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£9.99 -
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£17.99 -
The Complete Brambly Hedge by Jill Barklem£19.99
Diane’s Utter Favourites
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In Kiltumper: A Year in an Irish Garden by Niall Williams£18.99 -
Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds and Shape Our Future by Merlin Sheldrake£10.99 -
Vesper Flights by Helen Macdonald£9.99 -
The Feast by Margaret Kennedy£9.99 -
Diary of a Young Naturalist by Dara McAnulty£9.99 -
Small Pleasures: Longlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction 2021 by Clare Chambers£8.99 -
Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart£8.99 -
The Circling Sky: On Nature and Belonging in an Ancient Forest by Neil Ansell£18.99 -
Dark, Salt, Clear: Life in a Cornish Fishing Town by Lamorna Ash£9.99 -
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 -
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
Elle’s Must-Read Recommendations
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Piranesi: SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN’S PRIZE 2021 by Susanna Clarke£8.99 -
To Paradise by Hanya Yanagihara£20.00 -
Assembly by Natasha Brown£12.99 -
Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead by Emily Austin£14.99 -
The Employees: A workplace novel of the 22nd century by Olga Ravn£12.99 -
Detransition, Baby by Torrey Peters£14.99 -
The Vanishing Half: Longlisted for the Women’s Prize 2021 by Brit Bennett£8.99 -
No One Is Talking About This by Patricia Lockwood£14.99 -
My darling from the lions by Rachel Long£10.99 -
On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong£8.99 -
Swing Time by Zadie Smith£8.99 -
We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson£9.99 -
Grief is the Thing with Feathers by Max Porter£8.99 -
Paul Takes the Form of A Mortal Girl by Andrea Lawlor£8.99 -
Secret History by Donna Tartt£8.99 -
Lanny by Max Porter£8.99 -
Wordsmiths & Warriors by David Crystal£12.99 -
Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata£8.99 -
Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood£9.99 -
Present Tense by Barney Hoskyns£20.00
Fleur’s Best of the Best!
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Sorrow and Bliss by Meg Mason£14.99 -
Vesper Flights by Helen Macdonald£9.99
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Small Pleasures: Longlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction 2021 by Clare Chambers£8.99
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Breath by Tim Winton£9.99 -
Paulina & Fran by Rachel B. Glaser£7.99 -
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£9.99 -
Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison£8.99 -
Swing Time by Zadie Smith£8.99
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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£9.99 -
Grief is the Thing with Feathers by Max Porter£8.99
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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
Grace’s Bookshelf of Dreams…
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Plain Bad Heroines by Emily M. Danforth£14.99 -
Dead Man’s Blues by Ray Celestin£8.99 -
The Final Girl Support Group by Grady Hendrix£17.99 -
The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires: A Novel by Grady Hendrix£12.99 -
The City We Became by N. K. Jemisin£8.99 -
My Dark Vanessa by Kate Elizabeth Russell£8.99 -
My Best Friend’s Exorcism by Grady Hendrix£9.99 -
Thin Air by Michelle Paver£8.99 -
Dark Matter by Michelle Paver£8.99 -
Seven Deaths Of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton£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 -
Colorado Kid by Stephen King£8.99
Julie’s Favourite Books
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Lessons in Chemistry: Meet the uncompromising, unconventional Elizabeth Zott by Bonnie Garmus£14.99 -
Saving the Butterfly by Helen Cooper£12.99 -
Osebol: Voices from a Swedish Village by Marit Kapla£20.00 -
Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr£20.00 -
My Beautiful Voice by Joseph Coelho and Allison Colpoys£11.99 -
Bewilderment by Richard Powers£18.99 -
Lightning Falls by Amy Wilson£7.99 -
Island by Siri Ranva Hjel Jacobsen£9.99 -
Harklights by Tim Tilley£7.99 -
Boys Don’t Cry by Fiona Scarlett£12.99 -
Small Pleasures: Longlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction 2021 by Clare Chambers£8.99
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Venice by Jan Morris£10.99 -
Siege by Helen Dunmore£8.99 -
My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante£8.99 -
An American Marriage by Tayari Jones£8.99 -
About Grace by Anthony Doerr£8.99 -
Wuthering Heights (PEL) by Emily Bronte£6.99 -
The Cut Out Girl: A Story of War and Family, Lost and Found by Bart van Es£9.99
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Sightlines by Kathleen Jamie£9.99 -
Prisoners Of Geography by Tim Marshall£9.99 -
Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda N. Adichie£9.99 -
Notes from an Exhibition by Patrick Gale£9.99 -
The Reader on the 6.27 by Jean-Paul Didierlaurent£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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Dressed For War: The Story of Audrey Withers, Vogue editor extraordinaire by Julie Summers£9.99 -
Breasts and Eggs by Mieko Kawakami£9.99 -
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£9.99 -
Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo£8.99
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Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens£9.99 -
The Dutch House by Ann Patchett£8.99 -
The Island of Sea Women by Lisa See£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£9.99 -
Threads of Life: A History of the World Through the Eye of a Needle by Clare Hunter£9.99