Contemporary lifestyle fiction
Sourcebooks Landmark The House of Lincoln
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£25.19
Poisoned Pen Press The Woman in the Library
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£24.29
Sourcebooks Landmark Five First Chances
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£16.14
Sourcebooks Landmark Cicadas Sing of Summer Graves
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£16.14
Sourcebooks, Inc A Very Typical Family: A Novel
Book Synopsis"I couldn't put it down. Engrossing, satisfying. The minute I turned the last page I messaged three friends to tell them they had to grab it." -KJ Dell'Antonia, New York Times bestselling author of Reese's Book Club pick The Chicken Sisters"Atmospheric and uplifting. A great recommendation for fans of Marian Keyes and Emily Giffin." -Booklist, STARRED reviewFor fans of Emma Straub and Jennifer Weiner, comes a heartfelt, darkly funny novel about learning to love (and forgive) your family...even when they accidentally put you behind bars.All families are messy. Some are disasters.Natalie Walker is the reason her older brother and sister went to prison over 15 years ago. She fled California shortly after that fateful night and hasn't spoken to anyone in her family since. Now, on the same day her boyfriend steals her dream job out from under her, Natalie receives a letter from a lawyer saying her estranged mother has died and left the family's historic Santa Cruz house to her. Sort of. The only way for Natalie and her siblings to inherit is for all three adult children to come back and claim it-together.Natalie drives cross-country to Santa Cruz with her willful cat in tow expecting to sign some papers, see siblings Lynn and Jake briefly, and get back to sorting out her life in Boston. But Jake, now an award-winning ornithologist, is missing. And Lynn, working as an undertaker in New York City, shows up with a teenage son. While Natalie and her nephew look for Jake-meeting a very handsome marine biologist who immediately captures her heart-she unpacks the guilt she has held onto for so many years, wondering how (or if) she can salvage a relationship with her siblings after all this time.Written with delightfully dark humor and characters you can't help but cheer for, A Very Typical Family will have you reveling in the power of family and second chances. No one can change the past, but every day is an opportunity to choose your future.
£999.99
Sourcebooks, Inc There's Something about Merry
Book SynopsisCurl up this Christmas with a fun, festive romcom featuring:Irresistible single dad heroHeartwarming second chance at love storyThe healing magic of the holiday seasonWarm nights on the family Christmas tree farmA guarded single dad. A woman scared to love. Clark Griffin and Merry Winters are determined to be friends and nothing more. But they've been anonymously flirting with each other online, and with a little Christmas magic and the help of a precocious kid, these two might just get their one wish this year."Codi Hall brings all the feels."-Monica Murphy, New York Times bestselling author
£15.71
Sourcebooks Landmark Without Saying Goodbye
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£16.14
Sourcebooks, Inc His Girl Hollywood
Book SynopsisFrom Entertainment Weekly columnist Maureen Lee Lenker comes the standalone follow-up to It Happened One Fight, a rompy second-chance romance set in the glittering world of 1930s film.Arlene Morgan has always dreamed of being a movie director, like so many women in the silent era before her. But when Evets Studios finally gives her a shot, a rare thing in 1930s Hollywood, she's dismayed to discover that her leading man is none other than Don Lamont. Born Don Lazzarini, Don was Arlene's next-door-neighbor growing up, two best friends with two big dreams. He's the only man she's ever loved…except he abandoned her to pursue his dance career in New York, and she hasn't seen or heard from his since.But Don, despite his Broadway success, has been caught under the thumb of his gangster manager Frankie Martino for the last eight years, unable to come home. When he gets offered a role in a Hollywood picture, he leaps at the chance to free himself once and for all. But clashing with his director, the girl he once knew as Lena, leaves him scrambling to find his footing. As the two unpack old wounds and struggle to work together, Don starts to realize Lena might have been his dream girl all along. But she doesn't know about Frankie, and getting her involved in his contract would put her in danger, too. It's going to take quite the footwork to prove his feelings and help make Arlene's picture a success before Frankie takes drastic measures to keep his most valuable leading man.
