Small Pleasures
By: Clare Chambers
3.77
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
1957, south-east suburbs of London. Jean Swinney is a feature writer on a local paper, disappointe…
Want to Read $ 14.99"The new and threatening would become the old and familiar in due course."-Clare Chambers, Small Pleasures
"The journey into love was so effortless and graceful; the journey out such a long and laboured climb"-Clare Chambers, Small Pleasures
"Previous experience taught her that the pain would not be unending - but neither would it subside smoothly, incrementally, but rather in a series of crashing waves, some of which might still knock her off her feet"-Clare Chambers, Small Pleasures
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1. Small Things Like These
By: Claire Keegan
4.18
Format: 128 pages, Hardcover
It is 1985 in a small Irish town. During the weeks leading up to Christmas, Bill Furlong, a coal me… read more
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- literary fiction
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- audiobook
"Always, Christmas brought out the best and the worst in people."-Claire Keegan, Small Things Like These
"for people were bound, he knew, to reveal not only themselves, but what they knew, in conversation"-Claire Keegan, Small Things Like These
"And then the nights came on and the frosts took hold again, and blades of cold slid under doors and cut the knees off those who still knelt to say the rosary."-Claire Keegan, Small Things Like These
"When he reached the yard gate and found the padlock seized with frost, he felt the strain of being alive and wished he had stayed in bed, but he made himself carry on and crossed to a neighbour’s hou…"-Claire Keegan, Small Things Like These
2. You Are Here
By: David Nicholls
4.08
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Sometimes you need to get lost to find your way . . . Michael is coming undone. Adrift after his… read more
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- romance
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
"It’s true I do have time and freedom and I love it, sometimes. But the notion that I should be “making the most of it"-David Nicholls, You Are Here
"You were traumatised.’ ‘I wonder if people use that word too much.’ ‘It’s the right word for something traumatic.’ ‘But it wasn’t war. People get beaten up every Friday night.’ ‘And are traumatised b…"-David Nicholls, You Are Here
"she went on a solo trip to Italy, role-playing a character in a Forster novel. In Florence, she read performatively in cafés and sat in the cool of exquisite churches, straining for some kind of spir…"-David Nicholls, You Are Here
"Books saw her through the pupal stage of thirteen to sixteen, frowning at Kafka and Woolf, then tearing through John Irving and Maeve Binchy, widely read in the proper sense, making no distinction be…"-David Nicholls, You Are Here
3. Penance
By: Eliza Clark
3.90
Format: 336 pages, ebook
Do you know what happened already? Did you know her? Did you see it on the internet? Did you li… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- mystery
- adult
- audiobook
"Do you know what happened to her already? Did you catch it in the papers? Are you local? Did you know her? Did you see it on the internet? Did some website the trawls local news for the worst details…"-Eliza Clark, Penance
4. In Memoriam
By: Alice Winn
4.53
Format: 382 pages, Hardcover
A haunting, virtuosic debut novel about two young men who fall in love during a time of war. It'… read more
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- romance
- literary fiction
- lgbt
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- adult
- audiobook
"It’s intimate."-Alice Winn, In Memoriam
"Call me Sidney,"-Alice Winn, In Memoriam
"Where’s the rest of it?"-Alice Winn, In Memoriam
"Do you believe in magic?"-Alice Winn, In Memoriam
5. Magpie
By: Elizabeth Day
3.63
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
She has almost everything. The rest she’ll take. Single White Female meets The Perfect Nanny in … read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
- mystery
- adult
- audiobook
"She watches him walk around the room, naked apart from those silly flip-flops he's put on because his feet feel the cold. She marvels at his lack of self-consciousness. He has a good body: tall and b…"-Elizabeth Day, Magpie
6. 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
- lgbt
- 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
7. Yellowface
By: R.F. Kuang
3.77
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
White lies. Dark humor. Deadly consequences… Bestselling sensation Juniper Song is not who she says… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- mystery
- adult
- audiobook
"The truth is fluid, there is always another way to spin the story."-R.F. Kuang, Yellowface
"They tell authors never to look at Goodreads, but nobody follows that advice—none of us can resist the urge to know how our work is being received."-R.F. Kuang, Yellowface
"Writing is the closest thing we have to real magic. Writing is creating something out of nothing, is opening doors to other lands. Writing gives you power to shape your own world when the real one hu…"-R.F. Kuang, Yellowface
8. Trespasses
By: Louise Kennedy
4.00
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Set in Northern Ireland during the Troubles, a shattering novel about a young woman caught between … read more
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- romance
- literary fiction
- historical
- fiction
- contemporary
- historical fiction
- adult
- audiobook
9. How to Kill Your Family
By: Bella Mackie
3.54
Format: 355 pages, Hardcover
I have killed several people (some brutally, others calmly) and yet I currently languish in jail fo… read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
- mystery
- adult
- audiobook
"How little men promise. How much we grasp at it."-Bella Mackie, How to Kill Your Family
"Ah, mental health. The get-out clause for all bad behaviour."-Bella Mackie, How to Kill Your Family
"Never yearn for the light that some men will shine on you for the briefest of moments. Snuff it out instead."-Bella Mackie, How to Kill Your Family
"Men like women being vulnerable. They like to feel we might need help, despite any surface-level confidence."-Bella Mackie, How to Kill Your Family
10. The Satsuma Complex
By: Bob Mortimer
3.68
Format: 301 pages, Kindle Edition
'My name is Gary. I’m a thirty-year-old legal assistant with a firm of solicitors in London. To des… read more
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- mystery
- audiobook
- fiction
- contemporary
"And off she toddled back into the flat, banging Lassoo in the face with the door as he followed behind her. He looked up at me as if to say, 'That's your fucking fault."-Bob Mortimer, The Satsuma Complex
11. I’m Sorry You Feel That Way
By: Rebecca Wait
4.03
