Staff Picks!
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Wives and Daughters
Elizabeth Gaskell
Read more ▸ Order ▸“Eh, miss, but that be a rare young lady! She do have such pretty coaxing...
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Maurice
E.M. Forster
Read more ▸ Order ▸An astonishingly frank and deeply autobiographical account of homosexual relationships in an era when love...
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The Well Gardened Mind
Sue Stuart-Smith
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If you’re finding the restrictions of lock-down tough going this is the read for...
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Sourdough
Sarah Owens
Read more ▸ Order ▸101 recipes for baking with whole and sprouted grains, making the most of the seasonal...
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Rag and Bone
Lisa Woollett
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In this fascinating mix of history and nature writing Woollett charts a series of...
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A Prayer For Owen Meany
John Irving
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‘I am doomed to remember a boy with a wrecked voice—not because of his...
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If On A Winter’s Night A Traveller
Italo Calvino
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Most of the people I have recommended this book to have hated it. Hardly...
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The Detective Dog
Julia Donaldson
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Rhyming stories are fun to read aloud, and they’re Julia Donaldson’s forte. A celebration...
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The Girl and the Dinosaur
Hollie Hughes
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Beautiful illustrations and a story of secret, magical adventures (like a Where the Wild...
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Poorlier Drawn Lines
Reza Farazmand
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I adore these cartoons. They remind me of a latter-day Peanuts – surreal, very...
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Starve Acre
Andrew Michael Hurley
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A slow, creeping, creak on the stairs sort of book, to be read in...
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This Is Not Propaganda
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A world tour of informatiom politics that may not quite tell us something we...