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Recommended Fiction & Poetry for Yuletide 2021!
The best of 2021 - over a hundred of our top fiction and poetry recommendations!
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Mayflies - by Andrew O'Hagan - £8.99
Winner of the Christopher Isherwood Prize
A Guardian, Spectator, Sunday Times, Financial Times and Evening Standard Book of the Year
Everyone has a Tully Dawson: the friend who defines your life. In the summer of 1986, James and Tully ignit ... more
All The Names Given - by Raymond Antrobus - £10.99
From the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year 2019
Raymond Antrobus’s astonishing debut collection, The Perseverance, won both Rathbone Folio Prize and the Ted Hughes Award, amongst many other accolades; the poet’s much anticipated ... more
Jack - by Marilynne Robinson - £8.99
Marilynne Robinson, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the American National Humanities Medal, returns to the world of Gilead with Jack, the final in one of the great works of contemporary American fiction.
Jack tells the story of John Ames B ... more
How to Survive Everything - by Ewan Morrison - £9.99
"One of the most provocative, intelligent and original novelists working in Britain today."(Irvine Welsh)
My name is Haley Cooper Crowe and I am in lockdown in a remote location I can’t tell you about.
Haley and Ben live with their mothe ... more
Sad Janet - by Lucie Britsch - £8.99
A whip-smart black comedy for fans of Fleabag and My Year of Rest and Relaxation.
Named one of the Best Books of the Summer by LitHub, The Millions, Refinery29, and Hey Alma.
Meet Janet. Janet is sad. Not about her life, about the world ... more
A Lover's Discourse - by Xiaolu Guo - £8.99
A Chinese woman comes to post-Brexit London to start over - just as the Brexit campaign reaches a fever pitch. Isolated and lonely in a Britain increasingly hostile to foreigners, she meets a landscape architect and the two begin to build their futur ... more
The Complete Two Pints - by Roddy Doyle - £10.99
Two men meet for a pint in a Dublin pub...
In 2012, Roddy Doyle showed us the world anew: through the back-and-forth of two Dublin pub-dwellers. They chewed the fat, set the world to rights, slagged each other unmercifully. And along the wa ... more
Christmas Together: Twelve Poems for Those We Love - by Various poets - £4.95
Christmas together... It sounds almost ordinary but it’s something we’ve come to appreciate all over again in recent times. These delightful poems celebrate shared moments – from the mayhem of a kitchen full of steam and chaos to carols sung ar ... more
Olga - by Bernhard Schlink - £8.99
THE #1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER
Olga is an orphan raised by her grandmother in a Prussian village around the turn of the 20th century. Smart and precocious, she fights against the prejudices of the time to find her place in a world that sees ... more
The Ormering Tide - by Kathryn Williams - £14.00
The Ormering Tide is a coming of age story set amidst a series of darkly foreboding events. Rozel lives with her triplet older brothers and her parents in the bay of a small island. One of her brothers goes missing and the family's landlord, Mr Willo ... more
The Last House on Needless Street - by Catriona Ward - £8.99
*** A BBC TWO BETWEEN THE COVERS BOOK CLUB PICK ***
This is the story of a murderer. A stolen child. Revenge.
This is the story of Ted, who lives with his young daughter Lauren and his cat Olivia in an ordinary house at the end of a ... more
Hana Khan Carries On - by Uzma Jalaluddin - £8.99
From the author of Ayesha At Last comes a sparkling new rom-com for fans of You've Got Mail.
Hana Khan's family-run halal restaurant is on its last legs. So when a flashy competitor gets ready to open nearby, bringing their inevitable closu ... more
Nevertheless She Persisted - by Jon Walter - £8.99
The year is 1913. The suffragette movement is in full force as women around the country are fighting for the right to vote. Nancy and Clara, two sisters, have found work in a local women's prison.
On a daily basis they are coming face-to-fac ... more
Call Us What We Carry - by Amanda Gorman - £14.99
The breakout poetry collection by Sunday Times bestselling author and presidential inaugural poet Amanda Gorman.
'This is more than protest.
It's a promise.'
Including 'The Hill We Climb,' the stirring poem read at the inauguration of ... more
The Forward Book of Poetry 2022 - by Various poets - £9.99
The Forward Book of Poetry is the indispensable annual guide to contemporary poetry. In bringing together the best new work published in the UK and Ireland, as chosen by the jury of the annual Forward Prizes, this anthology offers an overview of the ... more
The Penguin Book of Christmas Stories - by Jessica Harrison (Editor) - £12.99
The perfect gift this Christmas season: a generous selection of some of the greatest festive stories of all time - now in a beautiful clothbound edition.
