New For You - Contemporary Fiction - March 2025Like this list

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• One Night at the Chateau

  Henry, Veronica

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  Over the last few months, Connie's whole world has fallen apart. Her husband's run off with an older woman, the magazine she works for has gone bust and she's having to sell the family home. So when her beloved godmother, Lismay, begs her to help…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• We Pretty Pieces of Flesh

  Brown, Colwill

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  Written in a Yorkshire dialect that brings a place and its people magnificently to life, Colwill Brown’s debut novel spans decades as its heroines come of age, never shying from the ugly truths of girlhood. Like Trainspotting and Shuggie Bain, We…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Boyhood of Cain

  Amherst, Michael

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  In the shadow of an ancient abbey nestled between rivers, Daniel is growing up. He is highly intelligent but little understood by his parents, and a secret passion burns inside him for love and recognition. When his father loses his job as the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The South

  Aw, Tash, 1971-

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  "When his grandfather dies, a boy named Jay travels south with his family to the property he left them, a once flourishing farm that has fallen into disrepair. The trees are diseased, the fields parched from months of drought. Still, Jay’s father,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Wardrobe Department

  Garvey, Elaine

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  Mairéad works all hours in a run-down West End theatre’s wardrobe department, her whole existence made up of threads and needles, running errands to mend shoes, fixing broken zips and handwashing underwear. She must also do her best to avoid groping…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• A Room Above a Shop

  Shapland, Anthony

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  From a new voice in Welsh literature, an atmospheric and poignant story of a relationship between two small-town Valleys men during the late 1980s.

• Luminous

  a Novel

  Park, Silvia

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  In a fictional near-future, unified Korea, robots have integrated into society, and a strange disappearance thrusts two estranged siblings back together.

• Elegy, Southwest

  a Novel

  Watts, Madeleine

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  Eloise and Lewis take off on a road trip across the American Southwest as their relationship fractures. A tragic love story and a consideration of life amid environmental breakdown.

• Twist

  a Novel

  McCann, Colum, 1965-

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  A writer travels to Cape Town to board an internet repair vessel with a mysterious captain. But when the mission falters, and the captain goes missing, it becomes clear that things are not as they first seemed.

• City of Night Birds

  a Novel

  Kim, Juhea

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  After a career-halting accident, prima ballerina Natalia Leonova returns to St. Petersburg to confront her past and to decide whether to rejoin the stage amidst the cutthroat world of Russian ballet.