£15.87
Sourcebooks Landmark Something from Tiffany's
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£16.14
Sourcebooks Landmark The Last Party
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£999.99
Poisoned Pen Press The Wrong Good Deed
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£16.14
Sourcebooks Landmark Don't Forget the Girl
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£16.14
Sourcebooks Landmark Delicate Condition
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£26.59
Sourcebooks Landmark The House of Lincoln
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£999.99
Sourcebooks, Inc The Second Chance Hotel: A Novel
Book SynopsisIt's all fun and games until you accidentally marry a stranger in Greece and inherit a hotel.Amelia Lang's life is kind of a mess. She's stuck living at home with her narcissistic mother. Her tech bro ex-boyfriend deliberately sabotages her at work, and she gets fired after throwing a mug at his head (it's okay! She missed.) Then she has a major falling out with her best friend. So Amelia does what Amelia does best: She runs away.After traveling around Europe for three months, she settles on a small Greek island to reset her life and figure out what's next. But after too much retsina, she gets tricked into marrying James, another guest at the hotel, who is perfectly nice-but perfectly boring. To top it off, they are gifted the very hotel they're staying in-a hotel they don't want that is in desperate need of some TLC. They agree to keep the hotel open through the busy summer season for the sake of the island's quirky but well-meaning residents, after which Amelia plans to return home to start rebuilding her disastrous life.Amelia and James must work together to determine how to get out of their situation-easier said than done for Amelia, who's started to feel a strong spark of attraction for James. But Amelia is sure her real life is waiting for her back in San Francisco. Is it time for Amelia to return home or could this be the second chance at a new life she didn't know she wanted?
£16.26
Bloom Books The Missus
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£999.99
Green Writers Press Offline: A Novel
Book SynopsisMeagan is a seventeen-year-old netaholic, addicted to online dating but scared to death to take those online “relationships” offline. Banished by her parents to her gay hippie grandfather’s farm (where the cell reception is terrible!), she is so not looking forward to a techno-free summer of gardening and cleaning house. When two offline boys fall for her at a Netaholics Anonymous meeting, she desperately enlists her bestie Sheila to help extradite herself from such an awkward situation. Good luck with that! Falling in with a ragtag bunch of Luddites, Meagan joins a zany softball team, takes the game of Scrabble to a whole new level, and gets immersed in the world of invertebrate sex—all the while coming to terms with her raging netaholism and discovering the joys and heartbreaks of offline relationships. Offline is a romantic romp through the dark underbelly of technology. Equally parts serious and ridiculous, this fast paced romantic comedy for adults and young adults gently pokes fun at the perils and pitfalls of the online world. Brian Adams is the author of two award-winning romantic comedies about environmental activism, Love in the Time of Climate Change and KABOOM! In a previous life he was a college professor, desperately trying to get folks to stop texting in class, put away their damn phones, and get the hell outside. He lives in Western Massachusetts with his wife and cat.Trade Review"Brian Adams's charming and heartfelt young adult novel Offline explores the harm that comes with trading the real world for an online one. Meagan has a real problem. She's not addicted to drugs or alcohol or gambling, but she can't tear herself away from her phone for the life of her. She spends hours swiping, scrolling, and texting. It's beginning to stunt her growth, creating a barrier between Meagan and real, offline relationships. Offline, with its accessible, funny characters and engaging storyline, explores what happens when a seemingly harmless habit takes over someone's life. . . . Meagan's development is at the center of the novel. The at-first deeply superficial teen blossoms into someone who values the complex, tangible world around her. . . . Humorous and earnest, Offline reminds us to unplug and appreciate the things we might miss while buried in our phones." -- Foreword Reviews
£11.35
Allen & Unwin Girl in Between
