{"title":"Staff favourites","description":"\u003cp\u003eA sprinkling of the books we've read since we opened.\u003cbr\u003eWe may not always agree on them, we may have picked books some of you have hated, but they're all books at least one of us (or our former colleagues) have read and enjoyed. It will mostly be fiction, but you'll also find books from the non-fiction, YA, and children's sections of our shop. If you've any questions, just ask. If you've any opinions, just say. \u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"9781784744526","title":"Thunderclap","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWhy we like it - A moving tribute to the long lasting power of art, an artist adds the finishing touches to a masterpiece and moments later is killed in an explosion that ripped a city apart. Laura Cumming explores who this artist was and why his paintings are so powerful, she compellingly combines this narrative with biography of her childhood and her father, also an artist. 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If Michael Agnew had not walked through the door of the pub on a quiet night in February in his white shirt.    There is nothing special about the day Cushla meets Michael, a married man from Belfast, in the pub owned by her family. But here, love is never far from violence, and this encounter will change both of their lives forever.   As people get up each morning and go to work, school, church or the pub, the daily news rolls in of another car bomb exploded, another man beaten, killed or left for dead. In the class Cushla teaches, the vocabulary of seven-year-old children now includes phrases like 'petrol bomb' and 'rubber bullets'. And as she is forced to tread lines she never thought she would cross, tensions in the town are escalating, threatening to destroy all she is working to hold together.   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Would someone like him ever date someone like her?Skewering all our certainties about why we fall in love, ROMANTIC COMEDY is a witty and probing tale of how the heart will follow itself, no matter what anyone says. It is Curtis Sittenfeld at her most sharp, daring and compassionate best.   -----------------'One of my all-time favourite authors. A brilliantly written, funny page-turner, I want to read it all again' PANDORA SYKES'I am obsessed. A warm, wise, magnanimous and extremely funny novel. 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It's not you, it's the food.   We have entered a new 'age of eating' where most of our calories come from an entirely novel set of substances called Ultra-Processed Food, food which is industrially processed and designed and marketed to be addictive. But do we really know what it's doing to our bodies?Join Chris in his travels through the world of food science and a UPF diet to discover what's really going on. Find out why exercise and willpower can't save us, and what UPF is really doing to our bodies, our health, our weight, and the planet (hint: nothing good).   For too long we've been told we just need to make different choices, when really we're living in a food environment that makes it nigh-on impossible. So this is a book about our rights. 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For Demon, born on the wrong side of luck, the affection and safety he craves is as remote as the ocean he dreams of seeing one day. The wonder is in how far he's willing to travel to try and get there.   Suffused with truth, anger and compassion, Demon Copperhead is an epic tale of love, loss and everything in between.   'Legit about to get an 'I'd rather be reading Demon Copperhead' sticker for my Nissan Murano.' ROB DELANEY____________What readers are saying:***** 'An amazing, beautifully written story I cannot wait to recommend to everyone I know.' ***** 'Powerful and brilliant. To immerse yourself in a Kingsolver novel is to put yourself in the hands of a master.' ***** 'A must read and heart-opening book.' ***** 'Raw, angry, starkly beautiful. . . Genuinely one of the best books I've ever read.'***** 'Amazingly complex. . . 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An Amazon Best Non-Fiction Book of The Year�_~Essential reading�_~ �_\" The Guardian�_~Sharp and witty with moments of startling candour�_~ �_\" The i�_~Revealing and beautifully written�_~ �_\" David Harewood_____Before Jeffrey Boakye was a black teacher, he was a black student. Which means he has spent a lifetime navigating places of learning that are white by default. Since training to teach, he has often been the only black teacher at school. At times seen as a role model, at others a source of curiosity, Boakye�_Ts is a journey of exploration �_\" from the outside looking in.   In the groundbreaking I Heard What You Said, he recounts how it feels to be on the margins of the British education system. As a black, male teacher �_\" an English teacher who has had to teach problematic texts �_\" his very existence is a provocation to the status quo, giving him a unique perspective on the UK�_Ts classrooms.   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