Featured Books
Our online shop is just as stuffed full of wonderful books as our high street shop! We’ve highlighted some of our newest books on this page but if you already know what you want click below to go straight to our online shop:
Forthcoming Books to Preorder
Paperback Fiction Display Table
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House of Trelawney: Shortlisted for the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize For C by Hannah Rothschild£8.99 -
The Devil and the Dark Water: The mind-blowing new murder mystery from the Sunda by Stuart Turton£8.99 -
The Pull of the Stars by Emma Donoghue£8.99 -
The Golden Rule: Longlisted for the Women’s Prize 2021 by Amanda Craig£8.99 -
Because of You by Dawn French£8.99
Book of the Month – May
We just had to pick this Kentish classic!
‘Home looks nice. Allus does though, don’t it? Perfick’
And so the Larkins – Pop, Ma, Mariette, Zinnia, Petunia, Primrose, Victoria and Montgomery – return from an outing for fish and chips and ice cream one May evening. There, amid the rustic charms of home, they discover a visitor: one Cedric Charlton, Her Majesty’s inspector of taxes.
Mr Charlton is visiting to find out why junk-dealer Pop hasn’t paid his tax – but nothing’s that simple at the Larkins. Mariette takes a shine to ‘Charley’ – as Pop calls him – and before long the family have introduced the uncomplaining inspector to the delights of country living: the lusty scents of wild flowers, the pleasures of a bottle of Dragon’s Blood, cold cream dribbled over a bowl of strawberries and hot, hot summer nights.
In fact, soon Charley can’t see any reason to return to the office at all . . .
Paperback Non-Fiction Display Table
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I Am An Island by Tamsin Calidas£9.99 -
Featherhood: On Birds and Fathers by Charlie Gilmour£8.99 -
The Lady from the Black Lagoon: Hollywood Monsters and the Lost Legacy of Milice by Mallory O’Meara£9.99 -
Men Who Hate Women: From incels to pickup artists, the truth about extreme misog by Laura Bates£9.99 -
Becoming by Michelle Obama£12.99
New Fiction for 9-12 Year Olds
Crime & Thriller Display Table
Hardback Fiction Display Table
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Selected Stories by Elizabeth Bowen£14.99 -
His Only Wife: A Reese’s Book Club Pick – ‘A Crazy Rich Asians for West Africa, by Peace Adzo Medie£14.99 -
What Abigail Did That Summer: A Rivers Of London Novella by Ben Aaronovitch£12.99 -
The Field by Robert Seethaler£14.99 -
Detransition, Baby by Torrey Peters£14.99
Hardback Non-Fiction Display Table
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The Power of Geography by Tim Marshall£16.99 -
The Barbizon: The New York Hotel That Set Women Free by Paulina Bren£20.00 -
Glossy: The inside story of Vogue by Nina-Sophia Miralles£20.00 -
Spring Cannot be Cancelled: David Hockney in Normandy by David Hockney£25.00 -
Invisible Walls: A Journalist in Search of Her Life by Hella Pick£20.00
New Music Books
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Why Solange Matters by Stephanie Phillips£9.99 -
Beeswing: Fairport, Folk Rock and Finding My Voice, 1967-75 by Richard Thompson£20.00 -
The Musical Human: A History of Life on Earth by Michael Spitzer£30.00 -
Medical Grade Music by Steve Davis£20.00 -
A Restless Hungry Feeling: The Double Life of Bob Dylan Vol. 1 by Clinton Heylin£30.00
Teen Graphic Novels & Manga
New Nature Writing
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Walks in the Wild: A guide through the forest with Peter Wohlleben by Peter Wohlleben£10.99 -
The Gospel of the Eels: A Father, a Son and the World’s Most Enigmatic Fish by Patrik Svensson£9.99 -
Empire of Ants: The Hidden Worlds and Extraordinary Lives of Earth’s Tiny Conque by Olaf Fritsche£16.99 -
Diary of a Young Naturalist by Dara McAnulty£9.99 -
Beak, Tooth and Claw: Living with Predators in Britain by Mary Colwell£16.99
New Cookery Books
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Finding Freedom in the Lost Kitchen by Erin French£16.99 -
The Book of Difficult Fruit: Arguments for the Tart, Tender, and Unruly by Kate Lebo£14.99 -
The Italian Deli Cookbook: 100 Glorious Recipes Celebrating the Best of Italian by Theo Randall£26.00 -
The Green Barbecue: Modern Vegan & Vegetarian Recipes to Cook Outdoors & In by Rukmini Iyer£17.99 -
Simply Raymond: Recipes from Home by Raymond Blanc£25.00
New Gardening Books
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The Flower Yard: Growing Flamboyant Flowers in Containers by Arthur Parkinson£22.00 -
In the Garden by£9.99 -
A Lifetime of Seasons: The Best of Christopher Lloyd by Christopher Lloyd£18.99 -
RHS How to Garden the Low-carbon Way: The Steps You Can Take to Help Combat Clim by Sally Nex£12.99 -
My Garden World: the Sunday Times bestseller by Monty Don£8.99
Jigsaw Puzzles
Signed Books Currently Available
Reviewed by Our Booksellers
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Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro£20.00 -
A Town Called Solace by Mary Lawson£14.99 -
Everybody by Olivia Laing£20.00 -
Open Water by Caleb Azumah Nelson£12.99 -
Outlawed by Anna North£14.99
Children’s Books Reviewed by our Booksellers
Indie Book of the Month
Here are the books which the Booksellers Association has picked as Indie Book of the Month for children and adults in April.
Pip William’s debut novel The Dictionary of Lost Words tells the story of Esme, whose father is helping gather words for the very first Oxford English Dictionary. Hidden beneath the table on which words are sorted, Esme begins to collect those words which have been misplaced, discarded, or neglected by the dictionary men, and soon realises that some words are considered more serious than others, with words related to women often going unrecorded. Against the backdrop of the women’s suffrage movement and the years before the Great War, Esme begins to collect words for another dictionary, containing these lost and ignored words.
Weirdo is the new title from acclaimed authors Zadie Smith and Nick Laird, and is the story of Maud, a guinea pig who wears a judo suit and is given as a gift for Kit’s birthday. Although Kit’s other pets have never met anyone like Maud before, with bravery, kindness and a bit of luck, she may learn that being yourself is the best thing you can be. Weirdo is published in hardback by Puffin on 15th April and is available for pre-order now.
