Self Portrait With Boy $24.99
Self Portrait with BoyRachel Lyon's first novel – soon to be made into a major motion picture starring Zoë Kravitz and Thomasin McKenzieLu Rile is a relentlessly focused young photographer struggling to make ends meet. Working three jobs, and worrying that the crumbling warehouse she lives in is being sold to developers, she is at a point of desperation. Until, by pure chance, Lu discovers she’s captured a tragedy in the background of a self portrait; a boy falling to his death. The photograph turns out to be the best work of art she’s ever made. It’s an image that could change her life – if she lets it.Set in early 90s Brooklyn on the brink of gentrification, Self-Portrait with Boy is a provocative commentary about the emotional dues that must be paid on the road to success.‘Beautifully imagined and flawlessly executed’ Joyce Carol Oates‘A sparkling debut’ New York Times Book Review
Seven And A Half
Seven And A Half $24.99
An audacious and transformative novel about the past, the present and the power of writing and imagination from the award-winning author of Damascus and The Slap.
Shantaram
Shantaram $32.99
Gregory David Roberts is now a full-time writer, film producer, and international public speaker. In Bombay he has established a charitable trust to care for the poorest of the poor slum-dwellers. He divides his time between Geneva and Bombay.
Signs Of Damage
Signs Of Damage $34.99
Silken Gazelles $34.99
The new novel from the first Arabic-language winner of the Booker International Prize. In their small, mountainside village, Ghazaala and Asiya love each other like sisters, until tragedy strikes, and Asiya is forced into exile. Ghazaala is haunted by Asiya’s absence; a wound that never quite heals. When Ghazaala falls in love with a handsome violinist, everything changes. In Muscat, she tries desperately to balance university and the demands of a new wife. Then she meets Harir, whose life, unbeknownst to Ghaazala, has also been changed by Asiya and the mystery of her fate. Silken Gazelles is a tribute to the power of friendship and the strength of women, intertwining love and loss with deft, beautiful prose. 'A “remarkable” writer who has “constructed her own novelistic form”' The New Yorker
Sipsworth
Sipsworth $27.99
SIPSWORTH'A love story about a woman and a mouse. I found myself pulling for this unlikely duo on every page. Loaded with charm, resilience, and the deep desire for connection that all mammals share. I loved it.' -Ann PatchettOver the course of a single week, a woman who is ready to die finds an unexpected reason to live.Following the deaths of her husband and son, Helen Cartwright returns from sixty years in Australia to the English village of her childhood. Her only wish is to die quickly and without fuss.Helen retreats into her home on Westminster Crescent, becoming a creature of routine and habit. Then, one cold autumn night, a chance encounter with an abandoned pet mouse on the street outside her house sets Helen on a surprising journey of friendship, and a way back into life itself.
Small Things Like These
Small Things Like These $26.99
A stunning new edition of Claire Keegan's multi-award-winning, bestselling novel Small Things Like These.
Somebody Down There Likes Me
Somebody Down There Likes Me $32.99
A brilliant, slyly humorous dissection of wealth, power and the tragedies even money can't fix for fans of The Secret History, The Corrections and Succession.
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Someone Else's Bucket List
Someone Else's Bucket List $22.99
In this sisterly PS, I Love You, an introverted young woman is saddled with fulfilling her late sister’s final wish: completing her bucket list while millions of people follow along online. Jodie Boyd is a shy and anxious twenty-something, completely unsure of what to do with her life. Meanwhile, her older sister, Bree, is an adventurous, globe-trotting Instagram influencer. Bree is the most alive person Jodie knows – until her unfathomable, untimely death from leukaemia. The Boyds are devastated, not to mention overwhelmed with medical debt. But Bree had a plan, and to Jodie's surprise a new post appears on her sister's Instagram feed. The first of many posts Bree recorded in secret, it contains a jaw-dropping challenge for Jodie: complete Bree's bucket list. From ‘fly over Antarctica’ to ‘fall in love’, if Jodie pulls it off, a corporate sponsor will pay off the crushing medical debt. It’s crazy. It’s terrifying. It’s impossible to refuse . . .
