Bookseller’s Favourites
Surrounded by great books day after day it’s an almost impossible task to decide what to read next! But reading is what we love, and sharing our love for great books is what we do best, so…
Each of our booksellers has compiled a list of some of their most loved books of all time – highly personal, old and new – here’s a little glimpse of the treasures on our own bookshelves.
Alex’s Choice Picks
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Miss Benson’s Beetle by Rachel Joyce£8.99 -
When Life Gives You Mangoes by Kereen Getten£7.99 -
Guards! Guards!: (Discworld Novel 8) by Terry Pratchett£8.99 -
Queenie by Candice Carty-Williams£8.99 -
The Burning by Laura Bates£7.99 -
The Baby’s Catalogue by Allan Ahlberg£6.99 -
Lethal White: Cormoran Strike Book 4 by Robert Galbraith£8.99 -
Piglettes by Clementine Beauvais£7.99 -
Nevermoor: The Trials of Morrigan Crow by Jessica Townsend£6.99 -
Good Omens by Neil Gaiman£8.99 -
A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman£8.99 -
The Quick Roasting Tin by Rukmini Iyer£16.99 -
The Complete Brambly Hedge by Jill Barklem£19.99
Diane’s Absolute Favourites
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Diary of a Young Naturalist by Dara McAnulty£9.99 -
Small Pleasures by Clare Chambers£8.99 -
Dark, Salt, Clear: Life in a Cornish Fishing Town by Lamorna Ash£9.99 -
Siege by Helen Dunmore£8.99 -
Man Who Planted Trees by Jean Giono£6.99 -
Secrets of a Devon Wood: My Nature Journal by Jo Brown£14.99 -
Ulverton by Adam Thorpe£9.99 -
Vesper Flights by Helen Macdonald£16.99 -
English Pastoral: An Inheritance by James Rebanks£20.00 -
This Is Happiness by Niall Williams£8.99 -
Mudlarking by Lara Maiklem£9.99 -
The Leopard by Lampedusa£9.99 -
On The Marshes by Carol Donaldson£10.00 -
Milkman by Anna Burns£8.99 -
Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self by Claire Tomalin£10.99 -
The Offing by Benjamin Myers£8.99 -
Tomorrow by Elisabeth Russel Taylor£9.99 -
The Falconer by Dana Czapnik£8.99 -
All Among The Barley by Melissa Harrison£8.99 -
Month In The Country by J L Carr£7.99 -
The Country Girls Trilogy: The Country Girls; The Lonely Girl; Girls in their Ma by Edna O’Brien£9.99 -
The Cut Out Girl: A Story of War and Family, Lost and Found by Bart van Es£9.99 -
H is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald£9.99 -
The Shepherd’s Life: A Tale of the Lake District by James Rebanks£9.99 -
Ships of Heaven: The Private Life of Britain’s Cathedrals by Christopher Somerville£9.99 -
Waterlog by Roger Deakin£9.99 -
The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot by Robert Macfarlane£9.99 -
Naples ’44 by Norman Lewis£12.99 -
Why The Dutch Are Different by Ben Coates£9.99 -
Mani by Patrick Leigh Fermor£10.99
Fleur’s Best of the Best!
