Narrative theme: Social issues

  • Juice

    £9.99

    Juice is an epic adventure: a story of survival, passion and revenge from twice Booker-shortlisted author Tim Winton.

  • The Girls Who Grew Big

    £16.99

    A novel full of heart and life and hope, set against the shifting sands of secrets and betrayals, ‘The Girls Who Grew Big’ offers an explosive new perspective on what it means to be a young woman, a daughter, and a mother.

  • Rosarita

    £9.99

    From three times Booker-shortlisted writer Anita Desai, Rosarita is an exquisite story of art, memory and what happens when the past threatens to re-write the present.

  • 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

  • They Never Learn

    £9.99

    Scarlett Clark is an exceptional English professor and an even better serial killer. She’s made it her mission in life to track down predatory men on campus and kill them and she’s preparing for her biggest murder yet. Carly Schiller is just trying to survive her freshman year at college – keeping her head down and focusing on work. But when her roommate Allison is assaulted at a party Carly becomes obsessed with making the attacker pay. When police start investigating the spate of local deaths, Scarlett starts to realise it’s only a matter of time before her secret life is exposed and everything she’s built comes crashing down with it.

  • The Sleepwalkers

    £9.99

    Tense, atmospheric and darkly funny, The Sleepwalkers is a a sublimely creepy contemporary gothic work about a relationship unravelling that asks urgent questions about a contemporary society where our basest selves are hidden in plain sight.

  • Let’s Make a Scene

    £9.99

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

  • Among Friends

    £18.99

    What begins as a celebratory weekend between two families soon devolves into a reckoning of sins, past and present, as an act of violence shatters their finely made world.

  • Best of Friends

    £9.99

    Fourteen-year-old Maryam and Zahra have always been the best of friends, despite their different backgrounds. Maryam takes for granted that she will stay in Karachi and inherit the family business; while Zahra keeps her desires secret, and dreams of escaping abroad. This year, 1988, anything seems possible for the girls; and for Pakistan, emerging from the darkness of dictatorship into a bright future under another young woman, Benazir Bhutto. But a snap decision at a party celebrating the return of democracy brings the girls’ childhoods abruptly to an end. Its consequences will shape their futures in ways they cannot imagine.

  • And So I Roar

    £9.99

    When Tia accidentally overhears a whispered conversation between her mother – terminally ill and lying in a hospital bed in Port Harcourt, Nigeria – and her aunt, the repercussions will send her on a desperate quest to uncover a secret her mother has been hiding for nearly two decades. Back home in Lagos a few days later, Adunni, a plucky 14-year-old runaway, is lying awake in Tia’s guest room. Having escaped from her rural village in a desperate bid to seek a better future, she’s finally found refuge with Tia, who has helped her enroll in school. It’s always been Adunni’s dream to get an education, and she’s bursting with excitement. Suddenly, there’s a horrible knocking at the front gate. It’s only the beginning of a harrowing ordeal that will see Tia forced to make a terrible choice between protecting Adunni or finally learning the truth.

  • Bring the House Down

    £16.99

    ‘Binge-worthy? intimate, real, and really funny’ KILEY REID

    ‘Bitingly sharp, witty and multi-layered’ SOPHIE MACKINTOSH

    ‘Fierce, fantastically funny’ CLAIRE LOMBARDO

    ‘I loved this incendiary debut’ EMILIA HART

    ‘Exceptional ? When a man treats a woman badly, what does he deserve?’ JENNIE GODFREY

    A one woman show

    A one night stand

    A one star review

  • In the Family Way

    £16.99

    Readers are loving In the Family Way:

    ‘An emotional and consuming read. I read from start to finish in one sitting’

    ‘Uplifting and beautifully written’

    Desperate Housewives meets Mad Men in this touching story of motherhood, girlhood, and what really happens behind closed doors in suburban America’

    ‘An essential read’

    ‘I love this book!’

    *****