Conversation Starters

  • A Historian in Gaza

    A Historian in Gaza

    £16.99

    ‘The Gaza I knew, and whose length and breadth I’ve travelled, has ceased to exist.’ Jean-Pierre Filiu, acclaimed historian of Gaza, is intimately familiar with the land’s people and places; he speaks the local dialect. But nothing prepared him for what he encountered there in December 2024. This is his unforgettable, unbearably intimate account of…

  • Disappoint Me

    Disappoint Me

    £9.99

    An electrifying story of love, betrayal, and the complicated allure of bougie domesticity. You can fall in love with an outline, you can even make a home with one, but there will come a time where you can’t deny the bones their flesh. A person is no fewer than two things. Thirty years old with…

  • Little Eyes

    Little Eyes

    £9.99

    A visionary novel about the collision of technology and play, horror and humanity, from a master of the spine-tingling tale. They’ve infiltrated homes in Hong Kong, shops in Vancouver, the streets of Senegal, town squares of Oaxaca, schools in Tel Aviv, bedrooms in Ohio. They’re following you. They’re everywhere now. They’re us. In Samanta Schweblin’s…

  • The Bees

    The Bees

    £8.99

    Born into the lowest class of her society, Flora 717 is a sanitation bee, only fit to clean her orchard hive. Living to accept, obey and serve, she is prepared to sacrifice everything for her beloved holy mother, the Queen. Yet Flora has talents that are not typical of her kin. And while mutant bees…

  • The Lamb

    The Lamb

    £9.99

    A folk tale. A horror story. A love story. An enchantment. Margot and Mama have lived by the forest since Margot can remember. When Margot isn’t at school, they spend quiet days together in their cottage, waiting for strangers to knock on their door. Strays, Mama calls them. Mama loves the strays. She feeds them…

  • Pig Heart Boy

    Pig Heart Boy

    £14.99

    A powerful story about friendship, loyalty and family around this topical and controversial issue’ – Guardian’An engrossing story’ – Daily Telegraph’ That’s all I ever did – watch and listen. I was always a spectator, never a participant. I didn’t call that living. I was alive – but that was all.’Cameron is thirteen, and all…

  • Chain Gang All Stars

    Chain Gang All Stars

    £9.99

    Enter a world where, watched by millions, prisoners fight like gladiators for the ultimate prize: their freedom. Perfect for fans of The Handmaid’s Tale, Squid Game and Watchmen Welcome to Chain-Gang All-Stars, the popular and highly controversial programme inside America’s prison system. In packed arenas, watched by millions of live-stream viewers, prisoners compete as gladiators for the ultimate…

  • Yellowface

    Yellowface

    £9.99

    Athena Liu is a literary darling and June Hayward is literally nobody. White lies When Athena dies in a freak accident, June steals her unpublished manuscript and publishes it as her own under the ambiguous name Juniper Song. Dark humour But as evidence threatens June’s stolen success, she will discover exactly how far she will…

  • Punching the Air

    Punching the Air

    £7.99

    From award-winning, bestselling author Ibi Zoboi and prison reform activist Yusef Salaam of the Exonerated Five comes a powerful YA novel in verse about a boy who is wrongfully incarcerated. Perfect for fans of Jason Reynolds, Walter Dean Myers, and Elizabeth Acevedo. Amal Shahid has always been an artist and a poet. But even in…

  • Rizzio

    Rizzio

    £7.99

    From the multi-award-winning master of crime, Denise Mina delivers a radical new take on one of the darkest episodes in Scottish history—the bloody assassination of David Rizzio private secretary to Mary, Queen of Scots, in the queen’s chambers in Holyrood Palace. On the evening of March 9th, 1566, David Rizzio, the private secretary of Mary,…

  • Three Fires

    Three Fires

    £7.99

    From the award-winning master of crime fiction, Denise Mina re-imagines the “Bonfire of the Vanities,” a series of fires lit throughout Florence at the end of the fifteenth century—inspired by the fanatical Girolamo Savonarola. Girolamo Savonarola was a Dominican friar living in Florence at the end of the fifteenth century. An anti-corruption campaigner, his hellfire preaching increasingly spilled…

  • Pageboy

    Pageboy

    £10.99

    Pageboy is a groundbreaking coming-of-age memoir from the Academy Award-nominated actor Elliot Page. A generation-defining actor and one of the most famous trans advocates of our time, Elliot will now be known as an uncommon literary talent, as he shares never-before-heard details and intimate interrogations on gender, love, mental health, relationships, and Hollywood.

  • Fix the System Not the Women

    Fix the System Not the Women

    £9.99

    Too often, we blame women. For walking home alone at night. For not demanding a seat at the table. For not overcoming the odds that are stacked against them. This distracts us from the real problem: the failings and biases of a society that was not built for women. In this explosive book, feminist writer and…

  • The Transgender Issue: An Argument for Justice

    The Transgender Issue: An Argument for Justice

    £10.99

    Trans people in Britain today have become a culture war ‘issue’. Despite making up less than 1% of the country’s population, they are the subjects of a toxic and increasingly polarised ‘debate’, which generates reliable controversy for newspapers and talk shows. This media frenzy conceals a simple fact: that we are having the wrong conversation,…

  • Melissa

    Melissa

    £6.99

    Previously published as George BE WHO YOU ARE. When people look at Melissa, they think they see a boy named George. But she knows she’s not a boy. She knows she’s a girl. Melissa thinks she’ll have to keep this a secret forever. Then her teacher announces that their class play is going to be Charlotte’s…

  • Ace Voices

    Ace Voices

    £16.99

    How do we experience attraction? What does love mean to us? When did you realise you were ace? This is the ace community in their own words. Drawing upon interviews with a wide range of people across the asexual spectrum, Eris Young is here to take you on an empowering, enriching journey through the rich…