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The Night Tiger - by Yangsze Choo - £8.99
They say a tiger that devours too many humans can take the form of a man and walk among us...
In 1930s colonial Malaya, a dissolute British doctor receives a surprise gift of an eleven-year-old Chinese houseboy. Sent as a bequest from an old ... more
A Fire in My Head - by Ben Okri - £9.99
A powerful collection of new and recently completed poems by Ben Okri covering topics of the day, such as the refugee crisis, racism, Obama, the Grenfell Tower fire, and the Corona outbreak.
In our times of crisis
The mind has its powers
... more
Postcapitalist Desire: The Final Lectures - by Mark Fisher - £12.99
Edited and with an introduction by Matt Colquhoun, this collection of lecture notes and transcriptions reveals acclaimed writer and blogger Mark Fisher in his element - the classroom - outlining a project that Fisher's death left so bittersweetly unf ... more
The Tao of Bowie: 10 Lessons from David Bowie - by Mark Edwards - £10.99
What would David Bowie do?
When life gets tough, who can we turn to for help? Who will help us find happiness, meaning and purpose? The Tao of Bowie suggests that we turn to David Bowie for guidance – and use his amazing journey through li ... more
Do it Like a Woman... And Change the World - by Caroline Criado-Perez - £9.99
In the last five years, the feminist movement has seen a radical upswell of energy and activism. We have been inspired by #LeanIn, we have found solidarity in #MeToo. We've pushed one another to be stronger and try harder.
Caroline Criado-Pe ... more
A Hidden History: The Irish Language in Liverpool/An Ghaeilge i Learpholl - by Tony Birtill - £9.00
Local teacher, journalist and Irish language enthusiast, Tony Birtill, tells the fascinating history of the Irish language in Liverpool over the past 200 years and examines the Irish language vocabulary and speech patterns still in use in present day ... more
Slowdown: The End of the Great Acceleration - by Danny Dorling - £10.99
The end of our high-growth world was underway well before COVID-19 arrived. In this powerful and timely argument, Danny Dorling demonstrates the benefits of a larger, ongoing societal slowdown.
Drawing from an incredibly rich trove of global dat ... more
LOCKS - by Ashleigh Nugent - £8.99
LOCKS is a book and one-man show about a mixed-race English boy in a Jamaican prison. Based on a true story.
"1993 was the year that Stephen Lawrence got murdered by racists, and I became an angry Black lad with a ‘chip on his shoulder’."
... more
The Secret Political Adviser: The Unredacted Files of the Man in the Room Next Door - by Michael Spicer - £9.99
This hilarious journal contains satirical advice to politicians ranging from Boris Johnson to Kim Jong-un, from The Man in the Room Next Door.
Just who is the secret political adviser calling himself The Man in the Room Next Door? No one k ... more
Bookshop Tours of Britain - by Louise Boland - £16.99
Bookshop Tours of Britain is a slow-travel guide to Britain, navigating bookshop to bookshop. Across 18 bookshop tours, the reader journeys from the Jurassic Coast of southwest England, over the mountains of Wales, through England's industrial hear ... more
A Life on Our Planet: My Witness Statement and a Vision for the Future - by David Attenborough - £20.00
'I am 94. I've had an extraordinary life. It's only now that I appreciate how extraordinary.
As a young man, I felt I was out there in the wild, experiencing the untouched natural world - but it was an illusion. The tragedy of our time has b ... more
Confessions of a Bookseller - by Shaun Bythell - £8.99
Tricky customers, rude staff and everyone's favourite misanthropic bookseller: it's the second volume of the Sunday Times bestselling bookshop diaries, now available in paperback.
"Do you have a list of your books, or do I just have to stare ... more
Michael Rosen's Book of Play - by Michael Rosen - £9.99
When did you last make time for play?
Today, we don’t get nearly enough play in our lives. At school, kids are drilled on exams, while at home we’re glued to our phones and screens. Former children’s laureate and bestselling author, Michae ... more
Hag: Forgotten Folktales Retold - by Various authors - £12.99
Dark, potent and uncanny, Hag bursts with the untold stories of our Isles, captured in voices as varied as they are vivid. Here are sisters fighting for the love of the same woman, a pregnant archaeologist unearthing impossible bones and lost chil ... more
Bringing Up Race: How to Raise a Kind Child in a Prejudiced World - by Uju Asika - £16.99
You can't avoid it, because it's everywhere. In the looks my kids get in certain spaces, the manner in which some people speak to them, the stuff that goes over their heads. Stuff that makes them cry even when they don't know why. How do you bring up ... more
The Cost of Free Shipping: Amazon in the Global Economy - by Jake Alimahomed-Wilson and Ellen Reese - £19.99
Amazon is the most powerful corporation on the planet and its CEO, Jeff Bezos, has become the richest person in history, and one of the few people to profit from a global pandemic. Its dominance has reshaped the global economy itself: we live in the ... more
Where the Crawdads Sing - by Delia Owens - £8.99
For years, rumors of the ‘Marsh Girl’ have haunted Barkley Cove, a quiet town on the North Carolina coast.
