Our Current Bestsellers
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An original, revolutionary new social and scientific history, examining the role that confinement has played in fostering and hindering epidemicsA History of the World in Six Plagues unveils a powerful and unsettling truth: epidemic…
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Winner of the Women's Prize for Fiction 2025SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2024SHORTLISTED FOR THE DYLAN THOMAS PRIZE 2025LONGLISTED FOR THE WINGATE PRIZE 2025'A house is a precious thing...'An exhilarating tale of twisted desire,…
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Part of the beauty of the art of cooking is that it involves transience, making something delightful that then vanishes, and that in turn involves cherishing the time we spend on perfecting a dish. Cooking yourself something delicious is…
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Writing about witches from the London Review of Books‘the witches eat your bookthen youthen everything’– Rebecca TamásWitches in history were usually poor, ill, weak and uneducated, yet they instilled…
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Key jetted off to Los Angeles in the fall of 2024 and stayed sane by writing poems and talking to Emily Juniper on the phone. She then did the honourable thing and designed this stuff, lovingly filling the pages of a beautifully-sized green…
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Translated by Sophie Hughes Millennial expat couple Anna and Tom are living the dream in Berlin, in a bright, affordable, plant-filled apartment. Their life as young digital creatives revolves around slow cooking, Danish…
Recommended by Gayle
‘Not a day goes past that I don't shake a fist at the sky and cry in despair, “When will Claire-Louise Bennett publish something new?!” Until my cries are answered, I'll make do with rereading Pond, Bennett's wildly brilliant and totally unique collection of stories following one woman living alone in the Irish countryside. EDIT: Claire-Louise Bennett has now written another book, and it’s better than I dreamt it could be.’
Recommended by Claire
‘I owe all of my wit and comedic skills to this book, given to me at a very impressionable age, and I will not stop recommending it until we have a nation of mini Tommy Coopers. This is an absolute hoot and full of all the classics.’
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Sometimes it’s very uplifting to feel one’s fleshy boundaries dissolve. To not know where one ends and the world begins. To feel someone's breast is your breast too. Total immersion can be very transporting indeed.‘I think…
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The debut novel from the brilliant essayist, reviewer, cultural critic and author of Flaneuse‘Scaffolding is like a perfect French movie of a novel…elegant, original and often very funny’ Kevin Barry, New…