Family life fiction

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  • The great alone

    £9.99

    A gripping novel of family dynamics, heartbreak and hope which tugs at the heartstrings, set against the beauty of the Alaskan wilderness, from the multimillion-copy bestselling author of The Women and The Nightingale.

  • The Shock of the Light

    £18.99

    ‘A powerful story, beautifully told’ M.L. STEDMAN

    ‘Truly compelling’ WILLIAM BOYD

    ‘Exquisitely written and deeply human’ CHRIS CLEAVE

    ‘Far-reaching, but also intimate and intensely personal’ FLORENCE KNAPP

    ‘Alluring in its twists and turns’ SONIA PURNELL

  • The Mudlarkers’ Club

    £9.99

    Five mudlarkers. One community. Countless unexpected discoveries ? Pre-order now!

  • The Barbecue at no.9

    £16.99

    It’s the summer of 1985 and the residents of Delmont Close are preparing a neighbourhood barbecue to watch the biggest music event in history: Live Aid. A day like no other that will end having reached millions and changed the lives of all who attend. House-proud Lydia Gordon, whose idols are Princess Di and Delia Smith, is determined to put on a show that will impress everyone – with her posh garden and state-of-the-art television and her sweet husband and two children, Hanna and David. But as the guests flood into number nine, so do all of the secrets that have been kept in the close.

  • What Does It Feel Like?

    £8.99

    Eve is a successful novelist who wakes up one day in a hospital bed with no memory of how she got there. Her husband, never far from her side, explains that she has had an operation to remove the large, malignant tumour growing in her brain. As Eve learns to walk, talk, and write again – and as she wrestles with her diagnosis, and how and when to explain it to her beloved children – she begins to recall what’s most important to her: long walks with her husband’s hand clasped firmly around her own, family game nights and always buying that dress when she sees it. Recounted in brief anecdotes, each one is an attempt to answer the type of impossible questions recognizable to anyone navigating the labyrinth of grief.

  • Lost Lambs

    ★ STAFF PICK!
    Selected by Harriet
    £16.99

    The Flynns are not alright. It’s been disastrous since Bud and Catherine opened up their marriage, and none of the Flynns can remember the last time a meal was cooked, a load of laundry done, or a social code abided by. Their daughters spiral in their own chaotic orbits: Abigail, the eldest, is dating a man in his twenties nicknamed War Crime Wes; Louise, the middle child, maintains a secret correspondence with an online terrorist; the brilliant youngest, Harper, is being sent to wilderness reform camp due to her insistence that someone – or something – is monitoring the town’s citizens. Casting a shadow across their lives, and their small coastal town, is Paul Alabaster, a nefarious local billionaire. Rumours of corruption circulate, but no one dares dig too deep. No one except Harper, whose obsession with Alabaster’s machinations sends the family hurtling into a criminal conspiracy – one that may just, finally, bring them closer toget

  • Skylark

    £9.99

    A woman’s quest for artistic freedom in 17th-century Paris intertwines with a doctor’s dangerous mission during the Nazi occupation, revealing a story of courage and resistance that transcends time

  • The Persians

    £9.99

    SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2025

    SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOLLINGER EVERYMAN WODEHOUSE PRIZE 2025

    ‘Enormously entertaining’THE TIMES

    ‘Unputdownable’ HARPER'S BAZAAR

    ‘Funny, sharp and insightful … a triumph’ LAUREN LAVERNE

    ‘Magnificent’ BERNARDINE EVARISTO

  • Slags

    £9.99

    FROM THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF ADULTS AND ANIMALS

    ‘Compulsive and hilarious, like a brilliant gossip with your best friend. Emma Jane Unsworth is my favourite’ Sara Pascoe

    ‘Her best yet – funny, gritty, delightfully feral and, as ever, painfully truthful’ DOLLY ALDERTON

    ‘An amazing writer’ MARGOT ROBBIE

  • Bad Manners

    £9.99

    Would it kill you to smile, darling? Perhaps?

  • The Persians

    £9.99

    SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2025

    SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOLLINGER EVERYMAN WODEHOUSE PRIZE 2025

    ‘Enormously entertaining’THE TIMES

    ‘Unputdownable’ HARPER'S BAZAAR

    ‘Funny, sharp and insightful … a triumph’ LAUREN LAVERNE

    ‘Magnificent’ BERNARDINE EVARISTO

  • Wreck

    £16.99

    Rocky, Nick, Willa and Jamie. A normal loving, anxious, messy relatable, family. Rocky has her own her way of processing disasters: 1. This could happen to us. 2. This couldn’t happen to us. And then there’s a secret third column: ‘This could happen to us unless I am very careful/superstitious/grateful’. So when a former classmate of Jamie’s dies in a seemingly random accident, Rocky becomes obsessed. She’s also developed a niggling medical condition that won’t go away. On the surface, she is still living her best life as the irreverent, funny, unpredictable beating heart of her family. Her father is his unique, adorable self; Willa is prone to bouts of existential angst whilst berating the fact that her mother has zero filter; Nick is steady, logical, sometimes infuriating. But if accidents can happen – and they do – is it safe to love anyone?