This is a collection of the most magical, moving, chilling and surprising Christmas sto ... more
pandemonium - by Andrew McMillan - £10.00
*A 'BOOKS OF 2021' PICK IN THE GUARDIAN, FINANCIAL TIMES AND IRISH TIMES CULTURE*
After two prize-winning collections which examined the intimacies and intricacies of the physical body, McMillan's third book marks a shift: both inward, int ... more
A Long Petal Of The Sea - by Isabel Allende - £9.99
'September 3, 1939, the day of the Spanish exiles' splendid arrival in Chile, the Second World War broke out in Europe.
Victor Dalmau is a young doctor when he is caught up in the Spanish Civil War, a tragedy that leaves his life – and the fat ... more
Breasts and Eggs - by Mieko Kawakami - £9.99
On a hot summer's day in a poor suburb of Tokyo we meet three women: thirty-year-old Natsuko, her older sister Makiko, and Makiko's teenage daughter Midoriko. Makiko, an ageing hostess despairing the loss of her looks, has travelled to Tokyo in searc ... more
The Midnight Library - by Matt Haig - £9.99
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 her ... more
Bewilderment - by Richard Powers - £18.99
Shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2021
THE BRAND NEW NOVEL FROM THE PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING, BOOKER PRIZE-SHORTLISTED AUTHOR OF THE OVERSTORY
Theo Byrne is a promising young astrobiologist who has found a way to search for life on other ... more
The Moroccan Daughter - by Deborah Rodriguez - £8.99
The brand new novel from the internationally bestselling author of The Little Coffee Shop of Kabul.
In Morocco, behind the ancient walls of the medina, secrets will be revealed...
Amina Bennis has come back to her childhood home in Morocco ... more
Apeirogon - by Colum McCann - £8.99
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE
SHORTLISTED FOR THE DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD
SHORTLISTED FOR THE PRIX FEMINA AND THE PRIX MEDICIS
WINNER OF THE PRIX DU MEILLEUR LIVRES ETRANGER
WINNER OF THE 2020 NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWA ... more
Actress - by Anne Enright - £8.99
*LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE 2020*
From the Booker-winning Irish author, a brilliant and moving novel about fame, sexual power, and a daughter's search to understand her mother's hidden truths.
This is the story of Irish theatre legen ... more
Treasury of Folklore: Woodlands and Forests - Wild Gods, World Trees and Werewolves - by Dee Dee Chainey and Willow Winsham - £12.99
An entertaining and enthralling collection of myths, tales and traditions surrounding our trees, woodlands and forests from around the world.
From the dark, gnarled woodlands of the north, to the humid jungles of the southern lands, trees have ... more
The Manningtree Witches - by A.K. Blakemore - £8.99
WINNER OF THE DESMOND ELLIOTT PRIZE
Fear and destruction take root in a community of women when the Witchfinder General comes to town, in this dark and thrilling debut.
England, 1643. Parliament is battling the King; the war bet ... more
Things Remembered and Things Forgotten - by Kyoko Nakajima - £9.99
'If we want to understand what has been lost to time, there is no way other than through the exercise of imagination... imagination applied with delicate rather than broad strokes'. So wrote the award winning Japanese author Kyoko Nakajima of h ... more
Shuggie Bain - by Douglas Stuart - £8.99
Winner of the Booker Prize 2020
Shortlisted for the National Book Award for Fiction 2020
A BBC Radio 2 Between the Covers 2021 Book Choice
It is 1981. Glasgow is dying and good families must grift to survive. Agnes Bain has always exp ... more
A Room Made of Leaves - by Kate Grenville - £8.99
SHORTLISTED FOR THE WALTER SCOTT PRIZE FOR HISTORICAL FICTION - the new novel from the Women's Prize for Fiction winner and Man Booker prize-shortlisted author of The Secret River.
It is 1788. When twenty-one-year-old Elizabeth marries the a ... more
A Thousand Moons - by Sebastian Barry - £8.99
From the Costa Book of the Year-winning author of Days Without End.
Even when you come out of bloodshed and disaster in the end you have got to learn to live...
