Contemporary

The inhabitants of the Inventor's Housing Estate keep themselves to themselves. There are the friendly 'Hellos' when commutes coincide and the odd cheeky eye roll when the wine bottles clank in number seven's wheelie bin, but it's not exactly Ramsay Street....

Aging and reclusive Hollywood movie icon Evelyn Hugo is finally ready to tell the truth about her glamorous and scandalous life....

The No-Show is the brilliantly funny, heartbreaking and joyful new novel from Beth O'Leary about dating, and waiting, and the ways love can find us....

Lily hasn't always had it easy, but that's never stopped her from working hard for the life she wants. She's come a long way from the small town in Maine where she grew up....

Alice, a novelist, meets Felix, who works in a distribution warehouse and asks him if he'd like to travel to Rome with her. In Dublin, her best friend, Eileen, is getting over a break-up and slips back into flirting with Simon, a man she has known since childhood....

Discover the deliciously dark and fantastically funny number one best seller about a woman living life rather too well and being whisked away from it all, from the number one best-selling author of Grown Ups....

This is the whole story, right from the beginning: the sun-bleached streets, the grimy bars on the Sunset Strip, knowing Daisy’s moment was coming. Relive the euphoria of success and experience the terror that nothing will ever be as good again....

While her friends join the 'Wife Club' one by one, Poppy feels like that part of her life is done and dusted. Already married and divorced she's not desperate to go through all that again. But what if her divorce never actually went through? Find out....
 

The brand new audiobook from the best-selling author of The Break and The Woman Who Stole My Life....

As winter turns to spring, Hollie is feeling content as she settles into her new life with her loving boyfriend, Jake, and their adorable dog Pickle. But when an unwelcome visitor threatens the future of her café, Hollie must stay strong to protect her family's legacy....

Somewhere along the cobbled streets of Paris, an apartment lies thick with dust and secrets: full of priceless artworks hidden away for decades....

Rebecca Keane has it all figured out. With a successful career as an Army surgeon and a fresh promotion to lieutenant colonel, she loves her life leading a surgical team. Even if that life means she’s spent years hiding her sexuality and ignoring her desires....

Nazneen is a teenager forced into an arranged marriage with an older man and misery seems to stretch ahead for her....

Two strangers. One big coincidence. Driving each other crazy is just the beginning....

Eden's ready for a new start, putting the past behind her. But others have their own ideas of what's best for her....

The new novel from the best-selling author of Station Eleven, The Glass Hotel is a story of two tragedies and the lives tangled between them....

Frankie doesn't believe in true love. As relationships expert at popular magazine Stylife, she has learnt that dating disasters are far more common than happy-ever-afters....

After serving five years in prison for a tragic mistake, Kenna Rowan returns to the town where it all went wrong, hoping to reunite with her four-year-old daughter. But the bridges Kenna burned are proving impossible to rebuild....

I first met Tristan Miles at a meeting where he was trying to take over my late husband’s company. He was powerful, arrogant, and infuriatingly gorgeous, and I hated him with every cell in my body....

When a fake relationship between scientists meets the irresistible force of attraction, it throws one woman's carefully calculated theories on love into chaos....

Scarborough, 1880. Young Jeannie spends her days watching her mother and the other harbour girls sitting at the water's edge....

Wedding Planner Ellie Moon is dreaming up the most beautiful bespoke wedding for Charlie and Daniel, owners of Cornwall’s favourite cream tea bus....

Del and her husband, Ollie, moved to a beautiful village in Provence for a fresh start after years of infertility struggles. But six weeks after they arrive, they’re packing the removal van once more....

Midwife Ella Mehenick left the small Cornish town of Port Agnes for London and never looked back. But when her seemingly perfect life crashes down around her, there’s only one place she can heal her battered heart - the place she once called home....

When their father dies, Star D'Aplièse and her six sisters, all adopted by him from the four corners of the world, are left with few clues to their heritage....

After experiencing firsthand the devastation love can cause, I knew having a family wasn’t for me. Neither was being a single dad—but here we are, trying to make it work. The last thing I need is a distraction, but then Savannah waltzes into my world, stealing my treadmill at the gym—as well as my son’s heart. We agreed to no strings. No complications or commitments. But I’m going back on my word because now that I know what it’s like to be with Savannah, there’s no way I’m ever letting her go.

I’ve moved past what happened on Del Rey, and I’ve kept the secret of what I did—what we did—buried deep. But I’m afraid I’ll never move past what happened six months later in Amsterdam. When Ellis Prior, an old friend of my dad’s, walked back into my life, we became fast friends, and he showed me things I can’t forget—things that brought me to my knees. But I walked away from that life, and I never looked back. 

