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Damian Barr's Bookshop

Welcome to my wee bookshop.  I'm the author of Maggie & Me and You Will Be Safe Here. My new novel is called The Two Roberts and it's out with Canongate in Sept 2025.  I'll be making a special shelf for my new novel here, including a reading list based on my research  - so watch this space!

 

Here you'll find all the books I've written or contributed to (so far). As well as all the books launched at my Literary Salon and all the titles featured on my Big Scottish Book Club TV show (you can catch Series Six on BBC iPlayer).

 

Thank you for supporting indie bookshops and writers.

 

PS You can find out more about me on my website.

The Two Roberts
You Will Be Safe Here
Maggie & Me
Common People: An Anthology of Working-Class Writers
Imagine A Country: Ideas for a Better Future
Speak My Language, and Other Stories: An Anthology of Gay Fiction
Others: Writers on the power of words to help us see beyond ourselves
James Baldwin: The Last Interview: And Other Conversations
The Pink Line: The World’s Queer Frontiers
The Color Purple: Now a major motion picture from Oprah Winfrey and Steven Spielberg
This Is Not About Me
All Made Up
Stet: An Editor's Life
Mrs Dalloway (Vintage Classics Woolf Series)
Beloved
Soho
The Novel Cure: An A to Z of Literary Remedies
30-Second Literature: The 50 Most Important Forms, Genres and Styles, Each Explained in Half a Minute
The Art of Mindful Reading: Embracing the Wisdom of Words
The Orchid Hour
At the Edge of the Woods
The Funny Thing About Death
A Country of Eternal Light
Tiger Work
The Queen of Dirt Island
The Fascination: The INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER ... This year's most bewitching, beguiling Victorian gothic novel
Kala: 'The thriller of the moment'
Crooked Plow
black girl, no magic: reflections on race and respectability
Hokey Pokey
And Then He Sang a Lullaby
There's Been a Little Incident
Boyslut: A Memoir and Manifesto
Broken Light: The explosive and unforgettable new novel from the million copy bestselling author
Young Mungo
That Bonesetter Woman: the new feelgood novel from the author of The Smallest Man
Three Novels of Iain Banks: Whit, The Crow Road and The Wasp Factory: (Scotnotes Study Guides)
Mayflies: From the author of the Sunday Times bestseller Caledonian Road
My Policeman: NOW A MAJOR FILM STARRING HARRY STYLES
The Murder Book: The incredibly dramatic Sunday Times Tom Thorne bestseller
Rabbit Hole: The Sunday Times number one bestseller
Reputation: the thrilling new novel from the bestselling author of Anatomy of a Scandal
Anatomy of a Scandal: Now a major Netflix series
Notes from an Exhibition: A thought-provoking and stunning classic novel of marriage, art and the secrets of family life
A Perfectly Good Man: A heartfelt, humane novel of Cornwall, love and forgiveness
Mother's Boy: A beautifully crafted novel of war, Cornwall, and the relationship between a mother and son
Memphis 68: The Tragedy of Southern Soul
Cassius X: A Legend in the Making
Harlem 69: The Future of Soul
What Is History, Now?
