Staff Picks
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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. David Shortlisted for the ... -
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) - she pulls the pain of this wan... -
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... -
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... -
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...