Modern & contemporary fiction

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  • 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?

  • Glyph

    £20.00

    It all starts when Petra and her little sister Patch hear a horrifying story from the past and find themselves making up a ghost. Is it imaginary? Is it real? Then it all starts again thirty years later when Petra, now estranged from Patch, finds a phantom horse kicking the furniture to pieces in her bedroom. What to do? She phones her sister.

  • This Book Made Me Think of You

    This Book Made Me Think of You

    £16.99

    Staff Pick!

    Justina says…

    Who doesn’t love a love story involving a book shop!
    Really sweet, bit weepy and thoroughly enjoyable.

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    When Tilly Nightingale receives a call telling her there’s a birthday gift from her fiancé waiting for her at her local bookshop, it couldn’t come as more of a shock. Partly because she can’t remember the last time she read a book for pleasure. Mainly because Joe died five months ago. The gift is simple – twelve carefully-chosen books from Joe, one for each month, to help her turn the page on her first year without him. Tilly sets out on a series of reading-inspired adventures that take her around the world. But as she begins to vlog her journey, her story becomes more than her own. With help from Alfie, the bookshop owner, her budding new following and her friends and family, can Tilly’s year of books show her how to love again?

  • The Homemade God

    £9.99

    There is a heatwave across Europe, and Goose and his three sisters gather at the family’s house by Lake Orta in Piedmont, Italy. Their father, a famous artist, recently remarried a much younger woman and decamped to Italy to finish his masterpiece. Now he is dead. And there is no sign of his new wife and or his final painting. Though the siblings have always been close, the things they learn that summer – about themselves, their father and their new stepmother – will drive them apart before they can come to any kind of understanding of what their father’s legacy truly is.

  • Vigil

    £18.99

    A triumphant new novel from bestselling, Booker Prize-winning novelist George Saunders, taking place at the bedside of an oil company CEO, in the twilight hours of his life, as he is ferried from this world into the next

  • Departure(s)

    £18.99

    A book about many things, including: A man called Stephen and a woman called Jean, who fall in love when they are young and again when they are old; a Jack Russell called Jimmy, famous for his good behaviour; the mischievous nature of memory; the aging body, and how it begins to fail; taking our chances, facing our fate; how we find happiness in this life; how a departure can also be an arrival; and when it is time to say goodbye.

  • The Vanishing Point

    £9.99

    The stories in Paul Theroux’s ‘The Vanishing Point’ are both exotic and domestic, their settings ranging from Hawaii to Africa and New England. Each focuses on life’s vanishing points – a moment when seemingly all lines running through one’s life converge, and one can see no farther, yet must deal with the implications. With the insight, subtlety, and empathy that has long characterized his work, Theroux has written deeply moving stories about memory, longing, and the passing of time, reclaiming his status, once again, as a master of the form.

  • Half His Age

    £16.99

    THE SUNDAY TIMES NO.1 BESTSELLER

    Half His Age is a highly anticipated, funny, sad, thrilling novel about sex, class, desire, and power – and the (often misguided) lengths we’ll go to to get what we want, from Jennette McCurdy, the three-million copy bestselling author of I’m Glad My Mom Died.

  • The Sirens

    £9.99

    From the critically acclaimed, bestselling author of Weyward: FOUR SISTERS, SEPARATED BY HISTORY, BOUND BY THE SEA