What to Read

A collection of recent books particularly recommended by Holly McNally. Look for our in-store What to Read displays.



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Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet - trade paperback
By Joanne Proulx - $18.00 - add to cart

When 17-year-old Luke Hunter foretells the death of his friend with freakish accuracy, life gets complicated, fast. Everyone in Stokum, his rank little pinprick of a hometown, knows about the premo...

 

Flower Children - trade paperback
By Maxine Swann - $15.50 - add to cart

From an award-winning writer: an elegant, lively, moving novel that portrays the strangely celebrated and unsupervised childhood of four hippie offspring in the seventies and eighties. When Flow...

 

In Europe: Travels Through the Twentieth Century - trade paperback
By Geert Mak - $21.50 - add to cart

From the First World War to the waning days of the Cold War, a poignant exploration on what it means to be European at the end of the twentieth-century. Geert Mak crisscrosses Europe from Verdun...

 

Little Stalker - trade paperback
By Jennifer Belle - $15.50 - add to cart

Rebekah Kettle is obsessed. Not with her quirky, adoring paparazzo boyfriend or the gossip columnist who wants to be her new best friend, but with someone she's never even met—cult filmmaker Arthur...

 

Out Backward - trade paperback
By Ross Raisin - $18.95 - add to cart

In this creepy, lyrical debut, Raisin explores the fine line between sanity and insanity with Sam Marsdyke, an awkward late teenager who was thrown out of school after being accused of attempting t...

 

Out of Orbit: The Incredible True Story of Three Astronauts Who Were Hundreds of Miles Above Earth When They Lost Their Ride Home - trade paperback
By Chris Jones - $14.95 - add to cart

An incredible, true-life adventure set on the most dangerous frontier of all—outer spaceIn the nearly forty years since Neil Armstrong walked on the moon, space travel has come to be seen as a rout...

 

The Cellist of Sarajevo - hardcover
By Steven Galloway - $29.95 - add to cart

This brilliant novel with universal resonance tells the story of three people trying to survive in a city rife with the extreme fear of desperate times, and of the sorrowing cellist who plays undau...

 

The Drowned Lands - trade paperback
By Stan Dragland - $22.00 - add to cart

Against a 1913 background of bitter feuding over water levels along the Napanee River in eastern Ontario, two young people find themselves persuaded to a hut in the Long Swamp south of Bellrock. ...

 

The Red Scarf - trade paperback
By Kate Furnivall - $16.50 - add to cart

Sophia Morozova's relationship with fragile Anna Fedorina begins through a small act of kindness at a 1930s Siberian labor camp. As the two inmates struggle daily to survive, they increasingly rely...

 

The Savage Garden - trade paperback
By Mark Mills - $15.50 - add to cart

Young Cambridge scholar Adam Banting is in Tuscany, assigned to write a scholarly monograph about the famous Docci garden—a mysterious world of statues, grottoes, meandering rills, and classica...

 

The Verneys: Love, War and Madness in Seventeenth-Century England - trade paperback
By Adrian Tinniswood - $25.95 - add to cart

‘To know the Verneys is to know the seventeenth century,’ writes Adrian Tinniswood in his brilliant new book – and thanks to the chance survival in an attic of tens of thousands of their letters, w...

 

Whistling in the Dark - trade paperback
By Lesley Kagen - $17.50 - add to cart

It was the summer on Vliet Street when we all started locking our doors... Sally O'Malley made a promise to her daddy before he died. She swore she'd look after her sister, Troo. Keep her safe. ...

 



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