So in late 1969, when handsome Chase Andrews is found dead, the locals immediately suspect Kya Clark, the so-called Marsh Girl. B ... more
Voices of the Windrush Generation - by David Matthews - £8.99
Foreword by West Indies Cricketer Sir Clive Lloyd.
Voices of the Windrush Generation is a powerful collection of stories from the men, women and children of the Windrush generation - West Indians who emigrated to Britain between 1948 and 197 ... more
The Wild Silence - by Raynor Winn - £14.99
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
The incredible follow-up to one of the most talked about books of the decade - the phenomenon, Waterstones Book of the Month and Costa Award shortlisted The Salt Path.
Nature holds the answers for Raynor ... more
Daemon Voices: Essays on Storytelling - by Philip Pullman - £10.99
In over thirty essays, written over twenty years, one of the world’s great storytellers meditates on storytelling. Warm, funny, generous, entertaining and, above all, deeply considered, they offer thoughts on a wide variety of topics, including the ... more
Tall Tales and Wee Stories - by Billy Connolly - £8.99
In December 2018, after fifty years of belly-laughs, energy and outrage, Billy Connolly announced his retirement from live stand-up comedy. It had been an extraordinary career.
When he first started out in the late sixties, Billy played the banj ... more
This Land: The Story of a Movement - by Owen Jones - £20.00
The No.1 bestselling author of The Establishment returns with an urgent analysis of where the Left - and Britain - goes next.
We live in an age of upheaval. The global crisis of Covid-19 has laid bare the deep social and economic inequalitie ... more
The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists (Graphic novel) - by Scarlett and Sophie Rickard - £14.99
The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists tells the story of a group of working men in the fictional town of Mugsborough, and socialist journeyman-prophet Frank Owen who attempts to convince his fellow workers that capitalism is the real source of the pov ... more
Loud Black Girls: 20 Black Women Writers Ask: What's Next? - by Yomi Adegoke and Elizabeth Uviebinene (Editors) - £14.99
An important and timely anthology of black British writing, edited and curated by the authors of the highly acclaimed, ground-breaking Slay In Your Lane.
Slay in Your Lane Presents: Loud Black Girls features essays from the diverse voices of tw ... more
Things We Say in the Dark - by Kirsty Logan - £8.99
So here we go, into the dark.
Some things can’t be spoken about in the light of day. But we can visit our fears at night, in the dark. We can turn them over and weigh them in our hands and maybe that will protect us from them. But maybe not. ... more
There She Goes: Liverpool, A City on Its Own. The Long Decade: 1979-1993 - by Simon Hughes - £9.99
Liverpool was once one of the greatest cities in the British empire but it no longer feels like it is in England, if it ever did. It had retreated as a significant port after the Second World War and by 1979, it was already on the brink. What it need ... more
And Now For The Good News... To the Future, With Love - by Ruby Wax - £14.99
You would be forgiven for thinking 2020 was not the year for a book about good news. But now might be the time we need it most.
Ruby Wax is here to reassure us with her brand new book, And Now For The Good News. This is her positivity prescr ... more
Year of the Monkey - by Patti Smith - £9.99
From the National Book Award-winning author of Just Kids and M Train, a profound, beautifully realized memoir in which dreams and reality are vividly woven into a tapestry of one transformative year.
Following a run of New Year's concerts at ... more
How To Resist Amazon And Why (Zine) - by Danny Caine - £3.50
When a company's workers are literally dying on the job, when their business model relies on preying on local businesses and even their own vendors, when their CEO is literally the richest person in the world while their workers make low wages with i ... more
Diane Abbott: The Authorised Biography - by Robin Bunce and Samara Linton - £20.00
More than three decades after her election to Parliament, Diane Abbott is still racking up firsts. The first black woman elected to Parliament, she also recently became the first black person to represent their party at PMQs. Abbott came to fame in t ... more
Homesick: Why I Live In A Shed - by Catrina Davies - £8.99
The story of a personal housing crisis that led to a discovery of the true value of home.
*LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE*
Aged thirty-one, Catrina Davies was renting a box-room in a house in Bristol, which she shared with fou ... more
New Daughters of Africa: An International Anthology of Writing by Women of African Descent - by Margaret Busby (Editor) - £14.99
Showcasing the work of more than 200 women writers of African descent, this major international collection celebrates their contributions to literature and international culture.
Twenty-five years ago, Margaret Busby’s groundbreaking anthology ... more
Vesper Flights - by Helen Macdonald - £16.99
*A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER*
*A RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK*
Animals don't exist to teach us things, but that is what they have always done, and most of what they teach us is what we think we know about ourselves.
