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To Paradise by Hanya Yanagihara
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The Promise by Damon Galgut
Dune by Frank Herbert
Apples Never Fall by Liane Moriarty
Love and Virtue by Diana Reid
Devotion by Hannah Kent
Still Life by Sarah Winman
Our best-seller from the past week is To Paradise, the long awaited new novel from the acclaimed au…
Our children’s and YA top 10 bestsellers of the week
Somebody’s Land by Adam Goodes & Ellie Laing
Your School is the Best! by Maggie Hutchings
Dragon Skin by Karen Foxlee
Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan
Adam Spencer’s Maths 101 by Adam Spencer
The Bumper Treehouse Fun Book by Andy Griffiths & Terry Denton
Cat Kid Comic Club 2 by Dav Pilkey
First Scientists by Corey Tutt
Tomorrow is a Brand New Day by Davina Bell & Alison Colp…
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Two books, both alike in appeal, in fair bookshop, where we lay our scene. Today we’re recommending appealing alternatives to excellent books we’ve already read.
If you enjoyed Devotion by Hannah Kent Matrix by Lauren GroffBorn from a long line of female warriors and crusaders, yet too coarse, too wild, too rough-hewn for 12th-century courtly life, Marie de France is cast from the royal c…
21 literary prize winners from 2021 to read over summer
Winner of the 2021 Booker Prize for Fiction
A taut and menacing novel that charts the crash and burn of an Afrikaans family, the Swarts. Punctuated by funerals that bring the ever-diminishing family together, each of the four parts opens with a death and a new decade. The characterisations are razor sharp, the dialogue dramatic, the action gripping. As we traverse …
2021 literary prize winners for younger readers
Winner of the 2021 National Book Award for Young People
Seventeen-year-old Lily Hu can’t remember exactly when the question took root, but the answer was in full bloom the moment she and Kathleen Miller walked under the flashing neon sign of a lesbian bar called the Telegraph Club. America in 1954 is not a safe place for two girls to fall in love…
Disappear into these other-worldly and immersive novels
Tired of feeling as though you’re in some kind of suburban purgatory? Take a one way ticket out of this timeline when you read one of the below novels; our chosen books are a mix of both fantasy, mythology & science fiction, and particularly immersive historical fiction.
A Master of Djinn by P. Djeli Clark
Cairo, 1912: Though Fatma el-Sha'arawi is the youngest woman working for the Minist…
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Our top 10 bestsellers of the week
Dune by Frank Herbert
Love and Virtue by Diana Reid
Adrift in Melbourne by Robyn Annear
Devotion by Hannah Kent
The Promise by Damon Galgut
Love Stories by Trent Dalton
The Labyrinth by Amanda Lohrey
Beautiful World Where Are You by Sally Rooney
Apples Never Fall by Liane Moriarty
Still Life by Sarah Winman
Our best-seller from the past week is the sci-fi classic Dune, which although ever-po…
Our children’s and YA top 10 bestsellers of the week
You’ll be the Death of Me by Karen McManus
Cat Kid Comic Club 2 by Dav Pilkey
The 143-Storey Treehouse by Andy Griffiths & Terry Denton
Wolf Girl 6: Animal Train by Anh Do
Tomorrow is a Brand New Day by Davina Bell & Alison Colpoys
Somebody’s Land by Adam Goodes, Ellie Laing & David Hardy
Wandi by Favel Parrett
One of Us is Lying by Karen McManus
Gangsta Granny Strikes Again by David Walliams
Ra…
See you all in 2022
Over the last two years, many of us have begun to lead an almost asynchronous existence, but as it turns out, we’re about to put another year behind us – if you can believe it! So before we turn the page, we’re looking back – with rose-coloured glasses firmly in place for our own protection – on some of the small joys that 2021 brought us (amid all the chaos).
Firstly, a special congratulations …
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