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Grief settles into the body, reshaping memory, identity, and the boundaries of the self.
Garden of Earthly Bodies
Speculative Fiction · Horror · Psychological Fiction
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Grief settles into the body, reshaping memory, identity, and the boundaries of the self. In Garden of Earthly Bodies, Marianne seeks healing after her sister’s death at a remote rehabilitation center where trauma manifests as physical change. As transformation deepens, the novel explores loss, sisterhood, and the terrifying possibility that relief from pain may require surrendering who we are.
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Sally Oliver’s Garden of Earthly Bodies is an exquisitely eerie and unsettling speculative novel that grapples with questions of trauma, identity, and the workings of memory.
Named a Best New Book by Bustle, Book Riot, and Tor.com
Months after her sister’s death, Marianne wakes up to find a growth of thick black hairs along her spine. They defy her attempts to remove them, instead proliferating, growing longer. The hairs, Marianne’s doctor tells her, are a reaction to trauma, developed in the wake of the loss of her sister, Marie. Her doctor recommends that Marianne visits Nede, a modern, New Age rehabilitation center in a remote forest in Wales where the patients attend unorthodox therapy sessions and commune with nature.
Yet something strange is happening to Marianne and the other patients at Nede: a metamorphosis of a kind. As the hairs on her back continue to grow, the past starts to entangle itself with the present and the borders of her consciousness threaten to disintegrate. She finds herself drawn back compulsively to the memory of Marie, obsessing over the impulse that drew her sister toward death and splintered her family apart. As Marianne’s memories threaten to overwhelm her, Nede offers her release from this cycle of memory and pain—but only at a terrible price: that of identity itself.
Haunting, lyrical, and introspective, Garden of Earthly Bodies is a startlingly accomplished and original debut about the bond between two sisters, love and its limits, and our inability to ever truly know the minds of others. With an intense and precise attention to the internal workings of minds and bodies and a disturbing speculative plot, the novel welcomes an assured new voice to the genre.
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Obsession sharpens when the promise of transformation begins to outweigh the cost of survival.
Leutogi
Horror · Literary Fiction · Thriller · Occult Horror · Suspense
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Obsession sharpens when the promise of transformation begins to outweigh the cost of survival. In Leutogi: A Horror Story, Manhattan socialite Egret Covello travels to the Australian Outback seeking an extreme solution to her body image fixation. As her pursuit accelerates, past trauma resurfaces, binding psychological horror, dark satire, and bodily terror into a story about control, desire, and self erasure.
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May 2001. Manhattan socialite, Egret Covello, is dying to be skinny. When she hears whispers of an exotic tapeworm in the Australian Outback, Egret, accompanied by her microcephalic teenage son, Noah, sets out for the Land Down Under to get herself infected as soon as possible. As her date with a stomach parasite draws nearer, Egret is confronted by demons from her past, and a looming question: How much is she willing to give for the perfect body?
Originally completed in 2018, Leutogi is a comedy-horror novel focused on body image and anorexia, it is the first novel by H.T. Boyd.
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Domestic routine begins to warp when exhaustion, isolation, and desire collide, blurring the line between metaphor and transformation.
Nightbitch
Literary Fiction · Psychological Fiction
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Domestic routine begins to warp when exhaustion, isolation, and desire collide, blurring the line between metaphor and transformation. In Nightbitch, an artist turned stay at home mother becomes convinced her body is changing in ways she cannot explain. As her identity fractures, the novel explores motherhood, creativity, and suppressed rage through psychological horror and darkly surreal literary fiction.
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In this blazingly smart and voracious debut novel, an artist turned stay-at-home mom becomes convinced she's turning into a dog. • "A must-read for anyone who can’t get enough of the ever-blurring line between the psychological and supernatural that Yellowjackets exemplifies." —Vulture
One day, the mother was a mother, but then one night, she was quite suddenly something else...
