Fifteen Wild Decembers by Karen Powell
Category: Contemporary Fiction
A blazingly creative re-imagining of the short life of one of England's greatest writers, picked as one of the best historical fiction novels by The Times.
Dog: A novel by Rob Perry
Category: Contemporary Fiction
" DOG is a novel full of deft humour and escalating tenderness - a tale about misfits, human and canine, and the currents of hope and courage that bring them together." --Ross Raisin, author of God's Own Country When 18-year-old Benjamin Glass goes to look at a dead whale that has washed up on the beac ...Show more
The Last Trace by Petronella McGovern
Category: Contemporary Fiction
What if you're scared you committed a crime but can't remember? From the bestselling author of Six Minutes and The Liars comes an unputdownable thriller about the secrets we keep from each other - and ourselves. 'Petronella McGovern consistently delivers smart, twisty page-turners guaranteed to keep h ...Show more
The Honeyeater by Jessie Tu
Category: Contemporary Fiction
A wildly inventive follow up to the acclaimed bestseller A Lonely Girl is a Dangerous Thing, winner of the ABIA for Literary Fiction Book of the Year. 'Translation is longing. You never get it right.' Young academic and emerging translator Fay takes her mother on a package tour holiday to France to cel ...Show more
Mr Geography by Tim Parks
Category: Poppies Hot Picks This Month
Years after a family tragedy cut short their secret affair, a man retraces a walk through the Alps that he took with the love of his life Michael Burrow is on a walking holiday in Switzerland with his lover, Susan. They have had a long and secret love affair, but now that Susan's two children have left ...Show more
A Short Walk Through a Wide World by Douglas Westerbeke
Category: Contemporary Fiction
IF YOU COULD NEVER STAY, WHERE WOULD YOU GO? The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue meets The Midnight Library in this life-affirming debut novel of adventure, wonder and self-discovery. Paris, 1885- Aubry Tourvel, a spoiled and stubborn nine-year-old girl, comes across a wooden puzzle ball on her walk hom ...Show more
Soldier Sailor by Claire Kilroy
Category: Contemporary Fiction
AS HEARD ON FRONT ROW, A SUNDAY TIMES, GUARDIAN AND FT 'SUMMER READ''My favourite book I've read this year' PANDORA SYKES'Intense, furious, moving and often extremely funny' DAVID NICHOLLS'Astonishing' Stephanie Merritt, Observer'Very, very funny' PAUL MURRAYIn one of the most acclaimed novels of the ye ...Show more
The Moonlight Market by Joanne Harris
Category: Contemporary Fiction
Don't miss The Moonlight Market, the spellbinding modern fairytale coming this summer from the million-copy bestselling author. Orphaned, lonely, and lost in his photography work, Tom has no intention of falling in love. And yet, love finds him in the shape of beautiful Vanessa, who lives a dangerous d ...Show more
The Long Water by Stef Penney
Category: Contemporary Fiction
Author of the Costa-prizewinning, world-wide bestseller The Tenderness of Wolves, Stef Penney, returns to her snow-covered heartland in this tense mystery set in a small Scandinavian town. Nordland. A region in the Norwegian Arctic; a remote valley that stretches from the sea up to the mountains and gla ...Show more
The God of The Woods by Liz Moore
Category: Contemporary Fiction
From the author of LONG BRIGHT RIVER, a Barack Obama Pick and a New York Times bestseller, comes a once-in-a-generation story, a novel you'll never forget. Some said it was tragic, what happened to the Van Laars. Some said the Van Laars deserved it. That they never even thanked the searchers who stayed ...Show more
The Safekeep by Yael van der Wouden
Category: Contemporary Fiction
An exhilarating tale of twisted desire, histories and homes, and the unexpected shape of revenge. It's fifteen years since the Second World War and the rural Dutch province of Overijssel is quiet. Bomb craters have been filled, buildings reconstructed, and the conflict is well and truly over. Living ...Show more
Parade by Rachel Cusk
Category: Contemporary Fiction
A writer hides. A mother dies. A woman is attacked. In Parade, Rachel Cusk creates a new documentary voice that operates on the border between fiction and reality. It braids imagined characters with the actual, experience with the philosophical, to altering effect. Midway through his life, an artist beg ...Show more