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
Headline Publishing Group Eddie Flynn 9
Book SynopsisThe award-winning, Sunday Times Top Five bestseller returns with a brand new thriller featuring the unforgettable Eddie Flynn.
£15.29
Headline Publishing Group Thatll Teach Her
Book SynopsisA headmistress is dead. The circumstances are suspicious.And as every parent knows, being on the school group chat can be murder...''Deliciously funny'' MARTINA COLE''Pure fun in book form, a laugh out loud murder mystery with great characters and a page turning plot. It''s a book you won''t be able to put down!'' C L MILLER''Brilliantly witty and suspenseful...a delightful blend of humour and mystery that kept me guessing until the end'' JOANNA WALLACEAs educators go, Claudia Stitchwell makes Miss Hannigan look like Miss Honey.But when the reviled headteacher drops dead in the school hall, a group of sceptical parents suspect the nut allergy explanation doesn''t add up - they believe someone wanted to teach Miss Stitchwell a lesson. Only four people could have killed Stitchwell: Hattie, the adored school cook; Kiera, the hard-working teaching assistant; Clive, the loathed school bursar and Ben, the popular deputy head. All of them are liars... but only one is the murderer. Piecing together evidence from the daily drama and drudgery of the parents'' group chat, local press, police reports, school newsletters, and good, old-fashioned gossip, the determined detective parents are doing their homework to crack the case.Will you spot the clues? Can you deduce whodunnit? And for the love of all things holy, does anyone have this week''s spellings?''A hilarious whodunit filled with so much heart, and a cast characters you''ll love to pieces but suspect of doing a murder all at once'' KATE WESTONPraise for Maz Evans:''Laugh-out-loud hilarious, moving and life affirming. I couldn''t put this fabulous, first class, five star read down.'' JANICE HALLETT''Thoroughly wicked, compulsively page-turning, and funny as hell.'' S J BENNETT''Warm, wacky and witty. I loved it!'' SALLY PAGE''A triumph'' DAILY MIRROR''Sometimes a book comes along that reminds you why you fell in love with reading. ..an absolute joy!'' WOMAN & HOME''Splendidly offbeat whodunnit'' DAILY EXPRESS''Clever, wise and properly funny. An absolute triumph'' LUCY MANGAN
£9.49
Headline Publishing Group Patient X
Book SynopsisIs she a victim, a witness . . . or a killer?''Will definitely have you hooked!'' ?????''Completely floored me'' ?????''Woah! I had to take a minute to catch my breath!'' ?????''I read it in one sitting'' ?????---Laura Winters doesn''t know why she has lost her memory, or why she was found alone, soaked in someone else''s blood.The only thing she is certain of is that I am the only psychologist she can - or will - talk to.I have six days to help Laura unlock her memories and find out the truth.But what has she forgotten - and what is she hiding?And how does she know so much about me?With tension you could cut with a knife and twists that will have your head spinning, The Woman in Ward 9 is sure to keep you reading late into the night.---Praise for The Woman in Ward 9:''''I inhaled The Woman in Ward 9. Such a clever, chilling and unputdownable thriller . . . with a killer twist that made me want to read it all over again'' CLAIRE DOUGLAS''Wrapped itself tighter and tighter around me until I could hardly breathe'' S E LYNES''Dark, twisted and razor-sharp. You''ll be racing towards a nail-biting ending and then you''ll want to read it all over again'' LAUREN NORTH''Keeps you guessing right until the last word. Don''t expect to sleep if you take this one to bed'' G. D. WRIGHT''Dark, gripping, and utterly unputdownable . . . Prepare to be hooked!'' EMILY FREUD''Dripping with tension and a creeping sense of unease . . . an utterly gripping, mess-with-your-mind thriller'' A A CHAUDHURI
£9.49
Headline Publishing Group The Letter Carrier the international bestseller
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£13.59
Austin Macauley Publishers A Dysfunctional Relationship
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£8.54
Austin Macauley Publishers Seasons in the City
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£7.59
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC L.A. Women
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£15.29
Austin Macauley Publishers Parvon Zin Koban Hunter Book 9 Doplons Curse
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£8.54