Stardust
Stardust $22.99
A FAIRY TALE FOR EVERYONE"Beyond all the borders that divide us, there is a place of infinite possibilities and pure magic. I think of Neil Gaiman as a writer who wears the key to that land around his neck—the key to Storyland." — Elif Shafak"Gaiman describes the indescribable." — Susanna Clarke"A tonic for these turbulent times." — Irish TimesTHE ACCLAIMED, ENCHANTING FILM ADAPTATIONStarring Robert De Niro, Claire Danes, Rupert Everett, Michelle Pfeiffer, and many more favorites..."I wanted to write a story that would feel, to the reader, like something he or she had always known." — Neil GaimanAt the dawn of the Victorian era, life moves leisurely in the sleepy village of Wall.Young Tristran Thorn has lost his heart to the beautiful Victoria Forester and, to win her love, vows to bring her a fallen star they see streak across the night sky.This oath sends him beyond the town’s ancient wall and into the mysterious land of Faerie—a world more dangerous and strange than he could ever imagine...NEIL GAIMANWITH STORIES COME POSSIBILITIES.Bonus Features Include:Wall, A PrologueReading-group discussion questionsAn interview with Neil Gaiman
Stardust
Stardust 2 $59.99
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Still Life
Still Life $22.99
WINNER OF DYMOCKS BOOK OF THE YEAR 2021 THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER A GUARDIAN BEST BOOK OF 2021 A BBC RADIO 4 BOOK AT BEDTIME A BBC BETWEEN THE COVERS BOOK CLUB PICK ‘Sheer joy' Graham Norton ‘Utterly beautiful … filled with hope’ Joanna Cannon, author of Three Things About Elsie ’A gorgeous, generous story of kind hearts and kindred spirits’ Daily Mirror From the author of When God was a Rabbit and Tin Man, Still Life is a big-hearted story of the families we forge and the friendships that make us. 1944, Italy. As bombs fall around them, two strangers meet in the ruined wine cellar of a Tuscan villa and share an extraordinary evening. Ulysses Temper is a young British soldier, Evelyn Skinner a 64-year-old art historian living life on her own terms. She has come to salvage paintings from the wreckage of war and relive memories of her youth when her heart was stolen by an Italian maid in a particular room with a view. Ulysses’ chance encounter with Evelyn will transform his life – and all those who love him back home in London – forever. Uplifting, sweeping and full of unforgettable characters, Still Life is a novel about beauty, love, family and friendship. ‘THE most beautiful book … it will stay with me a long time’ Sara Cox, BBC Two’s Between the Covers ‘Extraordinary . . . my book of the year’ Liz Nugent, author of Our Little Cruelties ‘Moving, wise, poetic and funny’ Daily Mail ‘Winman’s pages teem with boisterous, exuberant life’ Sunday Times Sunday Times bestseller 09/06/2021
Stone Yard Devotional Stone Yard Devotional
Stone Yard Devotional $32.99
A deeply moving novel about forgiveness, grief, and what it means to be 'good', from the award-winning author of The Natural Way of Things and The Weekend.
Sunburn
Sunburn $22.99
Sunburn is an astute and tender portrayal of first love, adolescent anxiety and the realities of growing up in a small town where tradition holds people tightly in its grasp....
Sweat
Sweat $34.99
Fit for Life. Fit for Death.FROM THE MULTI-MILLION COPY BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF ELIZABETH IS MISSINGAVAILABLE TO PRE-ORDER NOW'Taut, compulsive, and unsettling ... It had me holding my breath until the final, brilliant end' JENNIE GODFREY'SWEAT will keep you guessing until the very last page' VOGUE WILLIAMS'Will have you glued to the story through every twist and turn. I absolutely loved it!' KATE HAMER'SWEAT is like nothing I've ever read before. So addictive it made me miss a tube stop, so unsettling it made me think twice about going to the gym!' SARA COLLINS<p>Finally, this felt like revenge.All Liam ever wanted was to help Cassie reach her full potential; to push her body to new extremes. Exercise, determination, being the optimum versions of themselves together forever. And Liam always knew what was best.Nothing could break their intense love for one another, not Liam's obsessive desire for physical perfection or his relentless control of every aspect of Cassie's life. Until the day he pushes Cassie far beyond her limits, and she walks out of their flat and away from their toxic relationship for good.Two years on and Cassie is stronger, fitter, healthier than ever before. And then she sees him - Liam - those green eyes, those stirring muscles. Something inside her flips.But she holds the power now.It's Liam's turn to sweat.***PRAISE FOR EMMA HEALEY'S ELIZABETH IS MISSING'Every bit as compelling as the frenzied hype suggests. Gripping, haunting'OBSERVER'A riveting psychological thriller'STYLIST'Utterly compelling'ROSAMUND LUPTON'Will stir and shake you- the most likeably unreliable of narrators,real mystery at its compassionate core'EMMA DONOGHUE'A thrillingly assured, haunting and unsettling novel, I read it at a gulp'DEBORAH MOGGACH***READER REVIEWS***'I would recommend this to anyone who enjoys a tense read''Different from anything I have read before''What a book!''So compelling''A dark, slickly written tale''I couldn't put this book down'</p>