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The Book You Want Everyone You Love* To Read *(and maybe a few you don’t)
The List of Suspicious Things
Gliff
The Party
Prophet Song: WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE 2023
The Siege: The Remarkable Story of the Greatest SAS Hostage Drama
Ultra-Processed People: Why Do We All Eat Stuff That Isn’t Food … and Why Can’t We Stop?
The Serviceberry: An Economy of Gifts and Abundance
James: The Bestselling, Award-Winning Sensation
Precipice
The Glassmaker
The Place of Tides
Demon Copperhead: Winner of the Women's Prize for Fiction
Impossible Creatures: INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
Tell Me Everything
Yellowface
Babel: Or the Necessity of Violence: an Arcane History of the Oxford Translators’ Revolution
Weyward
Really Good, Actually
Old God's Time: The Top Ten Sunday Times Bestseller
Essex Dogs: The epic Richard & Judy Book Club Pick from a Sunday Times bestselling historian
The Golden Mole: and Other Vanishing Treasure
The Future of Geography: How Power and Politics in Space Will Change Our World – THE NO.1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
Divine Might: Goddesses in Greek Myth
Finding Hildasay: How One Man Walked the UK's Coastline and Found Hope and Happiness
The Farmer's Wife: The Instant Sunday Times Bestseller
Everything is Everything: As seen on BBC's CLIVE MYRIE'S CARIBBEAN ADVENTURE
Safiyyah's War
The Clockwork Conspiracy: Shortlisted for the 2024 BOOKS ARE MY BAG Readers Award
The Final Year
Close to Home
Divisible by Itself and One
Open Up
Biography of X
Local Fires
Hungry Ghosts: A BBC 2 Between the Covers Book Club Pick
The Coiled Serpent: Longlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize 2024
Penance: The 'unmissable banger' ALICE SLATER from the author of BOY PARTS and SHE'S ALWAYS HUNGRY
Bright Fear
The Glutton
Small Worlds
A Spell of Good Things
Life's a Gamble: Penetration, The Invisible Girls and Other Stories
Lead Sister: The Story of Karen Carpenter: A Times Book of the Year
Too Much Too Young: The 2 Tone Records Story: Rude Boys, Racism and the Soundtrack of a Generation
Don't Tell Anybody the Secrets I Told You
Reach for the Stars: 1996–2006: Fame, Fallout and Pop’s Final Party: Winner of the 2024 Penderyn Music Book Prize
Paused in Cosmic Reflection: The definitive, fully illustrated story of The Chemical Brothers
Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin)
Nick Drake: The Life
I Thought I Heard You Speak: Women at Factory Records
Sonic Life: The new memoir from the Sonic Youth founding member
Marv and the Pool of Peril: from the multi-award nominated Marv series
The Boy with Flowers in His Hair
The Lost Whale
Loki: A Bad God's Guide to Ruling the World: The No. 1 bestselling series
Pizza Pete and the Perilous Potions: WINNER OF THE WEEK JUNIOR YOUNGER FICTION AWARD
My Heart Was a Tree: Poems and stories to celebrate trees
I, Spy: a Bletchley Park mystery
Hedgewitch: Woodwitch: Book 2: The enchanting series brimming with mystery and magic
Spellstone
Where Have You Been, Little Cat?: A Sunday Times Children's Book of the Week
Julia Donaldson's Book of Names: A Magical Rhyming Celebration of Children, Imagination, Stories . . . And Names!
