One Day I Shall Astonish the World
By: Nina Stibbe
3.49
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
From the beloved author of Love, Nina , a frank, tender, and poignantly funny story about the ebb …
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1. The Travelling Hornplayer
By: Barbara Trapido
4.16
Format: 76 pages, Paperback
Barbara Trapido is a brilliant novelist who has been delighting British readers for more than a dec… read more
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- contemporary
- novels
- fiction
- british literature
2. You Be Mother
By: Meg Mason
4.31
Format: 66 pages, ebook
What do you do, when you find the perfect family, and it's not yours? A charming, funny and irresis… read more
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3. The List of Suspicious Things
By: Jennie Godfrey
4.29
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
'What if we decided to try and find him?' 'What on earth are you on about?' she said. 'How are w… read more
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- fiction
- audiobook
4. 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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- adult fiction
- british literature
- 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
5. The Wren, the Wren
By: Anne Enright
3.55
Format: 278 pages, Hardcover
An incandescent novel about the inheritance of trauma, wonder, and love across three generations of… read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- adult
- audiobook
"It's not that I think about him constantly, he is my way of thinking. His mind is my compass, his eyes my only mirror."-Anne Enright, The Wren, the Wren
"We don’t walk down the same street as the person walking beside us. All we can do is tell the other person what we see. We can point at things and try to name them. If we do this well, our friend can…"-Anne Enright, The Wren, the Wren
"We don't walk down the same street as the person walking beside us. All we can do is tell the other person what we see. We can point at things and try to name them. If we do this well, our friend can…"-Anne Enright, The Wren, the Wren
6. This Could Be Everything
By: Eva Rice
3.83
Format: None pages, Audiobook
From the author of ‘modern vintage classic’ The Lost Art of Keeping Secrets comes a feel-good nosta… read more
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- audiobook
- novels
- fiction
- contemporary
7. Darling
By: India Knight
4.03
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Marooned in a sprawling farmhouse in Norfolk, teenage Linda Radlett feels herself destined for grea… read more
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- british literature
- humor
- fiction
- contemporary
- audiobook
8. Shrines of Gaiety
By: Kate Atkinson
3.85
Format: 439 pages, Hardcover
London 1926. Roaring Twenties. Corruption. Seduction. Debts due. In a country still recovering … read more
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- adult fiction
- british literature
- fiction
- adult
- audiobook
"The library had not been a career choice. After all, who would choose to be a librarian?"-Kate Atkinson, Shrines of Gaiety
"His head was always in the clouds. 'I'm writing a novel,' he told her. As if that was something to crow about. As if there weren't enough novels in the world already."-Kate Atkinson, Shrines of Gaiety
9. Absolutely and Forever
By: Rose Tremain
3.90
Format: 177 pages, Kindle Edition
A piercing short novel of thwarted love and true friendship from one of our greatest living writers… read more
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- british literature
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- audiobook
10. Games and Rituals
By: Katherine Heiny
3.82
Format: 226 pages, Hardcover
The games and rituals performed by Katherine Heiny's characters range from mischievous and edgy to … read more
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- humor
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
"Some people say that migraines feel like bad hangovers. And some people say that migraines feel like headaches that pulse. And some people say that migraines feel like stomach flu in your head. But w…"-Katherine Heiny, Games and Rituals
11. Soldier Sailor
By: Claire Kilroy
4.10
Format: 256 pages, ebook
Well, Sailor. Here we are once more, you and me in one another's arms. The Earth rotates beneath us… read more
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- audiobook
- novels
- fiction
- contemporary
"I laughed and then we were doing that thing again, our thing: laughing into one another's eyes. All that time I had thought I was jollying you along when all that time you were jollying along me."-Claire Kilroy, Soldier Sailor
"I tell my husband about my childhood and he tells me about his but it isn't the same. We can never know each other as we were then. But I know you. I will see the child you were in the man you will b…"-Claire Kilroy, Soldier Sailor
"Hated cling film. Hated it more than I hated kinetic sand. Defeated by something that lacked a third dimension. While I'd been off tinkering on the cerebral plane, the smart money has been mastering …"-Claire Kilroy, Soldier Sailor
"I knelt down to pick up the hatchling to . . . . what? Give it back to its mother? Here is your dying chick? Just before I made contact with it, she dive-bombed me. The mother actually dive-bombed me…"-Claire Kilroy, Soldier Sailor
12. 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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- audiobook
- adult
- fiction
- contemporary
13. A Tidy Ending
By: Joanna Cannon
3.79
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A delightfully sinister novel about a married woman living a nice, quiet suburban life—but things a… read more
