The Things We Do to Our Friends
By: Heather Darwent
3.20
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Edinburgh, Scotland: a moody city of labyrinthine alleyways, oppressive fog, and buried history—the…
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1. Rouge
By: Mona Awad
3.56
Format: 383 pages, Kindle Edition
From the critically acclaimed author of Bunny comes a horror-tinted, gothic fairy tale about a lone… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- thriller
- adult
- audiobook
"If I had beauty, I decided then, I would never throw it away. I would never give it up."-Mona Awad, Rouge
"I mean, we all have our dark days. Very dark days, sometimes. When our demons come out to play. No one lives entirely in the light, right?"-Mona Awad, Rouge
"That I can’t protect you from my terrible places that I still go, can’t help but go because no one protected me, no one saved me, no one ever held out their hand and walked me away. But I’m trying to…"-Mona Awad, Rouge
2. 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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- mystery thriller
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- mystery
- thriller
- 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
3. 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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- adult fiction
- 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
4. Death of a Bookseller
By: Alice Slater
3.48
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
A disaffected, true crime-obsessed bookseller develops a dangerous obsession with a colleague. R… read more
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- mystery thriller
- suspense
- fiction
- contemporary
- mystery
- thriller
- adult
- audiobook
5. The Maiden
By: Kate Foster
4.05
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Inspired by a real-life case and winner of the Bloody Scotland Pitch Perfect Award, Kate Foster's T… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- mystery
- adult
- audiobook
6. I'm a Fan
By: Sheena Patel
3.32
Format: 207 pages, None
In I'm A Fan, a single speaker uses the story of their experience in a seemingly unequal, unfaithfu… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
"It is toxic. I am familiar"-Sheena Patel, I'm a Fan
"Happiness or safety. Or isn't that the same thing?"-Sheena Patel, I'm a Fan
"I never came with him. I never felt safe enough to."-Sheena Patel, I'm a Fan
"The world is made for couples. Even the unhappy ones."-Sheena Patel, I'm a Fan
7. Brutes
By: Dizz Tate
3.18
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
The Virgin Suicides meets The Florida Project in this wildly original debut—a coming-of-age story a… read more
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- mystery thriller
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- mystery
- thriller
- adult
- audiobook
"to be loved, was just to be watched"-Dizz Tate, Brutes
"We feel chased. It doesn't matter if it's only by our own shadows."-Dizz Tate, Brutes
"and now I think that to humiliate a woman is the only way some men know how to love one."-Dizz Tate, Brutes
"To be loved was just to be watched, or in my case, to imagine you are loved is to imagine you are watched all the time."-Dizz Tate, Brutes
8. Piglet
By: Lottie Hazell
3.47
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
An elegant, razor-sharp debut about women's ambitions and appetites—and the truth about having it a… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
"She picked up salted butter, thick Greek yoghurt, and cream. The menu was not modest. Her basket was already heavy with Charlotte potatoes, fresh herbs, and a Duchy chicken. It was too hot for a roas…"-Lottie Hazell, Piglet
"She picked up salted butter, thick Greek yoghurt, and cream. The menu was not modest. Her basket was already heavy with Charlotte potatoes, fresh herbs, and a Duchy chicken. It was too hot for a roas…"-Lottie Hazell, Piglet
"She opened the capers, green and freckled as amphibians, and with a teaspoon eased them from their brine. The olives were next, and she pushed pits from the aubergine-dark fruits, dropping their fles…"-Lottie Hazell, Piglet
"On the platter before her there was a bowl of beef bourguignon, the sauce dark with merlot; the corner of dauphinoise potatoes, gruyère-crusted top browned, bubbled with heat; there was a small plate…"-Lottie Hazell, Piglet
9. Kala
By: Colin Walsh
3.99
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
A gripping literary page-turner from a rising Irish talent in which former friends, estranged for t… read more
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- mystery thriller
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- mystery
- thriller
- audiobook
"Vapers are cunt wands,' Donna snaps."-Colin Walsh, Kala
"I just want to switch myself off. Disconnect from everything."-Colin Walsh, Kala
"So much of the night's vague. A film strip with half the frames missing."-Colin Walsh, Kala
"Who drinks a decaf cappuccino? Be honest with yourself and get a cup of warm milk."-Colin Walsh, Kala
10. 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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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
11. 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
- 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
12. 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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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- mystery thriller
- fiction
- contemporary
- mystery
- thriller
- 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
13. The Mess We’re In
By: Annie Macmanus
3.40
Format: 376 pages, Hardcover
I’m a Londoner now. I’m a voice in the noise. I’m ready. It’s the turn of the millennium and, la… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- audiobook
14. Sugar, Baby
By: Celine Saintclare
3.49
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
In the vein of Luster and Queenie , an unflinching portrayal of high-paid sex work in the age of th… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
"It's so deeply entrenched in me, the Fear of God, so much more strongly than the belief."-Celine Saintclare, Sugar, Baby
"The thought of having a relationship with my kids like the one I have with my mum, a scam on both sides, makes me want to vomit."-Celine Saintclare, Sugar, Baby
"It is all beginning to make sense; the gifts he gives like offerings, the golden temple of a Miami house. Oracles, orgies, lusty Greek and Roman gods, apples and pomegranates. Ceremonial robes as des…"-Celine Saintclare, Sugar, Baby
"You're young and that counts for a lot,' she says. 'And you're pretty. It's like currency, like...a bunch of casino chips in the game of life. You can keep them locked up in the back of a drawer and …"-Celine Saintclare, Sugar, Baby
15. The Things We Do to Our Friends
By: Heather Darwent
3.20
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Edinburgh, Scotland: a moody city of labyrinthine alleyways, oppressive fog, and buried history—the… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- mystery thriller
- suspense
- fiction
- contemporary
- mystery
- thriller
- adult
- audiobook
16. One of the Good Guys
By: Araminta Hall
3.52
Format: 289 pages, Hardcover
If most men claim to be good, why are most women still afraid to walk home alone at night? Despe… read more
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- mystery thriller
- suspense
- fiction
- contemporary
- mystery
- thriller
- adult
- audiobook
17. The Four
By: Ellie Keel
3.40
Format: 448 pages, Paperback
"I don’t regret what we did. And I would do it all again." Each of the four had, for their own r… read more
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- mystery thriller
- fiction
- contemporary
- mystery
- thriller
- adult
- audiobook
18. Becky
By: Sarah May
3.52
Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition
Becky Sharp is determined. Determined to get away from the dead-end town where she grew up, determi… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
"The truth changes everything. There's such an awful intimacy to it, a banality even. Perhaps this is why the one time I actually, publically, tell the truth, and not just to this room of forty or so …"-Sarah May, Becky
19. The Girls of Summer
By: Katie Bishop
3.53
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
"That place has been my whole life. Everything I thought I knew about myself was constructed in tho… read more
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- mystery thriller
- suspense
- fiction
- contemporary
- mystery
- thriller
- adult
- audiobook
20. Bodies
By: Christine Anne Foley
3.81
Format: 195 pages, Kindle Edition
You were everything I ever wanted. Johnny was my first. I was seventeen and I was only brave enough… read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
21. Dead Animals
By: Phoebe Stuckes
3.61
Format: 144 pages, Kindle Edition
There is something creeping at the edge of your vision, lingering somewhere just out of focus. All … read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- mystery
- audiobook