Winona is a young Lakota orphan adopted by former soldiers Thomas McNulty and J ... more
Great Circle - by Maggie Shipstead - £16.99
Shortlisted for the 2021 Booker Prize
For fans of The Goldfinch, All the Light We Cannot See and The Girls: this monumentally powerful epic weaves together the astonishing lives of a daredevil female aviator and the Hollywood rebel who will pla ... more
Hamnet - by Maggie O'Farrell - £8.99
WINNER OF THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2020
TWO EXTRAORDINARY PEOPLE. A LOVE THAT DRAWS THEM TOGETHER. A LOSS THAT THREATENS TO TEAR THEM APART.
On a summer’s day in 1596, a young girl in Stratford-upon-Avon takes to her bed with a fev ... more
Eve (Graphic novel) - by Una - £14.99
A powerful novel of mothers and daughters, and how we imagine our future, from acclaimed author of Becoming Unbecoming.
"This is a disturbing and necessary book for our times, because it leaves us with a question. In Eve, Una describes a society ... more
Summer - by Ali Smith - £8.99
The unmissable finale to Ali Smith's dazzling literary tour de force: the Seasonal quartet concludes in 2020 with Summer.
In the present, Sacha knows the world's in trouble. Her brother Robert just is trouble. Their mother and father are having ... more
All Men Want to Know - by Nina Bouraoui - £9.99
AN INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER
WINNER OF AN ENGLISH PEN TRANSLATES AWARD
All Men Want to Know traces Nina Bouraoui's blissful childhood in Algeria, a wild, sun-soaked paradise, with hazy summer afternoons spent swimming, diving, and driving ... more
Exit - by Belinda Bauer - £8.99
Perfect for fans of Richard Osman's The Thursday Murder Club, this is the page-turning, twisty, and often hilarious new crime novel from bestselling author Belinda Bauer.
Meet Felix Pink. The most unlikely murderer you'll ever have the good ... more
Troy - by Stephen Fry - £9.99
STEP INTO STEPHEN FRY'S BEWITCHING RETELLING OF THE LEGEND TROY IN HIS MOST EPIC BOOK YET.
'Troy. The most marvellous kingdom in all the world...'
Paris the Trojan has kidnapped Helen, Greek queen and most beautiful woman of the anc ... more
The Angels of L19 - by Jonathan Walker - £10.99
There’s more than one way to be born again.
Liverpool, 1984. The teenagers at Garston Chapel are the same as the rest of us: The Smiths, U2, crushes, football, mates. The grimy, low-down politics of the Thatcher era casting deep shadows i ... more
Monster In The Middle - by Tiphanie Yanique - £12.99
NAMED A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF FALL 2021 BY:
NEW YORK TIMES ● VULTURE ● BOSTON GLOBE ● OPRAH DAILY
SHEREADS ● KIRKUS REVIEWS ● HEY ALMA ● LITHUB ● AND MORE
From the award-winning author of Land of Love and Drowning, an electri ... more
Leave the World Behind - by Rumaan Alam - £8.99
**THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER***
A magnetic novel about two families, strangers to each other, who are forced together on a long weekend gone terribly wrong.
Amanda and Clay head to a remote corner of Long Island expecting a holid ... more
Warning: When I Am an Old Woman, I Shall Wear Purple - by Jenny Joseph, illustrated by Lydia Coventry - £6.99
Voted Britain's favourite poem, 'Warning', written in 1961, is known and loved the world over for its message of old age as a time for indulgence and fun.
In the poem's respectable middle-aged woman, as she imagines herself in old age as a chee ... more
Love in Colour: Mythical Tales from Around the World Retold - by Bolu Babalola - £9.99
Time was constructed with love in mind. Time and love are intertwined, they are both measures of life, two clocks. And, for love to operate as it should, it is imperative that the timing should be right.
Just as it is in these stories.
Bolu Ba ... more
Piranesi - by Susanna Clarke - £8.99
WINNER OF THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2021
A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
WINNER OF THE KITSCHIES RED TENTACLE AWARD
The spectacular new novel from the bestselling author of Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, 'one of our ... more
The Twelve Even Stranger Days of Christmas - by Syd Moore - £6.99
From the twice CWA Dagger shortlisted author of The Twelve Strange Days of Christmas come twelve stories to transport you to the macabre world of inexplicable phenomena.
As the dark winter nights get longer, prepare to lose yourself in the world ... more
The Hill We Climb: An Inaugural Poem - by Amanda Gorman - £9.99
Amanda Gorman's powerful and historic poem "The Hill We Climb," read at President Joe Biden's inauguration, is now available as a collectible gift edition.