An ambitious mother puts her art career on hold to stay at home with her newborn son, but the experience does not match her imagination. Two years later, she steps into the bathroom for a break from her toddler's demands, only to discover a dense patch of hair on the back of her neck. In the mirror, her canines suddenly look sharper than she remembers. Her husband, who travels for work five days a week, casually dismisses her fears from faraway hotel rooms.
As the mother's symptoms intensify, and her temptation to give in to her new dog impulses peak, she struggles to keep her alter-canine-identity secret. Seeking a cure at the library, she discovers the mysterious academic tome which becomes her bible, A Field Guide to Magical Women: A Mythical Ethnography, and meets a group of mommies involved in a multilevel-marketing scheme who may also be more than what they seem.
An outrageously original novel of ideas about art, power, and womanhood wrapped in a satirical fairy tale, Nightbitch will make you want to howl in laughter and recognition. And you should. You should howl as much as you want.
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Fear creeps into ordinary days when danger feels close to home.
The List of Suspicious Things
Literary Fiction · Mystery · Thriller
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Fear creeps into ordinary days when danger feels close to home. As girls vanish in a Yorkshire town, twelve-year-old Miv turns to lists and observation to make sense of a world reshaped by illness, secrets, and change. Investigating with her best friend becomes a way to hold on to home and certainty. This mystery blends childhood perspective, community tension, and emotional discovery.
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THE INSTANT USA TODAY BESTSELLER!
"A quietly moving and intimate tale about family mysteries in a small town." —People magazine
"We'll make a list. A list of all the people and things we see that are suspicious. And then… we'll investigate them."
Twelve-year-old Miv is panicking. Life has been complicated since her mom got sick, and now her dad is talking about wanting to move their family away from the town Miv has lived in her whole life—because of the murders. Young women are dying, everyone is afraid, and no one knows who the culprit might be.
But as far as Miv is concerned, leaving Yorkshire and her best friend Sharon simply isn't an option, no matter the dangers lurking round their way; or the strangeness at home that started the day Miv's mum stopped talking. Perhaps if she could solve the case of the disappearing women, they could stay after all?
So, Miv and Sharon decide to make a list: a list of all the suspicious people and things on their street. People they know. People they don't. But their search for the truth reveals more secrets in their neighborhood, within their families—and between each other—than they ever thought possible. What if the real mystery Miv needs to solve is the one that lies much closer to home?
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War shatters safety and forces impossible choices when survival becomes an act of defiance.
Enemy Women
Historical Fiction · Historical Romance · Women's Fiction
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War shatters safety and forces impossible choices when survival becomes an act of defiance. During the American Civil War, young Adair Colley endures imprisonment, loss, and betrayal before escaping into a hostile countryside marked by violence and suspicion. As she travels south on faith and memory, Enemy Women blends historical fiction with romance, tracing resilience, moral courage, and the fragile hope of rebuilding a life after ruin.
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For the Colleys of southeastern Missouri, the War between the States is a plague that threatens devastation, despite the family’s avowed neutrality. For eighteen-year-old Adair Colley, it is a nightmare that tears apart her family and forces her and her sisters to flee. The treachery of a fellow traveler, however, brings about her arrest, and she is caged with the criminal and deranged in a filthy women’s prison.
But young Adair finds that love can live even in a place of horror and despair. Her interrogator, a Union major, falls in love with her and vows to return for her when the fighting is over. Before he leaves for battle, he bestows upon her a precious gift: freedom.
Now an escaped "enemy woman," Adair must make her harrowing way south buoyed by a promise . . . seeking a home and a family that may be nothing more than a memory.
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Two intertwined lives move through grief, memory, and violence as reality bends around them in unexpected ways.
People Like Us
Literary Fiction · People of Color
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Two intertwined lives move through grief, memory, and violence as reality bends around them in unexpected ways. As one Black writer travels the world after sudden success and another prepares to speak in the aftermath of a school shooting, their stories blur into something surreal and deeply human. People Like Us blends literary fiction with dreamlike elements to explore belonging, love, and endurance in a fractured world.