Rizzio: Darkland Tales
The Second Cut
Careless: Longlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction 2022
Tenement Kid
You Got This: A fabulously fearless guide to being YOU
Poverty Safari: Understanding the Anger of Britain's Underclass
Broken Greek: A Story of Chip Shops and Pop Songs
Blank Pages and Other Stories
Supporting Cast
Christmas is Murder: A chilling short story collection
Around the World in 80 Trains: A 45,000-Mile Adventure
Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape
Kitchenly 434
The April Dead
The Giver of Stars
My Name Is Why
The House by the Loch: 'a deeply satisfying work of pure imagination' - Damian Barr
Mayflies: From the author of the Sunday Times bestseller Caledonian Road
The City of Tears
Antlers of Water: Writing on the Nature and Environment of Scotland
Written In Bone: hidden stories in what we leave behind
Surfacing
A Scots Dictionary of Nature
The Mitford Trial: Unity Mitford and the killing on the cruise ship
The Graveyard Book
The Gender Games: The Problem With Men and Women, From Someone Who Has Been Both
Handstands In The Dark: A True Story of Growing Up and Survival
In a House of Lies: The number one bestselling series that inspired BBC One’s REBUS
The Confessions of Frannie Langton: Now a major new series with ITVX
The Way of All Flesh
All Made Up
I Never Said I Loved You: THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
Making It Up As I Go Along: British Book Awards Author of the Year 2022
Sweet Sorrow: The Sunday Times bestselling novel from the author of ONE DAY
Kill ’Em All
A Keeper: The gripping and atmospheric bestselling novel of family secrets
Conviction: THE THRILLING NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
Take Nothing With You: A richly absorbing novel of boyhood, coming of age, confusion and desire
The Millstone
The Voyage Out
Nineteen Eighty-Four: Anniversary Edition
The Changes Trilogy: The Devil's Children, Heartsease, and the Weathermonger
Somebody's Husband, Somebody's Son: The Story of the Yorkshire Ripper
Cassandra
A Traveller in Time
The Magic Toyshop
Blow Your House Down
Blood and Guts in High School
The World According To Garp
Territory of Light
Redemption Falls
The Catcher in the Rye
The Heart of the Matter
A Pagan Place
I, Claudius
The Handmaid's Tale
The Bell Jar
The Wasp Factory
Selected Poems
The Grass is Singing
The Stand
Danny the Champion of the World
The Queen of Dirt Island
The Wall
The Haunting of Hill House
William Blake vs the World
The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman
Her Body And Other Parties
Pond
The Living Mountain: A Celebration of the Cairngorm Mountains of Scotland
Cassandra at the Wedding
The Upanishads
The Book of Margery Kempe
At the Edge of the Woods
Roads to Berlin
Middlemarch: The 150th Anniversary Edition introduced by Zadie Smith
The Feast
My Brilliant Friend
The Balkan Trilogy
We Don't Know Ourselves: A Personal History of Ireland Since 1958
The Pursuit of Love: With Love in a Cold Climate and The Blessing
The Funny Thing About Death
The Satapur Moonstone: A Preveen Mistry Novel
The Huntress
Prussian Blue: Bernie Gunther Thriller 12
Dreamland
Don't Look Now And Other Stories
The Talented Mr Ripley
GoodFellas
The Little Stranger: shortlisted for the Booker Prize
The Little Drummer Girl
The Godfather
Evil Under the Sun
Great Gatsby (Wisehouse Classics Edition)
The Orchid Hour
The Voids
The Buried Giant
Loitering With Intent
Hopscotch
Amerika
Too Much Lip: A Novel
Catch-22: 50th Anniversary Edition
The Karamazov Brothers
Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine
The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner
The Trick Is To Keep Breathing
How Late It Was How Late: The classic BOOKER PRIZE winning novel
Girl, Woman, Other
A Country of Eternal Light
The Beach
The Last Passenger: The twisty and addictive thriller that readers love, with an unforgettable ending!
Rachel's Holiday
The Other Guest: A gripping thriller from Sunday Times bestselling author of The Whispers
Eight Detectives
A Midlife Holiday
Summer's Lease
Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi
Happy Place
Single in the Snow: The perfect enemies-to-lovers winter romcom!