I am Oliver the Otter: A Tale from our Wild and Wonderful Riverbanks
Egyptology: OVER 18 MILLION OLOGY BOOKS SOLD
Timelines of Nature: Discover the Secret Stories of Our Ever-Changing Natural World
Peep Inside the Deep Ocean
Seven Steeples
God's Children Are Little Broken Things: Winner of the 2023 Dylan Thomas Prize
I'm a Fan
Send Nudes: By the winner of the BBC National Short Story Award 2022
Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head: Shortlisted for the 2022 Felix Dennis Prize
The Shards: Bret Easton Ellis. The Sunday Times Bestselling New Novel from the Author of AMERICAN PSYCHO
The Creative Act: A Way of Being
The Leviathan: A beguiling tale of superstition, myth and murder from a major new voice in historical fiction
The New Life
Hell Bent
Fritz and Kurt
The Mapmakers
To Paradise
My Darling Daughter : the addictive, twisty thriller from the author of The Girl Before
Buried: An alternative history of the first millennium in Britain
The Mysterious Case of the Alperton Angels: the Bestselling Richard & Judy Book Club Pick
The Last Remains: The unmissable new book in the Dr Ruth Galloway Mysteries
Eating to Extinction: The World’s Rarest Foods and Why We Need to Save Them
Sparring Partners: The Number One Sunday Times bestseller - The new collection of gripping legal stories
Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Big Shot (Book 16)
Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life
Surfing. 1778–Today
History of Surfing
Surf /Skate: Art and Board Life
Mindfulness and Surfing: Reflections for Saltwater Souls
Stick and Skate: Skateboard Stickers
The Journal of a Skateboarder
Stickerbomb Skate: 150 Classic Skateboard Stickers
The Disposable Skateboard Bible
Skateboarders
Hawkwind: Days Of The Underground: Radical Escapism in the Age Of Paranoia
The Rest is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century
How To Be Invisible: Featuring a new introduction by Kate Bush
Chronicles Volume 1
Jimmy Page: The Anthology
The Dirt: Confessions of the World's Most Notorious Rock Band
Lipstick Traces: A Secret History of the Twentieth Century
k-punk: The Collected and Unpublished Writings of Mark Fisher (2004-2016)
This Is Memorial Device
Kill Your Friends
Creation Stories: Riots, Raves and Running a Label
First Time Ever: A Memoir
Hammer of the Gods: Led Zeppelin Unauthorized
The True Adventures of the Rolling Stones
The Beatles - All These Years - Extended Special Edition: Volume One: Tune In
Darling Blue
Hourglass, The
Florence Grace
Amy Snow
The Rose Garden
House at Silvermoor, The
The Elopement
One of Us Is Next
Beasts of Prey
Six of Crows: Book 1
Firekeeper's Daughter
Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe: The multi-award-winning international bestseller
Children of Blood and Bone: A West African-inspired YA Fantasy, Filled with Dark Magic
The Fault in Our Stars
When I See Blue: An inspiring story of OCD, friendship and bravery
Skandar and the Unicorn Thief: The international, award-winning hit, and the biggest fantasy adventure series since Harry Potter
They Both Die at the End
The Adam Silvera Collection: Three much-loved hits from the international No.1 bestselling author!
This Wicked Fate: from the author of the TikTok sensation Cinderella is Dead
All Your Perfects
One of Us Is Lying
You've Reached Sam
Stand-up Paddleboarding in Great Britain: Beautiful places to paddleboard in England, Scotland & Wales
Waves: Pro Surfers and Their World
Ocean: The Definitive Visual Guide
Surfer Magazine: 1960-2020
And Away...
It Ends With Us: Special hardback edition of the global runaway bestseller. Now a major motion picture starring Blake Lively and
The Escape Artist: The Man Who Broke Out of Auschwitz to Warn the World
Still Life
Klara and the Sun: The Times and Sunday Times Book of the Year
How to Kill Your Family
Great Circle: The soaring and emotional novel shortlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction 2022 and shortlisted for the Booker
The Island of Missing Trees
Murder Before Evensong: The instant no. 1 Sunday Times bestseller
The Lincoln Highway: A New York Times Number One Bestseller
Apples Never Fall
To Paradise
Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape
One: Pot, Pan, Planet: A Greener Way to Cook for You, Your Family and the Planet
Eat Better Forever: 7 Ways to Transform Your Diet
The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention
Wintering: The power of rest and retreat in difficult times
Piranesi: WINNER OF THE WOMEN'S PRIZE 2021
Write It All Down: How to Put Your Life on the Page
No One Is Talking About This: Shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2021 and the Women’s Prize for Fiction 2021
Ottolenghi Test Kitchen: Shelf Love
Open Water: Winner of the Costa First Novel Award 2021
Sorrow and Bliss: Shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2022
The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
Your Story Matters: Find Your Voice, Sharpen Your Skills, Tell Your Story
