The Kids
By: Hannah Lowe
4.01
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
Hannah Lowe taught for a decade in an inner-city London sixth form. At the heart of this book of co…
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1. Serious Concerns
By: Wendy Cope
3.88
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
A collection of poems featuring works by Cope such as "Bloody Men", "Men and their Boring Arguments… read more
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- poetry
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"Write to amuse? What an appalling suggestion! I write to make people anxious and miserable and to worsen their indigestion."-Wendy Cope, Serious Concerns
"The day he moved out was terrible – That evening she went through hell. His absence wasn’t a problem But the corkscrew had gone as well."-Wendy Cope, Serious Concerns
"At lunchtime I bought a huge orange The size of it made us all laugh. I peeled it and shared it with Robert and Dave— They got quarters and I had a half. And that orange it made me so happy, As ordin…"-Wendy Cope, Serious Concerns
"Bloody men are like bloody buses — You wait for about a year And as soon as one approaches your stop Two or three others appear. You look at them flashing their indicators, Offering you a ride. You’r…"-Wendy Cope, Serious Concerns
2. The Adoption Papers
By: Jackie Kay
3.63
Format: 353 pages, Paperback
Jackie Kay tells the story of a black girl's adoption by a white Scottish couple- from three differ… read more
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- poetry
- nonfiction
3. The Zoo Father
By: Pascale Petit
4.30
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
Second collection from the poet of powerful emotions and vivid imagery, The Zoo Father underlines t… read more
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- poetry
4. A Terrible Beauty Is Born
By: W.B. Yeats
4.20
Format: 172 pages,
'But I, being poor, have only my dreams; / I have spread my dreams under your feet...' By turns joy… read more
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5. The New Normal
By: Ashley Little
4.34
Format: None pages, Paperback
Tamar Robinson knows a lot about loss--more than any teenager should. Her younger sisters are dead,… read more
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6. Black Cat Bone: Poems
By: John Burnside
4.26
Format: None pages, Paperback
John Burnside's remarkable new book is full of strange, unnerving poems that hang in the memory lik… read more
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7. poyums
By: Len Pennie
4.58
Format: 129 pages, Kindle Edition
And I have done more than just simply get by So much more than escape or survive Through the galv… read more
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- poetry
- nonfiction
8. Stone Yard Devotional
By: Charlotte Wood
3.68
Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition
A deeply moving novel about forgiveness, grief, and what it means to be 'good', from the award-winn… read more
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9. So Late in the Day
By: Claire Keegan
4.00
Format: 47 pages, Hardcover
After an uneventful Friday at the Dublin office, Cathal faces into the long weekend and takes the b… read more
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10. Soldier Sailor
By: Claire Kilroy
4.10
Format: 256 pages, ebook
Well, Sailor. Here we are once more, you and me in one another's arms. The Earth rotates beneath us… read more
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"I laughed and then we were doing that thing again, our thing: laughing into one another's eyes. All that time I had thought I was jollying you along when all that time you were jollying along me."-Claire Kilroy, Soldier Sailor
"I tell my husband about my childhood and he tells me about his but it isn't the same. We can never know each other as we were then. But I know you. I will see the child you were in the man you will b…"-Claire Kilroy, Soldier Sailor
"Hated cling film. Hated it more than I hated kinetic sand. Defeated by something that lacked a third dimension. While I'd been off tinkering on the cerebral plane, the smart money has been mastering …"-Claire Kilroy, Soldier Sailor
"I knelt down to pick up the hatchling to . . . . what? Give it back to its mother? Here is your dying chick? Just before I made contact with it, she dive-bombed me. The mother actually dive-bombed me…"-Claire Kilroy, Soldier Sailor
11. Ordinary Human Failings
By: Megan Nolan
3.78
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
When a 10-year-old child is suspected of a violent crime, her family must face the truth about thei… read more
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"She loved the feeling of doing something on her own, and doing it in a routine. It felt thrillingly adult and affirmed her most cherished hope, the hope that she might have an actual inner life of su…"-Megan Nolan, Ordinary Human Failings
"He had the sort of bland, agreeable, rosy face which could disappear into whatever context he wished it to. He was blond but not provocatively so. The naturally dull Kent accent could be clipped and …"-Megan Nolan, Ordinary Human Failings
12. River East, River West
By: Aube Rey Lescure
4.04
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION Set against the backdrop of developing modern Chin… read more
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"They each had puzzle pieces that might never lock into a flat smooth hole."-Aube Rey Lescure, River East, River West
"She was alone and grown. And had somehow done the worst thing a Chinese woman could do, whore herself out to a white man"-Aube Rey Lescure, River East, River West
"She told her mother the most important, most devastating thing that had happened to her and somehow it had turned into a fight."-Aube Rey Lescure, River East, River West
"She still said nothing. You are fifteen and this is living life, she thought. She'd be like Serena or Blair or those girls on TV. Powerful."-Aube Rey Lescure, River East, River West
13. C+nto and Othered Poems
By: Joelle Taylor
4.25
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
Winner of the T.S. Eliot Prize 2021. The female body is a political space. C+nto enters the priv… read more
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- poetry
- nonfiction
14. Frank and Red
By: Matt Coyne
4.57
Format: 433 pages, Kindle Edition
Sometimes, the friend you need is the one you never saw coming. Frank and Red are a mess. F… read more
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15. The Kids
By: Hannah Lowe
4.01
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
Hannah Lowe taught for a decade in an inner-city London sixth form. At the heart of this book of co… read more