Austin Macauley Publishers Parvon Zin Koban Hunter Book 10 The Enemy of My
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£9.49
Weatherglass Books The Undrowned
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£11.39
Flatiron Books Home
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£15.45
Flatiron Books Flight
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£15.45
St. Martin's Publishing Group The Trail of Lost Hearts
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£15.20
St Martin's Press Off the Books
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£14.39
St. Martin's Publishing Group The Odds of Getting Even
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£15.30
Simon & Schuster Ltd Since the World Is Ending
Book SynopsisCan we really get over an all-consuming love? What kind of love should define our lives? This delicate requiem to musicians and their music how it is born in their veins, why it bleeds from their skin is larger than the small span of time it embodies, much like a symphony itself. And the utter poetry of the writing! I found myself gasping at a phrase, transported just the way the right series of notes would move me', Jodi Picoult, New York Times bestselling author''A lush, gorgeous novel that will completely immerse you in Vienna, seduce you with music and philiosophy and art, and then capture your heart'', Eleanor Shearer, author of River Sing Me Home''Musical, hypnotically lyrical, rhythmic and sensory'', Laura Dockrill, author of I Love You I Love You I Love YouJoyful, sensuous and erudite, Since the World is Ending is sharply observed and gloriously intelligent. A delight.' Jessica Moor, author of KeeperWith a passion for music at its core, this is a great pick for fans of Deep Cuts.' Booksellers Circle MagazineMaya is living her dream in Vienna. First violinist with the prestigious Habsburg Philharmonic, her days are filled with music, her nights with wild parties and passionate, no-strings-attached sex with her colleague, star cellist Lucia Rizzo. But when Josh - the ex-love of Maya''s life - unexpectedly shows up at her door, the perfect world she''s built begins to unravel. Set over a blisteringly hot weekend in a city where ghosts lurk in every alleyway, Since the World is Ending explores the sacrifices we make and the risks we take when we pour life into our art. A novel about music, consequence, desire and the importance of love and art in a world on fire by a daring and uniquely compelling young novelist.
£14.24
Simon & Schuster Ltd The Dancer
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£13.49
Simon & Schuster Ltd One Last Job
Book SynopsisThe second book from Anise Starre is a swoony and steamy workplace romance with forced proximity, an enemies to lovers arc and family drama.
£9.49
Simon & Schuster Ltd Long Distance
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£13.49
Simon & Schuster Ltd Awake in the Floating City
Book SynopsisFor fans of Station Eleven or Birnam Wood a literary novel with a dystopian world as its setting and at its heart is a human story about compassion in times of great adversity.
£15.29
Orion Publishing Co One of Our Kind
Book Synopsis''Your bookclub will be discussing this one for DAYS''-Jodi Picoult, author of SMALL GREAT THINGSGet Out meets The Stepford Wives in #1 New York Times best-selling author Nicola Yoon''s first adult novel. When Jasmyn Williams and her husband King realise they''re expecting their second child, they decide to move to the town of Liberty, California hoping to find a community of like-minded people, where their growing family can thrive in a majority-Black environment. King settles in at once, embracing the Liberty ethos, including the luxe wellness centre at the top of the hill which proves to be the heart of the community. But Jasmyn struggles to find her place. She expected to find liberals and social justice activists striving for racial equality, but Liberty residents seem more focused on booking spa treatments and ignoring the world''s troubles. Then, as Jasmyn gets further into her pregnancy, she discovers a terrible secret that turns her frustration to dread. A secret that could threaten the safety of not only her family, but everything she believes in...Tense, thrilling and packed with insightful social commentary, One of Our Kind explores what happens when the quest for true liberation comes at a shocking price, from an acclaimed author at the height of her powers.