Book Synopsis'I worked with Anna Daniels on The Project, she was great then and she's just as funny in print!' Dave Hughes'There's lots to enjoy about Girl in Between -- notably the likeable, offbeat observational humour...Daniels' rather endearing comic style really shines ' The Sydney Morning HeraldAs the girl in between relationships, careers and cities, Lucy Crighton is facing some awkward truths -- like her mum's obsession with Cher, her father's unsolicited advice, and the probability there's more cash on the floor of her parents' car than in her own bank account.Thank goodness for Lucy's crazy-but-wonderful best friend, Rosie, who's around to cushion reality with wild nights at the local Whipcrack Hotel, escapades in Japanese mud baths and double dating under the Christmas lights in London.But will Lucy work out what she really wants to do in life -- and who she wants to share it with?Girl in Between is a warm, funny, charmingly Australian story about life at the crossroads. Featuring an endearing and irrepressible cast of characters, it will have you chuckling from start to finish. '...this is a super fun read that crosses several countries but knows that home is where the heart is.' Sam Still ReadingTrade Review'Unapologetically populist, homegrown and comfy . . . [Daniels] is a kind of latter-day Bridget Jones.' - The Australian'Girl in Between is a fast, entertaining read with an endearing cast of characters . . . will have you laughing and maybe shedding a tear.' - The Weekly Times'One of the most striking aspects of Anna Daniels' storytelling is the quintessential Australian flavouring throughout . . . A brilliant debut novel and certainly an author to keep an eye on.' - AusRom Today'Filled with great Aussie humour and witty charm.' - Hannah Plus Books (blog)'Girl in Between is a love letter to many?to Australia, to Aussie English and to those who find themselves wondering where everything is all going. With its easily likeable heroine Lucy, this is a super fun read that crosses several countries but knows that home is where the heart is . . . If you enjoyed The Castle, you'll love the Aussie-ness of Girl in Between.' - Sam Still Reading (blog)'A book that will light up your life . . . the romance gets an A+' - 21st Century Once Upon a Time (blog)'A witty, sharp and funny story about what it feels like to be thirty and have no idea what you want to be when you grow up . . . perfect for anyone who's feeling uninspired or unmotivated.' - A Girl and Grey (blog)'Light and breezy . . . perfect for those lazy days sitting on the beach or at a cafe as the world goes by.' - GLAM Adelaide'Never have I laughed out loud so much while reading a book.' - Victoria, My Books Are Me (blog)'Girl in Between was so refreshingly delightful and quintessentially Australian. Often hilarious, but never overdone.' - Theresa Smith Writes (blog)
£15.26
Nimbus Publishing (CN) These Good Hands
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£18.95
Nimbus Publishing (CN) Beholden
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£21.79
Nimbus Publishing Limited Kin
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£15.50
Vagrant Press Amazing Grace
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£19.51
Vagrant Press The Pregnant Pause
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£999.99
Vagrant Press Beholden
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£17.05
Vagrant Press Lost & Found in Lunenburg
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£17.05
Nimbus Publishing Limited Atlantic Ghosts
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£19.44
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC The Golden Girls' Road Trip: An absolutely
Book SynopsisA glorious new uplifting rom com for fans of Judy Leigh, Hazel Prior and Maddie Please! It's never too late for one last adventure... Constance Fitzgerald may be approaching 70, but she's never been one for putting down roots. She's spent her life untethered and free, but when she finds herself newly engaged and a soon-to-be grandmother, Constance is forced to accept it may be time – perhaps – to settle down. Until a chance encounter throws open a window to her past, and Constance decides to head to the Highlands to find an old friend... 'A glorious and heartwarming tale of two feisty seventy-year olds discovering lost love and everything in between. An absolute must-read.' Rebecca Netley 'An uplifting, positive story... Eat Pray Love for the older generation' Judy LeighTrade ReviewBook of the Week...If you're a fan of Hazel Prior and Maddie Please, then you'll love this heartwarming rom-com -- Pick Me Up!heartwarming -- Be Novellic
£11.74
Amber Books King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table
£26.99
Demeter Press What We Hold in Our Hands
Book SynopsisIn What We Hold in Our Hands, a teen mom longs for a different kind of life, a divorced dad struggles to come to terms with his exwife’s involvement in their son’s life, a woman cares for a dying younger sister, and a granddaughter wonders about the man her grandmother killed. The ten stories in this debut collection are about the difficult choices inherent in caring for children, siblings, and partners, and the limits and limitlessness of love.