A Wedding in Tuscany
Wise Children
Restoration: From the Sunday Times bestselling author of Lily
Love in the Time of Cholera
Behind The Scenes At The Museum
A Prayer for Owen Meany
The House On The Strand
Shadowplay
Dracula
Heart of Darkness: And Youth
Wuthering Heights: Chiltern Edition
Brothers Grimm Fairy Tales
The Fascination: The INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER ... This year's most bewitching, beguiling Victorian gothic novel
The Secret History
The Virgin Suicides
My Phantoms
The Beach
Foster: by the Booker-shortlisted author of Small Things Like These
The Mare
Dark Lies the Island
Cat's Eye
The Girls
Kala: 'The thriller of the moment'
Notes of a Native Son
Peach Pig: The debut collection from the Young People’s Laureate for London, Forward Prize-shortlisted author
Heart Of The Race: Black Women's Lives in Britain
Ordinary People
Just Us: An American Conversation
Everything I Know About Love
Bad Feminist
Thick And Other Essays
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Legend Classics)
I Am Your Sister: Collected and Unpublished Writings of Audre Lorde
black girl, no magic: reflections on race and respectability
Miss Aldridge Regrets
Carmilla: The dark sapphic romance that inspired Dracula
White is for Witching
The Yellow Wallpaper
The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories
The Shining
Imperial Palace, Volume I (Dodo Press)
The Uncanny
Needless Alley: The critically acclaimed historical crime debut
Hokey Pokey
An Equal Music: A powerful love story from the author of A SUITABLE BOY
Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain
How Music Works
As It Is in Heaven
Swing Time: Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2017
American Psycho
Nocturnes: Five Stories of Music and Nightfall
Daisy Jones and The Six
Bel Canto
High Fidelity
The Music Room
Take Nothing With You: A richly absorbing novel of boyhood, coming of age, confusion and desire
Doctor Faustus
Walking With Shadows
What It Means When A Man Falls From The Sky: From the Winner of the Caine Prize for African Writing 2019
The Bluest Eye
The State and Revolution
AWS Classics So Long A Letter
Pedagogy of the Oppressed
Africa Must Unite
And the Mountains Echoed
A Thousand Splendid Suns
On Black Sisters' Street
And Then He Sang a Lullaby
A Spool of Blue Thread: SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2015
Educated: The international bestselling memoir
The Springs of Affection
The Vanishing Half: Shortlisted for the Women's Prize 2021
Life After Life: The global bestseller, now a major BBC series
How to Kill Your Family
Heartburn: 40th Anniversary Edition – with a Foreword by Stanley Tucci
Runaway
There's Been a Little Incident
Unprotected: A Memoir
Sissy
Red, White & Royal Blue
Bright Lights, Big City
Giovanni's Room
Less: Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 2018
Girls Can Kiss Now: Essays
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo: The Sunday Times Bestseller
The Best of Me
The Song of Achilles
Boyslut: A Memoir and Manifesto
The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet: the most hopeful, charming and cosy novel to curl up with
The Penguin Book of Norse Myths: Gods of the Vikings
Hyperbole and a Half: Unfortunate Situations, Flawed Coping Mechanisms, Mayhem, and Other Things That Happened
Pieces of Light: The new science of memory
Rimbaud
Dishoom: The first ever cookbook from the much-loved Indian restaurant
Gormenghast
Come as You Are: the bestselling guide to the new science that will transform your sex life
She Who Became the Sun
The Haunting of Hill House
Perfumes: The A-Z Guide
Broken Light: The explosive and unforgettable new novel from the million copy bestselling author
Her Body And Other Parties
I Want to Know That I Will Be Okay
The Wilds
The Argonauts
The Monstrous-Feminine: Film, Feminism, Psychoanalysis
Things We Say in the Dark
Salt Slow
Fen
Eyes Guts Throat Bones: Featuring the Irish Book Awards Short Story of the Year 2023
Nights at the Circus
Wuthering Heights
God's Teeth and Other Phenomena
Close Range: Wyoming Stories
Behold The Man
Invisible Man
73 Poems
Jaws: 50th Anniversary Edition with Bonus Material
The Age of Reason
Nothing Left to Fear from Hell: Darkland Tales
The Secret History
The Maidens: The Dark Academia Thriller from the author of TikTok sensation The Silent Patient
Bunny: TikTok made me buy it!
If We Were Villains: The Sensational TikTok Book Club pick
The Historian: The captivating international bestseller and Richard and Judy Book Club pick
Gaudy Night: the classic Oxford college mystery
The Aspern Papers and Other Tales
The Princesse De Cleves
The Name of the Rose
Possession: A Romance
Keeping the House
The Wrong Place
When the Wind Blows
Affinities: A Journey Through Images from The Public Domain Review
What Have You Left Behind?