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The riveting new novel by the author of the 2021 National Book Award winner and bestseller Hell of a Book
People Like Us is Jason Mott’s electric new novel. It is not memoir, yet it has deeply personal connections to Jason’s life. And while rooted in reality, it explodes with dreamlike experiences that pull a reader in and don’t let go, from the ability to time travel to sightings of sea monsters and peacocks, and feelings of love and memory so real they hurt.
In People Like Us, two Black writers are trying to find peace and belonging in a world that is riven with gun violence. One is on a global book tour after a big prize win; the other is set to give a speech at a school that has suffered a shooting. And as their two storylines merge, truths and antics abound in equal measure: characters drink booze out of an award trophy; menaces lurk in the shadows; tiny French cars putter around the countryside; handguns seem to hover in the air; and dreams endure against all odds.
People Like Us is wickedly funny and achingly sad all at once. It is an utter triumph bursting with larger-than-life characters who deliver a very real take on our world. This book contains characters experiencing deep loss and longing; it also is buoyed by riotous humor and characters who share the deepest love. It is the newest creation of a writer whose work amazes, delivering something utterly new yet instantly recognizable as a Jason Mott novel.
Finishing the novel will leave you absolutely breathless and, at the same time, utterly filled with joy for life, changed forever by characters who are people like us.
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Love arrives wrapped in glamour, then hardens into something far more unsettling.
Rebecca
Literary Fiction · Mystery · Romance · Gothic Romance · Romantic Suspense
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Love arrives wrapped in glamour, then hardens into something far more unsettling. In Rebecca, a young bride enters Manderley and finds herself trapped in the shadow of her husband’s first wife, whose presence shapes every room and every silence. This is gothic suspense driven by obsession, insecurity, and the slow unraveling of a marriage haunted by memory.
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The multi million copy bestseller that has enthralled generations of readers. A haunting tale of obsessive love. A mesmerizing psychological thriller.
In Monte Carlo, our unnamed heroine is swept off her feet by the dashing widower Maxim de Winter and his sudden proposal of marriage. Orphaned and working as a lady’s maid, she can barely believe her luck.
It is only when they arrive at Manderley, her husband’s cavernous estate on the Cornish coast, that she realizes how vast a shadow his late wife, Rebecca, will cast over their lives—introducing a lingering evil that threatens to destroy their love from beyond the grave.
This universally acclaimed novel has remained consistently in print since its original publication in 1938 and has frequently been adapted—for television, radio, the theater, and film. Notable adaptations include the 1940 Alfred Hitchcock film, which received the Academy Award for Best Picture, and the 2020 Netflix film starring Lily James and Armie Hammer.
“Excellent entertainment ... Du Maurier created a scale by which modern women can measure their feelings.” —Stephen King, New York Times bestselling of author of You Like It Darker
“One of the most influential novels of the twentieth century, Rebecca has woven its way into the fabric of our culture with all the troubling power of myth or dream.” —Sarah Waters, bestselling author of Fingersmith
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Grief loosens its grip just enough to make desire feel dangerous again in a story shaped by longing and restraint.
You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty
LGBTQIA+ · Literary Fiction · Contemporary Fiction · People of Color
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Grief loosens its grip just enough to make desire feel dangerous again in a story shaped by longing and restraint. You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty follows Feyi Adekola as she rebuilds her life through art, intimacy, and unexpected connection after profound loss. This contemporary romance centers emotional healing, complicated attraction, and the quiet risk of choosing love while still carrying the past.
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A New York Times bestselling author, National Book Award finalist, and “one of our greatest living writers” (Shondaland) reimagines the love story in this fresh and seductive novel about a young woman seeking joy while healing from loss.
Feyi Adekola wants to learn how to be alive again.
