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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A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman£8.99 -
Good Omens by Neil Gaiman£8.99 -
Lethal White: Cormoran Strike Book 4 by Robert Galbraith£8.99 -
Miss Benson’s Beetle by Rachel Joyce£16.99 -
Nevermoor The Trials Of Morrigan Crow by Jessica Townsend£6.99 -
Piglettes by Clementine Beauvais£7.99 -
The Baby’s Catalogue by Allan Ahlberg£6.99 -
The Burning by Laura Bates£7.99 -
The Complete Brambly Hedge by Jill Barklem£19.99 -
The Quick Roasting Tin by Rukmini Iyer£16.99 -
When Life Gives You Mangoes by Kereen Getten£7.99
Diane’s Absolute Favourites
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A Room of One’s Own and Three Guineas by Virginia Woolf£7.99 -
After Rain by William Trevor£8.99 -
All Among The Barley by Melissa Harrison£8.99 -
As I Walked out One Midsummer Morning by Laurie Lee£8.99 -
Bloody Chamber by Angela Carter£8.99 -
Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons£7.99 -
Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons£7.99 -
Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata£8.99 -
Dark, Salt, Clear: Life in a Cornish Fishing Town by Lamorna Ash£16.99 -
Diary of a Young Naturalist by Dara McAnulty£16.00 -
Down and Out in Paris and London by George Orwell£8.99 -
English Pastoral by James Rebanks£20.00 -
Gilead by Marilynne Robinson£8.99 -
H is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald£9.99 -
Invitation To The Waltz by Rosamond Lehmann£9.99 -
Life in the Garden by Penelope Lively£9.99 -
Man Who Planted Trees by Jean Giono£6.99 -
Mani by Patrick Leigh Fermor£10.99 -
Milkman by Anna Burns£8.99 -
Month In The Country by J L Carr£7.99 -
Mudlarking by Lara Maiklem£9.99 -
Naples ’44 by Norman Lewis£12.99 -
On The Marshes by Carol Donaldson£10.00 -
Period Piece: A Cambridge Childhood by Gwen Raverat£9.99 -
Prime Of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark£7.99 -
Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self by Claire Tomalin£10.99 -
Seabird’s Cry by Adam Nicolson£9.99 -
Secret Life of Trees by Colin Tudge£12.99 -
Secrets of a Devon Wood: My Nature Journal by Jo Brown£14.99 -
Ships of Heaven: The Private Life of Britain’s Cathedrals by Christopher Somerville£9.99
Fleur’s Best of the Best!
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A Sky Painted Gold by Laura Wood£7.99 -
Autumn by Ali Smith£8.99 -
Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life by William Finnegan£9.99 -
Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison£8.99 -
Bonjour Tristesse: and, A Certain Smile by Francoise Sagan£7.99 -
Breath by Tim Winton£8.99 -
Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons£7.99
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Euphoria by Lily King£9.99 -
Fashion Climbing: A New York Life by Bill Cunningham£9.99 -
Franny and Zooey by J. D. Salinger£8.99 -
Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin£8.99 -
Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo£8.99 -
Good Morning, Midnight by Jean Rhys£8.99 -
Grief is the Thing with Feathers by Max Porter£8.99 -
Home by Marilynne Robinson£8.99 -
Hons and Rebels by Jessica Mitford£9.99 -
Howards End by E. M. Forster£6.99 -
I Feel Bad About My Neck by Nora Ephron£9.99 -
Invitation To The Waltz by Rosamond Lehmann£9.99
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Lila by Marilynne Robinson£9.99 -
Month In The Country by J L Carr£7.99
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My Husband Simon by Mollie Panter-Downes£9.99 -
One Fine Day by Mollie Panter-Downes£9.99 -
Paulina & Fran by Rachel B. Glaser£7.99
Grace’s Bookshelf of Dreams
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American Gods by Neil Gaiman£8.99 -
Annihilation (the Southern Reach Trilogy, Book 1) by Jeff VanderMeer£8.99 -
Burton and Swinburne in The Strange Affair of Spring Heeled Jack by Mark Hodder£8.99 -
Colorado Kid by Stephen King£7.99 -
Dark Matter by Michelle Paver£8.99 -
Dead Man’s Blues by Ray Celestin£8.99 -
Good Omens by Neil Gaiman£8.99
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Grass by Sheri S. Tepper£10.99 -
Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood£8.99 -
It by Stephen King£10.99 -
My Best Friend’s Exorcism by Grady Hendrix£9.99 -
My Dark Vanessa by Kate Elizabeth Russell£12.99 -
Out by Natsuo Kirino£10.99 -
Persepolis I and II by Marjane Satrapi£9.99 -
Seven Deaths Of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton£8.99 -
Seveneves by Neal Stephenson£9.99 -
Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson£8.99 -
The Axeman’s Jazz by Ray Celestin£8.99 -
The City We Became by N. K. Jemisin£16.99 -
The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires by Grady Hendrix£18.99 -
The Wee Free Men: A Tiffany Aching Novel by Terry Pratchett£7.99 -
Thin Air by Michelle Paver£8.99 -
