Staff Picks
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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... -
Ankomst
£12.00A female scientist spends the winter in the arctic north of Norway to study seabirds. She is waiting for her lover to join her. Will he ever come? Very, very eerie, creepy, cold lonely , isolated and ... -
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... -
Fever Dream
£7.99This short, sharp novel from Berlin based Samanta Schweblin packs a powerful punch. Told as a narrative between Amanda, a young woman lying dying in hospital, and a young boy called David, the story t... -
Flotsam
£9.99In this sparse, haunting novel. We meet Trine, an isolated young girl dealing with the aftermath of a horrific accident. Her father is gone, while her mother is consumed with recollecting flotsam and ... -
Follow Me To Ground
£8.99Three words: horror, feminism, and guts. Written in beautifully lyrical pose, 'Follow Me to Ground' is a fierce blend of horror and magical realism that will leave you reeling in its strangeness. This... -
Fresh Water for Flowers
£16.99Violette Toussaint has been working as the caretaker of the local cemetery for so long she knows the place by heart. Her husband has run off but she is happy in her existence, her only friends the gra... -
Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
£12.99This critically acclaimed graphic memoir deals with large questions: death, family secrets, sexual identity and mental health, mapping the author's own experiences of coming out in juxtaposition with ... -
Her Body And Other Parties
£8.99It's not very often that a short story collection will have the power to shock, astound and delight, but Carmen Maria Machado's wonderful debut does just that. From an inventory of past lovers which c... -
Hermit
£14.99Mainly taking place in an interrogation room, a suicidal detective has just 48 hours to interview a suspect who has been living in total isolation for the last 15 years. Did he do it? What happened? ... -
Homie
£10.99Gorgeous and gut-wrenchingly honest, Danez Smith's latest poetry collection is an ode to friendship in its realest forms. These poems are gloriously indulgent. Revelling in blackness, queerness, and i... -
I Who Have Never Known Men
£8.99Raised in a cage , with 39 other women, guarded day and night by silent guards, the narrator of this spell-binding tale has led a life of loneliness and confinement. But, when freedom beckons, is it e... -
In the Distance
£9.99I loved this book. A mix of adventure, coming of age, scientific discovery and love. Set in the American West during the 19th century Goldrush, this book is breathtaking. Picked by David... -
Little
£8.99This historical fiction follows the life of Madame Tussaud as she grows up, moving from the countryside to the city, being plunged into the royal household, then into revolutionary Paris. A charmingly... -
My Year of Rest and Relaxation
£8.99Tender, honest, and, at times, hilarious, this tale of one woman's quest to sleep as much as humanly possible for a year is shockingly good. Beautifully melancholic, this is a book you instantly want ... -
New Selected Poems
£13.99New Selected Poems is a book of singular abundance and formal verve, featuring poems of rare vision and dramatic power by a consummate and resilient artist. Demonstrating the wide range of Derek Mahon... -
Pew
£12.99When the narrator of Catherine Lacey's wonderful new novel is found sleeping in the local church, the congregation decide to name them Pew, of indeterminate gender, age and race, while also refusing/u... -
Please Don’t Come Back from the Moon
£9.99Set in a small neighbourhood outside of Detroit, where an entire generation have been raised without a father figure in their lives, this is one of the best books I have ever read. Haunting, yet beaut...