The Memory
Tiger Girl
The Amazingly Astonishing Story
The Infinite
Salt
Come Down
Slatehead - The Ascent of Britain's Slate-Climbing Scene
Blood Moon
Wild Spinning Girls
Road Trip
Wilde
More Than a Woman: The instant Sunday Times number one bestseller
Woodston: The Biography of An English Farm – The Sunday Times Bestseller
The Island Home: The uplifting page-turner making life brighter in 2022
Mrs England: The award-winning Sunday Times bestseller from the winner of the Women's Prize Futures Award
V2
Songbirds: The powerful novel from the author of The Beekeeper of Aleppo and The Book of Fire
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood: The First Novel By Quentin Tarantino
The Treatment
Weatherman Walking - The Welsh Coast
Mr Wilder and Me
The Lying Life of Adults: A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
Wild Child: A Journey Through Nature
The Mercies: The Bestselling Richard and Judy Book Club Pick
Islands of Mercy: From the bestselling author of The Gustav Sonata
Guarded by Dragons: Encounters with Rare Books and Rare People
God Collar
Why Rebel
City of Thorns: Nine Lives in the World’s Largest Refugee Camp
Under the Tump: Sketches of Real Life on the Welsh Borders
India Rising: Tales from a Changing Nation
The Testaments: WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE 2019
The Handmaid's Tale
The Blossom and the Firefly
Fractured Scales: The Search for a Uniform Personal Code
#futuregen: Lessons from a Small Country
The Environmental Sustainable Development Goals in Bangladesh
The Story of Wales
Dial, Y
I Saw A Man
The Green Hollow
The Midnight Library
Helgoland: The Strange and Beautiful Story of Quantum Physics
Becoming
A Tangle of Spells: Bring the magic home with the bestselling Pinch of Magic Adventures
American Dirt: The heartstopping read that will live with you for ever
Redhead by the Side of the Road: A BBC BETWEEN THE COVERS BOOKER PRIZE GEM
Shuggie Bain
The Boys
Klara and the Sun: The Times and Sunday Times Book of the Year
The Mirror and the Light
A Tangle of Spells: Bring the magic home with the bestselling Pinch of Magic Adventures
Bunny vs Monkey and the Human Invasion (a Phoenix Comic Book, from the million-selling Jamie Smart, Illustrator of the Year)
The Shark Caller
Seasons of War
A Vanishing of Griffins
The Storm Keeper’s Island: Storm Keeper Trilogy 1
The Night Bus Hero
Northern Lights
The Girl of Ink & Stars
Artemis Fowl
Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief (Book 1)
The Lost Hero (Heroes of Olympus Book 1)
The Explorer: WINNER OF THE COSTA CHILDREN'S BOOK AWARD
Wonder
The Castle of Tangled Magic
The Boy Who Sang with Dragons (The Boy Who Grew Dragons 5)
InvestiGators: A Laugh-Out-Loud Comic Book Adventure!
The Boy Who Lived with Dragons (The Boy Who Grew Dragons 2)
The Boy Who Grew Dragons (The Boy Who Grew Dragons 1)
The Creakers
Rowley Jefferson's Awesome Friendly Adventure
Dog Man
Rabbit and Bear: Rabbit's Bad Habits: Book 1
Kid Normal: Kid Normal 1
Toto the Ninja Cat and the Great Snake Escape: Book 1
The Bad Beginning 20th anniversary gift edition
The Boy Who Made Everyone Laugh
Ottoline and the Yellow Cat
Clarice Bean, Utterly Me
The Iron Man: Chris Mould Illustrated Edition
Lost and Found
Dream Big, Little Mole
The Wonky Donkey
The Three Little Pigs and the Big Bad Book
Supertato: Bubbly Troubly
You Choose: A new story every time – what will YOU choose?
Antiracist Baby
The Smeds and the Smoos
The Girl and the Dinosaur
Ten Little Dinosaurs Board Book
The Bear, the Piano and Little Bear's Concert
The Invisible
Geronimo
The Worrysaurus
Look Inside Space
Miss Benson's Beetle: An uplifting story of female friendship against the odds
Woodston: The Biography of An English Farm – The Sunday Times Bestseller
Luna Loves Art
When the Sky Falls: The bestselling wartime animal tale inspired by a true story
Something I Said
The Great Godden
Patch Work: WINNER OF THE 2021 PEN ACKERLEY PRIZE
The Devil and the Dark Water: from the bestselling author of The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle and The Last Murder at the En
A Theatre for Dreamers: The Sunday Times bestseller
What You Can See From Here: 'A clear-eyed tonic in troubled times' (Guardian)
Behind the Enigma: The Authorised History of GCHQ, Britain’s Secret Cyber-Intelligence Agency
Humankind: A Hopeful History
Kate on the Case (Kate on the Case 1)
There Is No Planet B: A Handbook for the Make or Break Years – Updated Edition
A Friend to Nature: Activities and Inspiration to Connect With the Wild World
The Death of Francis Bacon
Double Blind
How to Avoid a Climate Disaster
Klara and the Sun: The Times and Sunday Times Book of the Year
Harlem Shuffle
Memorial
Slough House: The bestselling thrillers that inspired the hit Apple TV+ show Slow Horses (Slough House Thriller 7)
Kitchenly 434
Becoming
The Lyrics: 1956 to the Present
Advent
The F*ck-it List: Is this the most shocking thriller of the year?