Still Life
Poems from the Book of Hours
UK Rave Flyers 1991-1996
War Music: An Account of Homer's Iliad
Shy: THE NUMBER ONE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
The Women Could Fly
The Collected Stories of Grace Paley
Dogsbody
The Serial Garden: The Complete Armitage Family Stories
The Unsettled Dust
Red as Blood: Tales of the Sisters Grimmer
The Merry Spinster: Tales of everyday horror
Things We Lost in the Fire
What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours
Black Thorn, White Rose
White Cat, Black Dog
The Bluest Eye
Breasts and Eggs
Warrior Queens & Quiet Revolutionaries: How Women (Also) Built the World
Cannibal
Herland and The Yellow Wallpaper
The Gender Games: The Problem With Men and Women, From Someone Who Has Been Both
The Giver of Stars
The Testaments: WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE 2019
The Handmaid's Tale
The Power
The First Woman: Winner of the Jhalak Prize, 2021
Persepolis 2
Persepolis: The Story of an Iranian Childhood
Persepolis I & II
The Dance Tree: The BBC Between the Covers Book Club Pick
Mayflies: From the author of the Sunday Times bestseller Caledonian Road
Descartes' Error: Emotion, Reason and the Human Brain
A Long Petal of the Sea
SHOULD WE FALL BEHIND -The BBC Two Between The Covers Book Club Choice
All the Light We Cannot See
Love in the Time of Cholera
The History of Love
Quite Ugly One Morning
The Road
The Love Song of Miss Queenie Hennessy: Or the letter that was never sent to Harold Fry
Three Gifts
An American Marriage: WINNER OF THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION, 2019
The God of Small Things: Winner of the Booker Prize
Luster: Longlisted for the Women's Prize For Fiction
Expectation: The most razor-sharp and heartbreaking novel of the year
Stay With Me
Transcendent Kingdom: Shortlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction 2021
Everything I Never Told You
A Thousand Splendid Suns
Ghana Must Go
The Terrible
The Mothers: the New York Times bestseller
Rootless
Checkout 19: ‘A book to shake the world anew’ Sebastian Barry
The Chosen Ones
Netherland
Religio Medici And Urne-Buriall
An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
Middlesex
Middlemarch: The 150th Anniversary Edition introduced by Zadie Smith
The Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy, Fiction, Classics
Nostromo
The Year of Magical Thinking
The Light of the World
Time and Free Will; An Essay on the Immediate Data of Consciousness
Dictee
Nox
Object Lessons
Memories, Dreams, Reflections: An Autobiography
Are You Somebody?: A Memoir
In Ordinary Time: Fragments of a Family History
Orlando (Vintage Classics Woolf Series)
The Color Purple: Now a major motion picture from Oprah Winfrey and Steven Spielberg
Further Tales Of The City: Tales of the City 3
More Tales Of The City: Tales of the City 2
The Satyricon
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Legend Classics)
The Riverside Chaucer: Reissued with a new foreword by Christopher Cannon
A Squire of Low Degree
A Winter in Mallorca
Love Letters: Vita and Virginia
How Much of These Hills is Gold: ‘A tale of two sisters during the gold rush … beautifully written’ The i, Best Books of the Yea
The Crime Writer
Sappho: A New Translation of the Complete Works
The New Life
The Heart in Exile
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass: And What Alice Found There
Robert Louis Stevenson's A Child's Garden of Verses
Great Expectations
Candide, or Optimism
Pinocchio
Getting Better: Life lessons on going under, getting over it, and getting through it
Giovanni's Room
Open Secrets
Pale Fire
Don Quixote
The Invention Of Morel
Agnes Martin: Painting, Writings, Remembrances
Tomorrow in the Battle Think on Me
Austerlitz
Mouth to Mouth: ‘Gripping... Shades of Patricia Highsmith and Donna Tartt’ Vogue
A Tall History of Sugar
House of Names
Omeros
The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution
The Book of Night Women: From the Man Booker prize-winning author of A Brief History of Seven Killings
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Homegoing
Barkskins: Longlisted for the Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction 2017
Small Island: Winner of the 'best of the best' Orange Prize
River Sing Me Home: A powerful, uplifting novel of a remarkable journey to find family, inspired by true events
Brief Notes on the Art and Manner of Arranging One's Books
The Library: A Fragile History
The Madman's Library: The Greatest Curiosities of Literature
Once Upon a Tome: The misadventures of a rare bookseller
