Adult & Contemporary Fiction

A young boy returns obsessively to a supermarket sandwich counter, entranced by the beauty of the woman who works there. Her aloof demeanour and electric blue eyelids make him feel the most intense joy he's ever known. He calls her Ms Ice Sandwich, and...

A clever and steamy queer romantic comedy about taking chances and accepting love—with all its complications—by debut author Ashley Herring Blake.Delilah Green swore she would never go back to Bright Falls—nothing is there for her but memories of a...

A memorable night of passion refuses to stay just a memory in this sizzling and scandalous romance from bestselling author T L Swan.   I was upgraded to first class on a flight from London to New York. The food, champagne, and service were...

A beautifully packaged hardback edition of Haruki Murakami's breakout hit, now with a new introduction by the authorWhen he hears her favourite Beatles song, Toru Watanabe recalls his first love Naoko, the girlfriend of his best friend Kizuki...

From USA Today and Wall Street Journal bestselling author Sierra Simone comes her steamy, TikTok-famous Priest series, in which sinners and saints alike test the bonds of religion, love, and lust.   He's a priest, and...

A hugely enjoyable, page-turning classic Japanese mystery with an ingenious conclusion from the author of The Decagon House Murders, translated into English for the first timeDon’t miss this beautifully constructed, highly entertaining and atmospheric...

Rom-com and Emily Henry are two of our favorite pairings. Book lovers, meeting people on vacation, beach reads—these are all key components (and titles) of Emily Henry’s previous three books. Put them all together, and we not only have our...

WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION.A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER.ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES TOP TEN BOOKS OF 2022. ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S FAVORITE BOOKS OF 2022. LONGLISTED FOR THE 2022 BOOKER PRIZE.“Buzzy and enthralling...

In this epic dark fantasy where written words are forbidden, a young woman harnesses the power of poetry to save her people … and her prince. A LIBRARY READS PICK!DELUXE EDITION―featuring gorgeous gilded edges, detailed endpapers, and beautiful...

A dark, atmospheric tale of deadly secrets and forbidden love.   Mortui vivos docent.The dead teach the living.   After watching my mother succumb to a mysterious illness, I promised myself two things. I'd find the cure for what ravaged her...

From best-selling Brazilian novelist Patrícia Melo comes a genre-defying tale of women in the Amazon and their reckoning with brutal oppression—by turns poetic, humorous, dark, and inspiring.   The Simple Art of Killing a...

An orphaned prince, an elite academy, and the start of an epic fantasy series — this is the next step for fans of Red Rising by Pierce Brown and The Bone Shard Daughter by Andrea Stewart.At the elite Catenan Academy, a young...

'A masterpiece... One of the best prose writers in our time' -- Michael Ondaatje. An epic miniature of one man's life journey through the American West at the turn of the twentieth century. Robert Grainier is a day labourer in the American West, felling...

This intimate, profound and startlingly original fiction debut from the author of Bring No Clothes combines the moving story of a man mourning the loss of his beloved older partner with a celebration of the joys and creativity of the queer...

Two novellas about domestic life, isolation, and the passing of time by one of the finest Italian writers of the twentieth century.Carmine, an architect, and Ivana, a translator, lived together long ago and even had a child, but the child died, and their...

A hardboiled novel about life in the American underground, from the pool halls of Portland to the cells of San Quentin. Simply one of the finest books ever written about being down on your luck. Don Carpenter’s Hard Rain Falling is a...

The power dynamics of the office are never more obvious than when it comes to food: mandatory lunches with the boss, the colleague who tries to curry favour with home-baked goods, discovering the discarded remnants of someone else's late-night binge . . ...

In the wake of the Great Blackout, faced with the near-extinction of humanity, a pair of lovers speak to each other. They parse, with precision, with familiarity, the endless aspects of their love. Out of their dialogues, piece by piece, a composite...

Meet Dexter Morgan, a polite wolf in sheep’s clothing. He’s handsome and charming, but something in his past has made him abide by a different set of rules. He’s a serial killer whose one golden rule makes him immensely likeable: he...

Stephen King needed just two letters to terrify and captivate the world—It. The story of a netherworldly clown of nefarious intent plaguing the town of Derry, Maine. After decades of tainted freedom, the group of friends impacted by this entity are...