New and Noteworthy
Selected by the Bookshop
‘Super Thursday’ is the nickname given to the busiest day of the year in publishing. There have been several new, exciting releases this month but it can be hard to sift through them all and find the gems. That's where we come in. This list spotlights books we think deserve their place in the publishing schedule as well as those that may fly under the radar and a few still to come.
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'A totally unprecedented, behind the scenes portrait of Putin's Russia at war. Astonishing. A major work' ANTONY BEEVOR'Hypnotically good. Seierstad has imparted a sense of the Russians, in this "at war under Putin's thumb" era in a way I…
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A history of Black imagery that recasts our understanding of visual culture and technologyIn BLACK MEME, Legacy Russell, awardwinning author of the groundbreaking GLITCH FEMINISM, explores the “meme” as mapped to Black…
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The acclaimed author of Free returns with an imaginative investigation into dignity and historical injustice through the story of a family'Beguiling and moving... a clever hybrid, happily exploiting all the many possibilities of…
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The global bestselling superstar 'poet of physics' returns with a dazzling philosophical exploration of our place in the universeWhat can we really know about the world around us? Or is there beauty in daring not to know?With clarity and…
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On a trip through the Scottish highlands, Marius Kociejowski stumbles upon the scattered remains of the Clearance village of Badbea on the east coast of Caithness. Intrigued by the fate of those settlers, forcefully evicted from their homes…
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Winner of the Prix Medicis 2025A son's reckoning with a formidable mother, Russia and the history that shaped them both.On 3 October 2023, beneath the dome of Les Invalides, the French Republic honours Hélène…
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On a remote Aegean island, the billionaire Thanassis Morel is building the Floating World: a climate-controlled utopia beneath a vast geodesic dome, promising refuge for the ultra-wealthy from the chaos consuming the outside world.…
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The definitive selection of John Burnside‘s extraordinary and vibrant poems, taken from across decades but always stirring, curious, alert to the natural world and the people in it.Over thirty-five years and seventeen collections,…
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Tracing the evolution of socialist world literature from the nineteenth century to the present, Benjamin Kohlmann uncovers the formal repertoires through which a set of political ideals found aesthetic expression. At the heart of this study…
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Art doesn't change the world directly; yet we persist in wanting it to. This book argues for a different understanding of art. In these urgent times, we need to rethink the purpose and effects of art-for the creator, the audience, the…
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In a nameless city torn apart by civil war, a teenage sniper has only one goal: to fire the perfect shot. He sublimates himself into his weapon, learns to maintain impassivity, controls his breath, listens to his body and the beat of his…
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In Two Women, Jacqueline Rose fictionalizes and intertwines the lives of two remarkable figures whose stories trace the contours of the twentieth century: Edith Stein, the German-Jewish philosopher, Catholic convert and saint; and…
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The fifth book by Booker Prize nominated author, Anne Serre.
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A blistering expose of the new far-right apocalyptic alliance that's on the move around the globe - and how we resist The far right is on the march again - but this time it's different from anything we've seen before. A new, apocalyptic…
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From the bestselling, award-winning master of uncanny fiction comes a defining work, twenty years in the making – a deeply moving, decade- and continent-spanning epic of grief, global tumult, and grim conspiracy. Maur’s life has…
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The sixteen days of the Peasant’s Revolt, when new versions of England were born under the charismatic leader Wat Tyler, brought to life in a dazzlingly inventive novel by the author of The Manningtree Witches.It is 1381. England,…
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‘Like Helen I kept a diary when I was young. It was nothing like Helen's. I tried faithfully to record the events of the day, to describe what I was reading and thinking and to scrutinize and explicate my reactions and so on. She does…
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I have a question. What's the worst thing that could happen?Wait. Before you decide, let me tell you a story...Take a trip through the sideways door and let supernatural secrets come alive in these chilling tales of terror! Meet the…
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A three-part collection of songs recalled and misremembered; of singing or / as stilled life.
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From two of the world's leading intelligence and espionage historians comes the definitive-and most unsettling-account of the assassination of Leon Trotsky.features almost 100 images, with dozens of archival photographsincludes graphics…
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Join Rene and Glumfoot at the Cafe at the Edge of the Woods - this time with some unexpected visitors beneath the floorboards ...…
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'Folklore, myth and magic collide beautifully' EDWARD PARNELL, author of GhostlandA modern bestiary with an ancient heart: meet twelve emblematic animals and restore your relationship with the natural world, from the editor of Cunning…
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Poetry Book Society Autumn 2026 Special CommendationA sweeping selection from acclaimed poet, Jacob Polley, which showcases his full poetic range. Over the two decades since his award-winning debut, The Brink, Jacob Polley has earned a…
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From the bestselling author of Station Eleven, Exit Party is Emily St. John Mandel's epic new story of crimes committed and loves lost across worlds and decades.'I am a big Emily St. John Mandel fanboy' - George R.R. Martin2031. America is…
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'This book is a living, guiding, singing thing... I will cherish it and revisit it as long as I live' Max Porter'One of the finest living poets writing in English' Raymond AntrobusA daring, genre-defying work of non-fiction from one of our…
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In Girling, her open-hearted debut collection, Eve Esfandiari-Denney wrestles with the boundaries between living and death, history and the present, and how these are preordained for us in the fabric of our DNA and in our geographical or…
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Present-day Minneapolis. Dr Ana Jovanovic, oncologist, goes against the advice of her hospital's tumour board and schedules her patient Jonathan for exploratory surgery. She is proved right when the surgery reveals that he has cancer. But…
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My Destination, Daisy Fried's fifth book, explores renewal amid great loss - a struggle as common as rain. As full of lived life as ever, as formally various, and as wide-ranging in both subject and tone, these poems are sophisticated and…
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MARLON JAMES'S TRIUMPHANT RETURN TO THE BOOKER PRIZE-WINNING A BRIEF HISTORY OF SEVEN KILLINGS'Darkness is a mood in Jamaica . . .'The Disappearers is Marlon James's triumphant return to the Jamaica of A Brief History of…
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'Sublime... completely gripping... a wonder' MARK HADDON'Her best book yet. Completely extraordinary' DAISY JOHNSON'A real feat... the writing really, really pops' JEM CALDERA mesmerising portrait of an ageing man's…
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