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  • Fair Play

    Fair Play

    ★ STAFF PICK!
    Selected by Mia
    £9.99

    Staff Pick!

    Mia Says…

    Unlike any kind of “murder mystery” I’ve ever read…a clever sideways look at the genre. Alternating chapters take you effortlessly through two different worlds, and the result is original, funny, and heartbreaking. Witty treats for fans of a good old-fashioned Poirot, interspersed with a compassionate story about the mystery of grief. Was such a surprising read, I love this. (Note: while smart and funny, the tale is also sad! One to remember in case buying this for a holiday mystery book).

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    A detective calls on a shell-shocked group of friends in this thrillingly inventive novel of love and grief with a murder-mystery twist.

  • Heart the Lover

    £9.99

    Our narrator understands good love stories – their secrets their highs and free falls. But her greatest love story, the one she lived, never followed the rules. She was in her senior year of college when star students Sam and Yash swept her into an intoxicating world of academic fervour, rapid-fire banter and raucous card games. Their lives became quickly intertwined – with friendship but also with unpredictable passions and the intimations of first love. Decades later, she is a successful writer, living a comfortable life with her husband and children, when a surprise visit brings the past crashing into the present, forcing her to confront the decisions and deceptions of her youth. Written with the precision of poetry and the emotional tide of an epic, ‘Heart the Lover’ is a celebration of literature and the life-long echoes of young love.

  • La casa de los Espiritus

    £14.95
  • y a ti quien te ha preguntatdo

    £17.40
  • Good Golden Sun

    £7.99
  • Robbery Most Puzzling

    £7.99

    Hot off the heels of their triumphant first case, Werelock and Scratch have a thief to track down. An all-powerful Crystal has been taken, along with clues to uncover four more. The trail to find the missing Crystal is full of danger and our daring duo must face off against a mysterious new villain. If the villain gets their hands on all five Crystals, they’ll be unstoppable. Will our brave werewolf detective, his trusty raven assistant and you, dear reader, get there first?

  • The Shadow on the Wreck

    £7.99

    A mysterious figure on an old fishing boat, anonymous postcards, disappearing cousins – Mizzy is thrilled to have a new mystery to solve! The next instalment in this charming series for middle-grade readers, starring a girl with Down syndrome.

    ‘A unique and delightful heroine’ – Guardian

  • Fired Up

    £22.00

    Fired-Up is a book of 90 delicious, flavour-packed recipes that taste even better cooked over fire.  

  • 45 Things to Do Before You’re 45

    £10.99

    An all-too relatable story of what it means to be alive and how much living we all still have to do. Meet Charlie; unfulfilled and perimenopausal, Charlie’s suburban life is a far cry from the Manhattan glamour she once dreamed of. Her husband is incapable of talking about anything other than his latest Ironman challenge, her sex life consists of fictional encounters with Hollywood stars, her kids need constant management, and to make things worse, her optician has just prescribed her reading glasses. Oh, and she can’t stop crying at TV adverts. In the hope of re-discovering her sense of self, Charlie begins writing a list: 45 things to do before she’s 45. . Determined to complete them all, Charlie embarks on a chaotic odyssey through her own spectacular midlife crisis, challenging herself to become the person she wants to be. But what happens if we’re not that person? How do we learn to let them go? Or does something else have to give?

  • Kin

    £18.99

    A yearning for their missing mothers pulls Vernice and Annie apart. It will take a devastating tragedy to bring them back together.

  • A Kingdom and a Village

    £25.00

    The city of Moscow stands at the centre of a nation comprising eleven percent of the globe’s landmass, 11 time zones and nearly 150 million people, some 13 million of whom live in the capital. In ‘A Kingdom and a Village’, historian Simon Morrison offers a vividly rendered history of Russia’s heart and soul, tracing its transformation from a ‘big village’ – the demeaning nickname the St. Peterburg nobility gave to its provincial neighbour – into a spectacular metropolis of vast geopolitical import.

  • Europe

    £30.00

    Roderick Beaton tells the story of Europe as never before – as the history of an idea, and a collective identity. Since its dramatic birth in ancient Greece, ‘Europe’ has been defined, and redefined, by its people. Through this powerful lens, and with the narrative drive and scope of a novelist, Beaton deftly surveys Europe’s major historical developments: the rise and fall of Rome; the explosion of Christianity; the intellectual ferment of the Renaissance and the Enlightenment; the arrival of Europeans in the Americas; the violent upheavals of the 19th and 20th centuries; and the uncertainties of the present. Throughout, original sources allow the voices of the past, from Tacitus to Thatcher, to speak for themselves. Grappling with the multi-layered identities that have always come with being European, Europe places the Europe of today in a long arc of history stretching back more than 2500 years.