£9.49
Orion Publishing Co Somewhere Only We Know
Book Synopsis''Tender and emotional, just absolutely beautiful'' JOSIE SILVER ''Heartbreaking and hopeful'' SARAH MORGANShe thought their love story was over.The world had other plans...When Magnolia Jones finds her daughter''s travel journal, she can think of no better way to honour her life than setting off on the gap year trip that twenty-three-year-old Brontë had dreamed of taking. It was meant to be Brontë''s adventure, but perhaps following her daughter''s footsteps around the world is exactly what Magnolia needs to piece her broken heart back together and begin to heal.As her travels take her further away from home, memories of a long-ago summer come flooding back. Magnolia barely recognises that girl she used to be - the dreams she had, the freedom ahead, the midnight kisses on the beach with curly-haired, brown eyed Jackson.Maybe, just maybe, in this magical place that is somewhere only they know, Magnolia is about to discover that her journey isn''t over - it''s just about to begin...More praise for Somewhere Only We Know:''Life-affirming and full of love and hope. A book you won''t want to put down, I devoured it greedily'' SANTA MONTEFIORE''A heart-breaking yet hugely uplifting novel about finding yourself after loss'' EMILY STONE''An injection of pure of happiness and escapism!'' KIRSTY GREENWOOD''An emotional journey which will have you reaching for tissues and your passport, this book is a beautiful exploration of grief and hope. The perfect cocktail of heartbreak, nostalgia and romance in an idyllic setting'' VERONICA HENRY''Poignant and inspiring, Somewhere Only We Know broke my heart and then healed it. Absolutely stunning!'' KIM NASH''Maggie was the perfect protagonist to travel the world with'' CESCA MAJOR''Emotional and evocative, the perfect escapist read. I loved it'' ALEX BROWN''A wonderfully different and uplifting novel - thoroughly enjoyable'' KATIE FFORDE''A gorgeous story that swept me away. I loved it!'' SOPHIE COUSENS
£14.44
Orion Publishing Co Secrets of the Starlit Sea
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£17.00
Orion Publishing Co The Girl I Was
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£9.49
Orion Publishing Co A Testimony of Blood
Book Synopsis''A bird in a cage may be safe but it will know no peace until it can fly. After all that we have seen, all that we have lost, I believe that the time to dance has come. We''ve hidden long enough.'' For those with the wit to learn, there is no better teacher than death. Nowhere is this truth better known than in the Eredo; where death''s signature marks every corner as its leaders and people try to recover from a devastating attack. The lost princess Falina Almarak has been crowned queen of the Kasinabe and charged with the unenviable task of rebuilding a broken nation. Rumi Voltaine, seen by so many as a hero, struggles to come to terms with the revelations of his ancestral past and the expectations that come with it. With the Shadow Order deprived of its essential healing elixir, Rumi and his companions embark upon an impossible mission: to journey into the deepest parts of the forest known as the bush of ghosts. The forest holds many secrets - including the gateway known as the Door of Testimony which may hold the power to bring the dead back to life. They will have to be careful though; godhunters are on their trail and time is a precious commodity when your adversaries are immortal...Inspired by West-African spirituality and set in a world reminiscent of colonial Africa. A TESTIMONY OF BLOOD is the continuation of the SONG OF GODHUNTERS an epic adult fantasy series.
£19.80
Hodder & Stoughton The Funfair
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£9.49
Hodder & Stoughton The Place of Shells
Book SynopsisWINNER OF THE AKUTAGAWA PRIZE''A hypnotic dissection of memory, trauma and belonging''New Statesman''This attempt to imprint upon humanity the experiences of the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami in a way that only a novel can achieve deserves to be highly esteemed''Yoko Ogawa, author of The Memory Police''Here we find a form of language that attempts to venture, dancing, into a past enveloped in silence''Yoko Tawada, author of The Last Children of Tokyo''An eerie, shimmering fever dream . . . strange and beautiful''Jenny Mustard, author of Okay DaysIn the summer of 2020, as Germany slowly emerges from lockdown, a young Japanese woman studying in Göttingen waits at the train station to meet an old friend. Nomiya died a decade earlier in the Tohoku tsunami, but he has suddenly returned without any explanation.The reunited friends share a past that''s a world away from the tranquillity of Göttingen. Yet Nomiya''s spectral presence destabilises something in the city: mysterious guests appear, eerie discoveries are made in the forest and, as the past becomes increasingly vivid, the threads of time threaten to unravel.With a literary style reminiscent of W. G. Sebald, Yoko Tawada, and Yu Miri, The Place of Shells is an astounding exploration of the strange orbits of memory and the haunting presence of the past.