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- adult fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
14. 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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- adult fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
15. My Favourite Mistake (Walsh Family, #7)
By: Marian Keyes
4.02
Format: 599 pages, Kindle Edition
The hilarious, heartwarming new novel from #1 internationally bestselling author Marian Keyes. A… read more
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- audiobook
- novels
- fiction
- contemporary
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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- adult fiction
- humor
- 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 Stargazers
By: Harriet Evans
3.90
Format: 479 pages, Kindle Edition
Sunday Times Top 5 bestselling author Harriet Evans returns with an unputdownable tale of the infin… read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
18. The Exhibitionist
By: Charlotte Mendelson
3.04
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
The longer the marriage, the harder truth becomes . . . Meet the Hanrahan family, gathering for … read more
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- audiobook
- adult
- fiction
- contemporary
19. At the Table
By: Claire Powell
3.74
Format: 314 pages, Kindle Edition
To Nicole and Jamie Maguire, their parents seem the ideal couple - a suburban double act, happily m… read more
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- british literature
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- adult
- audiobook
20. Windmill Hill
By: Lucy Atkins
3.87
Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition
In the 1970s, a single night in a remote hunting lodge with a Hollywood director and his leading la… read more
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- novels
- fiction
21. Gloucester Crescent: Me, My Dad and Other Grown-Ups
By: William Miller
3.98
Format: 347 pages, Kindle Edition
Shortlisted for the 2019 PEN Ackerley PrizeGloucester Crescent is a curving, leafy street, tucked b… read more
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22. One Day I Shall Astonish the World
By: Nina Stibbe
3.49
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
From the beloved author of Love, Nina , a frank, tender, and poignantly funny story about the ebb … read more
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- adult fiction
- relationships
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- literature
- humor
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- adult
- audiobook
23. 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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- relationships
- fiction
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24. Love Marriage
By: Monica Ali
3.90
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
In present-day London, Yasmin Ghorami is twenty-six, in training to be a doctor (like her Indian-bo… read more
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- british literature
- fiction
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- audiobook
25. Weirdo
By: Sara Pascoe
3.28
Format: 359 pages, Hardcover
Tonight, Sophie is working at a pub, about to wrap cutlery, when she turns to find Chris ordering t… read more
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- humor
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- contemporary
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26. The Garnett Girls
By: Georgina Moore
3.64
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
In this brilliant debut novel full of heart and warmth, three very different sisters--and their fre… read more
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- adult fiction
- british literature
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
"It wasn't until the small daily gestures of affection disappeared in a marriage that you noticed them or knew how much you relied on them to break up the grind of work and childcare. They were the be…"-Georgina Moore, The Garnett Girls
27. We All Want Impossible Things
By: Catherine Newman
4.00
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
Who knows you better than your best friend? Who knows your secrets, your fears, your desires, your … read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
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- audiobook
"In the end there’s more beauty in the imperfection."-Catherine Newman, We All Want Impossible Things
28. Amy & Lan
By: Sadie Jones
3.78
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
The author of the highly acclaimed, bestselling novel The Uninvited Guests returns with a captivati… read more
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- british literature
- literature
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- adult
- audiobook
29. The Three Graces
By: Amanda Craig
3.75
Format: 405 pages, Kindle Edition
Ruth, Diana and Marta are three very different friends having a last 'adventure before dementia' af… read more
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- contemporary
30. A House for Alice
By: Diana Evans
3.40
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Alice wants to go home to die. Her three daughters are divided on whether she stays or goes, and ta… read more
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- british literature
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- adult
- audiobook
31. 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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