STAFF RECS

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East of Eden

RECOMMENDED BY RILEY

And so I hopped onto the East of Eden bandwagon, and it was the most beautiful ride I’ve ever been on.

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Full Circle

RECOMMENDED BY KERRY

Keep your wits about you and dive into this unputdownable tale.

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The World Beneath Her Feet

RECOMMENDED BY KERRY

Holly Ringland’s descriptions evoke the landscape and wildlife that she so clearly loves. This is a novel to savour and sink into.

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Art Cure

RECOMMENDED BY KAT

A deep dive into the many facets of physical, mental and neurological health that are improved by engaging in the arts.

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The Lady With The Dog (Coming October 2026)

RECOMMENDED BY HANNAH

A short auto-fictional portrait of the author’s mother across the last few months of her life with Alzheimer's Disease. Reminiscent of Claire Keegan in it’s succinct but highly considered use of language. Beautifully illustrated throughout.

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Less Than Zero

RECOMMENDED BY RILEY

Disgusting. Depraved. Totally off putting. It ruined my day and it was awesome.

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Brickmakers

RECOMMENDED BY HANNAH

The Tamai and Miranda f­amilies are caught, like the Capulets and the Montagues, in an almost mythic conflict, one that emerges from stubborn pride and intractable machismo.

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The Infinite Sadness of Small Appliances

RECOMMENDED BY SAM

In a near future, where even the smallest of appliances are sentient, a young Roomba vacuum sets out to save the humans of her house from a rising technological power.

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London Falling

RECOMMENDED BY SHARON AND HANNAH

London Falling is at once a devastating family tragedy, a riveting story of greed, power and deception, and an indictment of the culture that has transformed London into a haven for the malignant forces that have come to influence us all.

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Orlanda

RECOMMENDED BY MILLIE

A radical novel on androgyny and double selves inspired by Virginia Woolf’s Orlando.

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Valencia

RECOMMENDED BY RILEY

Funny and gross at times, but always swiftly followed with some of the most devastating and tender prose I’ve ever read. The amount of life Tea lived in one year or rather what is gathered in this book is huge.

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ELENA KNOWS

RECOMMENDED BY HANNAH

After Rita is found dead in a church she used to attend, the official investigation into the incident is quickly closed. Her mother is the only person still determined to find the culprit. However, weakened by illness, she is also the least able to.

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Talking Classics

RECOMMENDED BY KAT

Why the ongoing fascination with the ancient world? This witty, approachable book asks why—for better or (sometimes) worse—antiquity continues to exert such a powerful hold on the contemporary imagination.

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The Wager

RECOMMENDED BY RILEY

A grand tale of human behaviour at the extremes told by one of our greatest nonfiction writers.

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Mothballs

RECOMMENDED BY HANNAH

A heart-wrenchingly fantastic generational saga with one very good cat!

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Raising Hare

RECOMMENDED BY HANNAH

Lovely, transportive and sometimes deeply sad. All the light and dark of the small moments that make a life. Sure to be a modern classic of animal and nature writing.

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Kitchen

RECOMMENDED BY CASSY

Expect woe and weal, whimsy and comfort, and a melancholic hug in novella form from this modern classic of Japanese literature.

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Palaver

RECOMMENDED BY EDIE

Palaver follows an unnamed queer man living in Tokyo who is reunited with his mother after a decade, their relationship hovering over the complicated and foggy border of estrangement and love.

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