All My Mothers
By: Joanna Glen
4.44
Format: 400 pages, ebook
From the author of the Costa shortlisted debut, The Other Half of Augusta Hope, comes the story of …
Want to Read"What the hell is a man if he can’t cry for his son?"-Joanna Glen, All My Mothers
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1. 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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2. 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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- coming of age
- audiobook
- fiction
- historical fiction
3. 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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- 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
4. Still Life
By: Sarah Winman
4.17
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
Tuscany, 1944: As Allied troops advance and bombs fall around deserted villages, a young English so… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- historical fiction
- book club
- audiobook
"But when have women not sacrificed to live as they feel?"-Sarah Winman, Still Life
"We were an unconventional family. Scandal was a rite of passage."-Sarah Winman, Still Life
"No single act of generosity remains in isolation. The ripples are many."-Sarah Winman, Still Life
"He needed to know everyone was safe because without them he was nothing."-Sarah Winman, Still Life
5. Water
By: John Boyne
4.33
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
The first thing Vanessa Carvin does when she arrives on the island is change her name. To the local… read more
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- literary fiction
- family
- fiction
- contemporary
- book club
- audiobook
6. Earth
By: John Boyne
4.34
Format: 168 pages, Kindle Edition
From million-copy-bestselling author John Boyne, an inescapably gritty story about one young man wh… read more
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- audiobook
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
7. 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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- literary fiction
- 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
8. A Terrible Kindness
By: Jo Browning Wroe
4.30
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
When we go through something impossible, someone, or something, will help us, if we let them . . . … read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- historical fiction
- contemporary
- book club
- audiobook
9. 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
- family
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- book club
- 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
10. All My Mothers
By: Joanna Glen
4.44
Format: 400 pages, ebook
From the author of the Costa shortlisted debut, The Other Half of Augusta Hope, comes the story of … read more
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- literary fiction
- coming of age
- spain
- fiction
- contemporary
- family
- historical fiction
- adult
- book club
- audiobook
"What the hell is a man if he can’t cry for his son?"-Joanna Glen, All My Mothers
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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- literary fiction
- family
- fiction
- contemporary
- audiobook
"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. Strange Sally Diamond
By: Liz Nugent
4.20
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Sally Diamond cannot understand why what she did was so strange. She was only doing what her father… read more
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- audiobook
- adult
- fiction
- contemporary
13. The Keeper of Stories
By: Sally Page
4.08
Format: 386 pages, Kindle Edition
She can’t recall what started her collection. Maybe it was in a fragment of conversation overheard … read more
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- literary fiction
- family
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
"Perhaps guilt is like a disease. You can have it without knowing you do."-Sally Page, The Keeper of Stories
"I think it's in people stories that you discover the best of what we can be."-Sally Page, The Keeper of Stories
"I don't think guilt asks for permission to come in. I don't think it knocks and waits politely on the mat."-Sally Page, The Keeper of Stories
"I figured out long ago that if I listen to the few people who shout at me, I'm making them more important than they are. What they say will stay with me, upset me, and those loud voices would go on a…"-Sally Page, The Keeper of Stories
14. The Book of Beginnings
By: Sally Page
4.24
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
From the author of the phenomenal bestseller The Keeper of Stories, comes the next uplifting story … read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- book club
- audiobook
15. 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
- family
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
16. 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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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- book club
- 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
17. Everything Is Beautiful and Everything Hurts
By: Josie Shapiro
4.21
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
The stunning debut novel by the winner of the Allen & Unwin Commercial Fiction Prize. If you loved … read more
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- family
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- book club
- audiobook
18. Wandering Souls
By: Cecile Pin
4.15
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A luminous, boldly imagined debut novel about three Vietnamese siblings who seek refuge in the UK, … read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- historical fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
"We tell ourselves stories in order to live. We tell ourselves stories in order to heal."-Cecile Pin, Wandering Souls
"I didn't know that my culture had fashioned the shape of my mourning; I didn't know that my grief could be improper."-Cecile Pin, Wandering Souls
19. The Herd
By: Emily Edwards
4.04
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
You should never judge how someone chooses to raise their child. Elizabeth and Bryony are polar … read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- book club
- audiobook
20. Goodbye Birdie Greenwing
By: Ericka Waller
4.29
Format: 347 pages, Kindle Edition
Great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave and impossible to forget...Birdie, Ada and Jane … read more
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- book club
- fiction
- contemporary
21. Girls
By: Kirsty Capes
4.25
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
GIRLS follows the story of two sisters - Mattie and Nora - and the thorny relationship with their f… read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
