Friendship

Bloomsbury presents The Bookshop Ladies by Faith Hogan, read by Flora Montgomery. A captivating read, written with warmth and elegance, The Bookshop Ladies is the perfect escape!' Evie Woods, author of The Lost Bookshop *** From bestselling Irish writer, Faith Hogan, comes another gripping saga...

USA TODAY BESTSELLER · SOUTHERN INDIE BESTSELLER · A BRENDA NOVAK BOOK GROUP PICK · GLOSS BOOK CLUB PICK · THE GIRLFRIEND BOOK CLUB PICK · A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2025 (SheReads) · Margaret never really meant to start a book club . . . or a feminist revolution, for that matter in this...

Obituary writer Bud Stanley isn’t really living his best life. He’s fallen into a funk after a divorce. (She left him for another man, who, in fairness, was far more interesting.) He’s not doing his job well. He’s given up on dating.

Bloomsbury presents The Women at Ocean's End by Faith Hogan, read by Flora Montgomery. 'This is an absolute beauty of a book. I loved everything about it - the richness and depth of the characters; the poignant, intricately woven story and the beautiful descriptions of the house and island. It...

In the turbulent summer of 1974, Kate Mularkey has accepted her place at the bottom of the eighth-grade social food chain. Then, to her amazement, the "coolest girl in the world" moves in across the street and wants to be her friend....

Birdie Greenwing has been at a loose end ever since her beloved twin sister and husband passed away. Too proud and stubborn to admit she is lonely, Birdie's world has shrunk. But then some new neighbours move in to the house next door.

Don’t miss the gripping, twisty final novel in Anita Davison’s Golden Age cozy mystery series! 🕵️‍♀️📚🔎 A must-read for fans of Agatha Christie, Helena Dixon and Verity Bright. Aunt Violet and her niece Hannah have a bookshop to run. But after a customer comes in asking for a...

'Although I believe I will die here in this castle, my spirit will never be silent’ Ravenscraig Castle, Scotland. 1307 When the castle she works in is sacked by the army of Prince Edward of England, kitchen maid Agnes Fitzgerald manages to escape north of Inverness to throw herself at the...

The extraordinary new contemporary novel, set in Ireland, Italy and France, from the bestselling author of The Honeymoon Affair and The Missing Wife. Ailie, Sybil and Rua can take care of themselves. But when they form an unexpected friendship, they discover new perspectives on old problems...

The heartwarming and uplifting romance from MULTI-MILLION COPY BESTSELLER Jessica Redland! 🩷 Perfect for fans of Jo Bartlett and Phillipa Ashley 🌼Welcome to Whitsborough Bay, a place where hopes and dreams really do come true... ✨ Life at the Chocolate Pot Café has never been sweeter...

'Roisin Meaney is a skilful storyteller' Sheila O'Flanagan 'Utterly irresistible' Irish Independent When a heatwave coincides with rehearsals for an end-of-summer concert, temperatures soar - and small town scandals are around every corner . . . It turns out that some members of the choir have...

The BRAND NEW emotional read from the NUMBER ONE bestselling author of The Last List of Mabel Beaumont, that fans of Colleen Hoover, Cecelia Ahern and Gabrielle Zevin will love. These are the things Becca Valentine doesn’t know yet: She doesn’t know that two men are about to come into her...

From the USA Today bestselling author of The Last Caretaker comes a hopeful and empowering novel about the messy beauty of female friendship and the deep courage it takes to rebuild a life at any age.

Young Elly's world is shaped by those who inhabit it: her loving but maddeningly distractible parents; a best friend who smells of chips; an ageing fop who tapdances his way into her home, a Shirley Bassey impersonator who trails close behind; lastly, of course, a rabbit called God....

The Top 100 bestseller, an unforgettable story about being brave enough to be yourself, from author Clare Swatman Starting over can be hard to do… So when mum of two Beth moves out of her beloved marital home and into an unloved and unkempt cottage, she can’t help but feel demoralised. Faced...

Bloomsbury presents My Husband's Wives by Faith Hogan, read by Flora Montgomery. Is it better to have loved and lost, than never to have loved? Paul Starr, Ireland's leading cardiologist, dies in a car crash with a pregnant young woman by his side. United in their grief and the love of one man...

A historical series from bestselling author Lizzie Lane A country town in need of a good Doctor, but will they accept her as one of their own? Somerset, March 1930 Born in the workhouse and adopted by a former suffragette, Frances Brakespeare was encouraged from an early age to be strong...

Black sheep - there's one in every family... Orphaned at sixteen, James Wakefield was determined to be a gun shearer like his father. Now he's killed twice, changed his name, and is on the run from the law. He had his reasons for both murders, and he felt no joy in taking life. Or did he? Ben...

THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER A heartbreaking read of loss and hope from Laura Pearson The list he left had just one item on it. Or, at least, it did at first… Mabel Beaumont’s husband Arthur loved lists. He’d leave them for her everywhere. ‘Remember: eggs, butter, sugar’. ‘I love you...

Dark Age Britain. The fate of Britain once more hangs in the balance… After years of fragile peace, the legendary warlord Arthur Pendragon is forced back into the bloody crucible of war to save Britain once more from Saxon invaders. His greatest battle, however, is not on the field, it is a...

From the bestselling author of The Vanishing Tide comes a haunting novel about the secrets we keep to protect ourselves—and those we love.

The No.1 bestselling author of The Last List of Mabel Beaumont is back with a BRAND NEW story, perfect for fans of Colleen Hoover, Jojo Moyes and The Husbands by Holly Gramazio. The most unmissable ‘what if?’ love story of the year! Suddenly Maddy is right there… in her own future. And...

'I couldn’t put it down!' Sarah Morgan The uplifting story of fresh starts and second chances from the Sunday Times bestselling author Erica James After a long and seemingly happy marriage, Louisa is stunned when her husband Kip suddenly asks for a divorce. He’d never seemed unhappy – and...

The instant Sunday Times bestseller 'A painfully optimistic book that does the favour of making you laugh as it breaks your heart' Kenneth Branagh 'A tender, elegant novel about the beauty and importance of friendship…One of the most moving books I’ve read in some time' John Boyne ***...

Faith and Monty are both looking for love...in the wrong direction. Faith Forrester is at a crossroads. Single, thirty and living on a farm in a small Western Australian town, she's sick of being treated like a servant by her brother and father. Ten years ago, her mother died of breast cancer...

Cosma was just an ordinary teenager. Yet her death brings sinister secrets to light, sending shockwaves through her friendship circle – and beyond. Cosma Passadakis was the glue that held her clique together. When her body is found in a ditch at the side of the road, the lives of her boyfriend, Nico, and friends, Eva, Shirin, and Luke are turned upside down. Who had it out for Cosma? The police start investigating – and so do her friends. In the process, they discover that nothing was as it seemed in Cosma’s picture-perfect life. Who was their classmate, confidante, and friend really?

The instant Sunday Times bestseller 'A painfully optimistic book that does the favour of making you laugh as it breaks your heart' Kenneth Branagh 'A tender, elegant novel about the beauty and importance of friendship…One of the most moving books I’ve read in some time' John Boyne ***...

Can Harpers survive and thrive through the Great Depression? London 1931 Sally Harper has not a moment to draw breath following the tragic death of husband Ben. Heartbroken, she has no choice but to remain strong as many people’s livelihoods depend on Harpers Emporium surviving the tough times...

Don’t miss the gripping, twisty final novel in Anita Davison’s Golden Age cozy mystery series! 🕵️‍♀️📚🔎 A must-read for fans of Agatha Christie, Helena Dixon and Verity Bright. Aunt Violet and her niece Hannah have a bookshop to run. But after a customer comes in asking for a...

Dark Age Britain. The fate of Britain once more hangs in the balance… After years of fragile peace, the legendary warlord Arthur Pendragon is forced back into the bloody crucible of war to save Britain once more from Saxon invaders. His greatest battle, however, is not on the field, it is a...

Jonas Jonasson is back with another irresistible adventure, this time set in nineteenth century Sweden. After his father’s death is caused by the greedy and cunning Count Bielkegren, Algot Olsson is left with nothing to his name, except for a potato field and a homemade still to make liquor...

Alyssa wants to be seen. Less wants to be someone. She takes two buses to class, posts pictures of her lunch, and pretends it's all effortless. He hides his privilege beneath thrifted clothes and a sketchbook full of impossible designs. Together, they are inseparable – two outsiders constructing a version of themselves the world might finally applaud. Then Alyssa stumbles upon the hidden world of phrogging – living unnoticed inside other people's homes.

A glorious novel of hope and healing for fans of Armistead Maupin, Fredrik Backman and Kate Atkinson from the author of The Miseducation of Evie Epworth 'Rome is both healer and magician in this enchanting novel of homecoming and belonging, and of the transformational power of friendship...

Frances Evesham is BACK with her ALL-NEW Exham-on-Sea Murder Mystery set in the small English seaside town full of quirky characters, sea air, and suspicion! 🔎 Perfect for readers of M.C. Beaton and Faith Martin. Have you missed super-sleuths Max and Libby? This time they are in the beautiful...