On 20 January 2021, Amanda Gorman became the sixth and youngest poet to deliver a poetry ... more
The Pull of the Stars - by Emma Donoghue - £8.99
The Sunday Times Bestseller from the acclaimed author of The Wonder and Room.
The old world dying on its feet, a new one struggling to be born...
Dublin, 1918. In a country doubly ravaged by war and disease, Nurse Julia Power works at a ... more
The Mirror & The Light - by Hilary Mantel - £9.99
'If you cannot speak truth at a beheading, when can you speak it?'
England, May 1536. Anne Boleyn is dead, decapitated in the space of a heartbeat by a hired French executioner. As her remains are bundled into oblivion, Thomas Cromwell breakfa ... more
The Animals at Lockwood Manor - by Jane Healey - £8.99
Some secrets are unspoken. Others are unspeakable...
August 1939. Thirty-year-old Hetty Cartwright is tasked with the evacuation and safekeeping of the natural history museum's collection of mammals.
Once she and her exhibits arrive a ... more
Good Citizens Need Not Fear - by Maria Reva - £8.99
This brilliant and bitingly funny novel-in-stories, set in and around a single crumbling apartment building in Soviet-era Ukraine, heralds the arrival of a major new talent. A cast of unforgettable characters--citizens of the small industrial town of ... more
The Cat and The City - by Nick Bradley - £8.99
In Tokyo - one of the world's largest megacities - a stray cat is wending her way through the back alleys. And, with each detour, she brushes up against the seemingly disparate lives of the city-dwellers, connecting them in unexpected ways.
... more
The Year's Best Science Fiction Vol. 2: The Saga Anthology of Science Fiction 2021 - by Jonathan Strahan (Editor) - £12.99
The most celebrated science fiction short story editor of our time, multi-award-winning editor and Locus Magazine critic Jonathan Strahan presents the definitive collection of best short science fiction of 2021.
With short works from some o ... more
Mandrake Petals and Scattered Feathers: Tales from the Forest and Beyond - by David Greygoose - £8.99
These magical tales are set in the liminal space of the forest where nothing is quite what it seems.
Shape-shifting and trickery lurk behind every tree and the figures we glimpse through the mist are mutable and indeterminate.
A los ... more
A Poet for Every Day of the Year - by Allie Esiri (Editor) - £20.00
Allie Esiri's beautiful gift anthology, A Poet for Every Day of the Year, is the perfect introduction to 366 of the world's greatest ever verse writers. Perfect for reading aloud and sharing with all the family, it is bursting at the seams with fam ... more
A Saint from Texas - by Edmund White - £9.99
From legendary writer Edmund White, a bold and sweeping new novel that traces the extraordinary fates of twin sisters, one destined for Parisian nobility and the other for Catholic sainthood.
Yvette and Yvonne Crawford are twin sisters, bor ... more
We Wrote in Symbols: Love and Lust by Arab Women Writers - by Selma Dabbagh (Editor) - £14.99
It is a little-known secret that Arabic literature has a long tradition of erotic writing. Behind that secret lies another - that many of the writers are women. We Wrote in Symbols celebrates the works of 75 of these female writers of Arab heri ... more
The Dictionary of Lost Words - by Pip Williams - £14.99
Discover the internationally bestselling debut, Shortlisted for the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction.
In 1901, the word 'bondmaid' was discovered missing from the Oxford English Dictionary. This is the story of the girl who stole i ... more
Burnt Sugar - by Avni Doshi - £8.99
Shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2020.
In her youth, Tara was wild. She abandoned her loveless marriage to join an ashram, endured a brief stint as a beggar (mostly to spite her affluent parents), and spent years chasing after a dishevelled, hom ... more
Earthlings - by Sayaka Murata - £8.99
Natsuki isn't like the other girls. She has a wand and a transformation mirror. She might be a witch, or an alien from another planet.
Together with her cousin Yuu, Natsuki spends her summers in the wild mountains of Nagano, dreaming of othe ... more
Love After Love - by Ingrid Persaud - £8.99
*WINNER OF THE COSTA FIRST NOVEL AWARD 2020*
*LONGLISTED FOR THE OCM BOCAS PRIZE*
Meet the Ramdin-Chetan family: forged through loneliness, broken by secrets, saved by love.
