Best of Birmingham and the Black Country

The Go-Between: A Portrait of Growing Up Between Different Worlds

Osman Yousefzada

£16.99

A -Z Birmingham Hidden Walks: Discover 20 Routes in and Around the City

Ruby Compton-Davies, Robert Ankcorn, et al.

£6.99 £6.64

Without Warning and Only Sometimes: 'Extraordinary. Moving and heartwarming' The Sunday Times

Kit de Waal

£16.99 £16.14

Mercia'S Take: Winner of the Betty Trask Prize 2023

Daniel Wiles

£12.99 £12.34

Set in the mines of the Black Country, and written in the vernacular, this debut by Daniel Wiles of Walsall was featured in the Observer's pick of new fiction for 2022.

The Birmingham Book: Lessons in urban education leadership and policy from the Trojan Horse affair

£18.99 £18.04

Pondweed

Lisa Blower

£12.99 £12.34

Featured in Birmingham Literature Festival's May 2021 podcast with Kit de Waal.

Common People: An Anthology of Working-Class Writers

£9.99 £9.49

Notes on the Sonnets

Luke Kennard

£9.99 £9.49

From Bournville author Luke Kennard, this is a very clever, wry and original volume of prose-poetry, recast from Shakespeare's sonnets.

A Thousand Ships: Shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction

Natalie Haynes

£9.99 £9.49

Natalie Haynes grew up in Bournville, and went to the school opposite our shop!

Pandora's Jar: Women in the Greek Myths

Natalie Haynes

£20.00

I Don't Want to Go to the Taj Mahal: Stories of a Birmingham Boy

Charlie Hill

£9.99 £9.49

Snappy vignettes about growing up in Birmingham in the '80s and '90s, featuring drugs, sex, masculinity and heartbreak.

Astonishing Splashes of Colour

Clare Morrall

£9.99 £9.49

Peaky Blinders: The Legacy - The real story of Britain's most notorious 1920s gangs: As seen on BBC's The Real Peaky Blinders

Carl Chinn

£8.99 £8.54

What Was Lost: Winner of the Costa First Novel Award

Catherine O'Flynn

£9.99 £9.49

"I loved this book for its beautifully-drawn characters - characters so vivid I missed them after I finished reading. A charming and tender novel which makes you think. You'll enjoy recognising lots of Birmingham landmarks too." Review by Sala on the Bookshop Team.

Birmingham, Walsall, Solihull and Redditch

Ordnance Survey

£16.99 £16.14

The Trick to Time

Kit de Waal

£8.99 £8.54

Becoming Dinah

Kit de Waal

£7.99 £7.59

Proper Brummie: A Dictionary of Birmingham Words and Phrases

Steve Thorne and Carl Chinn

£10.95

James Watt (1736-1819): Culture, Innovation and Enlightenment

£31.61

Birmingham Friends

Annie Murray

£8.99 £8.54

The Rotters' Club: ‘One of those sweeping, ambitious yet hugely readable, moving, richly comic novels’ Daily Telegraph

Jonathan Coe

£9.99 £9.49

Middle England: Winner of the Costa Novel Award 2019

Jonathan Coe

£9.99 £9.49

The Life and Rhymes of Benjamin Zephaniah: The Autobiography

Benjamin Zephaniah

£10.99 £10.44

Windrush Child

Benjamin Zephaniah

£7.99 £7.59

Anisha, Accidental Detective

Serena Patel and Emma McCann

£6.99 £6.64

Serena was a huge hit at Bournville BookFest and her debut children's book won Sainsbury's children's book of 2020.

Anisha, Accidental Detective: School's Cancelled

Serena Patel and Emma McCann

£6.99 £6.64

Run, Rebel

Manjeet Mann

£8.99 £8.54

"I am restless, my feet need to fly." Amber is trapped - by her father's rules, by his expectations, by her own fears. Now she's ready to fight - for her mother, for her sister, for herself. Freedom always comes at a price.

When Life Gives You Mangoes

Kereen Getten

£8.99 £8.54

Stories From Around the World

Maisie Chan

£5.99 £5.69

Maisie's UK debut novel "Danny Chung Does Not Do Maths" is due to be published in June 2021.

The Boy with the Topknot: A Memoir of Love, Secrets and Lies

Sathnam Sanghera

£10.99 £10.44

Growing up in Wolverhampton as a Sikh in the 1970s wasn't easy, particularly when Sathnam started primary school without being able to speak English. But he graduated from Cambridge with a First. His very popular autobiographical novel was made into a BBC film.