Wolf Hall (The Wolf Hall Trilogy) by Hilary Mantel£9.99 -
You Took the Last Bus Home by Brian Bilston£8.99
Jessie’s Favourite Books
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10:04 by Ben Lerner£8.99 -
Americanah by Chimamanda N. Adichie£8.99 -
An Orchestra of Minorities: Longlisted for the Booker Prize 2019 by Chigozie Obioma£8.99 -
Burnt Sugar by Avni Doshi£14.99 -
Everything I Know About Love by Dolly Alderton£8.99 -
Exit West by Mohsin Hamid£8.99 -
Gilead by Marilynne Robinson£8.99
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Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi£8.99 -
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison£9.99 -
Love After Love by Ingrid Persaud£14.99 -
The Ungrateful Refugee: What Immigrants Never Tell You by Dina Nayeri£10.99 -
White Teeth by Zadie Smith£8.99
Leo’s Good Readings
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21 Lessons for the 21st Century by Yuval Noah Harari£10.99 -
A Clash of Kings: Book 2 of A Song of Ice and Fire by George R. R. Martin£9.99 -
A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles£8.99 -
All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque£8.99 -
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley£8.99 -
Good Omens by Neil Gaiman£8.99
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Goodnight Mister Tom by Michelle Magorian£9.99 -
La Belle Sauvage: The Book of Dust Volume One by Philip Pullman£8.99 -
Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell£7.99 -
Ready Player One by Ernest Cline£8.99 -
Talking to My Daughter About the Economy: A Brief History of Capitalism by Yanis Varoufakis£8.99 -
The Great Gatsby (Penguin Modern Classics) by F. Scott Fitzgerald£6.99 -
The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien£7.99 -
Why I’m No Longer Talking To White People by Reni Eddo-Lodge£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
Olivia’s Favourite Reads
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A Sky Painted Gold by Laura Wood£7.99
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Bloody Chamber by Angela Carter£8.99
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Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko£9.99 -
Charmed Life (Chrestomanci 1) by Diana Wynne Jones£6.99 -
Chocolate War by Robert Cormier£7.99 -
Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel Garcia Marquez£8.99 -
Coraline by Neil Gaiman£6.99 -
Educated by Tara Westover£9.99 -
Emma (PEL) by Jane Austen£5.99 -
Feminist Cross-Stitch by Stephanie Rohr£14.99 -
Good Omens by Neil Gaiman£8.99
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Guards! Guards!: (Discworld Novel 8) by Terry Pratchett£8.99 -
Jamaica Inn by Daphne Du Maurier£8.99 -
Lady Susan; Watsons; Sanditon by Jane Austen£4.99 -
Monster Calls (ill. Jim Kay) by Patrick Ness£9.99 -
Quicksand & Passing by Nella Larsen£8.99 -
Raven Boys by Maggie Stiefvater£7.99 -
Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel£8.99 -
The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende£8.99 -
The Orchard Book of Greek Myths by Geraldine McCaughrean£14.99 -
The Reader on the 6.27 by Jean-Paul Didierlaurent£8.99 -
The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion£8.99 -
The Ruby in the Smoke (SL1) by Philip Pullman£7.99 -
The Wee Free Men: A Tiffany Aching Novel by Terry Pratchett£7.99
Rowena’s Best Loved Books
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A Woman of No Importance (Virginia Hall) by Sonia Purnell£9.99 -
As I Walked out One Midsummer Morning by Laurie Lee£8.99
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Bonjour Tristesse: and, A Certain Smile by Francoise Sagan£7.99
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Chanel’s Riviera: Life, Love and the Struggle for Survival on the Cote d’Azur by Anne de Courcy£10.99 -
Dressed For War: The Story of Audrey Withers, Vogue editor extraordinaire by Julie Summers£20.00 -
Elephant Vanishes by Haruki Murakami£9.99 -
Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo£8.99
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Heat Wave by Penelope Lively£8.99 -
Killing Commendatore by Haruki Murakami£9.99 -
La Femme De Gilles by Madeleine Bourdouxhe£9.99 -
Late in the Day by Tessa Hadley£8.99 -
Marie by Madeleine Bourdouxhe£9.99 -
My Dark Vanessa by Kate Elizabeth Russell£12.99
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My Husband Simon by Mollie Panter-Downes£9.99
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My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh£8.99 -
Quicksand & Passing by Nella Larsen£8.99
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Rival Queens: The Betrayal of Mary, Queen of Scots by Kate Williams£9.99 -
Summer Book by Tove Jansson£9.99 -
The Dutch House by Ann Patchett£8.99 -
Threads of Life: A History of the World Through the Eye of a Needle by Clare Hunter£9.99 -
Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens£8.99