What we've been reading recently.
By review
By review
The Naked Don't Fear the Water: A Journey Through the Refugee Underground
Matthieu Aikins
£12.99 £12.08
Out There: Stories
Kate Folk
£16.98 £15.79So great I was quite annoyed every minute I wasn't reading it!
Fierce Appetites: Loving, losing and living to excess in my present and in the writings of the past
Elizabeth Boyle
£14.99 £13.94Ballsy and brave and honest and bloody interesting! And funny! A perfect balance of academic gravitas and self deprecating humour.
My Father's Diet
Adrian Nathan West
£10.00 £9.30Funny and delightfully crafted. Masculine crisis! Americana! Family drama! Bodybuilding!
Delphi
Clare Pollard
£12.99 £12.08We are howling with delight and recognition. Brilliance from local author Clare Pollard.
The Odyssey
Lara Williams
£14.99 £13.94Hugely enjoyable! A deeply unsettling corporate cruise ship, a savage drunken bender, severed fingers.
Almost
Ami Rao
£8.99 £8.36A moving philosophical novella about love loss and Roland Barthes. Broke my heart then put it back together again.
Devotion
Hannah Kent
£14.99 £13.94Evie says - "stunning - full of magic and adventure. I fell in love with language again reading it. So beautiful and so raw. Devotion is impossibly good."
Severance
Ling Ma
£8.99 £8.36a fever, originating in Asia, sweeps the world, forcing people to wear masks, emptying offices, grinding the world to a halt. sound familiar? think again. a miracle of a dystopia novel - about memory, globalisation, home, capitalism that's as funny and thoughtful as it is bleak and melancholic
When We Were Birds
Ayanna Lloyd Banwo
£14.99 £13.94Banwo tells a truly beautiful love story about death. a mythic, mystical romance fashioned with Trinidadian splendour
An Inventory of Losses
Judith Schalansky
£9.99 £9.29Our favourite genre! Which is...genre defying! Vital and beautiful and smart and funny and endlessly amazing. Read it and be amazed.
Cold Enough for Snow
Jessica Au
£9.99 £9.29beg steal borrow a copy of this totally exquisite novel. a mother and daughter walk through Tokyo together. and that's it. slim, careful, thoughtful and sad. miraculous.
Promise Me You'll Shoot Yourself: The Downfall of Ordinary Germans, 1945
Florian Huber
£10.99 £10.22Grim and utterly gripping.
Hurdy Gurdy: 'A cure for pandemic gloom' - The Times
Christopher Wilson
£8.99 £8.36Exactly what a comic novel should be: page-turning, farcical, full of heart, idiot monks and gruesome Medieval science
Tell Them of Battles, Kings, and Elephants
Mathias Enard
£10.99 £10.22Beautiful, dreamy, fragmented - an imagined account of Michelangelo's trip to Istanbul in the 1500s where he is tasked by the Grand Turk with designing a bridge over the Bosphorus
Mastering the Art of Soviet Cooking
Anya Von Bremzen
£11.99 £11.15A very personal memoir of the rise and fall of the USSR. 7 decades, 3 generations of women, 9 recipes. A real life insight into the here and now.
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