Emily Henry's Funny Story meets The Family Stone in Bachelorette fan-favorite and New York Times bestselling author Hannah Brown's newest rom-com, a beach read full of banter, emotional authenticity, and female friendship. Perfectionist and former pageant girl Nikki Bennet is looking forward to...

Three lifelong friends. Three fiftieth birthdays in the same season. One pact signed on a dusty rose napkin. Claire Morrison has been married to Greg for twenty-six years. She still puts dinner on the table at six. She still folds the laundry the way he likes it. She still hasn't been kissed on...

One night shattered everything. Twenty years later, the truth is coming for them all... 👀 On the night of her eighteenth birthday, Ruby’s world implodes. A car crash leaves her best friend dead and her mother in prison. Fleeing her small Devon town, Ruby disappears - leaving her family, her...

When Perdita McKell’s brother Lennox asks her for help to fund his hairbrained scheme to renovate a tumbledown Scottish castle, she fears it will only end in disaster. But a lifetime of sister guilt, complicated family relationships and a general sense of malaise are enough for her to ignore...

A fresh start. A second chance. A love worth choosing. Burned out after years as a Chicago ER nurse, Mae Sullivan escapes to Pine Harbor in search of peace, sea air and a new beginning. But even in a town this charming, starting over isn’t so simple. Jonah Sawyer knows every tide and dock...

DYMOCKS BOOK OF THE MONTH An unforgettable coming-of-age story from a stunning new voice in Australian fiction, for those who love Mark Brandi, Favel Parrett and Tim Winton. I was six, turning seven, and all I really remember is the loneliness, and the lumpy feeling that I was somehow doing...

Once upon a time, in a cottage in a bunker in a post-apocalyptic wasteland, there lived three best friends. Ever since Ophelia the witch rescued an ex-soldier and an airship mechanic, the three of them have become found family. Whether they’re facing fears or celebrating holidays, they always support one another. Join Ophelia and her two best friends for heartwarming stories about tea, potions, a badger, and the power of love.

When they were nineteen, Olivia and Eve found a newborn baby in a phone box. The baby could have drawn them together, but instead, the trauma pushed them dramatically apart. Twenty-five years later, their lives have gone in very different directions. They will have to face the truth of what happened that summer, and what it has done to them.

A rising star in Southern fiction, Grace Helena Walz returns with Pretty as a Peach, another story full of charm, sass, wit, and characters you'll want as friends. A group of life-long friends. A secretive MLM cosmetics company. Some opportunities cost more than they're worth. Delilah Thomas has...

Taking flight to Ireland and whole new world… After losing her best friend Caitlin, Boston business owner Kerry-Anne Daly needs a change—fast. Discovering her boyfriend’s betrayal seals the deal. On impulse, she heads to Ireland and the seaside village of Sandycove, hoping for a quiet...

Mrs. Dalloway: It's a normal June morning in London, shortly after World War I. Clarissa Dalloway, an upper-class housewife, is getting ready to throw a party that night. As she runs her errands, the story shows us what's going through her head and how she crosses paths with people from her past, like an old flame named Peter, and with strangers like Septimus, a soldier who came back from the war with trauma. This version of Virginia Woolf's book makes you think about memories, loneliness, and how time slips away from us.

1835, Abbeywood Hall, Lancashire Clara Hartley has been used to a life of privilege, growing up on her family estate in Lancashire, she has been protected from responsibility and hardship. But gilded cages are cages nonetheless and when Clara falls in love with the wrong man, her fate is sealed...

"A love letter to California…. Through the deftly rendered lives of sisters, mothers and daughters, and longtime friends, Maher reveals how telling the truth can guide us back to ourselves and carry us forward with hope.”—Marjan Kamali, New York Times bestselling author of The Lion Women...

Eric, a college freshman, joins his four dormmates for an afternoon in New York City—the first time he’s seen them outside their campus bubble. But feeling increasingly invisible among these new friends, Eric’s anxieties compound. As they roam the streets of New York, Eric begins to question if he’s even truly wanted there. Soon, though, the friends start to reveal pieces of themselves. Can Eric let go enough to show them who he really is?

A Scottish historical saga of duty and dreams from Sunday Times bestselling author Evelyn Hood! Perfect for fans of Katie Flynn and Val Wood ❤️ When war has blighted the present. Can they hold on to hope for the future? Paisley, Scotland, 1941 The residents of Glen Street Tenement find their...

In this award-winning French novel, two friends from contrasting economic backgrounds, one privileged and one working-class, are drawn and eventually divided by their shared passion for earthworms and their mission to save the environment—young men whose parallel destinies illustrate the...