Promising Young Women
By: Caroline O'Donoghue
3.74
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
For readers of THE COWS, SWEETBITTER or CONVERSATIONS WITH FRIENDS - as well as for fans of FLEABAG…
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1. Promising Young Women
By: Caroline O'Donoghue
3.74
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
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- feminism
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- adult
- irish literature
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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
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- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
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"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
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- contemporary
- 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
4. 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
5. Evenings and Weekends
By: Oisín McKenna
3.96
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
For fans of Sally Rooney and Torrey Peters, a taut and profoundly moving debut that follows a cast … read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- adult
- audiobook
6. 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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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- 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
7. No Hard Feelings
By: Genevieve Novak
3.80
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Hungover, underpaid and overwhelmed, this isn't where Penny expected to be as she reached her late … read more
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- romance
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- adult
- audiobook
8. 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
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- 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
9. 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
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- 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
10. 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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- romance
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
11. As Young as This
By: Roxy Dunn
4.08
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
Elliot. Joe. Tommy. Nathanael. Wren. Oliver. Malik. Zach. Frank. Patrick. Noah. These are the men M… read more
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- romance
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
12. 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
13. 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
- feminism
- fiction
- contemporary
- 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
14. 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
- novels
- irish literature
- audiobook
15. 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
- feminism
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- 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
16. The Happy Couple
By: Naoise Dolan
3.38
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
An intimate, sharply funny novel about a couple heading toward their wedding, and the three friends… read more
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- romance
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- irish literature
- audiobook
"She'd learned by that point that she couldn't fix people. All she needed to know, really, in any human transaction, was wether it was right for her; wether it fit. That was why she'd dumped Luke when…"-Naoise Dolan, The Happy Couple
"Celine believed things for exactly as long as she wanted to. Being smart, being logical, didn't help her. It just enabled her baroque self-deceit. Phoebe took the simpler route of putting no consider…"-Naoise Dolan, The Happy Couple
17. The Work
By: Bri Lee
3.43
Format: 386 pages, Paperback
Lally has invested everything into her gallery in Manhattan and the sacrifices are finally paying o… read more
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- contemporary
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18. Between You and Me
By: Joanna Horton
3.72
Format: 341 pages, Kindle Edition
Between You and Me is a riveting portrayal of female friendship, and the frayed boundary between lo… read more
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- romance
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
19. Crushing
By: Genevieve Novak
3.80
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
When do you stop starting over? The sparkling new novel from the author of No Hard Feelings. Gettin… read more
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- romance
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- 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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- romance
- fiction
- contemporary
21. The Education of Ivy Edwards
By: Hannah Tovey
3.36
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
Ivy Edwards is thirty-one years old, funny, shameless, and a bit of a romantic. She's also currentl… read more
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