In an attempt to end an abusive relationship with her father's closest friend, Alyssa Birch shuns the comfort and isolation of her home in New York to live in England with her estranged mother. But trouble finds a way of creeping back into her life, and inexplicable events begin to twist her sense of reality. While juggling a past that won't leave her alone and a new obsession for the occult, she can't help falling under the spell of her magnetic high schoolteacher—a man shrouded in mystery and secrets—whose intentions toward Alyssa may be far more sinister than she can imagine.

I met my dream girl. That’s right. She’s stunning and the worst bartender I’ve ever seen. I should have gone home and gone to sleep—dream girl or not. I had an early morning and the season was starting soon. But when she threatened me with boy band karaoke, I couldn't help myself. I went. The stars aligned. I have never felt more alive or wanted anyone more than I want her.

Owen Marshall has always dreamed of hitting the open ocean and looking for buried treasure. He’s been a pirate fanatic practically since birth, but living in Santa Fe, New Mexico hasn’t provided him with many opportunities to live out his dream. Instead, he writes about the adventures he wishes he was having in his books. Then one day, he’s had enough. He puts his books on hold and travels south, looking for a diving instructor and a boat to charter. His plan? To go out looking for old shipwrecks and buried treasure.

USA Today best-selling author Claudia Burgoa brings us a snarky and sassy romantic billionaire comedy that’s sure to make your heart swell and big laughs.

Brexly Vos just has to finish one more semester and she’ll have her degree. Then she can start her own business and finally help out her parents. All that stands between her and her bright future is a film class. She's at a loss for a subject when she remembers the local lore that Bigfoot lives in the woods bordering campus. She doesn't really believe the legend but she figures it will be an interesting subject and easy enough to film.

Penelope Woods has just lost her father. It had been only the two of them her whole life and they had been closer than most. Now that's he's gone, she feels more alone than ever before and heads back home to figure out what to do next. It’s there, cleaning out his room, that she finds his yeti research. Her and her father have been fascinated by yetis for years. When she was a little girl, her father had grown tired of reading her bedtime stories about princesses and princes and had started making up his own tales.

Dr. Jay Sorrentino is getting married in 10 days’ time to the girl of his dreams, so what the hell is he doing in a gay London club with a stupidly handsome stranger? As if calling off the wedding and alienating his friends and family isn’t enough, Jay also has to contend with starting a new job at a new hospital. So the last thing he needs is for the bloke from the club to be his prickly supervisor. 

When Hattie is made redundant and evicted from her flat in one horrible week, she needs time to rethink. Uncle Albert left her and her father each half of Fisherman's Rest, his home in the Cornish town of Port Medden, so this seems the perfect place to escape to until she can figure things out. As Hattie stays in the cottage, clearing it out, tidying it up and getting it ready to sell, she starts to find her feet in Port Medden and making a new home here begins to feel right.

Join the fun of the first Spa Week at the Seabreeze Inn! As Ivy adjusts to a new marriage, she must also welcome spa guests and deal with more secrets her old beach house reveals—this time, from the Roaring Twenties. Plus, her sister Shelly is nervous about having her first baby. Will Ivy manage to pull off the first spa week and juggle her new life and family in Summer Beach? Along the shores, more surprising discoveries fill residents with fresh speculation. In the close-knit town of Summer Beach, news travels fast.

I took the fall for a crime I didn’t commit, and it cost me everything—including the only woman I ever loved. I’m not the man she fell in love with. Four years behind bars made me harder, colder...with a temper I can’t control. But one look at Kat and nothing else matters. I’m broken without her and a shell of a person I used to be.

A short story about Jerald, who works at Rowdy's Pizzeria, meeting a woman named Lissa, and going on adventure.

Leo and Gracie are back again, but their hearts have been broken by previous relationships and that's keeping them apart. Even though their podcast, It's All About Love, is successful, they can’t seem to take their own advice, while others around them find love and happiness. Can they forget the past and let love take its course, or will they never allow themselves to be happy again? Is the timing right this time, or will they miss the boat?

Nan Arbuthnot has become all too good at closing her senses to the world, obsessing over details, and controlling time down to the second. Brilliant, bipolar, and driven, Nan longs to free herself from the lockstep of her own self-imposed pursuit of excellence. When she and her friend Margot decide to crash the bar of Thomas Gellert, Nan's cycling partner, Nan discovers that she and Thomas have a sparkling dynamic that leads them to commit to what Thomas calls "the art of the long seduction".