Before I Knew I Loved You
£14.99The sixth book in the unstoppable, multi-million bestselling Japanese series; four guests with four poignant stories get another chance at lasting happiness.
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My Only Boy
£20.00Elle is a successful PR executive at a fast-growing tech company in London, whose carefully controlled life begins to fracture after a workplace tragedy exposes the human cost of the business she represents. While navigating mounting pressure at work and unrest in the city around her, Elle meets Ed at a house party and falls into an intense, unexpected romance. Having previously dated only women, she is unsettled by the relationship and what it reveals about her identity, desires, and future. As the romance deepens, Elle must decide what she is willing to sacrifice – love, security, or ambition – as both her personal life and the wider world move toward crisis.
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The Long Shoe
£9.99Bathroom salesman Matt is at a crossroads. He has lost his job he is about to be made homeless and his girlfriend has left him. He wants his luck to change and he wants things to go back to how they were. Out of the blue he is offered a job that comes with a free luxury apartment. He hopes this might be enough to tempt her back. But, as events unfold, it starts to dawn on him that perhaps she didn’t leave of her own accord after all?
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Circle of Days
£10.99Seft, a talented flint miner, walks the Great Plain in the high summer heat, to witness the rituals that signal the start of a new year. He is there to trade his stone at the Midsummer Rite, and to find Neen, the girl he loves. Her family lives in prosperity and offers Seft an escape from his brutish father and brothers, within their herder community. Joia, Neen’s sister, is a priestess with a vision and an unmatched ability to lead. As a child, she watches the Midsummer ceremony, enthralled, and dreams of a miraculous new monument, raised from the biggest stones in the world. But trouble is brewing among the hills and woodlands of the Great Plain. Joia’s vision of a great stone circle, assembled by the divided tribes of the Plain, will inspire Seft and become their life’s work. But as drought ravages the earth, mistrust grows between the herders, farmers and woodlanders.
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A Spy in the Blood
£9.99Mark Wolfe was the greatest spy of his generation. Now retired from active service for over two decades, his family know him as a quiet, affable civil servant. Mark still works for MI6, helping to recruit new agents. But he hasn’t got his hands dirty since the spying game involved dead-dropping intel beneath railway station clocks in East Berlin, Czechoslovakia and other foreign lands that no longer exist. When his daughter reveals an unhealthy obsession with joining the service, he is reluctantly thrown back into a terrifying new world of modern espionage.
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Fever Dream
£10.99Professional bull rider Emmett Bush is not looking for love. He’s looking for a pay check to save his family’s farm from bankruptcy. So, when he agrees to be the leading man on a hot new reality dating show, Romance Ranch, he’s already decided it’s all one big performance. Until Julia Silva walks onto his property. Smart, snarky, beautiful, and off-limits in more ways than one. As the location consultant on set and the little sister of his most bitter professional rival, she’s the last woman who should pique his interest. Julia has been warned about Emmett. She knows better than to fall for his cocky swagger, broad shoulders, and smouldering good looks. Plus, she’s sworn off relationships. But as Julia and Emmett work together, mutual distaste grows into an unexpected connection and then – maybe more.
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EXCLUSIVE INDIE EDITION: Katabasis
£10.99We are so excited to be stocking this stunning independent bookshop exclusive paperback edition of Katabasis, R. F. Kuang’s instant no. 1 Sunday Times bestselling novel. Prepare for one hell of a journey…
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International Relations
£9.99Max has never had time for a relationship – working in the high stakes world of international diplomacy, the best he can manage is squeezing in one night stands with ‘himbos’ between his ongoing efforts to win a promotion. But when he tries to multitask by hooking up with a visiting dignitary at a black-tie dinner, it blows up spectacularly in his face and Max is discreetly advised that his personal life is not helping his career ambitions. In this line of work, appearances matter, and Max is losing ground to his long-term rival, happily married ‘family man’ Quentin. Max decides to beat Quentin at his own game by recruiting a fake boyfriend, Hunter, from an actors’ agency. But some visa complications force them to make their relationship official by getting married. There’s only one thing that could make all this even more complicated – if Max and Hunter’s feelings for each other start becoming real.
