Contemporary literature

This internationally acclaimed masterpiece by one of Iran’s most important and influential writers traces the interwoven destinies of five women – including a wealthy middle-aged housewife, a sex worker and a schoolteacher – as they arrive by different paths to live together in an abundant garden on the outskirts of...

'I was at a time in my life where I got to thinking more about people's choices - how everything would be different if just the slightest decision changed...'It is late September in 2001 and the walls of New York are papered over with photos of the missing. Cora Brady's...

What happens when you find love, but life keeps getting in the way?When she first meets Adam, Coralie is new to London and feeling adrift. But Adam is clever, witty, and - he insists - half an inch taller than the average British male. His charming four-year-old daughter, Zora, only...

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...

It’s the late 1980s, the final years of Thatcher’s Britain, and the Trainspotting crew is ready to leave heroin behind and embrace a new chapter. After a drug deal goes wrong, Renton, Sick Boy, Spud, and Begbie are separated but united by one goal: to feel alive. Their days are...

Two string players fight their attraction for each other as they compete for center stage in this spicy and emotional romance.Gwen Jackson and Xander Thorne are both musical prodigies, but each has had very different paths to success. Xander was born into classical music royalty, while Gwen had a natural...

No. 1 Sunday Times bestselling author of Fourth Wing, Rebecca Yarros, sends readers on a nine-month cruise where everyone has to keep their head - and hearts - above water.    He only wants one girls heart, and it's the one he's already broken. He's Landon Rhodes. The snowboarding Renegade they call Nova.Sinfully...

From the bestselling author of PS I Love You comes a story of finding yourself - and finding your way home. Pip's world is small. But it's about to become a whole lot bigger. For years she's tucked away her dreams, shrinking herself into the space left behind - like...

Her life is so full, so why is she hungry? For Piglet – an unshakable childhood nickname – getting married is her opportunity to reinvent. Together, Kit and Piglet are the picture of domestic bliss – effortless hosts, planning a covetable wedding... But if a life looks too good to...

A steamy and swoonworthy standalone novel in the iconic Formula 1 romance series, from the bestselling author of The Fine Print and Love Redesigned.     Santiago Alatorre: One mistake destroys my career. I go from most eligible bachelor to monster, hiding from the world. At least until Chloe breaks into my home. My new fake girlfriend is a temporary...

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...

Get caught up in the puzzles, games, danger, romance, and riches of this lush new chapter in the #1 bestselling Inheritance Games saga. Seven tickets. An island of dreams. The chance of a lifetime. Welcome to the Grandest Game, an annual competition run by billionaire Avery Grambs and the four...

The best way to gain confidence after years with the wrong guy? Hayden Owens—the hottest defenseman in pro hockey, my confident best friend, and my new dating coach.
He’ll teach me to be a player, but convinces me to practice with him. We’ve been friends for years, but our flirting lessons and...

A compulsively readable debut novel about two college students, each with his own troubled past, whose escalating obsession with one another leads to an act of unspeakable violence. ‘An utterly captivating fever dream of a novel.’ Brandon Taylor, author of Real Life When Paul enters university in early 1970s Pittsburgh, it’s with the hope of...

Tereza and Ivan share secrets. Tereza is now in art school away from the town where she grew up. Ivan is a teacher and artist.Tereza is now nineteen, Ivan is fifty-seven. They have known each other for years. Tereza shares her secrets with her friend Silvia.Ivan does not tell anyone....

The debut novel from the bestselling author of The Fine Print and Love Redesigned, and the first book in a swoonworthy Formula 1 romance series.   Noah: Maya Alatorre is the sister of my teammate… and my new obsession. Keeping my distance during the Formula 1 season should be easy, except I always find ways to...

In this unique book, His Holiness the Dalai Lama tells the full story of his 75-year struggle with China to save Tibet and its people. The Dalai Lama has had to contend with the People’s Republic of China his entire life. He was 15 years old when communist China invaded...

WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE FOR LITERATURE 2024Like a long winter’s dream, this haunting and visionary new novel from 2024 Nobel Prize winner Han Kang takes us on a journey from contemporary South Korea into its painful history‘One of the most profound and skilled writers working on the contemporary world...

Yeongju is burned out. With her high-flying career, demanding marriage, and bustling life in Seoul, she knows she should feel successful—but all she feels is drained. Haunted by an abandoned dream, she takes a leap of faith and leaves her old life behind. Quitting her job and divorcing her husband, Yeongju moves...

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...

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...

What if the greatest writer of all time isn’t who we think he is? What if he isn’t even a he? Step back four hundred years and discover the female author who hid behind the mask of the man we know as William Shakespeare. In Elizabethan London, young Emilia...

The beloved Japanese bestseller: a tale of love, family, new beginnings, and the comfort that can be found between the pages of a good book. When twenty-five-year-old Takako's boyfriend reveals he's marrying someone else, she reluctantly accepts her eccentric uncle Satoru's offer to live rent-free in the tiny room above his...

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...