£14.95
Catapult Neon in Daylight: A Novel
Book SynopsisA New York Times Book Review Editors' ChoiceA radiant first novel. . . . [Neon in Daylight] has antecedents in the great novels of the 1970s: Renata Adler’s Speedboat, Elizabeth Hardwick’s Sleepless Nights, Joan Didion’s Play It as It Lays. . . . Precision—of observation, of language—is Hoby’s gift. Her sentences are sleek and tailored. Language molds snugly to thought. —Parul Sehgal, The New York TimesNew York City in 2012, the sweltering summer before Hurricane Sandy hits. Kate, a young woman newly arrived from England, is staying in a Manhattan apartment while she tries to figure out her future. She has two unfortunate responsibilities during her time in America: to make regular Skype calls to her miserable boyfriend back home, and to cat–sit an indifferent feline named Joni Mitchell.The city has other plans for her. In New York's parks and bodegas, its galleries and performance spaces, its bars and clubs crowded with bodies, Kate encounters two strangers who will transform her stay: Bill, a charismatic but embittered writer made famous by the movie version of his only novel; and Inez, his daughter, a recent high school graduate who supplements her Bushwick cafe salary by enacting the fantasies of men she meets on Craigslist. Unmoored from her old life, Kate falls into an infatuation with both of them.Set in a heatwave that feels like it will never break, Neon In Daylight marries deep intelligence with captivating characters to offer us a joyful, unflinching exploration of desire, solitude, and the thin line between life and art.
£12.34
Two Dollar Radio The Word for Woman Is Wilderness
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£16.16
Two Dollar Radio The Book of X
£15.29
Lanternfish PR The Girl Who Made a Mouse from Her Grandfathers Whiskers
£14.40
Lake Forest College Callbacks
Book SynopsisThe Starling sisters, Pearl, Minny, and Esther are being raised by film, by what they hear on the radio, and by the hottest new pop culture phenomenon: television. They spend their feral trailer park childhood devising their own contortionist skits, daydreaming their own soap operas, and gushing over the latest episode of their favorite absurdist puppet show. After their lounge-singing mother flies the coop, the sisters run away to join an all-female revue in Northern California, run by the charismatic and power-hungry Bette Bunting. Their story is a portrait of a cultural moment in which television, a private viewing experience for the intimacy of home and nuclear families, precipitated the erosion of live, public performance and the mid-century American music hall. The glamour of Callbacks is vulgar and gimcrack, the humor crass and slapstick. The women on stage rebel against the male gaze and male domination in entertainment. Callbacks is inspired by the structure and tone of the serial sitcom format, with fragments of unresolved narrative, a focus on the ensemble, pattering dialogue, recurrence, fadeouts, and a denial of closure. The uncanny and carnivalesque create an entrancing tone that is parried by the tragic side of showbiz - the scrutiny of women aging in front of an audience, and the resulting fear of failure and obscurity that drives rivalry and family feuds.
£999.99
Schaffner Press The Mediterranean Wall
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£16.19
Amberjack Publishing Company The Insatiables
Book SynopsisWhen Halley Faust is handed the opportunity to move two steps up the corporate ladder, she laces up her shoes and starts climbing. But her covert battles with coworkers – equal parts funny and cringe-worthy – leave everyone wondering: how far do you have to go to achieve success?Trade Review"A young woman hustles to climb the corporate ladder in this darkly comedic, deeply insightful workplace drama . . . A humorous and thought-provoking tale about searching for the ever elusive brass ring." -- Kirkus Reviews
£13.25
Amberjack Publishing Company Lala Pettibone: Standing Room Only Volume 2
Book SynopsisLala's done it: her failed-screenplay-turned-successful-novel is about to be made into a movie. In Paris! With a Hollywood bad boy as the lead! But the City of Lights can only offer so much respite from the petrifying decisions that await Lala back in the City of Angels. It's an ocean away from her boyfriend, David, with whom she is becoming alarmingly close (as in, tying-the-knot-close). For every leading lady who got her start later in life, Lala Pettibone screams a hilarious "Yes!" to joie de vivre at any age.
