New for You - Contemporary Fiction - January 2025Like this list

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• How Does That Make You Feel, Magda Eklund?

  a Novel

  Montague, Anna

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  Taking a road trip after the death of her best friend, Magda comes to realise that she is shaking up not only her routines, but her hidden questions about her sexuality.

• Don't Be a Stranger

  Minot, Susan, 1956-

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  On the outside Ivy Cooper is the responsible mother and good friend, but her affair with a man 20 years younger is erotic, obsessive and all consuming.

• This Motherless Land

  May, Nikki

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  A retelling of Mansfield Park exploring identity, race culture and love.

• End of Active Service

  Young, Matt, 1986-

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  It's the only thing anyone wants to know about war-and the last thing Corporal Dean Pusey wants to talk about, at least not with one of these fat and happy civilians crowding the bar.

• Brat

  a Novel

  Smith, Gabriel

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  "Gabriel Smith's prose is like if Joan Didion and Shirley Jackson took Xanax and used the internet"

• The Favorites

  a Novel

  Fargo, Layne

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  To the world, they were a scandal. To each other, an obsession. An epic love story set in the sparkling, savage sphere of elite figure skating about a woman determined to carve her own path on and off the ice

• So Thrilled for You

  Bourne, Holly

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  A terrible heatwave. A very tense baby shower. It will all end in tears... Nicki, Lauren, Charlotte and Steffi have been friends since university. Now in their thirties, life is pulling them in different directions - but when Charlotte organises…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Mothers and Sons

  a Novel

  Haslett, Adam, 1970-

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  At forty, Peter, an asylum lawyer in New York City, is overworked and isolated. He spends his days immersed in the struggles of his clients only to return to an empty apartment and occasional hook-ups with a man who wants more than Peter can give.…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• We Rip the World Apart

  a Novel

  Carr, Charlene

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  From the acclaimed author of Hold My Girl comes a sweeping multi-generational story about motherhood, race, and secrets. When 24-year-old Kareela discovers she's pregnant with a child she isn't sure she wants, her struggle to understand her place…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• We Could Be Rats

  Austin, Emily (Emily R.)

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  A moving story about two very different sisters, and a love letter to childhood, growing up, and the power of imagination—from the bestselling author of Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead and Interesting Facts About Space. Sigrid hates…Read moreRead more of this annotation