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Tender Is the Flesh
£10.99Marcos is in the business of slaughtering humans – only no one calls them that. He works with numbers, consignments, processing. One day, he’s given a specimen of the finest quality. He leaves her tied up in an outhouse, a problem to be disposed of later. But she haunts Marcos. Her trembling body, and watchful gaze, seem to understand. And soon, he becomes tortured by what has been lost – and what might still be saved.
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Albion
£9.99The Brooke family are gathering in their ancestral home to bury Philip: the blinding sun around which they have all orbited for as long as they can remember. Frannie has dreams of rewilding and returning the estate to nature: a last line of defence against the coming climate catastrophe. Milo envisages a treetop haven for the super-rich where, under the influence of psychedelic drugs, a new ruling class will be reborn. Each believes their father has given them his blessing, setting them on a collision course with each other. Isa has long suspected that her father thought only of himself, and hopes to seek out her childhood love, who still lives on the estate, to discover whether it is her feelings for him that are creating the fault lines in her marriage. And then there is Clara, who arrives from America, shrouded in secrets and bearing a truth that will fracture all the dreams on which they’ve built their lives.
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American Fantasy
★ STAFF PICK!£18.99
Selected by Mia YStaff Pick!
Mia Y Says…
“I enjoyed this book a lot! Emma Straub creates such a strong sense of place and writes characters that feel so real that it almost feels like you’re there on the cruise. I thought the meditations on aging, fame and womanhood were interesting and thought-provoking. If you like character driven fiction and you had a boyband phase in your teens, this is a perfect summer read for you!”
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Annie is on a journey straight back to her past. When the American Fantasy cruise ship sets sail for a four-day themed voyage, aboard are all five members of a famous 1990s boyband, and three thousand women who have worshipped them since their youth. Newly divorced and with an empty nest, Annie is on board as a lark to appease her sister. Once a diehard fan of the band as a teen, she now feels out of place amid the sea of bedazzling t-shirts bearing the singers’ faces. Yet when the lights go down, the cocktails are poured and the band starts singing, Annie finally reconnects to a long-submerged part of herself. As she encounters Keith, the band’s slightly depressed, fifty-something lead singer – not just a celebrity but someone clearly in need of a friend – she feels like anything is possible. But is the connection between Annie and Keith just a fantasy? Or is this the beginning of a new chapter for them both?
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A House in Sicily
£14.99During WWII, a young Tuscan woman falls in love with a man from the rural depths of southern Italy. As the conflict finally draws to a close, the two travel from Rome to finally meet with his family. But very quickly a dawning realisation breaks: her in-laws and their friends are eccentric in the extreme. They barely leave the house and they rarely speak to their son, fretting instead about their ‘daughter’ – a loud little dog – and worrying constantly, incessantly, about the weather. And, worst of all, they speak with a nostalgic warmth about the region’s recently overthrown fascist regime.
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The Given World
£18.99‘Wonderful … an Under Milk Wood for the twenty-first century’ AMY LIPTROT’Reminds us with every luminous sentence about the fragile grace of ordinary lives’ EVIE WYLD’Extraordinary … The best serious fiction I’ve read this year’ FRANCIS SPUFFORD’Attuned, loving and thoughtful … I loved its warmth and intricacy’ SARAH MOSS’Nobody does nature better than Melissa Harrison’ TRISTAN GOOLEYA FINANCIAL TIMES AND OBSERVER BOOK TO LOOK OUT FOR IN 2026 April brings spring surging with it, giving rise, among many in the village, to a comforting illusion that all is somehow still right with the world, and that nothing will ever change.In the ancient Welm Valley, something is shifting: the river is behaving oddly, while the arrival of spring, with its familiar rhythms, is shadowed by an undercurrent of unease.A woman falls while out walking and hopes to be found before nightfall; a doctor realises, too late, that he has long underestimated his
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The Burning Grounds
£9.99In the Burning Ghats of Calcutta where the dead are laid to rest, a man is found murdered, his throat cut from ear to ear. The body is that of a popular patron of the arts, a man who was, by all accounts, beloved by all: so what was the motive for his murder? Despite being out of favour with the Imperial Police Force, Detective Sam Wyndham is assigned to the case and finds himself thrust into the glamorous world of Indian cinema.
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Seek the Traitor’s Son
£22.00An epic romantic, dystopian fantasy begins in Seek the Traitor's Son, from Sunday Times bestselling author Veronica Roth