his first novel, An Open Swimmer, won the Australian/Vogel Award in 1981, he has won the Miles Franklin Award four times (for Shallows, Cloudstreet, Dirt Music, and Breath) and twice been shortlisted for the Booker Prize (for The Riders and Dirt Music). He lives in Western Australia.
£10.44
Headline Publishing Group Snow Road Station
Book SynopsisA New Yorker best book of 2023''Joyous and lyrical, Snow Road Station is an ode to the North, in fact an ode to life itself, and all its possibilities'' Mary Lawson, bestselling author of A Town Called Solace''Like Elizabeth Strout with Olive Kitteridge and Lucy Barton, Hay has created a fictional world to which she returns, to great effect'' Literary Review, Canada''An exquisitely etched coming-of-middle-age story'' Ann-Marie Macdonald, bestselling author of Fayne________________________________________________________________A pitch-perfect story of love and female friendship from the Giller prize-winning author of Late Nights on Air.In the winter of 2008, as snow falls without interruption, an actor in a Beckett play blanks on her lines. Fleeing the theatre, she beats a retreat to Snow Road Station - a barely discernible dot on the map of Ontario.Lulu Blake, sexy and seemingly unfooled, is now in her sixties. Out of work, humiliated, she enters the last act of her life wondering what she can make of her diminished self. She believes she is through with theatre and drama - but drama is not through with her.At the centre of the novel is the relationship between Lulu and her lifelong friend Nan. As the two women contemplate growing older, they surrender certain hard-held dreams and confront the limits of the choices they have made.________________________________________________________________What readers LOVE about SNOW ROAD STATION...''Beautifully written'' ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐''A very human story that tells us you don''t have to be perfect and it''s okay to fail'' ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐''Snow Road Station is an utter delight! A breathtaking setting, unforgettable characters, and a compelling plot pushing the reader forward with her lovely prose'' ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐''Elizabeth Hay writes evocative books that delve deep into the human character, and Snow Road Station is no exception'' ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐''Beautifully written, interesting characters, strong themes. Drenched in Canadiana from the hard work of making maple syrup to snowy landscapes ... Elizabeth Hay reminds me to look, to see, to marvel at beauty that surrounds me'' ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐
£10.44
Pan Macmillan The Pleasing Hour
Book SynopsisThe debut novel by Lily King, beloved author of Writers and Lovers, The Pleasing Hour is the story of Rosie, a young American in France and the family she finds herself working for.
£10.44
Pan Macmillan Father of the Rain
Book SynopsisFrom the beloved author of Writers and Lovers, Father of the Rain is a luminous novel about a fierce familial love.
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Headline Publishing Group Kim JongFun
Book SynopsisKIM JONG FUN: Party Hard the North Korean Way is a political parody that pretends to be written by none other than the North Korean leader and promises to lead all LOYAL COMRADES to PUT THE 'PARTY' IN 'WORKERS' PARTY OF KOREA'!
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC So Long a Letter
Book SynopsisMariama Bâ's pioneering debut, So Long a Letter, captures the private lives of women in 1970s Senegal.Recently widowed, Ramatoulaye is required to take sole responsibility for the long mourning process of her late husband. A husband she has not seen in over four years not after he married his second wife. In a letter to her friend, Ramatoulaye recalls both of their experiences as students impatient to change the world, as wives suffering in the private sphere of marriage, and as mothers witnessing the dangers of Westernisation.Undaunted by topics of polygamy, social castes, and religion, So Long a Letter is a novel rich with poetic prose and profound wisdom.'Mariama Bâ is in a class of her own, conveying with real power and poetry a subtle, changing world of female experience.' Guardian The most deeply felt presentation of the female condition in African fiction.' Abiola Irele
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Headline Publishing Group The Liar
Book Synopsis''Plotting that takes the breath away'' IAN RANKIN''A fantastic thriller writer'' MARK BILLINGHAM''Steve Cavanagh''s twists hit you between the eyes. You never see them coming'' ANTHONY HOROWITZA GIRL IS MISSING. SOMEONE IS LYING.WHO IS DEADLIER...Leonard Howell''s worst nightmare has come true: his daughter Caroline has been kidnapped. Not content with relying on the cops, Howell calls the only man he trusts to get her back....THE MAN WHO KNOWS THE TRUTH...Eddie Flynn knows what it''s like to lose a daughter and vows to bring Caroline home safe. Once a con artist, now a hotshot criminal attorney, Flynn is no stranger to the shady New York underworld....OR THE ONE WHO BELIEVES A LIE?However, as he steps back into his old life, Flynn realizes that the rules of game have changed - and that he is being played. But who is pulling the strings? And is anyone in this twisted case telling the truth...?A missing girl, a desperate father and a case that threatens to destroy everyone involved...Praise for the award-winning, Sunday Times bestseller Steve Cavanagh:''This guy is the real deal. Trust me'' LEE CHILD''The ultimate treat for crime fiction fans'' JANICE HALLETT''Steve Cavanagh writes the best hooks in the business'' MICK HERRON''The real magic is in Steve Cavanagh''s hypnotic storytelling power'' SUNDAY EXPRESS''Cavanagh is a genius'' EVENING STANDARD''A great author'' MARTINA COLE