£14.44
Penguin Books Ltd The World After Alice
Book SynopsisAvailable to pre-order in paperback - the gorgeous and poignant debut novel from Lauren Aliza Green, for fans of Anne Tyler and Claire Lombardo. 'Glimmers with fine writing and notes of human insight' Ann Napolitano'A page turner . . . honest, funny and deeply empathic' Charmaine Wilkerson'Deeply moving' Heat'This dramatic tragi-comedy takes us right into the head of each character' Daily Mail'Poignant and thought-provoking' Culturefly'Will make you laugh and moments later choke you up . . . impressively executed' Glamour'Such a fascinating portrayal of secrets, deceit, the complicated nature of family relationships and societal expectations. I will be recommending this book to everybody I know!' Reader Review *****----When Morgan and Benji surprise their families with a wedding invitation to Maine, they're aware their relationship will come as a shock. Twelve years have passed since the loss of sixteen-year-old Alice Weil, Benji's sister and Morgan's best friend. No one is quite t
£9.49
Little, Brown Book Group Moving On
Book SynopsisSet over the course of decades, One Day meets The Flatshare in this warm-hearted romance, which explores the places, spaces and faces who make us who we are, perfect for fans of Marian Keyes, Lucy Diamond and anyone who loved the TV show, Love Life.
£9.49
Hodder & Stoughton Someone Like Us
Book SynopsisA BOOK OF THE YEAR IN THE NEW YORK TIMES, STYLIST, AND GRANTAA BARACK OBAMA BOOK OF THE YEAR ''Haunting . . . perfectly attuned to what it means to roam freely as an immigrant in America''Guardian''No book this year moved or thrilled me more''Garth Greenwell, author of Small RainA heartbreaking novel about loss, family and exile, from the winner of the Guardian First Book AwardAfter abandoning his once promising career as a journalist in search of a new life in Paris, Mamush meets Helen - a photographer whose way of seeing the world shows him the possibility of finding not only love, but family. Now, five years later, with his marriage on the verge of collapse, he leaves his young family and returns to the close-knit immigrant Ethiopian community of Washington DC that defined his childhood.At its center is Mamush''s stoic, implacable mother, and Samuel, the larger-than-life father-figure whose ceaseless charm and humor have always served as cover for a harder, more troubling truth. But on the same day that Mamush arrives home in Washington, Samuel is found dead in his garage.What follows is an unexpected journey across America in search of answers to questions Mamush has been told never to ask. As he does so, he begins to understand that perhaps the only chance he has of saving his family and making it back home is to confront not only the unresolved mystery around Samuel''s life and death, but his own troubled memories, and the years spent masking them.''It was obvious from the start that Dinaw Mengestu was adding something extraordinary to American literature''Washington Post''Dinaw Mengestu thinks deeply about how stories are told, especially migrant tales''New York Times''This meticulously crafted gem is not merely read; it is experienced ''Steve Toltz, author of Here Goes Nothing
£9.49
House of Anansi Press Ltd ,Canada Everything Is Fine Here
Book SynopsisA tender coming of age novel set in Uganda in which a young woman grapples with the truth about her sister in a country that punishes gay people. Eighteen-year-old Aine Kamara has been anticipating a reunion with her older sister, Mbabazi, for months. But when Mbabazi shows up with an unexpected guest, Aine must confront an old fear: her beloved sister is gay in a country with tight anti-homosexuality laws. Over a weekend at Aine's all girls' boarding school, sisterly bonds strengthen, and a new friendship emerges between Aine and her sister's partner, Achen. Later, a sudden death in the family brings Achen to Mbabazi's and Aine's home village, resulting in tensions that put Mrs. Kamara's Christian beliefs to the test. She issues an ultimatum, forcing Mbabazi to make a difficult choice, but Aine must too. Unable to convince Mama to reconsider, Aine runs away to Mbabazi's and Achen's home in Kampala. There she reconnects with Elia, the sophomore at Makerere University she's had a crus
