Fiction

  • Elegy, Southwest

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    Eloise and Lewis rent a car in Las Vegas and take off on a two-week road trip across the American Southwest. While wildfires rage, the couple trace the course of the Colorado River, the aquatic artery on which the Southwest depends for survival. Eloise, an academic, researches the Colorado River as it threatens to run dry, while Lewis grieves his mother and struggles to find a place for himself in the desert where he never felt quite at home. Together they cruise past gaping canyons, blinking motels and lonely stretches of wilderness, trying to understand this uncanny landscape where Georgia O’Keeffe built her home and avant-garde artists dig mysterious installations in the sand. When Eloise begins to suspect she might be pregnant, she hopes to turn Lewis’s attention from the past to the future, but their relationship continues to fracture as they head towards a destination unknown.

  • The Death of Us

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    *A Book of the Year in The Times, Guardian, Good Housekeeping and iPaper*

    ‘Taut, elegant and heartbreaking’ Monica Ali

    ‘A brilliant character study of trauma, grief and survival’ Claire Fuller

    ‘Wonderful? lives up to the hype’ Stephen King

    ‘Impossibly accomplished’ Chris Whitaker

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  • Mostly Hero

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    This title is part of a landmark series of gem-like individual volumes presenting masters of the form at work in a range of genres and styles. Bringing together past, present, and future in their ninetieth year, ‘Faber Stories’ is a celebratory compendium of collectable work.

  • Just Friends

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    This heartwarming and swoonworthy second chance romance about childhood friends reconnecting as adults is the highly anticipated debut novel from BookTok icon Haley Pham.

  • Almost Life

    £16.99

    For readers of David Nicholls, Ann Patchett, and Colm Tóibìn, Almost Life is a love story that begins when Erica and Laure meet on the steps of the Sacré-C?ur in 1978. Theirs is a story that will last a lifetime – even if their lives take them in very different directions.

  • Speak to Me of Home

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    Rafaela Acuña y Daubón remembers everything that matters: her beautiful childhood in San Juan, her marriage to Peter, uprooting their children, Ruth & Benny, to the American Midwest, & losing all sense of her place in the world. So she tells no one when her memory begins to slip. Her daughter, in New York with a family of her own, wishes she could forget her muddy feelings about where she comes from – the same feelings which motivated her 22-year-old daughter Daisy to reconnect with their past. Daisy, who has momentarily forgotten everything, hears the word critical in a hospital room in San Juan & remembers, all at once, the car that hurtled towards her, the terrible storm, & something else. What was it? Now Ruth & Rafaela must return to the city where it all began, to gather by Daisy’s bedside & confront the twists of fate that have caused a growing rift in their family & led them to this moment.

  • Broken Country

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    Everyone in the village said nothing good would come of Gabriel’s return. And as Beth looks at the man she loves on trial for murder, she can’t help think they were right. She was 17 when she’d first met Gabriel. Over that heady, intense summer, he made her think and feel and see differently. She thought it was the start of her great love story and that it would last forever. When Gabriel left to become the person his mother expected him to be, she was broken. It was Frank who picked up the pieces. Together they’d built a home very different from the one she’d imagined with Gabriel. And there was a time – even years – when she was happy. Watching her husband and son riding a tractor across their farm, she remembered feeling so sure that, after everything, this was the life she was supposed to be leading. But then Gabriel came back, and all Beth’s certainty about who she was crumbled.

  • This Story Might Save Your Life

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    Best friends Benny and Joy host a beloved ‘comedy survival’ podcast, gleefully finding life-affirming humour in near-death experiences. When Benny arrives at Joy and her husband’s home one morning to record, he finds shattered glass and an empty house. With Joy missing and the hours ticking by, not even their most devoted fans could guess the terrible secrets they have hidden from the world – and from each other. If Benny wants to find Joy in time, and clear his own name, he’ll have to solve the highest stakes survival story yet.

  • Actually, I’m a Murderer

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    Four strangers on a train. An unlikely introduction ‘Actually, I’m a murderer.’ Set in the north-east of England in the seventies, the lives of four people are thrown into turmoil when sharing a carriage with an unremarkable little man with round glasses, on the night train back to Newcastle. By the end of the following day, one of them will be dead, one will turn blackmailer and another forced to commit a crime. And all of them will be under the astute and watchful observation of Aline, the local police officer with her own agenda to fulfil. And then the body count begins to rise which begs the question – just how many actual murderers are out there – and who will be the next victim?

  • Overdue

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    Ingrid Dahl is a twenty-nine-year-old librarian living in the cosy mountain town of Ridgetop. She and her boyfriend since college, Cory, have never discussed marriage; they’re happy with the way things are. But when Ingrid’s sister announces her engagement to a woman she’s only been dating for two years, Ingrid and Cory suddenly feel pressured to start thinking about the inevitable: marriage and kids. The thing is, neither of them has ever been with anyone else. Shouldn’t they sow their oats before settling down? They make the unorthodox decision to separate for a month to date other people, assuming that at the end of it, they’ll reunite and start planning their nuptials. But of course the best laid plans often go awry, and when Ingrid and Cory meet at the end of the month to resume next steps in their relationship, it’s clear neither of them is ready to get back together.

  • Travel Light

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    Halla is the daughter of a king, cast out as a baby into a world of danger and enchantment. She is raised by bears, lives amongst dragons, converses with Valkyries and avoids warmongering heroes. But an encounter with Odin All-Father sets her on a new path as a wanderer through the world, and to a final choice. Is her role in the story already written – as a king’s child, an adopted dragon, or a fearless heroine – or can she travel light?

  • The Loch of the Bees

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    From the author of the prizewinning As the Women Lay Dreaming comes an evocative and deeply original novel that reimagines the lives of Hebrideans across the centuries, sweeping from the eighth century to the present day.