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Headline Publishing Group Dont Cry Alone
Book Synopsis Beth is a woman of rare courage and fortitude, but there is danger and heartbreak to be endured before she can find peace and happiness... Don''t Cry Alone is an unforgettable saga from Josephine Cox, of the power of love, hope and jealousy. Perfect for fans of Rosie Goodwin and Cathy Sharp.''Hailed quite rightly as a gifted writer in the tradition of Catherine Cookson'' - Manchester Evening PostBeth Ward and Tyler Blacklock share a love they know will last forever. But Beth''s mother, Esther, is jealous of the girl and seizes an opportunity to be rid of her daughter. Banished in disgrace from the family home, Beth takes the northbound train and alights at Blackburn, friendless and alone.On this day, Fortune smiles, for Beth is taken in by warm-hearted Maisie Armstrong, a widow with two children. Money is scarce, but love abounds in the cosy house on Larkhill, and Beth is content there to await the birth of her child. But she cannot forget Tyler, and is tormented by the belief that he has betrayed her. What readers are saying about Don''t Cry Alone: ''Wonderful! Totally believable. Complex story of highs and lows, laughter and tears. Completely absorbing, it''s an emotional roller coaster. I loved it''''This is a story of heartache, caring, loss and coming together. A story that warms the heart, that turns out well, as good stories should, and [leaves you with] a smile''''Kept me gripped throughout. I enjoyed the book immensely, an excellent love story with lots of twists and turns''
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Headline Publishing Group Your Neighbours Table
Book Synopsis''An important literary piece of feminist activism''''Taps into the everyday minutiae of motherhood, baring to all the unspoken labours that women take on both inside and out of parenthood''''Really made me reflect on what it actually means to be a part of a community''''Given recent news stories this feels like an incredibly relevant read''-------------------------------------From the award-winning Korean author Gu Byeong-mo and International Booker-nominated translator Chi-Young Kim, comes a thought-provoking story of community and the cultural expectations of motherhood.What are you willing to sacrifice for a ''better'' life? When Yojin moves with her husband and daughter into the Dream Future Pilot Communal Apartments, she''s ready for a fresh start. Located on the outskirts of Seoul, the experimental community is a government initiative designed to boost the national birth rate. Like her neighbours, Yojin has agreed to have at least two more children over the next ten years.Yet, from the day she arrives, Yojin feels uneasy about the community spirit thrust upon her. Her concerns grow as communal child care begins and the other parents show their true colours. Your Neighbour''s Table traces the lives of four women in the apartments, all with different aspirations and beliefs. Will they find a way to live peacefully? Or are society''s expectations stacked against them from the start?A trenchant social novel from an award-winning author, Your Neighbour''s Table incisively illuminates the unspoken imbalance of women''s parenting labour and the challenges of working towards a better life.[Published in North America with the title APARTMENT WOMEN]
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Burning Grass
Book SynopsisIn this groundbreaking novella, Cyprian Ekwensi narrates the spectacular adventures of a nomadic family whose lives are turned upside down when their great leader is cursed by his rival to the throne.When Chief Mai Sunsaye smells the smoke of burning grass, he knows it is time to go. Such is the nomadic life of the Fulani. Yet when Mai Sunsaye''s rival, Ardo, curses him with wanderer''s disease, it provokes in him a new-found sense of adventure, one which takes him further than he ever could have imagined...Full of love, magic, and fateful happenings, Burning Grass is an unforgettable tale that has captured the imagination of children and adults alike.''A joy to read; his glorious imagination captured ours.'' Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie''One of the most prolific African writers of the twentieth century.'' Charles R. Larson ''Magical occurrences, mysterious and seductive women, acts of phenomenal heroism, and swift-paced advent
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Headline Publishing Group Knock Knock
Book SynopsisFrom the author of GO SEEK comes a dark, high-octane thriller about a tight-knit suburban community in Cork and what happens when one fearlessly protective mother is threatened by her next-door neighbour.