What Writers Read: 35 Writers on their Favourite Book
The Library Book
The Shadow of the Wind: The Cemetery of Forgotten Books 1
If on a Winter's Night a Traveller
The Bewitching
Without Warning and Only Sometimes: 'Extraordinary. Moving and heartwarming' The Sunday Times
Mother's Boy: A beautifully crafted novel of war, Cornwall, and the relationship between a mother and son
Fiction Prescriptions: Bibliotherapy for Modern Life
Unraveller
Stone Blind
Unsettled Ground: Winner of the Costa Novel Award 2021
When We Were Birds
The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida: Winner of the Booker Prize 2022
Paper Cup
Mrs Death Misses Death
Twelve Months and a Day
The Marriage Portrait: the Instant Sunday Times Bestseller, Shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2023
Young Mungo
Days Without End: AN IRISH TIMES BEST IRISH BOOK OF THE 21ST CENTURY
Minor Detail
Red Dust
Hurricane Season
Soul Mountain
Fever
One Secret Thing
Memoir
The Eighth Life: (for Brilka) The International Bestseller
In Search of Lost Time: Volume 1: The Way by Swann's
Cells: memories for my mother
Nights at the Circus
In These Times: Living in Britain through Napoleon's Wars, 1793–1815
London In The Nineteenth Century: 'A Human Awful Wonder of God'
The Grand Sophy: Gossip, scandal and an unforgettable Regency romance
The Weather Experiment: The Pioneers who Sought to see the Future
The Time Traveller's Guide to Regency Britain: The immersive and brilliant historical guide to Regency Britain
The Fairy Tellers: A Journey into the Secret History of Fairy Tales
London Labour and the London Poor: Selected Edition
Persuasion
The Weather Woman
The Roughest Draft
Difficult Loves and Other Stories
Honeybee Democracy
The Latecomer
Melissa
A Visit from the Goon Squad
Our Missing Hearts: 'Thought-provoking, heart-wrenching' Reese Witherspoon, a Reese's Book Club Pick
Lincoln in the Bardo: WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2017
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
The Pact: a heart-rending tale of love and friendship
Mad Honey: an absolutely heart-pounding and heart-breaking book club novel
Silver on the Tree: The Dark is Rising sequence
Over Sea, Under Stone: The Dark is Rising sequence
The Grey King: The Dark is Rising sequence
The Dark is Rising: The classic children's fantasy novel (A Puffin Book)
Greenwitch: The Dark is Rising sequence
City of Thieves
The Coming Darkness
The Spirit Engineer: Winner of the HWA Debut Crown Award
Housekeeping
Haunt Me
This House is Haunted
The Snow Child: The Million-Copy International Bestseller
The Thirteenth Tale: A haunting tale of secrets and stories
I Capture the Castle
Trans: A Memoir
Trans Britain: Our Journey from the Shadows
Tomorrow Will Be Different: Love, Loss, and the Fight for Trans Equality
The Gender Games: The Problem With Men and Women, From Someone Who Has Been Both
The Transgender Issue: An Argument for Justice
The Appendix: Transmasculine Joy in a Transphobic Culture
Animal: The Autobiography of a Female Body
Amateur: A Reckoning With Gender, Identity and Masculinity
The End of Innocence: Britain in the Time of AIDS
Delusions of Gender: The Real Science Behind Sex Differences
Carrie Kills A Man: A Memoir
Black Cake
Small Island: Winner of the 'best of the best' Orange Prize
Without Warning and Only Sometimes: 'Extraordinary. Moving and heartwarming' The Sunday Times
Swing Time: Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2017
People Person: From the bestselling author of Queenie and the writer of BBC's Champion
Black and British: A short, essential history
One for Sorrow, Two for Joy: Winner of the Diverse Book Award 2023
If Beale Street Could Talk
Take My Hand: The inspiring and unforgettable BBC Between the Covers Book Club pick
The Selfless Act of Breathing
Black Victorians: Hidden in History
Ghana Must Go
Homegoing
Brave
Hamnet: WINNER OF THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2020 - THE NO. 1 BESTSELLER
The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox: The Sunday Times Bestseller from the Author of Hamnet
The Distance Between Us: The Sunday Times Bestseller from the Author of Hamnet
After You'd Gone: From the author of Hamnet - one of the most unforgettable love stories you'll ever read
The Marriage Portrait: the Instant Sunday Times Bestseller, Shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2023
Rachel's Holiday
Again, Rachel
Me Before You
The Gender Games: The Problem With Men and Women, From Someone Who Has Been Both
Some Body to Love: A Family Story
My Judy Garland Life
The Trick Is To Keep Breathing