Contemporary literature

From the author of the phenomenal bestseller The Keeper of Stories, comes an utterly beautiful and charming novel full of mystery and secrets waiting to be uncovered... Her new chapter starts now... Jo Sorsby is hiding from her past when she agrees to run her uncle's beloved...

When librarian Poe Markham takes the job at Thornchapel, she only wants two things: to stay away from Thornchapel’s tortured owner, Auden Guest, and to find out what happened to her mother twelve years ago. It should be easy enough keep her head down while she works in the house’s...

Step into the heart of Tokyo's late-night world with Goodnight Tokyo, a strikingly original debut novel that will captivate lovers of noir, mystery, and human drama. Set between the quiet hours of 1:00 AM and 4:30 AM, this brilliantly crafted story takes readers on an intimate tour of Tokyo’s neon-lit...

Would you want to know what your colleagues say behind your back? 'Darkly funny with a brilliant premise' Emma GannonFor readers who loved The Office US and Really Good, Actually comes the awkward heroine you're about to fall in love withJolene certainly doesn't.   She's riddled with anxiety, depressed, and hates her...

The sequel to the Sunday Times and international-bestselling South Korean therapy memoir, translated by International Booker Prize-shortlisted Anton Hur When Baek Sehee started recording her sessions with her psychiatrist, her hope was to create a reference for herself. She never imagined she would reach so many people, especially young people,...

The fourth Kings of Sin book from NYT bestselling author Ana Huang's delicious new series of standalones, featuring seven steamy billionaires inspired by the seven deadly sins. Previous books include King of Wrath, King of Pride and King of Greed.   He'd never wanted anyone enough to chase them... until he met...

In this novel series originally released in Chinese—and which inspired a number of multimedia adaptations—two disaffected young men stuck in a run-down city discover that everything changes once they find each other.Unwanted by his adoptive parents, Jiang Cheng leaves home to live in a cold, gray city with his deadbeat...

Discover The Atlas Paradox, the electric dark academia sequel to viral sensation The Atlas Six by Olivie Blake - a No.1 Sunday Times bestseller. Inside the Alexandrian Society alliances will be tested, hearts will be broken and all must pick a side. Six magicians were offered the opportunity of a...

The Restaurant of Lost Recipes is the second book in the bestselling, mouth-watering Kamogawa Food Detectives series, for fans of Before the Coffee Gets Cold. We all hold lost recipes in our hearts. A very special restaurant in Kyoto helps recreate them...Chef Nagare and his daughter Koishi serve their customers more than delicious food at...

A moving story about two very different sisters, and a love letter to childhood, growing up, and the power of imagination—from the bestselling author of Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead and Interesting Facts About Space.Sigrid hates working at the Dollar Pal but having always resisted the idea...

A small-town second chance romance from the bestselling author of Flawless and Wild Eyes.   I’ve seen every square inch of Violet Eaton’s delectable body and she has no idea who I am.Until now.What happened between us online, in our chats, was meant to stay anonymous and in the past.Until it didn’t.It’s...

Can two broken hearts make a whole...?After losing her beloved sister three years ago, Savanna Litchfield has been living half a life. When Savannah's therapist suggests joining a trip around the world for grieving teens she agrees to go clutching tightly to the unread journal her sister left behind.Seventeen-year-old Cael...

If you loved From Lukov with Love - the sensational TikTok hit that is captivating readers all over the world - then you don't want to miss any of Mariana's unique romances! No one writes slow burn like Mariana Zapata and her millions of fans agree!   Losing people you love is...

1928, ParisA boy is found, moments from death, and taken in by a kindly family. Gentle, precocious, talented, he flourishes in his new home, and the family show him a life he hadn’t dreamed possible. But he refuses to speak a word about who is really is.As he grows into...

In the fifth book in the sensational Before the Coffee Gets Cold series translated from Japanese, the mysterious café where customers arrive hoping to travel back in time welcomes four new guests: The father who could not allow his daughter to get married A woman who couldn't give Valentine's Day chocolates to her loved...