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Headline Publishing Group Murder at the Crooked House
Book SynopsisTHERE''S A PUZZLING MYSTERY WHEN A BELOVED PUB BURNS DOWN...BUT LIBBY SARJEANT IS ON THE CASE.After learning of a suspicious attempt to burn down a beloved old pub, The Crooked Horse, amateur detective Libby Sarjeant and her friend Fran reluctantly agree to investigate.But when a local antiques dealer mysteriously disappears after apparently taking out his boat, it appears there are dark and sinister forces at play.This gripping and twisty crime mystery novel is is the perfect read for fans of Richard Osman, the Reverend Richard Coles and LJ Ross.Praise for Lesley Cookman:''With fascinating characters and an intriguing plot, this is a real page turner'' KATIE FFORDE''Lesley Cookman is the Queen of Cosy Crime'' PAUL MAGRS''I''ve read all of the books in this series and love them all'' 5* Reader Review''Just can''t get enough of reading about Libby and her friends'' 5* Reader Review''Libby''s gang are like old friends and I was hooked from the start'' 5* Reader Review''Love this series, roll on the next one!'' 5* Reader Review''I adore the characters and the village. I wish I could live on All Hallows Lane and be a part of this gang. Hoping for a new novel soon. Highly recommend'' 5* Reader Review''The characters are so likeable. I would love to visit the mythical Steeple Martin!'' 5* Reader Review
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Headline Publishing Group A Girls Guide to Winning the War
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Picador In the Garden of the Fugitives
Book SynopsisProfoundly addictive and unsettling, Ceridwen Dovey''s In the Garden of the Fugitives is a masterful novel of duplicity and counterplay, as brilliantly illuminating as it is surprisingabout the obscure workings of guilt in the human psyche, the compulsion to create and control, and the dangerous morphing of desire into obsession. Almost twenty years after forbidding him to contact her, Vita receives a letter from a man who has long stalked her from a distance. Once, Royce was her benefactor and she was one of his brightest protégées. Now Royce is ailing and Vita's career as a filmmaker has stalled, and both have reasons for wanting to settle accounts. They enter into an intimate game of words, played according to shifting rules of engagement.Beyond their murky shared history, they are both aware they can use each other to free themselves from deeper pasts. Vita is processing the shameful inheritance of her birthplace, and making sense of the disappeara
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Henry Holt & Company Inc You Only Call When Youre in Trouble
Book SynopsisStephen McCauley?s rollicking and touching novel asks an increasingly important question: Is it ever okay to stop caring for others and start living for yourself?After a lifetime of taking care of his impossible but irresistible sister and his cherished niece, Tom is ready to put himself first. An architect specializing in tiny houses, he finally has an opportunity to build his masterpiece??his last shot at leaving a footprint on the dying planet.? Assuming, that is, he can stick to his resolution to keep the demands of his needy family at bay. Naturally, that?s when his phone rings. His niece, Cecily?the real love of Tom?s life, as his boyfriend reminded him when moving out?is embroiled in a Title IX investigation at the college where she teaches that threatens her career and relationship. And after decades of lying, his sister wants him to help her tell Cecily the real identity of her father. Tom does what he?s always done?answers the call. Thus begins a journey that will change everyone?s life and demonstrate the beauty or dysfunction (or both?) of the ties that bind families together and sometimes strangle them. Warm, funny, and deeply moving, You Only Call When You?re in Trouble is an unforgettable showcase for Stephen McCauley?s distinctive voice and unique ability to create complex characters that jump off the page and straight into your heart.
£14.39
St Martin's Press The Rain Watcher
Book SynopsisThe first new novel in four years from the beloved superstar author of Sarah's Key, a heartbreaking and uplifting story of family secrets and devastating disaster, in the tradition of THE NEST.
£20.99