£16.79
Kensington Publishing Corporation No Way Out
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£15.29
West Margin Press The Man Who Laughs
Book SynopsisThe Man Who Laughs (1869) is a novel by Victor Hugo. Written while Hugo was living in exile on the island of Guernsey, The Man Who Laughs is set between the 17th and 18th centuries in England, a time of political unrest and class conflict in which he identified parallels to France of the 19th century. Although the novel was largely panned at the time, it has since been recognized as one of Hugo’s greatest works. The Man Who Laughs has inspired over a dozen adaptations in film, theater, and comics, including a 1928 American silent film that served as source material for the Joker in the original 1940 issue of Batman. “Again the child set himself to sweep away the snow. The neck of the dead woman appeared; then her shoulders, clothed in rags. Suddenly he felt something move feebly under his touch. It was something small that was buried, and which stirred. The child swiftly cleared away the snow, discovering a wretched little body—thin, wan with cold, still alive, lying naked on the dead woman's naked breast.” Abandoned by a group of Comprachicos, criminals who buy and capture children for the purpose of mutilating them and forcing them to work as beggars or performers, the young Gwynplaine wanders the English coast alone. During a storm, he discovers an infant girl and her dead mother lying in the snow, and endeavors to save the child. Left with no choice but to rely on strangers, Gwynplaine joins a carnival run by the merciful Ursus, a man with a pet wolf. Horrified at first by the boy’s disfigurement, which has left a perpetual smile on his face, Ursus agrees to care for the children and soon finds that Gwynplaine is a versatile and lucrative attraction at his shows. When the Duchess Josiana attends the carnival to see Gwynplaine, now a young man, she finds herself strangely attracted to him. With a beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of Victor Hugo’s The Man Who Laughs is a classic work of French literature reimagined for modern readers.
£22.49
Graphic Arts Books Ethiopia Unbound: Studies in Race Emancipation
Book SynopsisConsidered the first pan-Africanist work of fiction and among the earliest English novels written by an African author, Ethiopia Unbound: Studies in Race Emancipation is a classic of Ghanaian literature that continues to resonate with modern readers today. “[T]he Nations were casting about for an answer to the wail which went up from the heart of the oppressed race for opportunity. And yet it was at best an impotent cry. For there has never lived a people worth writing about who have not shaped out a destiny for themselves or carved out their own opportunity.” With this political statement, J.E. Casely Hayford begins his novel of African emancipation. Semi-autobiographical, it is the story of Kwamankra, a man who, like the author, traveled from Africa to London to become a lawyer. Through dialogue with his English friend Whitely, knowledge of historical and contemporary events in Africa, and his relationship with the lovely Mansa, Kwamankra comes to believe in full independence for his homeland and his people.With a beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of J. E. Casely Hayford’s Ethiopia Unbound: Studies in Race Emancipation is part of the Mint Editions catalog.
