We are often asked if we have read every book in the shop. Well, not quite, but between us we are read a good spread of fiction and non-fiction. Here is a small selection of books we have thoroughly enjoyed or can highly recommend. We hope to suggest new recommendations each month.
The King of Christmas
Following the recent event with Carol Ann Duffy at Swansea University we have signed copies of several of the poet laureate’s newest books ‘The King of Christmas’, ‘Collected Poems’ and ‘The Bees’. ‘The King of Christmas’ is inspired by the medieval tradition of appointing a Lord of Misrule. Carol Ann Duffy’s warm and enchanting Christmas poem takes us into a topsy-turvy world of festivity and celebration, where rules no longer apply. With beautiful full-colour illustrations by …. Read More
Rick Stein’s Long Weekends
Signed copies available of Rick Stein’s beautiful new cookbook following on from the BBC TV series. £25 in hardback. Rick Stein goes in search of good food in fabulous locations, and all of them just a quick hop, skip and a jump from the UK. Includes stunning location photography from around Europe, following in Rick’s footsteps. Cities visited include: Bordeaux, Berlin, Reykjavik, Vienna, Bologna, Copenhagen, Cadiz, Lisbon, Thessaloniki and Palermo.
Grief is the Thing with Feathers
Limited number of signed copies in stock, priced at £10. Winner of the £30,000 International Dylan Thomas Prize for Fiction 2016 is a remarkable, poetic work of new fiction. Grief is the Thing with Feathers, published by Faber & Faber, is the debut book – part novella, part polyphonic fable, part essay on grief – by Max Porter, a senior editor at Granta and Portobello Books. Inspired by Crow, the collection of poems by Ted Hughes, …. Read More
The Lie Tree
Winner of the Costa Book of the Year 2015. The Lie Tree is a wonderfully evocative and atmospheric novel by Frances Hardinge, award-winning author of Cuckoo Song and Fly By Night. Faith’s father has been found dead under mysterious circumstances, and as she is searching through his belongings for clues she discovers a strange tree. The tree only grows healthy and bears fruit if you whisper a lie to it. The fruit of the tree, …. Read More
A Spool of Blue Thread
The Sunday Times bestseller longlisted for the Man Booker Prize and Shortlisted for the Baileys Women’s Fiction Prize. ‘It was a beautiful, breezy, yellow-and-green afternoon…’ This is the way Abby Whitshank always begins the story of how she and Red fell in love that summer’s day in 1959. The whole family on the porch, half-listening as their mother tells the same tale they have heard so many times before. From that porch we spool back …. Read More
I Let You Go
Highly recommended for lovers of psychological thrillers. This book is not only captivating, but we love it even more for being set in the Gower. …A tragic accident. It all happened so quickly. She couldn’t have prevented it. Could she? In a split second, Jenna Gray’s world descends into a nightmare. Her only hope of moving on is to walk away from everything she knows to start afresh. Desperate to escape, Jenna moves to a …. Read More
