Paradise Block
By: Alice Ash
3.70
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
'Taps into a deep and compelling strangeness with vigour and humour and heart... A disturbing and m…
Want to Read"I won't open it,' I say, but I know that outside there is the black hallway and my mother, crawling on the floor."-Alice Ash, Paradise Block
"The baby is our baby, but as soon as we saw all the things that it can do, the dull solemness of its very gaze, we wished to put it back; we wished that a muster of crows might come and take it away."-Alice Ash, Paradise Block
"Min has brought me a present of my own. It is a shiny pink apron. On the apron there are words, curling white and maggoty letters: 'Little lady'. Min holds the apron in front of my face until I am forced to look at it. She slips the string over my head and ties the back securely with a double knot."-Alice Ash, Paradise Block
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1. Jillian
By: Halle Butler
4.12
Format: None pages, Paperback
Megan, recently out of college and working a meaningless job as a gastroenterologist's secretary, o… read more
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- contemporary
2. Local Girl Missing
By: Claire Douglas
3.26
Format: 32 pages, Paperback
The old Victorian pier was once a thing of beauty. It's also where twenty-one-year-old Sophie Colli… read more
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3. The Seas
By: Samantha Hunt
4.30
Format: 373 pages, Paperback
The narrator of The Seaslives in a tiny, remote, alcoholic, cruel seaside town. An occasional chamb… read more
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4. Intimacies
By: Lucy Caldwell
3.90
Format: 158 pages, Paperback
Intimacies exquisitely charts the steps and missteps of young women trying to find their place in t… read more
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- short stories
- fiction
- contemporary
5. Children of Paradise
By: Camilla Grudova
3.49
Format: 200 pages, Hardcover
When Holly applies for a job at the Paradise - one of the city's oldest cinemas, squashed into the … read more
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6. Western Lane
By: Chetna Maroo
3.51
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
Shortlisted for the 2023 Booker Prize A taut, enthralling first novel about grief, sisterhood, a… read more
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- contemporary
7. Quiet
By: Victoria Adukwei Bulley
4.12
Format: 87 pages, Paperback
WINNER OF THE RATHBONES FOLIO POETRY PRIZESHORTLISTED FOR THE T. S. ELIOT PRIZESHORTLISTED FOR THE … read more
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- contemporary
8. The Rule
By: David Jackson
3.97
Format: 336 pages, Kindle Edition
'The master of razor-sharp one liners. An absolute belter' - MANDASUE HELLER'Brilliant. This is Bri… read more
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- fiction
9. Send Nudes
By: Saba Sams
3.53
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
In ten dazzling stories, Saba Sams dives into the world of girlhood and immerses us in its contradi… read more
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- contemporary
- short stories
- fiction
- short story collection
"The sky was black, sprinkled with crystals of salt. The moon made polite conversation. The trees stood up and waved."-Saba Sams, Send Nudes
10. The House Uptown
By: Melissa Ginsburg
3.43
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
For fans of Megan Abbott and Laura Lippman, Melissa Ginsburg's The House Uptown is an emotional com… read more
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- contemporary
11. Split Tooth
By: Tanya Tagaq
3.91
Format: 202 pages, Kindle Edition
From the internationally acclaimed Inuit throat singer who has dazzled and enthralled the world wit… read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
"...whoever said only humans can have the universe living in them?"-Tanya Tagaq, Split Tooth
"I've always loved girls, and our insufferable town sees this love as deviance."-Tanya Tagaq, Split Tooth
"The partiers will just demand that I echo their toxicity. Nothing bores me more."-Tanya Tagaq, Split Tooth
"the air is so clean you can smell the difference between smooth rock and jagged."-Tanya Tagaq, Split Tooth
12. Heatwave
By: Victor Jestin
3.16
Format: 112 pages, Hardcover
A vivid, mesmerizing novel about a teenage boy on vacation who makes an irrevocable mistake and bec… read more
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- short stories
- fiction
- contemporary
"Elle ne m'aime pas. Elle ne m'aime plus. J'ai mis l'éternité dans deux heures qui n'étaient rien pour elle, elle est partie laver son linge et elle est revenue."-Victor Jestin, Heatwave
13. The Last Act
By: Brad Parks
4.02
Format: 371 pages, Hardcover
Award-winning author Brad Parks delivers a deliciously tense novel of thrills, twists, and deceit t… read more
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- contemporary
14. The Book of X
By: Sarah Rose Etter
4.04
Format: 284 pages, Paperback
The Book of X tells the tale of Cassie, a girl born with her stomach twisted in the shape of a knot… read more
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15. Alison
By: Lizzy Stewart
4.35
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
This graphic novel chronicles the fictional life story of Alison Porter, whose talent as a painter … read more
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16. Sometimes People Die
By: Simon Stephenson
3.96
Format: 350 pages, Paperback
‘In Stephenson, Vonnegut may have his first true protégé’ Washington Post ‘[A] thriller from [an… read more
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17. Seventeen
By: Joe Gibson
4.13
Format: 352 pages, ebook
'Engaging and engrossing, frank and frankly troubling, Seventeen is a book not easily forgotten' - … read more
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18. How to Cure a Ghost: Poems
By: Fariha Róisín
3.58
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
A poetry compilation recounting a woman’s journey from self-loathing to self-acceptance, confusion … read more
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19. Paradise Block
By: Alice Ash
3.70
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
'Taps into a deep and compelling strangeness with vigour and humour and heart... A disturbing and m… read more
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- contemporary
- short stories
- fiction
- short story collection
"I won't open it,' I say, but I know that outside there is the black hallway and my mother, crawling on the floor."-Alice Ash, Paradise Block
"The baby is our baby, but as soon as we saw all the things that it can do, the dull solemness of its very gaze, we wished to put it back; we wished that a muster of crows might come and take it away."-Alice Ash, Paradise Block
"Min has brought me a present of my own. It is a shiny pink apron. On the apron there are words, curling white and maggoty letters: 'Little lady'. Min holds the apron in front of my face until I am fo…"-Alice Ash, Paradise Block
20. Gliff
By: Ali Smith
4.36
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
From a literary master, a moving and genre-bending story about our era-spanning search for meaning … read more
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21. Sanatorium
By: Abi Palmer
4.08
Format: 223 pages, Paperback
A young woman spends a month taking the waters at a thermal water-based rehabilitation facility in … read more
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