Our Bookseller's Top Picks

Skyward Inn

Aliya Whiteley

£8.99 £8.54

A surreal, melancholy and moving sci-fi novel. This is the genre at it's very best!

In the Distance

Hernan Diaz

£9.99 £9.49

This is a thrilling and moving novel that touches on otherness, loss, friendship and the myth of the American dream.

Northline

Willy Vlautin

£9.99 £9.49

One of Assistant Manager Jonathan's favourites. He can be quite evangelical about Vlautin's writing - and who can blame him with this masterpiece?

An evergreen recommendation from our bookseller Julia, this gorgeous book from members of the Cloud Appreciation Society(!) is guaranteed to help you see the world anew with each day's fluffy offering.

Die My Love

Ariana Harwicz

£11.99 £11.39

Superb translated fiction from Edinburgh-based indie Charco Press. Dark, punchy and powerful - a must read and well deserving of its Man Booker International nomination.

Little

Edward Carey

£9.99 £9.49

A brilliantly unusual fictionalised account of the real life woman who would become Madame Tussaud. Carey's disconcertingly humane art is sprinkled through the book and the combination between pictures and words is sublime. One of our bestsellers!

The Adventures of China Iron

Gabriela Cabezon Camara

£9.99 £9.49

A wonderful feminist exploration of friendship, colonialism and race. Another great piece of translated fiction from Charco Press.

We Have Always Lived in the Castle

Shirley Jackson

£9.99 £9.49

Featuring one of the strangest and most compelling 'protagonists' in literature, this is a classic that everyone should read. GO - GET IT NOW!

Dishoom: The first ever cookbook from the much-loved Indian restaurant

Naved Nasir, Shamil Thakrar, et al.

£27.00 £25.65

Having spent many a happy hour in Dishoom's Edinburgh restaurant, we can confirm that every recipe in this book is a winner (even when cooked by hands more accustomed to bookselling than cooking!).

Before the Coffee Gets Cold

Toshikazu Kawaguchi

£10.99 £10.44

One of bookseller Julia's favourite - a modern classic that never fails to stir the heart in myriad ways.

The Living Mountain: A Celebration of the Cairngorm Mountains of Scotland

Nan Shepherd

£14.99 £14.24

This gorgeous hardback edition of Nan Shepherd's classic is hugely popular - and with good reason. A beautiful cover that matches the wondrous prose inside.