Before Xaden Riorson, there were the four Fly Boys: a deeply emotional and angsty New Adult romance series from the No.1 Sunday Times bestselling author of Fourth Wing. Be careful what you wish for...   Lt. Grayson Masters is focused on graduating the Apache helicopter course, and the last thing he needs...

Breaks is an LGBTQ+ graphic novel which is perfect for fans of Heartstopper who are looking for something a little darker and more mature.    Cortland Hunt has made some dangerous mistakes. Now he's waiting quietly for those mistakes to catch up with him. Ian Tanner coasts through life denying the spark...

When Summer Preston’s professor issues her with an ultimatum, she finds herself on an unexpected collision course with hockey captain, Aiden Crawford. Summer hates everything about hockey, for good reason, but she isn’t going to let that stand in the way of her becoming a sports psychologist.Aiden loves being the...

Before Xaden Riorson, there was the four Flyboys: a deeply emotional and angsty New Adult romance series from the No.1 Sunday Times bestselling author of Fourth Wing.     Since her sister's death, twenty-year-old Paisley Donovan, who shares her sister’s heart condition, is treated like delicate glass by her parents. But nothing will...

A new contemporary romance from the author of the TikTok sensation Archer's Voice. The follow-up to New York Times bestseller Archer's Voice and its sequel, Travis.   How is it possible that perfect Gage Buchanan is still single after all these years?He can't quite figure it out himself. Perhaps he hasn't met...

Flo is sick of Tokyo.Suffering from a crisis in confidence, she is stuck in a rut, her translation work has dried up and she's in a relationship that's run its course.That's until she stumbles upon a mysterious book left by a fellow passenger on the Tokyo Subway.From the very first...

A shimmering, joyful new novel about a pair of opposites with the wrong thing in common, from #1 New York Times bestselling author Emily Henry.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...

Before Xaden Riorson, there was Josh Walker: a deeply emotional and angsty New Adult romance from the No.1 Sunday Times bestselling author of Fourth Wing.   There are some debts you can’t repay.Josh Walker is loyal, reckless, and every girl’s dream. But he only has eyes for December Howard, the girl he's...

When a father goes missing, his family's desperate search leads them to question everything they know about him and one another--both a riveting page-turner and a deeply moving portrait of a family in crisis from the award-winning author of Miracle Creek."We didn't call the police right away." Those are the first...

Genie Edwards, head of player care at Covenly FC, loves her job. Even if she does have to work with the club doctor who happens to be her ex-husband...When Covenly qualify for the Champions League, they're determined to stay there and smash their record transfer fee to bring in renowned...

Sparks fly when a young woman finds herself cast on a Love Island-inspired reality show and has to choose between her heart and her strategy in this sizzling new queer romantic comedy from the beloved author of Wanderlust. This summer, things are about to heat up.Cas Morgan has spent years of her life...

'I have a first-day rule. Any sign of trouble, even a whiff of a problem, and I walk.'Noelle is an efficient and friendly hotel cleaner, a model employee. Or so she'd have you think. The trouble is that she can't help taking a little 'souvenir' as she cleans. Nothing of...

Two writers with a complicated history end up working on the same TV show... Can they write themselves a new ending? A sexy and emotional enemies-to-lovers romance guaranteed to pull on your heartstrings and give you a book hangover from brilliant new voice Yulin Kuang.Helen Zhang hasn’t seen Grant Shepard...

From Kyung-Sook Shin, the internationally bestselling author of Please Look After Mom, comes an intimate and deeply moving novel about grief, reconciliation, and uncovering long-held family secrets. Two years after losing her daughter in a tragic accident, Hon returns to her childhood home in the Korean countryside to care for her...

"I was going to be okay. I was going to be okay. That had to be the case. Even though it felt a very long way away from me in that moment..."   Maybe fannies and long-term love just don't work well together... Hers used to work perfectly. It found her fingerings, orgasms and love. But...