Ghost Girl, Banana
By: Wiz Wharton
4.04
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
Set between the last years of the "Chinese Windrush" in 1966 and Hong Kong's Handover to China in 1…
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1. Jaded
By: Ela Lee
4.21
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A young lawyer wakes up the morning after a work gala with no memory of how she got home the previo… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
"I'd tell her that recovery would be like the temple: built between an enormous boulder and a cliff's edge. The construction would be perilous, with the laying of every stone risking a drop into the a…"-Ela Lee, Jaded
2. Blue Sisters
By: Coco Mellors
4.21
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Three estranged siblings return to their family home in New York after their beloved sister's death… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
"A sister is not a friend. Who can explain the urge to take a relationship as primal and complex as a sibling and reduce it to something as replaceable, as banal as a friend? Yet this status is used a…"-Coco Mellors, Blue Sisters
3. Ordinary Human Failings
By: Megan Nolan
3.78
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
When a 10-year-old child is suspected of a violent crime, her family must face the truth about thei… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- historical fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
"She loved the feeling of doing something on her own, and doing it in a routine. It felt thrillingly adult and affirmed her most cherished hope, the hope that she might have an actual inner life of su…"-Megan Nolan, Ordinary Human Failings
"He had the sort of bland, agreeable, rosy face which could disappear into whatever context he wished it to. He was blond but not provocatively so. The naturally dull Kent accent could be clipped and …"-Megan Nolan, Ordinary Human Failings
4. River East, River West
By: Aube Rey Lescure
4.04
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION Set against the backdrop of developing modern Chin… read more
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- literary fiction
- historical
- asia
- fiction
- contemporary
- historical fiction
- china
- adult
- audiobook
"They each had puzzle pieces that might never lock into a flat smooth hole."-Aube Rey Lescure, River East, River West
"She was alone and grown. And had somehow done the worst thing a Chinese woman could do, whore herself out to a white man"-Aube Rey Lescure, River East, River West
"She told her mother the most important, most devastating thing that had happened to her and somehow it had turned into a fight."-Aube Rey Lescure, River East, River West
"She still said nothing. You are fifteen and this is living life, she thought. She'd be like Serena or Blair or those girls on TV. Powerful."-Aube Rey Lescure, River East, River West
5. Green Dot
By: Madeleine Gray
3.71
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
An irresistible and messy love story about the terrible allure of wanting something that promises n… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
6. The Moon Represents My Heart
By: Pim Wangtechawat
3.54
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A lush, buoyant novel for fans of The Immortalists and Everything I Never Told You, The Moon Repres… read more
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- historical
- asia
- fiction
- historical fiction
- contemporary
"Her heart, kept for so long in a little glass case, begins to open up, crack by crack."-Pim Wangtechawat, The Moon Represents My Heart
7. Mongrel
By: Hanako Footman
4.38
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Mei loses her Japanese mother at age six. Growing up in suburban Surrey, she yearns to fit in, supp… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
"Hold onto the things that you have forgotten. Let go of the things that you remember."-Hanako Footman, Mongrel
8. Ghost Girl, Banana
By: Wiz Wharton
4.04
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
Set between the last years of the "Chinese Windrush" in 1966 and Hong Kong's Handover to China in 1… read more
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- literary fiction
- novels
- historical
- asia
- fiction
- contemporary
- historical fiction
- china
- adult
- audiobook
9. Service
By: Sarah Gilmartin
4.24
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
The waitress. The chef. The chef’s wife. Three different stories, but which one contains the truth?… read more
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- literary fiction
- novels
- fiction
- contemporary
10. 8 Lives of a Century-Old Trickster
By: Mirinae Lee
3.91
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Joining the acclaimed ranks of Pachinko and A Woman is No Man, a riveting and genre-bending debut o… read more
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- literary fiction
- historical
- asia
- fiction
- historical fiction
- novels
- audiobook
11. This Family
By: Kate Sawyer
3.83
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
This house. This family. Mary has raised a family in this house. Watched her children play and l… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
12. Wandering Souls
By: Cecile Pin
4.15
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A luminous, boldly imagined debut novel about three Vietnamese siblings who seek refuge in the UK, … read more
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- literary fiction
- historical
- asia
- fiction
- contemporary
- historical fiction
- adult
- audiobook
"We tell ourselves stories in order to live. We tell ourselves stories in order to heal."-Cecile Pin, Wandering Souls
"I didn't know that my culture had fashioned the shape of my mourning; I didn't know that my grief could be improper."-Cecile Pin, Wandering Souls
13. Fire Rush
By: Jacqueline Crooks
3.79
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Set amid the Jamaican diaspora in London at the dawn of 1980s, a mesmerizing story of love, loss, a… read more
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- literary fiction
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- adult
- audiobook
14. Maybe, Perhaps, Possibly
By: Joanna Glen
4.14
Format: 438 pages, Kindle Edition
From the Costa-shortlisted author of THE OTHER HALF OF AUGUSTA HOPE and ALL MY MOTHERS The story… read more
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- fiction
15. A Trace of Sun
By: Pam Williams
3.73
Format: 389 pages, Kindle Edition
‘Don’t go Mammy please.’ Stuttered words filled her ears, sent frissons of guilt through her as she… read more
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- historical fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- audiobook
16. The Silence In Between
By: Josie Ferguson
4.48
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
Imagine waking up and a wall has divided your city in two. Imagine that on the other side is your n… read more
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- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
"Evil demanded little of me – it merely asked me to stay silent, to do nothing. And I complied."-Josie Ferguson, The Silence In Between
"Mozart said that music is not in the notes but in the silence in between. I think that's where our souls are – hidden in that silence."-Josie Ferguson, The Silence In Between
"These are stories from the past, but they are still echoing now, in the present. As I write this, Russian forces are using rape as a weapon of war against Ukrainian women; deported mothers are being …"-Josie Ferguson, The Silence In Between
17. Small Hours
By: Bobby Palmer
4.00
Format: 359 pages, Paperback
The eagerly awaited new novel from Bobby Palmer, author of the critically acclaimed debut Isaac and… read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
18. This Motherless Land
By: Nikki May
4.42
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
From the acclaimed author of Wahala, a “vibrant” (Charmaine Wilkerson) retelling of Mansfield Park,… read more
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- literary fiction
- adult
- fiction
- contemporary
19. This Is Fine
By: Poorna Bell
4.26
Format: 351 pages, Kindle Edition
It might not be the stuff of dreams, but Padma and Wallace have spent ten years building a relation… read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
20. The Amendments
By: Niamh Mulvey
3.84
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Delving into the lives of three generations of women, The Amendments is an extraordinary novel abou… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- audiobook
21. Girls
By: Kirsty Capes
4.25
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
GIRLS follows the story of two sisters - Mattie and Nora - and the thorny relationship with their f… read more
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- novels
- fiction
- contemporary