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
From the author of the Waterstones Book of the Month Our Fathers comes a compelling domestic comedy… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
12. Talking at Night
By: Claire Daverley
3.96
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
Will and Rosie meet as teenagers. They’re opposites in every way. She overthinks everything; he … read more
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- romance
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
13. Milk Teeth
By: Jessica Andrews
3.68
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
From the author of the award-winning Saltwater comes a beautifully told love story set across Engla… read more
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- romance
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
14. Good Material
By: Dolly Alderton
3.91
Format: 345 pages, Paperback
From the bestselling author of Ghosts and Everything I Know About Love: a story of heartbreak and f… read more
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- romance
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
"Thirty-five is the youth of middle age."-Dolly Alderton, Good Material
"Remember, a broken heart is a jester's greatest prop."-Dolly Alderton, Good Material
"You know how to be along without being lonely. Do you know how rare that is?"-Dolly Alderton, Good Material
"Why is it that London always seems the most alive and full of possibility on the nights when you've got no plans?"-Dolly Alderton, Good Material
15. Cleopatra and Frankenstein
By: Coco Mellors
3.74
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
For readers of Modern Lovers and Conversations with Friends, an addictive, humorous, and poignant d… read more
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- romance
- literary fiction
- lgbt
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
"And you’re in love?"-Coco Mellors, Cleopatra and Frankenstein
"People are like this too, you know,"-Coco Mellors, Cleopatra and Frankenstein
"When the darkest part of you meets the darkest part of me, it creates light."-Coco Mellors, Cleopatra and Frankenstein
"Cleo and Frank could not make each other happy, no matter how hard they’d tried."-Coco Mellors, Cleopatra and Frankenstein
16. Really Good, Actually
By: Monica Heisey
3.16
Format: 370 pages, Hardcover
A hilarious and painfully relatable debut novel about one woman’s messy search for joy and meaning … read more
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- romance
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
"You’ll like dating, everyone eats ass now."-Monica Heisey, Really Good, Actually
"The truth is, if you start your eating disorder even slightly overweight, no one will notice until things are very much at the ‘what if two meals a day were soup’ stage."-Monica Heisey, Really Good, Actually
"It seemed impossible that I was supposed to keep loving - even revering - my body as it decomposed in slow motion. Why not give in and have low self-esteem? Maybe I could slay in that way instead."-Monica Heisey, Really Good, Actually
17. The List
By: Yomi Adegoke
3.05
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Ola Olajide, a celebrated journalist at Womxxxn magazine, is set to marry the love of her life in o… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- mystery
- adult
- audiobook
"...but she refused for love to be something that she endured. Something that took from her and made her smaller."-Yomi Adegoke, The List
18. Small Pleasures
By: Clare Chambers
3.77
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
1957, south-east suburbs of London. Jean Swinney is a feature writer on a local paper, disappointe… read more
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- romance
- literary fiction
- lgbt
- historical
- fiction
- contemporary
- mystery
- historical fiction
- adult
- audiobook
"The new and threatening would become the old and familiar in due course."-Clare Chambers, Small Pleasures
"The journey into love was so effortless and graceful; the journey out such a long and laboured climb"-Clare Chambers, Small Pleasures
"Previous experience taught her that the pain would not be unending - but neither would it subside smoothly, incrementally, but rather in a series of crashing waves, some of which might still knock he…"-Clare Chambers, Small Pleasures
19. Ghosts
By: Dolly Alderton
3.88
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Nina Dean has arrived at her early thirties as a successful food writer with loving friends and fam… read more
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- romance
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
"But I think maybe every job is a waste of an English degree."-Dolly Alderton, Ghosts
"I think the memory of your childhood home is impossible to destroy."-Dolly Alderton, Ghosts
"Jethro's flat was in a warehouse that, even from the outside, looked very pleased with its own conversion."-Dolly Alderton, Ghosts
"The contents of supermarket baskets are surely evidence that none of us are coping with adulthood all that well."-Dolly Alderton, Ghosts
20. Exciting Times
By: Naoise Dolan
3.23
Format: 243 pages, Hardcover
An intimate, bracingly intelligent debut novel about a millennial Irish expat who becomes entangled… read more
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- romance
- literary fiction
- lgbt
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
"Eunice Fong said: “Miss, are you sick?"-Naoise Dolan, Exciting Times
"My wanting to cry was a reflection mainly of my social conscience"-Naoise Dolan, Exciting Times
"It's normal to miss your family,' he said. I said that was why I didn't"-Naoise Dolan, Exciting Times
"I wondered which other phrases he´d plucked. I felt like a bird he kept for quills."-Naoise Dolan, Exciting Times
21. Sorrow and Bliss
By: Meg Mason
4.09
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
This novel is about a woman called Martha. She knows there is something wrong with her but she does… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
"We hugged each other like two people who had no practical experience of embracing, had only taught themselves the theory from a poorly worded manual."-Meg Mason, Sorrow and Bliss
"I have been unbearable but I have never been unloved. I have felt alone but I have never been alone and I've been forgiven for the unforgiveable things I have done."-Meg Mason, Sorrow and Bliss
"I have never understood why people think of champagne as celebratory rather than medicinal. (...) Surely the only time one needs one's blood effervesced is when life is utterly flat."-Meg Mason, Sorrow and Bliss
"After Barbara’s Contentious Divorce, Everyone Felt Genuinely Hurt, Including Justifiably Kin Left Melancholically Noting Or Perhaps Questioning Rumours Suggesting That, Unannounced, Vincent’d Wed an …"-Meg Mason, Sorrow and Bliss
