Staff Picks!
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Play It As It Lays
Joan Didion
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On the surface Maria is a fading Hollywood actress suffering beautifully in beautiful surroundings....
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Outline
Rachel Cusk
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A clever book for ‘clever people’ so please consider yourself one of those! Critics...
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The End of Eddy
Edouard Louis
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In some ways shocking, in some ways not. Rural France in the 90s clearly...
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The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs
Steve Brusatte
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You can never be too old for a book about dinosaurs, but here is a...
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West
Carys Davies
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A single-sitting epic that beautifully balances light and dark, humour and sadness. Not a...
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Circe
Madeline Miller
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Think you know the man-killing witch of Greek mythology? Think again. Miller breathes new...
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Census
Jesse Ball
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I fell in love with Ball after How To Set A Fire and Why,...
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The Abbess of Crewe
Muriel Spark
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Watergate. But with nuns. What’s not to appeal?
It is time to elect a new...
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By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept
Elizabeth Smart
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My mother recommended this book to me when I was around 17. Like all...
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The Driver’s Seat
Muriel Spark
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If I were to pick my absolute favourite Muriel Spark novels, this would certainly...
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Nobody Is Ever Missing
Catherine Lacey
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Absolutely with knobs on one of my favourite reads of the last five years!
Without...
