Staff Picks
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A Whole Life
£9.99Shortlisted for the Booker International Prize. Like John Williams' Stoner or Denis Johnson's Train Dreams, A Whole Life by Robert Seethaler is a tender book about finding dignity and beauty in solitu... -
Brutes
£9.99"This season's most-anticipated first outing." (Vogue)"A Lynchian reinterpretation of The Virgin Suicides." (Observer)"An astonishing debut that will burrow under your skin." (Sunday Times)In Falls La... -
Bunny
£9.99The darkly funny, spellbinding trip of a novel that EVERYONE is talking about'No punches pulled, no hilarities dodged, no meme unmangled. O Bunny you are sooo genius!' MARGARET ATWOODWe call them Bunn... -
Crying in H Mart
£9.99'A beautiful, intimate and hunger-inducing portrait of grief, race, heritage and coming to know yourself through what you eat.' - Stylist 'Books of the Year' 'As good as everyone says it is and, yes, ... -
Fun Home
£9.99DISCOVER the BESTSELLING GRAPHIC MEMOIR behind the Olivier Award nominated musical. 'A sapphic graphic treat' The Times A moving and darkly humorous family tale, pitch-perfectly illustrated with Al... -
Hangman
£16.99'A gripping tale of homecoming and loss... ruthlessly honest and startlingly beautiful... profound and unforgettable' Maaza Mengiste, author of The Shadow King 'Daring, intellectually rich, and unsett... -
History of Wolves
£8.99SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2017 MAN BOOKER PRIZE How far would you go to belong? Fourteen-year-old Linda lives with her parents in an ex-commune beside a lake in the beautiful, austere backwoods of northe... -
Is Mother Dead
£11.99'To mother is to murder, or close enough', thinks Johanna, as she looks at the spelling of the two words in Norwegian. She's recently widowed and back in Oslo after a long absence as she prepares for ... -
On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous
£9.99'A marvel' Marlon James Brilliant, heart-breaking and highly original, discover Ocean Vuong's shattering coming of age novel. This is a letter from a son to a mother who cannot read. Written when t... -
Paul Takes the Form of A Mortal Girl
£9.99Andrea Lawlor's debut novel offers a speculative history of early 90s identity politics during the heyday of ACT UP and Queer Nation. 'One of the most exciting - and one of the most fun - novels of th... -
Scenes of a Graphic Nature
£9.99'A gorgeous exploration of the messy and fragile nature of friendship and all the many forms of love' (Irish Times) from the bestselling author of PROMISING YOUNG WOMEN'A perfect page-turner. I loved ... -
Small Bodies of Water
£10.99'Remarkable' Robert Macfarlane 'Gorgeous' Amy Liptrot 'Urgent and nourishing' Jessica J. Lee Nina Mingya Powles first learned to swim in Borneo - where her mother was born and her grandfather studi... -
Strange the Dreamer
£9.99The dream chooses the dreamer. Since he was five years old, Lazlo Strange has been obsessed with the mythic lost city of Weep, but it would take someone bolder than he to go in search of it. Then a st... -
The Fire
£16.99In her perceptive and affecting new novel, Daniela Krien explores a marriage where everything hangs in the balance. How can two lovers find a way back to each other, when the pain of the past stand... -
The Living and the Rest
£12.99Daniel lives with artist Moira on her native Island of Mozambique. They are awaiting the birth of their child, while also organising the island's first literary festival. But as soon as the first fest... -
The Long Song
£10.99A Sunday Times bestseller (2011), shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, The Long Song by Andrea Levy is a hauntingly beautiful, heartbreaking and unputdownable novel of the last days of slavery in Jam... -
The Silence of the Girls
£9.99A GUARDIAN BEST BOOK OF THE 21ST CENTURY 'Chilling, powerful, audacious' The Times 'Magnificent. You are in the hands of a writer at the height of her powers' Evening Standard There was a woman at ... -
The Woman from Uruguay
£8.99'A searing tale of seduction and betrayal, both wryly comic and deeply serious' Sigrid Nunez, National Book Award-winning author of The Friend'Intimate, irreverent, fast-paced and raw' Sunday Times Lu... -
Western Lane
£9.99'A beautiful and evocative novel about grief, about growing up, about losing and winning. The people and places in this book will stay with me for a long time.' Sally Rooney Shortlisted for the Boo... -
My Year of Rest and Relaxation
£9.99Tender, 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 ...