Broken Greek: A Story of Chip Shops and Pop Songs
Male Tears
Heavy Light: A Journey Through Madness, Mania and Healing
That Reminds Me: Winner of the Desmond Elliott Prize 2020
Invisible Girl: From the #1 bestselling author of The Family Upstairs
The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse
Ottolenghi FLAVOUR
A Life on Our Planet: My Witness Statement and a Vision for the Future
Girl, Woman, Other: WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE 2019
Burnt Sugar: Shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2020
A Promised Land
The Lost Spells: An enchanting, beautiful book for lovers of the natural world
The Wild Silence: The Sunday Times Bestseller from the Million-Copy Bestselling Author of The Salt Path
Troy: Our Greatest Story Retold
Poor
Just Us: An American Conversation
The Bookseller's Tale
Serpentine: A short story from the world of His Dark Materials and The Book of Dust
Hamnet: WINNER OF THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2020 - THE NO. 1 BESTSELLER
Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race: The #1 Sunday Times Bestseller
Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire - The Sunday Times Bestseller
The Good Immigrant: 21 writers reflect on race in contemporary Britain
Black and British: A short, essential history
How To Be A Liberal: The Story of Freedom and the Fight for its Survival
Girl, Woman, Other: WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE 2019
The Plague
The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power: Barack Obama's Books of 2019
Rage
March of the Lemmings: Brexit in Print and Performance 2016–2019
A Nurse's Story: My Life in A&E During the Covid Crisis
The COVID-19 Catastrophe: What's Gone Wrong and How To Stop It Happening Again
Code Name Bananas
Pinch of Nom Quick & Easy: 100 Delicious, Slimming Recipes
Pitch Battles: Sport, Racism and Resistance
The Ickabog: A warm and witty fairy-tale adventure to entertain the whole family
A Promised Land
Where Snow Angels Go: A delightfully wintery picture book from the award-winning and internationally bestselling author of HAMNE
Santa Post
The Adventures of Parsley the Lion
Northern Lights:the award-winning, internationally bestselling, now full-colour illustrated edition
Then It Fell Apart
How to Write One Song
Rivers of London: The Fey and the Furious
Alien: The Official Cookbook
Winterkill
Maisy's Chinese New Year
Serpentine: A short story from the world of His Dark Materials and The Book of Dust
The Fire of Joy: Roughly 80 Poems to Get by Heart and Say Aloud
My Garden World: the Sunday Times bestseller
The Madman's Library: The Greatest Curiosities of Literature
Summer: Winner of the Orwell Prize for Fiction 2021
The Secret Commonwealth: The Book of Dust Volume Two: From the world of Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials - now a major BBC se
Shuggie Bain
Trio
I Wanna Be Yours
The Wild Silence: The Sunday Times Bestseller from the Million-Copy Bestselling Author of The Salt Path
Cilka's Journey: The Sunday Times bestselling sequel to The Tattooist of Auschwitz now a major SKY TV series
The Beekeeper of Aleppo: The heartbreaking tale that everyone's talking about
Ottolenghi FLAVOUR
The Midnight Library
The Lost Spells: An enchanting, beautiful book for lovers of the natural world
Where the Crawdads Sing
Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine
My Brilliant Friend: The International No. 1 Bestseller
The Testaments: WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE 2019
A Gentleman in Moscow
Normal People: One million copies sold
Days Without End
Akin
Fleishman Is in Trouble: Now a major TV series starring Claire Danes & Jesse Eisenberg
Lanny: Author of the Number One Sunday Times Bestseller SHY
Chasing a Rugby Dream: Book One: Kick Off
Hard Men of Rugby
Wales and the Sea - 10,000 Years of Welsh Maritime History
The Party Wall
Swansea University: Campus and Community in a Post-War World, 1945–2020
The Midnight Swan
The Girls
Pirate Nell's Tale to Tell: A Storybook Adventure
The Lost Spells: An enchanting, beautiful book for lovers of the natural world
The Beaches of Wales: The complete guide to every beach and cove around the Welsh coastline
I Saw A Man
The South Westerlies
Wales: Epic Views of a Small Country
Wild Guide Wales and Marches: Hidden places, great adventures & the good life in Wales (including Herefordshire and Shropshire)
Edward Thomas and Wales
National Trust: Tiger, Tiger, Burning Bright! An Animal Poem for Every Day of the Year (Poetry Collections)
Quidditch Through the Ages - Illustrated Edition: A magical companion to the Harry Potter stories
Will You Be My Friend?