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- nonfiction
16. Slug
By: Hollie McNish
4.51
Format: 496 pages, Hardcover
From Finnish saunas and soppy otters to grief, grandparents and Kellogg's anti-masturbation pants, … read more
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- nonfiction
17. Three Japanese Short Stories
By: Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
3.28
Format: 50 pages, Paperback
'Oh the cruelty of time, that destroys all things!' Beguiling, strange and hair-raising tales fr… read more
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"Heroes have always been monsters who crushed sentimentalism underfoot."-Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, Three Japanese Short Stories
"Oh, but once one has returned to the land of one's birth – there is no place more constricting – one's surroundings no longer permit such freedom, and one can no longer simply transcend the demands o…"-Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, Three Japanese Short Stories
"For her I would gladly ferry across the Sumida on the coldest winter day to buy her those sakura-mochi sweets from old Edo that she loved so much. But medicine? That is another matter. Not even on th…"-Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, Three Japanese Short Stories
"No, nothing in this world is as oppressive and debilitating as blood ties. Any other relationship – be it friend, lover, wife; be it obligatory or constraining or difficult – is something one has con…"-Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, Three Japanese Short Stories
18. Blossomise
By: Simon Armitage
4.22
Format: 63 pages, Hardcover
Blossomise celebrates the ecstatic arrival of spring blossom just as it acknowledges, too, its mela… read more
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- poetry
- nonfiction
19. Daydream and Drunkenness of a Young Lady
By: Clarice Lispector
3.52
Format: 64 pages, Paperback
"The morning became a long, drawn-out afternoon that became depthless night dawning innocently thro… read more
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20. All the Names Given: Poems
By: Raymond Antrobus
4.19
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
A Guardian Best Book of the Year Finalist for the T. S. Eliot Prize and The Costa Poetry Award “Exq… read more
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- nonfiction
21. Poor
By: Caleb Femi
4.46
Format: 140 pages, Paperback
WINNER OF THE FORWARD PRIZE FOR BEST FIRST COLLECTIONChosen as a Book of the Year by New Statesman … read more
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- nonfiction
"This same officer had an horizon in the east of his smile when he told your class that you were all supernovas, the biggest and brightest stars. ... While fear condenses on your lips, you will rememb…"-Caleb Femi, Poor
22. Alexa, what is there to know about love?
By: Brian Bilston
4.07
Format: 84 pages, Kindle Edition
‘Bilston is a magician with words’ - GuardianThe perfect, witty gift for Valentine’s and beyond. Al… read more
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23. The Crossing
By: Manjeet Mann
4.33
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
The trailblazing new novel from the Carnegie Medal shortlisted author of Run, Rebel. Praise for Run… read more
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24. Unexhausted Time
By: Emily Berry
3.94
Format: 76 pages, Paperback
Unexhausted Time inhabits a world of dream and dawn, in which thoughts touch us 'like soft rain', a… read more
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25. The Silence In Between
By: Josie Ferguson
4.48
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
Imagine waking up and a wall has divided your city in two. Imagine that on the other side is your n… read more
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"Evil demanded little of me – it merely asked me to stay silent, to do nothing. And I complied."-Josie Ferguson, The Silence In Between
"Mozart said that music is not in the notes but in the silence in between. I think that's where our souls are – hidden in that silence."-Josie Ferguson, The Silence In Between
"These are stories from the past, but they are still echoing now, in the present. As I write this, Russian forces are using rape as a weapon of war against Ukrainian women; deported mothers are being …"-Josie Ferguson, The Silence In Between
26. The Hypocrite
By: Jo Hamya
3.55
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
From a fiercely talented writer poised to be a new generation’s Rachel Cusk or Deborah Levy, a nove… read more
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"No stories are entirely imaginary, cherub, he'd said then. Everything is always a little bit real. Sometimes you steal things from other stories and change them until they work how you like."-Jo Hamya, The Hypocrite
"The contradiction of the time had been the heightened moral obligation to consider other people as a means to keeping one's own self-interest afloat. Showing other people care meant avoiding them."-Jo Hamya, The Hypocrite
"In the theatre's dark, he weighs up what to do out of love. There have been enough divergences so far for him to believe that Sophia's play is a self-contained thing that may only tangentially concer…"-Jo Hamya, The Hypocrite
27. In the Shadow of Queens: Tales from the Tudor Court
By: Alison Weir
4.02
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
Behind every great king stands a queen. And behind every queen, the whole court watches on... Ov… read more
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28. Eat or We Both Starve
By: Victoria Kennefick
4.10
Format: 78 pages, Paperback
A daring first collection from an exciting young Irish poet, tackling how to live with the past and… read more
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- nonfiction
29. Politics of the Mind: Marxism and Mental Distress
By: Iain Ferguson
4.03
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
Mental ill health has become one of the key 'public issues' of the 21st century. According to the W… read more
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30. May Day
By: Jackie Kay
4.54
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
May Day is the long-awaited new poetry collection from one of our best-loved poets and former Makar… read more
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31. I Think We’re Alone Now
By: Abigail Parry
3.73
Format: 72 pages, Kindle Edition
I Think We’re Alone Now is a bold and far-ranging second collection from a fresh and original new v… read more
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