Staff Picks
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Paul Takes the Form of A Mortal Girl
£8.99I am firmly of the belief that if you can make a playlist out of songs mentioned in a book, then it is (probably!) a great book. Paul, a 90's punk Orlando who traverses queer subcultures throughout Am... -
A Whole Life
£8.99This book is a masterpiece of descriptive spare fiction. This novel conveys a wealth of emotion, experience, trauma and love in just 160 pages. I love this book.Picked ...
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Boy Parts
£9.99Eliza Clark's debut follows Irina, an artist who specialises in fetish photography of average-looking men. Once compared to "Patrick Bateman in an E cup", Boy Parts features one of the most extreme an... -
Cold New Climate
£10.99A stunning debut from Isobel Wohl. Beautiful, carefully crafted prose and a surprising, utterly absorbing storyline about characters caught in a destructive sequence of events. Very much a contemporar... -
Hotel World
£8.99I can remember "having" to read this as part of a Booker Prize Night Libraries event. I was really disappointed it did not win. This is a book I return to again and again for many different reas... -
Luster
£14.99Leilani's debut novel follows Edie, a young woman and lapsed artist living in New York City, as she becomes a live-in mistress to a suburban family. Gorgeously visial with some strikingly brilliant pr... -
Music and Silence
£9.99This is historical fiction for readers that don't usually enjoy historical fiction. Music & Silence follows what happens when an English lutenist arrives at the Danish court in 1629, and ... -
Night Train To Lisbon
£8.99After a chance encounter with a Portuguese woman inspires middle-aged Classics scholar Raimund Gregorius to impulsively buy a book the respected teacher walks out on his job to move to Lisbon. Raimund... -
Station Eleven
£8.99Ok, another novel featuring a Pandemic. However, this novel offers much more than a dystopian adventure into the realms of death and survival. It intricately weaves contemporary and future event... -
Such A Fun Age
£8.99Sharp, witty and insightful, Kiley Reid's debut is a scathing and hilarious portrait of race and power relations in America today. When Emira is called out on an emergency babysitting job little does ... -
The Fault in our Stars
£7.99I love that this book commits to the pain of love and life...and death. I love that Hazel just wants to be like any other normal teenager (let me know if you find one) - s...
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The Lamplighters
£14.99An atmospheric mystery full of love and grief and the omnipresent raw power of the sea. Will we ever know what happened? Fascinating and gripping. Transports you to a different world. Really loved it!... -
Total Chaos: Book One in the Marseilles Trilogy
£8.99A powerful novel of friendship, despair and redemption. We see the not so sunny side of the French Riviera. A masterclass in Noir Fiction. Picked by David Book One in the Marseilles... -
We Are Not In The World
£14.99A stylistic masterpiece! A narrative blending of poetic form and stark realism. A road trip of emotional turmoil that left me breathless. Simply wonderful. Claudia ... -
We Begin At The End
£8.99A tragic and moving story. The characters are so beautifully drawn they stay with you long after the last page. Deep, dark and excellent - one of my recent favourites! Much, much more than just a crim... -
Winter in Sokcho
£9.99Dusapin's unnamed narrator deals with issues of liminality in her life as a French Korean woman in Sokcho, a town on the border between South and North Korea. Her life working as a receptionist is int... -
Ancillary Justice
£8.99A novel, narrated by an AI Mind, a mind that once controlled a spaceship , and now inhaits the body of a human…unique and thought-provoking in ways that many Science Fiction novels are not. Investig... -
Box Hill
£9.99Funny and disturbing, this endearing story of love and loyalty between men starts with a chance meeting on Box Hill and takes the reader to unexpected places. Mars-Jones tells a deceptively simple sto... -
Braised Pork
£13.99After finding her husband drowned in the bathtub, loyal wife Jia Jia finds herself alone and abandoned by society, becoming increasingly obsessed with a crude drawing of a 'fish man' she finds next to... -
Collected Poems
£20.00Writing through the 1930s, '40's and '50's, MacNeice was a poet of STUFF: Love, Loss. Politics, Philosophy and Urban Life. His late -30's masterpiece, Autumn Journal, is collected here, and plots the ... -
Doggerland
£8.99Haunting and mesmerising, this tightly would novel is set n a huge wind farm on the North Sea. Manned by the boy and the old man, the farm has been left to rot, while reports of an apocalyptic rising ... -
Drive your Plow over the Bones of the Dead
£8.99Olga Tokarczuk follows the award winning 'Flights' with a metaphysical crime story with a surreal sense of humour and a protagonist you won't forget. When members of the local hunting club are found m... -
Endure: Mind, Body and the Curiously Elastic Limits of Human Performance
£9.99Using first-hand experience of Eliud Kipchoge's 2017 attempt to break the two hour barrier in the marathon as a framing device, Alex Hutchinson's Endure is a rare thing: a book which presents a wide v... -
Faces in the Crowd
£8.99Mysterious, original, and beautifully fractured, Luiselli's debut novel and its ghosts have haunted me since I first picked it up. This is a truly beautiful book. All of the threads weaved by the name...