The 130-Storey Treehouse
Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Deep End (Book 15)
The Castle of Tangled Magic
The Dinky Donkey (BB)
Future Friend
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Supertato Super Squad
Kind
Return to Roar
A World Full of Poems: Inspiring poetry for children
Maisy's Building Site: Pull, Slide and Play!
Pip and Posy: The Christmas Tree
Freak Kingdom: Hunter S. Thompson's Manic Ten-Year Crusade Against American Fascism
Night Boat to Tangier
Xstabeth
Tarot. The Library of Esoterica
Nobber: 'A bloody and brilliant first novel'
Mayflies: From the author of the Sunday Times bestseller Caledonian Road
The Patrick Melrose Novels
The Zapple Diaries: The Rise and Fall of the Last Beatles Label
Masterpieces of Fantasy Art
The Complete Lyrics: 1978-2013
Keep Clear: my adventures with Asperger’s
Gray's Anatomy: Selected Writings
Seduction and Betrayal
Women of Westminster: The MPs who Changed Politics
The Silent Woman: Sylvia Plath And Ted Hughes
Intimations: Six Essays
Madame de Pompadour
Heartburn: 40th Anniversary Edition – with a Foreword by Stanley Tucci
What We’re Told Not to Talk About (But We’re Going to Anyway): Women’s Voices from East London to Ethiopia
Love Letters: Vita and Virginia
In the Darkroom
Beloved: Special archival edition
The Silence of the Girls
Girl, Woman, Other: WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE 2019
Dear Ijeawele, or a Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions
Gallows Court
Mortmain Hall
Vintage Crime: from the Crime Writers’ Association
The Corpse with the Crystal Skull
The Wrong Boy
Murder Knows No Season
The Black Art of Killing
The Coroner
The Disappeared
A Life to Kill
Alligator and Other Stories
Kingdomtide
Pew
My Dark Vanessa
African and Caribbean Folktales, Myths and Legends
Medusa: The Girl Behind the Myth (Illustrated Gift Edition)
Myth Match Miniature: A Fantastical Flipbook of Extraordinary Beasts
Roxy & Jones: The Curse of the Gingerbread Witch
Fox for All Seasons Journal, A: With new Reynard the Fox mini stories
Greek Myths Magic Painting Book
Percy Jackson and the Greek Gods
Percy Jackson and the Greek Heroes
Illustrated Stories from the Greek Myths
The Queen of the Birds
Myths, Monsters and Mayhem in Ancient Greece
Fierce, Fearless and Free: Girls in myths and legends from around the world
The Robin and the Fir Tree
There Is No Big Bad Wolf In This Story
Norse Myths: Tales of Odin, Thor and Loki
The Bread the Devil Knead
Salt Lick: Longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2022
Careless: Longlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction 2022
Careless: Longlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction 2022
Remote Sympathy: LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2022
The Paper Palace
Flamingo: Longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2022, an exquisite novel of kindness and hope
The Sentence: Shortlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction 2022
Build Your House Around My Body: LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2022
Build Your House Around My Body: LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2022
Sorrow and Bliss: Shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2022
Sorrow and Bliss: The funny, heart-breaking, bestselling novel that became a phenomenon
The Exhibitionist: The Times Novel of the Year 2022
The Book of Form and Emptiness
The Book of Form and Emptiness