Our Bestsellers in 2024
Selected by the Bookshop
In 2024, you have continued to buy an extraordinary number of copies of Frédéric Gros’s A Philosophy of Walking (first published a full decade ago) and, of course, our old favourite Pond (so far this year, we’ve sold a satisfying 365 copies, one for each day of the year). Thank you to everyone who came to the shop this year, to buy books old and new; we look forward to welcoming anyone who hasn’t yet bought a copy of Pond – and anyone who needs a second, third, fourth copy – back to the shop in 2025!
From the publisher:
Translated by John HoweBy walking, you escape from the very idea of identity, the temptation to be someone, to have a name and a history ... The freedom in walking lies in not being anyone; for the walking body has no history, it is just an…
From the publisher:
WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE 2024Six astronauts rotate in their spacecraft contemplating the world below'A slim, profound study of intimate human fears set against epic vistas'GUARDIAN'Stunning... An uplifting book'SUNDAY TIMESA team of…
From the publisher:
An exquisitely moving story about grief, love and family, from the global phenomenon Sally Rooney.From the author of the bestseller Normal People.Aside from the fact that they are brothers, Peter and Ivan Koubek seem to have little in…
Recommended by Gayle
‘Not a day goes past that I don't shake a fist at the sky and cry in despair, “When will Claire-Louise Bennett publish something new?!” Until my cries are answered, I'll make do with rereading Pond, Bennett's wildly brilliant and totally unique collection of stories following one woman living alone in the Irish countryside. EDIT: Claire-Louise Bennett has now written another book, and it’s better than I dreamt it could be.’
From the publisher:
In Pariah Genius, literary giant Iain Sinclair follows in the footsteps of photographer John Deakin, whose chronicles of Soho life - and the world of Francis Bacon and his friends - have so influenced our perception of that generation's…
From the publisher:
Wrong Norma is Anne Carson's first book of original material in eight years'If she was a prose writer she would instantly be recognised as a genius'COLM TÓIBÍN, author of Brooklyn'She pinpoints the collision of…
Recommended by Gayle
‘Finally I have something to recommend when people ask for a funny book! Heartburn is properly hilarious, like a 200 page stand up set, except less mean, and with more food.’
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From the publisher:
'This small book contains multitudes' Marina Warner'For those who have suffered for and in love, this may prove to be one of the most useful books they will ever read' Nicholas Lezard, GuardianAn extraordinary, uncompromising and…
From the publisher:
A searing reflection on the failures of Israel to treat Palestine and Palestinians as equals, as partners on the road to peace instead of genocide.When the state of Israel was formed in 1948, it precipitated the Nakba or 'disaster': the…
From the publisher:
Translated by Polly Barton'Unputdownable, breathtakingly original' ERIN KELLY'Delicious' i-D Magazine'Salivatingly well-written' RENA MATSUIThe cult Japanese bestseller about a female gourmet cook and serial killer and the…
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