Narrative theme: Love & relationships

“Best new book to read.”—New York Post“... a wonderfully witty chronicle of awkward first dates, with Avalie slowly coming to understand what makes a relationship work, guided along the way by a supportive network of friends.... Abedi’s emotionally...

The breakout poetry collection in a multiform, poetic conversation between queer and trans artists and writers.Like meeting under a disco ball, or listening to Arthur Russell on the Staten Island Ferry, Gay Heaven Is a Dance Floor but I Can’t Relax...

FROM THE AUTHOR OF KIM JIYOUNG, BORN 1982'There is laughter and joy to be found in these pages, along with the kind of laughter that sets two women over 50 rolling in the snow with tears streaming down their frozen cheeks and the aurora borealis dancing...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER * NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY NPR??“To read Maggie Smith is to embrace the achingly precious beauty of the present moment.” —Time “A captivating collection from a wise, accessible poet.” —PeopleFrom the award-winning poet and...

An astonishing debut poetry collection wrestling with desire, vulnerability, sex work and money from writer and poet Erin Taylor.Erin Taylor’s Bimboland is an astute and confident debut, balancing, in their blistering and tender style,...

A hilarious rhyming romp exploring one child’s fantasy about her dad having the coolest job ever – the perfect gift for dads this Father's Day!Have you ever wondered what would happen if your dad quit his boring office job to become . . . the Tooth...

‘Absolutely brilliant… An exceptionally exciting, mysterious book – we both loved it’  Richard & JudyIt all happens so quickly. One day you're living the dream, commuting to work by riverbus with your charismatic neighbour Kit in the seat beside...

'Delightful' PUBLISHERS WEEKLY   Can she find it in her heart to let go before it’s too late?As her daughter grows up, Ave Maria can’t help but feel time is slipping through her fingers. Her friends in Big Stone Gap are going through major...

‘One of my all-time favourite novels’ WHOOPI GOLDBERG ‘Funny, charming and original’ FANNIE FLAGG, author of Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Café   How do you face the future when the past won’t let you go?Big Stone Gap is a sleepy...

'Trigiani is a wonderful storyteller... Readers will enjoy Big Cherry Holler immensely' USA TODAYHow do you move forward if you’ve already lost your way?   It's been eight years since town pharmacist and self-proclaimed spinster Ave...

A gorgeous read full of hope, warmth and heartfelt emotion from the Sunday Times bestselling author ​‘The feeling you get when you read a Milly Johnson book should be bottled and made available on the NHS’ Debbie JohnsonLaurie and Pete...

The extraordinary novel from Queen of Suspense Mary Higgins Clark & Alafair BurkeFive years ago Amanda Pierce was excitedly preparing to marry her college sweetheart. She and Jeffrey had already battled through sickness and health, although their...

Julian Tepper's fourth novel, Cooler Heads, is a story about modern love. With a triangulation of lovers and spouses, young children and careers struggling to get off the ground, in Celia and Paul we encounter two people in that pocket of life when the...

I Have to Go Back to 1994 and Kill a Girl is film noir set in verse, each poem a miniature crime scene with its own set of clues--frosted eye-shadow, a pistol under a horse's eye, dripping window units, an aneurysm opening its lethal trap. In...

An astonishing collection about interconnectedness-between the human and nonhuman, ancestors and ourselves-from National Book Critics Circle Award winner, National Book Award finalist and U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limn."I have always been too sensitive, a...

Not Here is a flight plan for escape and a map for navigating home; a queer Vietnamese American body in confrontation with whiteness, trauma, family, and nostalgia; and a big beating heart of a book. Nguyen's poems ache with loneliness and desire and the...

A sweeping family saga set against the backdrop of a Sikh wedding.On the morning of his nephew's wedding, Devinder Gill is certain the delicate balance of his life will not be upset. Dev is married to Kuldip, and together they are raising two young...

A sweet and spicy multiculturalromantic comedythat that blends the rich tapestry of Filipinocourtship ritualswith the modern complexities of love, family, and cultural expectations, written by #1 New York Times bestselling author Melissa de la Cruz.Evan...

A twisting new thriller from the author of The Replacement: Is the man she married in trouble-or is he just trouble?Kate and Jake agreed when they got married that they would always give each other space. But lately, Jake seems to want a lot more space...

Soul Feast is a companion to the hugely popular poetry anthology Soul Food, offering up a further feast of thoughtful poems to stir the mind and feed the spirit, bringing hope and light in dark, uncertain times.The original Soul Food anthology (2007)...