STAFF RECS
RECOMMENDED BY JOE
An electric, compelling, often painfully funny portrait of family relationships, which shows the damage we can do in the course of a life.
RECOMMENDED BY JOE
An electrifying novel about the delights and dangers of starting over.
RECOMMENDED BY EYDIE
Famesick is a frank, deeply personal reflection on illness, fame, sex, and everything in between, from the mind behind the hit series Girls and Too Much, and the bestselling author of Not That Kind of Girl.
RECOMMENDED BY BROCK
An enduring gem, Joe Brainard's I Remember is a literary and artistic cult classic. Brainard's method was brilliantly simple: to set down specific memories as they rose to the surface of his consciousness, each beginning with the refrain 'I remember'.
RECOMMENDED BY JOE
A touchstone over the years for writers as different as David Foster Wallace and Elizabeth Hardwick, Speedboat returns to enthral a new generation of reader
RECOMMENDED BY SHANNON
Octavia E. Butler's ground-breaking masterpiece, with an original foreword by Ayobami Adebayo.
RECOMMENDED BY EYDIE
Trapped in the Maze, Forged by Myth-Wonder Woman Faces Her Greatest Test.
RECOMMENDED BY JOE
This is a book about how we put ourselves together — an exhilarating, witty, cosmopolitan meditation on the pleasures and challenges of friendship, desire and living with other people.
RECOMMENDED BY KIARA
London Falling is at once a devastating family tragedy, a riveting story of greed, power and deception, and an indictment of the culture that has transformed London into a haven for the malignant forces that have come to influence us all.
RECOMMENDED BY BROCK
In a small, sleepy town, a mediocre witch, in a mediocre marriage, tries to pass on her gifts to her twin daughters, who, it becomes immediately apparent, have skills far beyond her own.
RECOMMENDED BY JOE
At first The Emigrants appears simply to document the lives of four Jewish émigrés in the twentieth century. But gradually, as Sebald's precise, almost dreamlike prose begins to draw their stories, the four narrations merge into one overwhelming evocation of exile and loss.
RECOMMENDED BY NOAH
The apocalypse will be televised! Welcome to the first book in the wildly popular and addictive Dungeon Crawler Carl series by Matt Dinniman-now with bonus material exclusive to the print edition!
RECOMMENDED BY RHYS
The year is 1348. Thomas, a disgraced knight, has found a young girl alone in a dead Norman village.
RECOMMENDED BY BROCK
Horrifying and hilarious, Cornelius the dog is a spectacular trainwreck – you just can’t look away.
RECOMMENDED BY JULIA
An intense and funny coming-of-age debut novel about the magical thinking of youth and the mystery of adolescence.
RECOMMENDED BY JULIA
As one of the world's leading scientists examining how our DNA shapes differences in temperament, temptation and behaviour, Harden has seen first-hand how we - in public and in our most private relationships - continue to struggle with the ancient tensions between nature and nurture, freedom and constraint, the desire to punish and the longing to forgive.
RECOMMENDED BY SHANNON
A harrowing cosmic mystery at the vanguard of eco-fiction, Annihilation has only become more pertinent to our reality ten years after its first publication.
RECOMMENDED BY EYDIE
Rarely have the foundations upon which our ideas of motherhood and womanhood rest been so candidly questioned. This compelling novel tells the story of one woman's headlong descent into what she calls an "absence of sense" after being abandoned by her husband.
RECOMMENDED BY JOE
A woman confronts the unquenchable half-life of passion, in a new novel by one of our most acclaimed and inventive writers of fiction.
RECOMMENDED BY LUCY AND NOAH
Wildly smart and insightful, Monsters is an exhilarating attempt to understand our relationship with art and the artist in the twenty-first century.
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