For the occasion

Love stories for people who don't read love stories

No windswept covers. Feelings arrive anyway. Nobody needs to know.

You have standards, we respect that. These three smuggle the love story in under literary cover, video games, and a spreadsheet of flat-share rules.

Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

Gabrielle Zevin

Two friends build video games for thirty years. A love story that never once kisses.

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£2.49~~was £9.99~~

Normal People

Sally Rooney

Connell and Marianne, on and off, for years. You will want to bang their heads together. That's the hook.

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£1.99~~was £8.99~~

The Flatshare

Beth O'Leary

Two strangers share a bed in shifts and fall in love by Post-it note. Resistance is pointless.

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99p~~was £7.99~~

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