Contemporary lifestyle fiction

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  • The husbands

    £9.99

    One night Lauren finds a strange man in her flat who claims to be her husband. All the evidence – from photos to electricity bills – suggests he’s right. Lauren’s attic, she slowly realises, is creating an endless supply of husbands for her. There’s the one who pretends to play music on her toes. The one who’s too hot (there must be a catch). The one who makes a great breakfast sandwich. The one who turns everything into double entendres (‘I’ll weed your garden’). And the one who can calm her unruly thoughts with a single touch. But when you can change husbands as easily as changing a lightbulb, how do you know whether the one you have now is the good-enough one, or the wrong one, or the best one? And how long should you keep trying to find out?

  • Dream count

    £20.00

    ‘Reads like a feminist War and Peace. A magnificent novel’ SUNDAY TIMES

    ‘A complex, multi-layered beauty of a book. Extraordinary’ NEW STATESMAN

  • Funny story

    £9.99

    Daphne always loved the way her fiancé Peter told their story. How they met (on a blustery day), fell in love (over an errant hat), and moved back to his lakeside hometown to begin their life together. He really was good at telling it – right up until the moment he realized he was actually in love with his childhood best friend Petra. Which is how Daphne begins her new story: Stranded in beautiful Waning Bay, Michigan, without friends or family but with a dream job as a children’s librarian (that barely pays the bills), and proposing to be roommates with the only person who could possibly understand her predicament: Petra’s ex, Miles Nowak. Scruffy and chaotic, Miles is exactly the opposite of practical, buttoned up Daphne, whose coworkers know so little about her they have a running bet that she’s either FBI or in witness protection.

  • Perfection

    £12.99

    With the stylistic mastery of Georges Perec and nihilism of Michel Houellebecq, Perfection, superbly translated by Sophie Hughes, is a brilliantly scathing sociological novel about the emptiness of contemporary existence, beautifully written, impossibly bleak.

  • Blue sisters

    £9.99

    ‘IT MOVED ME DEEPLY’ LIV LITTLE

    ‘DEEPLY POIGNANT’ HARPERS BAZAAR

    ‘GORGEOUS’ RAVEN LEILANI

    THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER FROM THE AUTHOR OF CLEOPATRA AND FRANKENSTEIN

  • The burnout

    £9.99

    Sasha is well and truly over it all: work (all-consuming), friendships (on the back burner), sex-life (non-existent). Armed with good intentions to cleanse and relax, she heads to the Devon resort she loved as a child. But it’s off-season, the hotel is falling apart and she has to share the beach with a grumpy, stressed-out guy called Finn. How can she commune with nature when he’s sitting on a rock, watching her suspiciously? But when curious messages start appearing on the beach, Sasha and Finn are forced to begin talking – about everything. What’s the mystery? Why are they both burned out? And what exactly is ‘manifesting’, anyway? They might discover that they have more in common than they think.

  • Under your spell

    £8.99

    She only wants three things. He isn’t one of them… 

     

  • Yellowface

    £9.99

    The Number One Global Sensation

    *Foyle’s Fiction Book of the Year*

    *Amazon Book of the Year*

    *Shortlisted for Waterstones Book of the Year*

    *Fiction Book of the Year 2024 – British Book Awards*

  • The list

    £9.99

    The instant Top 5 Sunday Times bestseller

    ‘The Book Of The Summer’ VOGUE

    ‘A page-turning read about the dark side of social media’STYLIST

    ‘Topical, heartfelt, provocative’ BERNARDINE EVARISTO

  • Happy place

    £9.99

    Harriet and Wyn are the perfect couple – they go together like bread and butter, gin and tonic, Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds. Every year for the past decade, they have run away from their lives to drink far too much wine and soak up the sea air with their favourite people in the world. Except this year, they are lying through their teeth. Harriet and Wyn broke up six months ago. And they still haven’t told anyone. But this is the last time they’ll all be together here. The cottage is for sale, and since they can’t bear to break their best friends’ hearts, they’ll fake it for one more week. But how can you pretend to be in love in front of the people who know you best?

  • I’m sorry you feel that way

    £10.99

    For Alice and Hanna, saint and sinner, growing up is a trial. There is their mother, who takes a divide and conquer approach to child-rearing, and their father, who takes an absent one. As adults, Alice and Hanna must deal with disappointments in work and in love as well as increasingly complicated family tensions, and lives that look dismayingly dissimilar to what they’d intended. They must look for a way to repair their own fractured relationship, and they must finally choose their own approach to their dominant mother: submit or burn the house down.

  • Cleopatra and Frankenstein

    £9.99

    ‘A tender, devastating and funny exploration of love and friendship and the yearning for self-evisceration. Coco Mellors is an elegant and exciting new voice‘ PANDORA SYKES