The Mars Room, by Rachel Kushner
£16.99
Longlisted for the 2018 Booker Prize.
incarcerated in a US prison, Romy tells a visceral and bold narrative of life on the margins of contemporary America.
Compelling, dark but astute.
Paperback also available, £8.99
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Normal People, by Sally Rooney
£8.99
The second novel from young Irish writer Sally Rooney and already with a Booker Longlist nomination to its credit. This is a thoughtful and intimate coming of age story of Connell and Marianne, the novel moves between menace and tenderness with a truly original voice.
£8.99 paperback since May 2019.
Hardback edition no longer available.
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Girl, Woman, Other by Bernadine Evaristo
£8.99
***WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE 2019****SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2020*
From Newcastle to Cornwall, from the birth of the twentieth century to the teens of the twenty-first, Girl, Woman, Other follows a cast of twelve characters on their personal journeys through this country and the last hundred years. They're each looking for something - a shared past, an unexpected future, a place to call home, somewhere to fit in, a lover, a missed mother, a lost father, even just a touch of hope . .
.A choral love song to black womanhood in modern Great Britain' Elle 'Ambitious, flowing and all-encompassing, an offbeat narrative that'll leave your mind in an invigorated whirl... [It] unites poetry, social history, women's voices and beyond.'
Recently featured in our BooksPaperScissors bookclub, see BLOG for review.
Milkman, by Anna Burns (paperback)
£8.99
The Booker prize winning book of 2018, now available as paperback.
The Watch House by Bernie McGill
£8.99
One of our bestselling novels this year. Local writer Bernie McGill has written about Rathlin Island at the end of the nineteenth century- imagining a love story between a temporary visitors and a local girl. Vividly imagined and with a page turning suspense. A great read.