£13.25
Amberjack Publishing Company The Kitty Committee: A Novel of Suspense
Book SynopsisEvery year, it comes. And every year, it reminds Grace that someone knows her deepest secret—the secret whose silence has tormented Grace over the years. That secret began with an innocent gang of teenage friends who called themselves The Kitty Committee. The Kitty Committee of Grace's youth was ostensibly a group of friendship and support. But the friends fell victim to the ringleader's manipulative personality and recklessness, which set the girls on a course of vigilante justice, culminating in an act that will forever change their lives, an act that becomes their shared secret.Grace's silence and guilt has led to over twenty years of disappointing relationships, an inability to commit, and a crisis of morality. And no matter how much Grace has suffered and lost, still it comes every year. The reminder that someone out there wants The Kitty Committee to suffer--someone who won't forget and won't forgive.
£13.25
Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial Las deudas del cuerpo / Those Who Leave and Those
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£14.20
Tin House Books Divide Me by Zero
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£21.21
Catapult Black Sunday: A Novel
Book SynopsisThis fiercely original debut novel follows four Nigerian siblings over the course of two decades as they search for agency, love, and meaning in a society rife with hypocrisy. “. . . lush, sharp, and shot through with hope! —Well-Read Black Girl I like the idea of a god who knows what it’s like to be a twin. To have no memory of ever being alone. Twin sisters Bibike and Ariyike are enjoying a relatively comfortable life in Lagos in 1996. Then their mother loses her job due to political strife, and the family, facing poverty, becomes drawn into the New Church, an institution led by a charismatic pastor who is not shy about worshipping earthly wealth. Soon Bibike and Ariyike’s father wagers the family home on a “sure bet” that evaporates like smoke. As their parents’ marriage collapses in the aftermath of this gamble, the twin sisters and their two younger siblings, Andrew and Peter, are thrust into the reluctant care of their traditional Yoruba grandmother. Inseparable while they had their parents to care for them, the twins’ paths diverge once the household shatters. Each girl is left to locate, guard, and hone her own fragile source of power. Written with astonishing intimacy and wry attention to the fickleness of fate, Tola Rotimi Abraham’s Black Sunday takes us into the chaotic heart of family life, tracing a line from the euphoria of kinship to the devastation of estrangement. In the process, it joyfully tells a tale of grace and connection in the midst of daily oppression and the constant incursions of an unremitting patriarchy. This is a novel about two young women slowly finding, over twenty years, in a place rife with hypocrisy but also endless life and love, their own distinct methods of resistance and paths to independence.
£18.04
Catapult Fake Accounts
Book SynopsisA NATIONAL BESTSELLER * A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS’ CHOICE * A WASHINGTON POST BEST BOOK OF THE YEARAn invigorating work, deadly precise in its skewering of people, places and things . . . Stylish, despairing and very funny, Fake Accounts . . . adroitly maps the dwindling gap between the individual and the world. —Katie Kitamura, The New York Times Book ReviewA woman in a tailspin discovers that her boyfriend is an anonymous online conspiracy theorist in this “absolutely brilliant take on the bizarre and despicable ways the internet has warped our perception of reality” (Elle, One of the Most Anticipated Books of the Year).On the eve of Donald Trump's inauguration, a young woman snoops through her boyfriend's phone and makes a startling discovery: he's an anonymous internet conspiracy theorist, and a popular one at that. Already fluent in internet fakery, irony, and outrage, she's not exactly shocked by the revelation. Actually, she's relieved--he was always a little distant--and she plots to end their floundering relationship while on a trip to the Women's March in DC. But this is only the first in a series of bizarre twists that expose a world whose truths are shaped by online lies.Suddenly left with no reason to stay in New York and increasingly alienated from her friends and colleagues, our unnamed narrator flees to Berlin, embarking on her own cycles of manipulation in the deceptive spaces of her daily life, from dating apps to expat meetups, open-plan offices to bureaucratic waiting rooms. She begins to think she can't trust anyone--shouldn't the feeling be mutual?Narrated with seductive confidence and subversive wit, Fake Accounts challenges the way current conversations about the self and community, delusions and gaslighting, and fiction and reality play out in the internet age.
£20.80
Catapult Celestial Bodies
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£12.34
Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial La amante / The Mistress
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£14.36
Suma Un invitado inesperado / An Unwanted Guest
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£16.96
Tin House Books The Butchers Blessing
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£15.26
Tin House Books Where You Come from
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£16.16
Islandport Press The Walk Down Main Street
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£18.00