From the bestselling author o ... more
I Love the Bones of You: My Life, My Family, My Father - by Christopher Eccleston - £9.99
Be it as Nicky Hutchinson in Our Friends In The North, Maurice in The A Word, or his reinvention of Doctor Who, one man, in life and death, has accompanied Christopher Eccleston every step of the way – his father Ronnie. In I Love The Bones Of You, ... more
Another Now: Dispatches from an Alternative Present - by Yanis Varoufakis - £16.99
What would a fair and equal society actually look like? The world-renowned economist and bestselling author Yanis Varoufakis presents his radical and subversive answer. Imagine it is 2025. Years earlier, in the wake of the financial crisis of 2008, a ... more
Brunt Boggart: A Tapestry of Tales - by David Greygoose - £8.99
"A rich, primordial dreamtime... A wonderful excavation of the story traditions that our ancestors huddled around for warmth... highly recommended."(Alan Moore, author of Watchmen)
"Utterly wonderful… in his bones, David Greygoose understands th ... more
The Art of Disruption: A Manifesto For Real Change - by Magid Magid - £14.99
A guide to being courageous and community-minded, and to disrupting and dismantling age-old power structures in work, life and politics, written by someone who has done exactly that. Let's be honest. Magid Magid's story seems an unlikely one. ... more
The Midnight Library - by Matt Haig - £16.99
Between life and death there is a library. When Nora Seed finds herself in the Midnight Library, she has a chance to make things right. Up until now, her life has been full of misery and regret.
She feels she has let everyone down, including ... more
Know My Name: The Survivor of the Stanford Sexual Assault Case Tells Her Story - by Chanel Miller - £9.99
Chanel Miller's story changed our world forever. In 2016 Brock Turner was sentenced to just six months in jail after he was caught sexually assaulting her on Stanford's campus. His light sentencing, and Chanel's victim impact statement, which was rea ... more
Ladies Who Punch: Fifty Trailblazing Women Whose Stories You Should Know - by Yasmin Alibhai-Brown - £16.99
Courageous women change history and remould our culture. For centuries, rebel ladies have been punching up, fighting for freedoms and equality, challenging the world order. Today, the next generation continue the fight, boldly marching, banners flyin ... more
How Bad are Bananas? The Carbon Footprint of Everything - by Mike Berners-Lee - £9.99
How Bad Are Bananas? was a groundbreaking book when first published in 2009, when most of us were hearing the phrase 'carbon footprint' for the first time. Mike Berners-Lee set out to inform us what was important (aviation, heating, swimming pools) a ... more
The Little Book of Humanism: Universal Lessons on Finding Purpose, Meaning and Joy - by Alice Roberts and Andrew Copson - £7.99
We all want to lead a happy life. Traditionally, when in need of guidance, comfort or inspiration, many people turn to religion. But there has been another way to learn how to live well - the humanist way - and in today's more secular world, it is mo ... more
More Than a Woman - by Caitlin Moran - £20.00
A decade ago, Caitlin Moran thought she had it all figured out.
Her instant bestseller How to Be a Woman was a game-changing take on feminism, the patriarchy, and the general 'hoo-ha' of becoming a woman. Back then, she firmly believed 'the ... more
The Testaments - by Margaret Atwood - £8.99
Margaret Atwood’s dystopian masterpiece, The Handmaid’s Tale, is a modern classic. Now she brings the iconic story to a dramatic conclusion in this riveting sequel.
More than fifteen years after the events of The Handmaid’s Tale, the theoc ... more
Underland: A Deep Time Journey - by Robert Macfarlane - £10.99
The highly anticipated new book from the internationally bestselling, prize-winning author of Landmarks, The Lost Words and The Old Ways.
In Underland, Robert Macfarlane takes us on a journey into the worlds beneath our feet. From the ice-blue ... more
No Modernism Without Lesbians - by Diana Souhami - £25.00
The extraordinary story of how a singular group of women in a pivotal time and place - Paris, Between the Wars - fostered the birth of the Modernist movement.
Sylvia Beach, Bryher, Natalie Barney, and Gertrude Stein. A trailblazing publisher ... more
A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things - by Raj Patel and Jason W. Moore - £9.99
Nature, money, work, care, food, energy, and lives: these are the seven things that have made our world and will shape its future. In making these things cheap, modern commerce has transformed, governed, and devastated Earth.
In A History of the ... more
The Book of Trespass: Crossing the Lines that Divide Us - by Nick Hayes - £20.00
"Brilliant, passionate and political... The Book of Trespass will make you see landscapes differently"(Robert Macfarlane)
"A remarkable and truly radical work, loaded with resonant truths"(George Monbiot)
The vast majority of our country is en ... more
How to Stay Sane in an Age of Division - by Elif Shafak - £4.99
It feels like the world is falling apart. So how do we keep hold of our optimism? How do we nurture the parts of ourselves that hope, trust and believe in something better? And how can we stay sane in this world of division?
In this beautifu ... more
What We're Told Not to Talk About (But We're Going to Anyway) - by Nimko Ali - £9.99
14 COUNTRIES, 42 WOMEN - FROM PERIODS TO ORGASMS TO FGM. THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS OVERSHARING.
"Nimko's book is going to shift the conversation around women's bodies. Our bodies, and everything they do, make us who we are"(Amika George, founder of ... more
Intimations: Six Essays - by Zadie Smith - £5.99
"As well as offering a new guide to living in a wild, messy and unfair world, Smith provides a reminder that we can use this crisis to imagine a better one"(Evening Standard )
Deeply personal and powerfully moving, a short and timely series of ess ... more
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