It’s been five years since the accident that killed the love of her life and she’s almost a new person now—an artist with her own studio and sharing a brownstone apartment with her ride-or-die best friend, Joy, who insists it’s time for Feyi to ease back into the dating scene. Feyi isn’t ready for anything serious, but a steamy encounter at a rooftop party cascades into a whirlwind summer she could have never imagined: a luxury trip to a tropical island, decadent meals in the glamorous home of a celebrity chef, and a major curator who wants to launch her art career.
She’s even started dating the perfect guy, but their new relationship might be sabotaged before it has a chance by the overwhelming desire Feyi feels every time she locks eyes with the one person in the house who is most definitely off-limits—his father.
This new life she asked for just got a lot more complicated, and Feyi must begin her search for real answers. Who is she ready to become? Can she release her past and honor her grief while still embracing her future? And, of course, there’s the biggest question of all—how far is she willing to go for a second chance at love? Akwaeke Emezi’s vivid and passionate writing takes us deep into a world of possibility and healing, and the constant bravery of choosing love against all odds.
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A forgotten wartime letter draws a heartbroken researcher from an English country house to the streets of Florence, uncovering a lost love and a devastating family secret.
The Florence Letter
Historical Fiction · Women's Fiction · World War 2
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A forgotten wartime letter draws a heartbroken researcher from an English country house to the streets of Florence, uncovering a lost love and a devastating family secret. As past and present collide, forgiveness and belonging are put to the test. Readers rate this emotional dual narrative 4.3 stars on Amazon and 4.2 on Goodreads.
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Looking out over the twinkling city lights of Florence, Claire thinks of the letter that has brought her here. Written by a woman who escaped the Blitz, it holds a secret kept for a lifetime… but can Claire make the woman’s dying wish come true?
Claire arrives at her new job as researcher at a grand English country house, nursing a broken heart. But tucked into the back of a long-forgotten drawer she finds a letter written in an elegant hand. It tells of a wartime secret about the beautiful Lady Violet – whose passionate affair with an Italian prisoner of war scandalised the village and ended in tragedy.
Captivated, Claire promises to find Violet’s daughter, Tabitha, and reunite her with a priceless piece of her mother’s jewellery. With only the name of an Italian bakery, Pasticceria Mancini, to guide her, and the help of her handsome neighbour Jim, Claire travels to Tabitha’s last known location – Florence.
Winding through the colourful streets, the sun warm on her bare shoulders, a tantalising scent of freshly baked bread floats on the air and Claire’s heart leaps at the sight of an ageing bakery sign: Mancini. Although she learns that Tabitha hasn’t been there for many years, Claire refuses to give up. And as she and Jim talk late into the night over glasses of local chianti, Claire looks into his piercing blue eyes and finds herself growing closer to him…
But when they finally track Tabitha down, it isn’t the happy reunion she expected and Claire is left reeling in the wake of discovering a devastating family secret.
Violet’s story has an ending – but will the truth lead to forgiveness, or will it only bring more pain? And will Claire be forced to walk away from a chance of happiness with Jim at last?
Escape to Italy in this gorgeous story of past and present colliding. Readers of Lucinda Riley and Fiona Valpy will be utterly enchanted by this sweeping, romantic page-turner.
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Separated as children, a struggling single mother and a successful barrister live vastly different lives shaped by the same loss.
Half a World Away
Literary Fiction · Contemporary Fiction · Women's Fiction
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Separated as children, a struggling single mother and a successful barrister live vastly different lives shaped by the same loss. When they reconnect years later, buried truths about family, class, and identity come to the surface. This Richard and Judy Book Club selection holds a 4.2-star average on Amazon with over 25,000 Goodreads ratings.
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Strangers living worlds apart.
Strangers with nothing in common.
But it wasn't always that way...
Kerry Hayes is single mum, living on a tough south London estate. She provides for her son by cleaning houses she could never afford. Taken into care as a child, Kerry cannot forget her past.
Noah Martineau is a successful barrister with a beautiful wife, daughter and home in fashionable Primrose Hill. Adopted as a young child, Noah never looks back.
