Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Sizzling sports rom-com set in the world of cycling, from the author of Italy Ever After. Perfect for fans of Hannah Grace and Sarah Adams

The poignant story of a man who finds he can reach out to his younger, troubled self through a very familiar bookshop in his home town.

Alice Peterson’s novel about how a marriage is affected by a challenging child, now available in a beautiful new edition.

In 1986 Gravesend, Brooklyn, Risa Franzone’s life unravels when an abusive husband is killed in a sudden, violent accident. With her sister Giulia and loyal friend Christopher ‘Chooch’ Gardini, Risa faces a terrifying choice: confess or conceal. Over the next eighteen years, the sisters navigate love, loyalty, and the consequences of that fateful night, as long-buried secrets begin to surface in this gripping, atmospheric tale of family, crime, and survival.

Alice Peterson’s warm first novel about family and relationships.

Jane Austen’s Emma meets bustling Mumbai society in Swati Hegde’s debut friends to lovers romcom. Mumbai.

A richly imagined, sweeping novel set in the climate-changed world of our own descendants, by the acclaimed author of WHISKEY WHEN WE’RE DRY

In the hazy heat of a Dorset summer, retired DI Thomas Maitland faces an unlaid ghost of the past wreaking retribution in the present.

Over the course of a single week, a woman who is ready to die finds an unexpected reason to live

‘Warm, sexy, and vulnerable… Hannah Bonam-Young needs to be on your romance radar’ – Hannah Grace

Two bickering strangers trying to care for their younger siblings team up to create a stable home, but the chemistry between them threatens to undo their plans – from the viral TikTok author of Next to You and Out on a Limb.

A sharp and stylish debut in which an unwitting private eye gets caught up in a crime of obsession between a reclusive literary superstar and her bookseller husband, paying homage to the noir genre just as smartly as it reinvents it.