Irrepressible Betty Ramdin, her shy son Solo and their ma ... more
Miss Benson's Beetle - by Rachel Joyce - £9.99
It is 1950. In a devastating moment of clarity, Margery Benson abandons her dead-end job and advertises for an assistant to accompany her on an expedition. She is going to travel to the other side of the world to search for a beetle that may or may n ... more
The Thursday Murder Club - by Richard Osman - £8.99
The first book in the #1 bestselling Thursday Murder Club series by TV presenter Richard Osman.
In a peaceful retirement village, four unlikely friends meet up once a week to investigate unsolved murders. But when a brutal killing takes plac ... more
Dark Fairy Tales of Fearless Women - by Rosalind Kerven - £12.99
Enter a world in which magic exists, hope wins and every woman's heart is alive with courage!
This global feast of ancient tales features valiant women overcoming every kind of obstacle and danger to fulfil their destinies. Travel through Af ... more
The Exile and the Mapmaker - by Emma Musty - £8.99
Theo, an aging Parisian cartographer, is desperately searching for the woman he once loved before Alzheimer’s takes his memories of her.
Elise, his estranged daughter, moves in to take care of him. She still blames him for the tragic los ... more
The Days of Abandonment - by Elena Ferrante, translated by Ann Goldstein - £8.99
Rarely have the foundations upon which our ideas of motherhood and womanhood rest been so candidly questioned. This compelling novel tells the story of one woman's headlong descent into what she calls an 'absence of sense' after being abandoned by ... more
The History of Wales in Twelve Poems - by M. Wynn Thomas - £8.99
Down the centuries, poets have provided Wales with a window onto its own distinctive world.
This book gives a sense of the view seen through that special window in twelve illustrated poems, each bringing very different periods and aspects o ... more
A Scandinavian Christmas: Festive Tales for a Nordic Noel - by Various authors - £12.99
Ranging from Hans Christian Anderson to Karl Ove Knausgaard, have yourself a nordic noel with the very best Scandinavian Christmas tales.
Have yourself a truly Scandinavian Christmas... Of visions and prophesies seen in dark, dark woods. Of ... more
Pandora's Jar: Women in the Greek Myths - by Natalie Haynes - £9.99
The Greek myths are among the world's most important cultural building blocks and they have been retold many times, but rarely do they focus on the remarkable women at the heart of these ancient stories. Stories of gods and monsters are the mainsta ... more
The Lost Future of Pepperharrow - by Natasha Pulley - £8.99
"A Japan that never was, a future lost, ghosts that are not dead ... not even a partial list of ingredients can do justice to this wonderful cake of a book ... A time-defying thriller."(Robin Hobb)
Strange things are happening in Tokyo.
A ... more
The Sunken Land Begins to Rise Again - by M. John Harrison - £8.99
Winner of the Goldsmiths Prize 2020, this is fiction that pushes the boundaries of the novel form.
Shaw had a breakdown, but he's getting himself back together. He has a single room, a job on a decaying London barge, and an on-off affair with a ... more
The Lying Life of Adults - by Elena Ferrante - £8.99
A powerful new novel set in a divided Naples by Elena Ferrante, the beloved best-selling author of My Brilliant Friend.
Giovanna’s pretty face has changed: it’s turning into the face of an ugly, spiteful adolescent. But is she seeing things ... more
Small Pleasures - by Clare Chambers - £8.99
LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2021
1957, the suburbs of South East London.
Jean Swinney is a journalist on a local paper, trapped in a life of duty and disappointment from which there is no likelihood of escape. When ... more
The First Woman - by Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi - £8.99
* A SUNDAY TIMES, OBSERVER, DAILY MAIL, BBC CULTURE & IRISH INDEPENDENT BOOK OF THE YEAR
* A WATERSTONES BEST FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR
* OPRAH MAGAZINE BEST OF 2020
* A TIME MAGAZINE MUST-READ BOOK OF 2020
* A GOOD HOUSEKEEPING BOOK OF THE MONTH ... more
The Wife of Willesden - by Zadie Smith - £5.99
'Married five times. Mother. Lover.Aunt. Friend.
She plays many roles round here. And never
Scared to tell the whole of her truth, whether
Or not anyone wants to hear it. Wife
Of Willesden: pissed enough to tell her life
Story to whoever has ea ... more
Love - by Roddy Doyle - £8.99
"A profound examination of friendship, romantic confusion and mortality."(John Boyne)
One summer's evening, two men meet up in a Dublin restaurant. Old friends, now married and with grown-up children, their lives have taken seemingly similar paths ... more
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