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Small Pleasures by Clare Chambers£8.99
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Breath by Tim Winton£8.99 -
Paulina & Fran by Rachel B. Glaser£7.99 -
Vesper Flights by Helen Macdonald£16.99
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Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo£8.99 -
Queenie by Candice Carty-Williams£8.99
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The Nickel Boys: Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 2020 by Colson Whitehead£8.99 -
Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin£8.99 -
Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison£8.99 -
Swing Time by Zadie Smith£8.99 -
The Lark (PWW) by E. Nesbit£8.99 -
I Feel Bad About My Neck by Nora Ephron£9.99 -
One Fine Day by Mollie Panter-Downes£9.99 -
Franny and Zooey by J. D. Salinger£8.99 -
The True Deceiver by Tove Jansson£8.99 -
Grief is the Thing with Feathers by Max Porter£8.99 -
The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead£8.99 -
The Offing by Benjamin Myers£8.99
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Tomorrow by Elisabeth Russel Taylor£9.99
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Euphoria by Lily King£9.99 -
The Falconer by Dana Czapnik£8.99
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The Pursuit of Love by Nancy Mitford£8.99 -
Bonjour Tristesse: and, A Certain Smile by Francoise Sagan£7.99 -
My Husband Simon by Mollie Panter-Downes£9.99 -
Home by Marilynne Robinson£8.99 -
Month In The Country by J L Carr£7.99
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Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life by William Finnegan£9.99 -
Hons and Rebels by Jessica Mitford£9.99 -
The Skylarks’ War by Hilary McKay£7.99 -
The Country Child by Alison Uttley£6.99
Grace’s Bookshelf of Dreams
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My Dark Vanessa by Kate Elizabeth Russell£8.99 -
The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires by Grady Hendrix£9.99 -
My Best Friend’s Exorcism by Grady Hendrix£9.99 -
Thin Air by Michelle Paver£8.99 -
The City We Became by N. K. Jemisin£16.99 -
Dark Matter by Michelle Paver£8.99 -
Burton and Swinburne in The Strange Affair of Spring Heeled Jack by Mark Hodder£7.99 -
Seven Deaths Of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton£8.99 -
You Took the Last Bus Home by Brian Bilston£8.99 -
Seveneves by Neal Stephenson£9.99 -
Annihilation (the Southern Reach Trilogy, Book 1) by Jeff VanderMeer£8.99 -
Good Omens by Neil Gaiman£8.99
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It by Stephen King£10.99 -
Dead Man’s Blues by Ray Celestin£8.99 -
Colorado Kid by Stephen King£7.99
Jessie’s Favourite Books
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Love After Love by Ingrid Persaud£8.99 -
10:04 by Ben Lerner£8.99 -
Burnt Sugar by Avni Doshi£14.99 -
Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi£8.99 -
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison£9.99 -
Everything I Know About Love by Dolly Alderton£8.99 -
Americanah by Chimamanda N. Adichie£9.99 -
The Ungrateful Refugee: What Immigrants Never Tell You by Dina Nayeri£10.99 -
White Teeth by Zadie Smith£8.99 -
An Orchestra of Minorities: Longlisted for the Booker Prize 2019 by Chigozie Obioma£8.99 -
Gilead by Marilynne Robinson£8.99 -
Exit West by Mohsin Hamid£8.99
Nick’s Choices
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Go Tell it on the Mountain by James Baldwin£9.99 -
The Warlow Experiment by Alix Nathan£8.99 -
A History of the Bible: The Book and Its Faiths by Dr John Barton£12.99 -
All Among The Barley by Melissa Harrison£8.99
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Month In The Country by J L Carr£7.99
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The Spy and the Traitor (Oleg Gordievsky) by Ben MacIntyre£9.99 -
The British in India: Three Centuries of Ambition and Experience by David Gilmour£12.99 -
The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford£8.99 -
The Brothers York: An English Tragedy by Thomas Penn£12.99 -
Persian Fire by Tom Holland£12.99 -
First Light: The Centenary Collection by Geoffrey Wellum£9.99
Rowena’s Best Loved Books
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My Dark Vanessa by Kate Elizabeth Russell£8.99
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Heat Wave by Penelope Lively£8.99 -
Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami£8.99 -
Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo£8.99
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Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens£8.99 -
The Dutch House by Ann Patchett£8.99 -
Chanel’s Riviera: Life, Love and the Struggle for Survival on the Cote d’Azur by Anne de Courcy£10.99 -
Marie by Madeleine Bourdouxhe£9.99 -
Late in the Day by Tessa Hadley£8.99 -
My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh£9.99 -
A Woman of No Importance (Virginia Hall) by Sonia Purnell£9.99 -
Bonjour Tristesse: and, A Certain Smile by Francoise Sagan£7.99
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My Husband Simon by Mollie Panter-Downes£9.99
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Rival Queens: The Betrayal of Mary, Queen of Scots by Kate Williams£9.99 -
Killing Commendatore by Haruki Murakami£9.99 -
Summer Book by Tove Jansson£9.99 -
La Femme De Gilles by Madeleine Bourdouxhe£9.99 -
Quicksand & Passing by Nella Larsen£8.99 -
As I Walked out One Midsummer Morning by Laurie Lee£8.99 -
Threads of Life: A History of the World Through the Eye of a Needle by Clare Hunter£9.99 -
Dressed For War: The Story of Audrey Withers, Vogue editor extraordinaire by Julie Summers£20.00