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New for You - Contemporary Fiction - January 2025

Explore modern life in all its fictional glory with this selection of new contemporary fiction titles.

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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.
    BookNew York : Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2024] — FICTION
  • 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.
    BookNew York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2024. — FICTION
  • A retelling of Mansfield Park exploring identity, race culture and love.
    BookLondon : Doubleday, 2024. — FICTION
  • 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.
    BookNew York : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2024. — FICTION
  • "Gabriel Smith's prose is like if Joan Didion and Shirley Jackson took Xanax and used the internet"
    BookNew York : Penguin Press, 2024. — FICTION
  • 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
    BookNew York : Random House, [2025] — ROMANCE
  • 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…
    BookLondon : Hodder & Stoughton, 2025. — FICTION
  • 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…
    BookNew York : Little, Brown and Company, 2025. — FICTION
  • 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…
    BookNaperville, Illinois : Sourcebooks Landmark, [2025] — FICTION
  • 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. …
    BookNew York : Atria Books, 2025. — FICTION