When Kerry contacts Noah, the sibling she lost on the day they were torn apart as children, she sets in motion a chain of events that will change both of their lives forever.
By turns funny and moving, Half a World Away is a story that will stay with you long after you read its final page.
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After devastating personal loss, Libby McKenzie takes a photography job at a historic estate where new connections and an overgrown greenhouse pull her toward long-avoided truths.
Honeysuckle Season
Historical Fiction · Historical Romance · Women's Fiction
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After devastating personal loss, Libby McKenzie takes a photography job at a historic estate where new connections and an overgrown greenhouse pull her toward long-avoided truths. A discovery in her late father’s office reveals secrets that reshape her past and future. This reflective women’s fiction explores grief, healing, and inheritance, with 4.4 stars on Amazon and over 34,000 Goodreads ratings.
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An Amazon Charts bestseller.
From bestselling author Mary Ellen Taylor comes a story about profound loss, hard truths, and an overgrown greenhouse full of old secrets.
Adrift in the wake of her father’s death, a failed marriage, and multiple miscarriages, Libby McKenzie feels truly alone. Though her new life as a wedding photographer provides a semblance of purpose, it’s also a distraction from her profound pain.
When asked to photograph a wedding at the historic Woodmont estate, Libby meets the owner, Elaine Grant. Hoping to open Woodmont to the public, Elaine has employed young widower Colton Reese to help restore the grounds and asks Libby to photograph the process. Libby is immediately drawn to the old greenhouse shrouded in honeysuckle vines.
As Libby forms relationships and explores the overgrown—yet hauntingly beautiful—Woodmont estate, she finds the emotional courage to sort through her father’s office. There she discovers a letter that changes everything she knows about her parents, herself, and the estate. Beneath the vines of the old greenhouse lie generations of secrets, and it’s up to Libby to tend to the fruits born of long-buried seeds.
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A young Ojibway boy survives devastating loss and the brutality of residential school by finding refuge on the ice.
Indian Horse
Literary Fiction · Coming of Age · Contemporary Fiction · Indigenous Fiction
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A young Ojibway boy survives devastating loss and the brutality of residential school by finding refuge on the ice. Hockey becomes Saul Indian Horse’s escape, his identity, and the source of new wounds in a world shaped by racism and silence. Readers call this coming of age novel heartbreaking and essential, with 4.6 stars on Amazon and over 34,000 ratings on Goodreads.
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"This flawless novel is an epic tragedy graced with tendrils of hope . . . a powerful fictional illumination of a Native North American life." —Minneapolis Star Tribune
Named a "Best Novel of the Decade" by Literary Hub
The Basis for the Award-Winning Movie
Saul Indian Horse is a child when his family retreats into the woods. Among the lakes and the cedars, they attempt to reconnect with half-forgotten traditions and hide from the authorities who have been kidnapping Ojibway youth. But when winter approaches, Saul loses everything: his brother, his parents, his beloved grandmother—and then his home itself.
Alone in the world and placed in a horrific boarding school, Saul is surrounded by violence and cruelty. At the urging of a priest, he finds a tentative salvation in hockey. Rising at dawn to practice alone, Saul proves determined and undeniably gifted. His intuition and vision are unmatched. His speed is remarkable. Together they open doors for him: away from the school, into an all-Ojibway amateur circuit, and finally within grasp of a professional career. Yet as Saul's victories mount, so do the indignities and the taunts, the racism and the hatred—the harshness of a world that will never welcome him, tied inexorably to the sport he loves.
Spare and compact yet undeniably rich, Indian Horse is at once a heartbreaking account of a dark chapter in our history and a moving coming-of-age story.
"Shocking and alien, valuable and true . . . A master of empathy." —Jane Smiley, Pulitzer Prize–winning author
"A wonderful coming-of-age novel." —Outside Magazine
"Wagamese has sneakily written one of the great works of sport literature." —Literary Hub
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