£7.49
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC The Haunting of Hajji Hotak
Book SynopsisA finalist for the National Book Award - a luminous new collection of stories from a young writer with 'a singular, resonant voice, an American teenager raised by Old World Afghan storytellers' (New York Times) **FINALIST FOR THE 2022 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR FICTION****NAMED A BOOK OF THE YEAR 2022 BY THE NEW YORKER AND THE ATLANTIC**PEN/Hemingway finalist Jamil Jan Kochai breathes life into his contemporary Afghan characters, moving between modern-day Afghanistan and the Afghan diaspora in America. In these arresting stories verging on both comedy and tragedy, often starring young characters whose bravado is matched by their tenderness. The Haunting of Hajji Hotak and Other Stories is a moving exploration of characters grappling with the ghosts of war and displacement - and one that speaks to the immediate political landscape we reckon with today. 'An endlessly inventive and moving collection from a thrilling and capacious young talent' Jess Walter, author of Beautiful Ruins. 'Kochai's short fiction defies expectations readers' expectations of what a story should look like, and the story of a nation often told reductively and exclusively through media headlines' Guardian
£9.49
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Groundwater
Book SynopsisBy the winner of the Betty Trask Prize an atmospheric and powerfully menacing story about family, secrets and violenceA ruthless and minutely observed reckoning with the stories, beliefs, and places we make to shelter from fear of death Groundwater masterfully and subtly begins to re-enchant all that we have reduced' Amber Husain_______________________________________________John and Liz have left the city behind to move to a remote house on the shores of the lake. Though the house is barely unpacked, Liz's sister, with her children and her husband, have come to visit for the August bank holiday weekend. Over the course of a hot, slow weekend, tensions simmer; things go unsaid between the two couples, between the two sisters. Their time together is punctured by visits from Jim, the solitary local warden for the area; and a group of students camping nearby draw closer and closer, finally infiltrating the house and bringing their own tensions and hierarchies with them. As the weekend draws to a close, the landscape reveals a violence that has long lain hidden and the summer builds to its harrowing climax. Taut and menacing, full of disquiet and tenderness, Groundwater is about the gulfs that lies between us and those we love and the miraculous ways our deepest desires and fears manifest.
£15.29
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Seven Rules For A Perfect Marriage
Book Synopsis''A dream of a book: humour, warm, fun characters and a story I stayed up all night for. I loved it!'' Lucy Vine, author of Seven Exes''Refreshing and original a real life love story about what happens after the happy ever after. I loved it!'' Bianca Gillam, author of Bad PublicityIt looks like Jessica and Jack have it all. Their social media accounts show them glamorous, happy and sickeningly in love. They even landed a book deal to share their seven rules for a perfect marriage an instant bestseller, of course.But behind the scenes it''s not so simple. Jessica is determined to make a success of her business and has stopped making time for Jack. Meanwhile Jack is learning that he hates the life of an Instagram husband.In a bid to reboot their relationship, they decide to go back to basics and follow their own rules. But they're about to learn that there is simply no such thing as perfect, and, in fact, there might be a lot more to making a marriage work than just following the rulesSeven Rules for a Perfect Marriage is a funny and poignant celebration of long-term love, asking what happens when Happily Ever After doesn't always look so happy.Readers love Seven Rules for a Perfect Marriage...''The humour throughout this book was so relatable'' ****''I was completely hooked from chapter one'' ****''I highly suggest adding this to your TBR'' ****
£9.49
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC The Pentecost Papers
Book SynopsisFinancial corruption, environmental destruction, danger and murder: the irresistible new novel by bestselling author and sharp social satirist Ferdinand Mount dissects the murky world of the super-rich
£17.09
Cornerstone My Other Heart
Book SynopsisEmma Nanami Strenner has been a journalist for over twenty years. She has written for VOGUE International, ELLE, Stylist Magazine, Condé Nast Traveller and The Times. Emma is British Japanese and studied at the University of Leeds. She completed the Curtis Brown Creative Six-Month Novel Writing Course and is also a Faber Academy Alumni. She has spent much of her life living abroad in Japan, Vietnam, Australia, China, Singapore and the US. She currently lives in London. My Other Heart is her first novel.
£15.29
Quercus Publishing Till Death Us Do Part
Book Synopsis''A new star in the crime-writing firmament'' Elly GriffthsThe charming and delightfully cosy debut crime novel from Reverend Penny Stephens.Weddings can be murder . . .Reverend Clare Brakespear is used to a challenge. With a young family to wrangle, a parish to manage and a particularly excitable Golden Retriever by her side, life is never dull. But when she attends a wedding where one of the guests is fatally stabbed with a cake knife, even Clare admits that she might have been given too much to handle this time.As the police investigate the murder, they zero-in on one woman as their prime suspect, who they believe had the motive, means and opportunity to commit the crime. The trouble is, Clare is convinced that they have the wrong person. She might not understand forensic testing and finger-tip searches, but if there''s one thing Clare does know, it''s people and the complexities of their emotional lives. So she decides to take matters into her own hands. However, investigating a murder is no mean feat and Clare soon finds herself embroiled in a complex web of family secrets and deceptions. Is she in way over her head or can she find the real killer before an innocent woman is sent down?
