Adult & contemporary romance

  • Freckles

    £8.99

    Discover this 5-star read: ‘Wow’ ????? ‘Heartwarming’ ????? ‘Uplifting’ ????? ‘Thought-provoking’ ?????’One of those rare, special and unique heroines’????? ‘A joy to read’ ?????

    What if the people who have the power to change your life are the ones who have been there all along?

  • The Other Ones

    £8.99

    Sal lives in a haunted house – but as he grows closer to fellow outcast, fan of all things spooky and neighbourhood newcomer, Pax, the true nature of the hauntings is gradually revealed. Will Sal find the courage to conquer his ghosts?

  • The Empire

    £20.00

    The Empire is not just a theatre. From music hall to vaudeville, from revue to grand musical spectacular, it holds a special place in the nation’s heart. For its audience, for its actors and singers, for the stagehands, the front-of-house staff, for its backers and its debtors – and above all for its owners – it truly is a palace of dreams. And for young Jack Treadwell, struggling to adapt to civilian life after the war, it’s a lifeline. Looking for work, he arrives at The Empire, it’s owned by the family of his former commanding officer, Edmund Lassiter so he hopes to be given a chance. But as Jack soon discovers, it is not just the actors who are donning a disguise. With whispers of a cover-up, a scandal and sibling rivalry, tensions rise, along with the curtain. For there is treachery at the heart of The Empire and a dark secret waiting in the wings.

  • The Central Line

    £9.99

    Cora and Jacob live in London’s vast metropolis; he at one end of the Central Line, she at the other. Their paths have crossed a thousand times without them knowing. When a chance encounter on the underground brings them together, it seems they’re destined to fall in love. But life has a catastrophic way of throwing up obstacles that could see both their lives unravel. And as events in their pasts begin to pull them apart, Cora and Jacob begin to wonder: Are they meant to be together, or were they never meant to meet?

  • Love on the Brain

    £8.99

    A scientist is forced to work on a project with her nemesis – with explosive results.

  • Four Aunties and a Wedding

    £8.99

    They vow to make it a day to remember?

    The laugh-out-loud new novel from the bestselling author of Dial A For Aunties, winner of the Comedy Women In Print Prize 2021

  • Cult Classic

    £16.99

    Lola – a die-hard New Yorker with the ex-boyfriends, late nights, cigarette-habit and sharp wit to prove it – is out to dinner with old colleagues in Chinatown; people she’s grown apart from, but with whom she shares an unshakeable connection. While reminiscing about the past, Lola runs into an ex-boyfriend. They get a late night drink and she returns home to her fiancé, a man she knows should be the perfect choice. But is he? The next day, near the same place, Lola runs into another ex. And another. Something strange is happening. Lola has become the experimental mark of a hipster cult, headed up by her enigmatic former boss and headquartered in an abandoned synagogue. They are using their collective meditative energy (along with social media and the power of intention) to reorder her experience of the world – which just might be the push she needs to understand her past and get on with her future.

  • By the Book

    £8.99

    Sometimes to truly know a person, you have to read between the lines. Isabelle is completely lost. When she first began her career in publishing right out of college, she did not expect to be twenty-five, living at home, still an editorial assistant, and the only Black employee at her publishing house. Overworked and underpaid, constantly torn between speaking up or stifling herself, Izzy thinks there must be more to this publishing life. So when she overhears her boss complaining about a beastly high-profile author who has failed to deliver his long-awaited manuscript, Isabelle sees an opportunity to finally get the promotion she deserves. All she has to do is go to the author’s Santa Barbara mansion and give him a quick pep talk or three. How hard could it be? But Izzy quickly finds out she is in over her head.

  • Apples Never Fall

    £9.99

    Joy Delaney and husband Stan have done well. Four wonderful grown-up children. A family business to envy. The golden years of retirement ahead of them. So when Joy Delaney vanishes – no note, no calls, her bike missing – it’s natural that tongues will wag. How did Stan scratch his face? Why no answers from the police? And who was the stranger who entered and suddenly left their lives? What are they all hiding? But for the Delaney children there is a much more terrifying question – did they ever know their parents at all? Because the closer the family, the bigger the lie.

  • The Mermaid of Black Conch

    £9.99

    Near the island of Black Conch, a fisherman sings to himself while waiting for a catch. But David attracts a sea-dweller that he never expected – Aycayia, an innocent young woman cursed by jealous wives to live as a mermaid. When American tourists capture Aycayia, David rescues her and vows to win her trust. Slowly, painfully, she transforms into a woman again. Yet as their love grows, they discover that the world around them is changing – and they cannot escape the curse for ever.

  • Suspects

    £20.00

    A dedicated CIA agent becomes an unexpected ally to a woman haunted by the kidnapping of her family, in this thrilling novel from international number one bestselling author Danielle Steel.

  • The Mutual Friend

    £16.99

    New York, 2015. In a city of more than 8 million people, there are always new places to visit, new connections to be made, new experiences to be shared. But not for Alice Quick. Determined to finally take her MCAT exam and become a doctor, this has to be a summer of no distractions. So it’s a shame that her chaotic roommate Roxy is persistently getting her into trouble, not the most convenient timing for her millionaire brother Bill to decide to embark upon a spiritual search for the meaning of life and plain inconvenient that Alice just can’t seem to put down her phone. And then there’s the biggest distraction of all, threatening to permanently derail all of her plans – love.