Contemporary Fiction

Ladies of Letters

By Carole Hayman, Lou Wakefield, Sue Townsend

Lean Fall Stand

By Jon McGregor

A Killing in November: a razor-sharp Oxford mystery

By Simon Mason

A Snow Garden and Other Stories: From the bestselling author of The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry

By Rachel Joyce

The Ghost

By Robert Harris

Catch-22: As recommended on BBC2's Between the Covers

By Joseph Heller, Howard Jacobson

I Couldn't Love You More

By Esther Freud

The Gurkha's Daughter

By Prajwal Parajuly

Blood Brothers - A Musical (Methuen Student Editions)

By Russell, Willy, Willy Russell

The Last Anniversary: From the bestselling author of Big Little Lies, now an award winning TV series

By Liane Moriarty

Death and the Penguin: A BBC Two Between the Covers Pick

By Andrey Kurkov

Stones from the River

By Ursula Hegi

The Shadow Girls

By Henning Mankell, Ebba Segerberg

On Beauty

By zadie smith

NW

By zadie smith

One Good Thing: From the Author of Runaway Bestseller Confessions of a Fortysomething F Up

By Alexandra Potter

Give Unto Others

By Donna Leon

Joseph Andrews and Shamela n/e (Oxford World's Classics)

By Fielding, Henry, Keymer, Thomas

Heart of Darkness

By Joseph Conrad, Owen Knowles, Robert Hampson

Longbourn: The unputdownable Richard and Judy pick

By Jo Baker

Sixth Commandment

By Lawrence Sanders

Changes at Fairacre

By Miss Read

Breakfast in Brighton: Adventures on the Edge of England

By Nigel Richardson

The Victim (The Mitchells and O'Haras Trilogy, Book 3)

By Kimberley Chambers

T'choupi: T'choupi est amoureux

By Thierry Courtin

The History of Pompey the Little: Or, The Life and Adventures of a Lap-Dog

By Francis Coventry, Nicholas Hudson

After You

By Moyes, Jojo

Magpie

By Elizabeth Day

Acts of Desperation: A Stylist Book of 2021 and The Times bestseller

By Megan Nolan

Bad Summer People: The scorchingly addictive summer must-read of 2023

By Emma Rosenblum