£15.29
Quercus Publishing The Bewitching
Book Synopsis Three women in three different eras encounter danger and witchcraft in this eerie multigenerational horror saga from the New York Times bestselling author of Mexican Gothic.''Moreno-Garcia is a deft enchantress - this is a ghost story in high Gothic style'' - M.L. Rio, author of If We Were Villains ''Back then, when I was a young woman, there were still witches'': that was how Nana Alba always began the stories she told her great-granddaughter Minerva - stories that have stayed with Minerva all her life. Perhaps that''s why Minerva has become a graduate student focused on the history of horror literature and is researching the life of Beatrice Tremblay, an obscure author of macabre tales.In the course of assembling her thesis, Minerva uncovers information that reveals that Tremblay''s most famous novel, The Vanishing, was inspired by a true story: decades earlier, during the Great Depression, Tremblay attended the same university where Minerva is now studying and became obsessed with her beautiful and otherworldly roommate, who then disappeared under mysterious circumstances.As Minerva descends ever deeper into Tremblay''s manuscript, she begins to sense that the malign force that stalked Tremblay and the missing girl might still walk the halls of the campus. These disturbing events also echo the stories Nana Alba told about her girlhood in 1900s Mexico, where she had a terrifying encounter with a witch.Minerva suspects that the same shadow that darkened the lives of her great-grandmother and Beatrice Tremblay is now threatening her own in 1990s Massachusetts. An academic career can be a punishing pursuit, but it might turn outright deadly when witchcraft is involved. Readers love The Bewitching . . . ''An absolute masterpiece'' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐''Hauntingly addictive'' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐''Feels like being put under a spell'' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐''Evocative and chilling'' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐''Gothic fiction at its finest'' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐''Had me enthralled from the first page until the last'' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐''Blew my expectations out of the water . . . This may be the best gothic horror book of 2025'' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
£17.00
Random House The Orange Room
Book SynopsisRosie Price is the author of the highly acclaimed debut What Red Was, an Observer New Voices selection. The Orange Room is her second novel. She lives in London.
£9.49
Modern Language Association of America Histoire Du Marquis de Cressy
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£21.60
Modern Language Association of America The Story of the Marquis de Cressy
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£21.60
Interlink Publishing Group Inc Indigene
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£18.89
Nightboat Books Crocosmia
Book SynopsisA spell casting parable of possibility, as well as a meditation on sacrifice, solitude, and the mother-daughter relationship. Crocosmia is a philosophical fable, a work of speculative, feminist eco-fiction centered on Maya, an elderly woman, recollecting the great turningan epochal shift away from Capitalist death drive towards egalitarian eco-socialism. Maya recalls how her mother, Jane, a revolutionary poet, artist, and carpenter-philosopher created a telekinetic artwork that helped catalyze radical social transformation and the demise of patriarchal warlordism. The novel dreams of environmental healing, radical social, economic, and cultural transformation and speculates about the artist's role in this process.
£12.34
Seven Stories Press The Angle of Falling Light
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£13.49
Rare Bird Books My Two and Only
Book SynopsisGo for a run. That's what Charlotte Most said to her husband Paul on that ordinary day. And when he did, her life was never the same. Yet Charlotte remains the same: mother, daughter, friend, interior designer and, although single wife. Until she meets Brian.When she's surprised by his little Tiffany-blue box and the proposal that goes with it she is forced to make a decision. But questions begin to consume her. Who will Charlotte be if she's no longer a widow? Does old love prohibit new? Does new love diminish old?How can she marry her one-and-only twice?Heartache and hope propel her through a perilous journey from devoted widow to joyful fiancée. My Two And Onlyis a love story about clinging to the past and embracing the present. About memory and the stories we tell ourselves. About identities, inner and outward, and thestruggle to make peacebetween them. Humorous and insightful, poignant and profound,My Two And Onlyexplores the question: how much happiness can we allow ourselves and which self might that be?
£16.00
