Contemporary lifestyle fiction

  • Happy Endings

    £9.99

    When Jennifer Cole is told she has three months left to live, she knows her life is f*cked. With nothing to lose, she decides it’s time to admit to everything she’s always longed to say but never dared. She writes three letters: one to her overbearing, selfish sister, one to her spineless, cheating ex-husband, the third to her charming but unreliable ex-boyfriend. At first it feels great to have finally found her voice. But as things start to unravel, she discovers that the truth has its own consequences.

  • Long Distance

    £14.99

    Aysegül Savas’s acute and tender collection explores the distances we keep, and those we try to close, in the age of connectivity. A researcher abroad in Rome eagerly awaits a visit from her long distance lover, only to find he is not the same man she remembers. An expat meets a childhood friend on a layover and is dismayed by her unexpected contentment. A newly pregnant woman considers the taboo of sharing the news too soon, but can’t resist when an opportunity comes to patch up a damaged friendship. ‘Long Distance’ showcases Savas’s devastating talent for the short story. Her shrewd encapsulations of contemporary life often centre on characters displaced more by choice than circumstance, characters both determined to install themselves in new lives and preoccupied with the people they’ve left behind.

  • What Would Dolly Do?

    £9.99

    It’s hard to be a diamond in a rhinestone world?

  • The Compound

    £16.99

    Lord of the Flies meets Love Island – dark, thrilling, and delightfully twisted’ LOUISE O’NEILL

    ‘So gripping and propulsive that it beats reality TV at its own game. Why watch TV when Aisling Rawle does it better?’ TORREY PETERS

    ‘THIS is the book to read this summer. Easily one of my favourite novels I’ve read this year? 10 out of 10’CECELIA AHERN

  • You Are Here

    £9.99

    Marnie is stuck. Stuck working alone in her London flat, stuck battling the long afternoons and a life that increasingly feels like it’s passing her by. Michael is coming undone. Reeling from his wife’s departure, increasingly reclusive, taking himself on long, solitary walks across the moors and fells. When a persistent mutual friend and some very English weather conspire to bring them together, Marnie and Michael suddenly find themselves alone on the most epic of walks and on the precipice of a new friendship. But can it survive the journey?

  • Let’s Make a Scene

    £9.99

    A dazzling filmset romance full of heart and humour from the author of Under Your Spell. 

  • No One Would Do What the Lamberts Have Done

    £18.99

    You think it will never happen to you: the ring of the bell, the police on the doorstep. First they check you’re who they expected to find at the address. What they say next traps you in a nightmare, and there seems to be no way out. It starts with the words, ‘I’m afraid…’

  • To the Moon

    £14.99

    In Seoul, three young women meet while working mundane desk jobs at a confectionary manufacturer. They become fast friends, taking their conversations out of the group chat as they bond over their ‘average’ employee report cards, the incompetence of their male team leader, and a mutual longing for financial freedom amid mediocre raises. One day over lunch, Eun-sang announces a plan to make enough money to quit her job, by investing her life’s savings in cryptocurrency. What’s more, she thinks the others should join her. All they need to do, she says, is hold on tight and wait for the price to skyrocket – to the moon. But as the market begins to fluctuate and spiral out of their control, the fate of their friendships – and their futures – soon hangs in the balance.

  • The Second Chance Convenience Store

    £14.99

    The Second Chance Convenience Store is a Korean million copy bestselling novel set in Seoul telling the charming story of a store owner who gives those who work for her a second chance at life. For fans of Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop and Days at the Morisaki Bookshop.

  • Wild Moon Rising

    £16.99

    ‘Jenny Knight’s writing is brilliant – telling it like it is, full of warmth and humour’ Cathy Rentzenbrink

    ‘Powerful ? A moving story of female desire, ambition and renewal’ Kit de Waal

    *****

  • Book Boyfriend

    £9.99

    Jemma has lived a thousand lives through books. The only life she isn’t living is her own. That is, until the day she finds a note from a stranger in her favourite library book. When she replies, the pair begin a longhand conversation about their love of novels that sees Jemma finally coming out of her shell. Is she ready to fall in love for the first time – with someone she’s never met? Clara has always run away from her problems, but this might finally be one she can’t escape. Everyone wants to know what happened to Clara in America – but Clara isn’t talking. Instead she’s focusing all her energy obsessing over a hot new actor, starring in the TV adaptation of her twin Jemma’s favourite book. Soon, Clara is reading every interview, trawling his social media, and following him to showbiz parties in the hopes he’ll notice she’s The One.

  • The Unwilding

    £9.99

    SHORTLISTED FOR THE RSL ENCORE AWARD 2025

    ‘Compelling and fine and rich, I devoured it’ TESSA HADLEY

    ‘Powerfully compelling’ GUARDIAN

    ‘Unbelievably good’ ELIZABETH DAY

    ‘Complex and nuanced? the perfect definition of summer reading’ LUCY CALDWELL

    ‘Subtle, complex, ambitious’THE TIMES

    A Guardian Book of the Year 2024

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