Contemporary Fiction

A con artist walks into a grief support group. Chaos ensues. After the death of her wife, Shelby is suffering from prolonged grief. Shes increasingly isolated, irritated by her familys stoicism and her friends reliance on the toxi…

From the bestselling author of Ask Again, Yes, a masterful and absorbing novel about a couple in a small town navigating the complexities of marriage, family, and longing.Malcolm Gephardt, handsome and gregarious longtime bartende…

A grieving mother makes a spreadsheet of everyone she's lost. Elsewhere, a professor develops a troubled intimacy with her hairdresser. And every year, a restless woman receives an email from a strange man twice her age and severa…

Shirley Jackson meets Ottessa Moshfegh meets My Sister the Serial Killer in a brilliantly unsettling and darkly funny debut novel full of suspense and paranoia.  George March's latest novel is a smash hit. None could be prouder th…

A semi-famous artist turns forty-five and gives herself a gift - a cross-country road trip from LA to New York, without her husband and child. But thirty minutes after setting off, she spontaneously exits the freeway, beds down in…

A moving and whip smart debut novel, following a former competitive swimmer and granddaughter of a famous Irish poet as she comes of age in the shadow of her familys tragic past, perfect for fans of Sally Rooney, Lily King's Write…

Jules has been divorced from her ex-husband Leon for five years, but she still works alongside him at Gunk, the grotty student nightclub he owns in central Brighton. She spends her nights serving shots and watching, from behind th…

A searing novel about being a wife, a mother, and an artist, and how marriage makes liars of us all. A nuclear family can destroy a woman artist.I’d always known that. But I’d never suspected how easily I’d fall into one anyway. W…

Discover the bitingly witty new novel from the prize-winning author of The Exhibitionist, Charlotte Mendelson. Dr Penny Cartwright is everything that Zoe Stamper is not: glamorous, sophisticated and openly gay. When they begin a p…

An immersive, multi-layered portrait of a marriage, Nathan Hill’s follow-up to The Nix is a work of quiet genius.' – The ObserverAn Oprah's Book Club Pick. Moving from the gritty 90s Chicago art scene to a suburbia of detox diets …

CLOVE HAS BUILT HER DREAM LIFE. IT'S ABOUT TO COME CRASHING DOWN. Everything appears to be going pretty well for Clove.She's built a stable family home in Portland, she has a handsome husband who encourages her to pursue her dream…

In a grand Paris apartment, a young girl attends gatherings regularly organised by her mother.They talk about clothes and exchange the day's gossip, but the mood grows dark when they start to talk about her past, and the great lov…

Because the thing about the end of the world is that it happens all the time. Someone leaves and it's the end of the world. Someone comes back and it's the end of the world.Somebody puts their cock in you and it's the end of the w…

I still sometimes wonder if one could draw a window in the wall, or in the air, and step through it together. To somewhere else, entirely new. From a highly charged Christmas party in Belfast to a passionate affair in Blitz-era Lo…

A dark theatrical comedy about the vexed and violent relationship between Britain and Ireland, from twice Booker-shortlisted author Patrick McCabe. It’s the summer of Brexit, and in a seedy hotel room on the South Coast of England…

June cleans houses. Ray is a janitor at the public tennis courts in Dun Laoghaire. After lives spent picking up the pieces, he's not romantic material, and she's not even friend material. When it comes to learning how to be with o…

Two bisexual exes, one unforgettably hot summer . . .In The Pairing, bestselling author Casey McQuiston's romantic comedy, two bisexual exes accidentally book the same European food and wine tour and challenge each other to a hook…

Under a glittering full moon, a Kyoto coffee shop with no fixed location or hours appears only where and when it's needed. It's run by talking cats serving the finest teas and coffees, delicious desserts and age-old astrological w…

She's the quintessential sunshine girl. He's the lovable class clown.But storm clouds are rolling in, and this Tommen boy is about to get serious. Tommen's cheeky lad, Gerard 'Gibsie' Gibson, is a comedian at heart, but underneath…

He's a boy who's lost. She's girl who might just be the home he's never had.The second born son in a broken marriage, Joey Lynch has spent a lifetime picking up the pieces of a family unravelling. When his older brother Darren ski…

They are from opposites sides of the track - but when their two worlds collide, nothing will ever be the same again. Johnny Kavanagh has everything going for him.On the rugby pitch, he's a force to be reckoned with. Primed for sta…

Falling in love was the easy part. What comes next is the test.. Following a devastating injury that has left him sidelined and stripped of his beloved number 13 jersey, Johnny Kavanagh is struggling to hold onto his dreams. Lost,…

I'm saving you, six. With his world unravelling around him, and pressure rising at home, Joey Lynch's life has never been in more turmoil.Desperate to prove himself worthy of the only person he's ever put his trust in, Joey fights…

Get ready for your new obsession - the unputdownable new thriller from the No.1 bestseller.Have you ever sent a message to the wrong person?You text your sister.Your message is full of gossip about your neighbour. But you accident…

Don't miss out on the bestselling phenomenon from literary sensation Jacqueline Wilson - a warm, uplifting, life-affirming story about friendship, family, and finding fulfilment in unexpected places.  No job. No love life. Perhaps…

A publisher, who is at war with his industry and himself, embarks on a radical experiment in his own life and the lives of those connected to him; an academic exchanges one story for another after an accident brings a stranger int…

Everything comes at a price. But not everything can be paid for… Millie is a college student, determined to graduate, get a job and buy a house. Agatha is a visiting professor, researching attitudes towards weddings and money for …

Once upon a time, not very far from now, two children come home to find a line of wet red paint round the outside of their house...So begins the freewheeling and urgent new novel from Ali Smith – the story of two young people and …

From internationally bestselling author John Boyne, a contemplative story about one man trying to move forward from the trauma of his youth to become a better father to his son. Being in limbo, 30,000 feet in the air, offers time …

Thomas Hart and Grace Macaulay have lived all their lives in the small Essex town of Aldleigh. Though separated in age by three decades, the pair are kindred spirits – torn between their religion and their desire to explore the wo…