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★ STAFF PICK!
Selected by Harriet
£16.99
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Harriet Says…
I am giving everyone this book, it moved me so much. Beautifully written, in simple prose, it tells the story of a 20 year old boy who goes to live with his uncle, a small holding farmer in Cornwall, following the boy’s cardiac arrest.
His recovery and the slow pace of life on the farm are in sync, and the relationship between the uncle and nephew is poignant and reassuring.
Patrick Charnley, the son of poet and novelist Helen Dunmore, wrote this book after having suffered a cardiac arrest himself.
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After a near-death experience and life-changing injury, twenty-year-old Jago Trevarno goes to stay with his uncle on his small coastal farm a few miles from St Ives in Cornwall. Their existence is a simple one, their lives measured by the span of the days, the rhythms of the seasons and the animals they care for. But lurking in the shadows is local villain, Bill Sligo, who has designs on Jacob’s farm and in particular on a field near the cliffs housing a derelict mineshaft. Wanting to repay his uncle’s kindness, Jago determines to find out what Bill Sligo is up to. Jago is still vulnerable though, and in pursuing Sligo he delves into a murky world that he is ill-equipped to deal with. How far will Bill Sligo go to get what he wants? Jago doesn’t know it yet, but once again he is in grave danger.
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★ STAFF PICK!
Selected by Justina
£16.99
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Justina says…
An astounding debut. I love this story!
Time and space combine to tell a multi faceted tale of believable characters who battle the forces that think they can dictate history. Some things never change.
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Nuremberg, 1938. Lisavet Levy’s watchmaker father saves her from the Nazis by pushing her through a mysterious doorway. There, she discovers the Time Space – a vast, magical library where the memories of everyone who has ever lived are stored in books. Her father promises to follow, but he never comes. Trapped in the library, she encounters timekeepers, who decide whose memories survive and whose are destroyed. Lisavet tries to save as many memories as she can, but when she falls in love with a timekeeper, the whole course of history could be at stake.
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★ STAFF PICK!
Selected by Aude
£18.99
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.
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★ STAFF PICK!
Selected by Kathlyn
£10.99
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Kathlyn says…
A wonderful work of nonfiction linking the true story of amazing people who worked tirelessly together to bring joy from tragedy – a nine year old boy’s heart transplant made possible.
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The first of our organs to form, the last to die, the heart is both a simple pump and the symbol of all that makes us human: as long as it continues to beat, we hope. One summer day, nine-year-old Keira suffered catastrophic injuries in a car accident. Though her brain and the rest of her body began to shut down, her heart continued to beat. In an act of extraordinary generosity, Keira’s parents and siblings agreed that she would have wanted to be an organ donor. Meanwhile nine-year-old Max had been hospitalised for nearly a year with a virus that was causing his young heart to fail. When Max’s parents received the call they had been hoping for, they knew it came at a terrible cost to another family. This is the unforgettable story of how one family’s grief transformed into a lifesaving gift.
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★ STAFF PICK!
Selected by Aude
£20.00
‘Reads like a feminist War and Peace. A magnificent novel’ SUNDAY TIMES
‘A complex, multi-layered beauty of a book. Extraordinary’ NEW STATESMAN
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★ STAFF PICK!
Selected by Mia Y
£10.99
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Mia Y Says…
A fun and perfectly executed academic rivals-to-lovers romance. This story follows Olive, a biology PhD student who people-pleases her way into fake dating a young professor. Ali Hazelwood is the best at fun, silly, spicy romances with just a sprinkle of commentary about women in STEM fields. This is my favourite of hers, check it out before the film comes out later this year!
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When a fake relationship between scientists meets the irresistible force of attraction, it throws one woman’s carefully calculated theories on love into chaos. As a third-year Ph.D. candidate, Olive Smith doesn’t believe in lasting romantic relationships but her best friend does, and that’s what got her into this situation. Convincing Anh that Olive on her way to a happily ever after was always going to be tough, scientists require proof. So, like any self-respecting woman, Olive panics and kisses the first man she sees. That man is none other than Adam Carlsen, a young hotshot professor and well-known ass. Which is why Olive is positively floored when he agrees to keep her charade a secret and be her fake boyfriend. But when a big science conference goes haywire and Adam surprises her again with his unyielding support, their little experiment feels dangerously close to combustion.
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★ STAFF PICK!
Selected by Mia Y
£10.99
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Mia Y Says…
“This is a top contender for my favourite book of all time. It follows a disillusioned civil servant sent to check in on a house for magical children by the sea. The people and places he discovers there end up turning his life around. Klune is a master at evoking the most beautiful, whimsical setting. This story is just so heart-warming and sweet, providing an escape and a source of inspiration for anyone stuck in the mundanity of day-to-day life.”
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Linus Baker is sent to assess a magical orphanage, filled with dangerous children. They could bring about the end of everything – or be the family he’d always wanted. A beautiful, cosy fantasy tale with a slow-burn romance at its heart.
