Looking for a recommendation, or help working out what the must-reads are right now? Take a look through our reading guide to June 2023—where we break down the best of writing and publishing out this month to help you find your new favourites. Fiction, non-fiction, children’s and more: these are the essentials, the bestsellers, the most interesting and enjoyable books to hit our shelves right now.

Fiction & Poetry

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I Am Homeless If This Is Not My Home
 
£16.99
Radical Love
 
£16.99
The Wind Knows My Name
 
£18.99
Watch Us Dance
 
£16.99
a "Working Life"
 
£12.99
The Rachel Incident
 
£16.99
Limelight
 
£16.99
Reproduction
 
£14.99
Be Mine
 
£18.99
The Fire
 
£16.99
This Could Be Us
 
£16.99
High Time
 
£16.99
The Bee Sting
 
£18.99
Four Seasons in Japan
 
£16.99
Brotherless Night
 
£16.99
The East Indian
 
£14.99
People
 
£9.99
The Birdcage Library
 
£16.99
An Astronomer in Love
 
£16.99
Over Sharing
 
£16.99

Débuts

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Bored Gay Werewolf
 
£14.99
Okay Days
 
£16.99
Everything's Fine
 
£16.99
The Other Side of Mrs Wood
 
£14.99
The Broken Places
 
£18.99
Even If Everything Ends
 
£18.99
Locks
 
£16.99
Bad Summer People
 
£16.99
The Glow
 
£20.00
The First Bright Thing
 
£16.99
First Position
 
£16.99£8.50
Clytemnestra's Bind (Limited Edition Signed Hardback)
 
£14.99£7.50
Morgan Is My Name
 
£16.99
The Unbroken Beauty of Rosalind Bone
 
£12.99
And Then He Sang a Lullaby
 
£14.99
The Moon Gate
 
£22.00
The Moon Represents My Heart
 
£16.99
Mrs S
 
£16.99
When We Were Sisters
 
£18.99

Crime & Thriller

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Hokey Pokey
 
£16.99
Speak of the Devil
 
£14.99
The Trial
 
£20.00
Drowning
 
£16.99
Central Park West
 
£20.00
Tell Me What I Am
 
£14.99
Fearless
 
£16.99£8.50
Murder and the Moggies of Magpie Row
 
£21.99
The End of Us
 
£16.99
The Quiet Tenant
 
£14.99
Don't Swipe Right
 
£20.00
Good Girls Die Last
 
£20.00
The People Watcher
 
£16.99
The Rule of Three
 
£16.99
Night Will Find You
 
£18.99
The Red House
 
£14.99
The Devil's Playground
 
£20.00
Killingly
 
£14.99
The Last Goodbye
 
£14.99
After That Night
 
£20.00

Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror

  • Translation State
    Translation State
    Ann Leckie
    £20.00
    A skilful mix of mystery and space opera, this compelling slice of sci-fi from the award-winning author of Ancillary Jus... See more
    A skilful mix of mystery and space opera, this compelling slice of sci-fi from the award-winning author of Ancillary Justice centres around the disappearance of a translator and intermediary... See more
  • Winter's Gifts
    Winter's Gifts
    Ben Aaronovitch
    £14.99
    Once again seamlessly blending crime and science fiction tropes, this unputdownable Rivers of London novella finds FBI S... See more
    Once again seamlessly blending crime and science fiction tropes, this unputdownable Rivers of London novella finds FBI Special Agent Kimberley Reynolds in snowbound Northern Wisconsin follow... See more
  • Shanghai Immortal
    Shanghai Immortal
    A. Y. Chao
    £18.99
    Brimming with passion, fury and unforgettable characters, this richly imaginative debut whisks the reader into an altern... See more
    Brimming with passion, fury and unforgettable characters, this richly imaginative debut whisks the reader into an alternative jazz-age Shanghai where gods and monsters rollick with humble mo... See more
  • The Burnings
    The Burnings
    Naomi Kelsey
    £14.99
    A compelling novel of paranoia, accusation and empowerment set during the sixteenth-century North Berwick witch trials, ... See more
    A compelling novel of paranoia, accusation and empowerment set during the sixteenth-century North Berwick witch trials, Kelsey's accomplished debut sees a Scottish housemaid and a Danish cou... See more
  • Gods of the Wyrdwood: The Forsaken Trilogy, Book 1
    Gods of the Wyrdwood: The Forsaken Trilogy, Book 1
    RJ Barker
    £20.00
    Book one in a new fantasy trilogy set within the bounds of a forest straight out of darkest folklore - with outlaws figh... See more
    Book one in a new fantasy trilogy set within the bounds of a forest straight out of darkest folklore - with outlaws fighting an evil empire and warring deities. RJ Barker is the British Fant... See more
  • The Frugal Wizard's Handbook for Surviving Medieval England
    The Frugal Wizard's Handbook for Surviving Medieval England
    Brandon Sanderson
    £22.00
    The gloriously eclectic creator of the Stormlight Archive weaves the wonderfully quirky time-travelling tale of an amnes... See more
    The gloriously eclectic creator of the Stormlight Archive weaves the wonderfully quirky time-travelling tale of an amnesiac wizard adrift in Medieval England and his desperate search for his... See more

Biography & Memoir

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Pageboy
 
£20.00
This Ragged Grace
 
£16.99
How We Might Live
 
£14.99
Into the Void
 
£25.00
Leg
 
£18.99
Bee Gees: Children of the World
 
£22.00
Goodbye Russia
 
£25.00
Thoroughly Modern
 
£22.00
Three Worlds
 
£25.00
Nick Drake: The Life
 
£30.00
An Uneasy Inheritance
 
£22.00
Defiant Dreams
 
£16.99
Strong
 
£22.00
Becoming Us
 
£22.00
Come My Fanatics
 
£30.00
The Green Bullet
 
£22.00
One Boy, Two Bills and a Fry Up
 
£20.00
The Way of the Hermit
 
£16.99
See Me Rolling
 
£16.99£8.50
Doro
 
£18.99

History & Military

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Forgotten Warriors
 
£25.00
Europe and the Roma
 
£40.00
France on Trial
 
£25.00
How to Be
 
£25.00
Witchcraft
 
£20.00
The Autumn Ghost
 
£22.99
Empire Windrush
 
£25.00
The Russian Revolution
 
£27.99
Hitler, Stalin, Mum and Dad
 
£25.00
Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness
 
£25.00
Assad
 
£25.00
Footsloggers
 
£30.00
Bismarck's War
 
£30.00
The Royal Wardrobe: peek into the wardrobes of history's most fashionable royals
 
£22.00
1923
 
£18.99
My Friend Anne Frank
 
£22.00
The Last Secret of the Secret Annex
 
£20.00
Spies
 
£25.00
Love in a Time of Hate
 
£20.00
Winkle
 
£30.00

Science, Society & Essays

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This is Europe
 
£22.00
Blue Machine
 
£20.00
Fevered Planet
 
£20.00
Psychedelics
 
£20.00
The Invention of Essex
 
£16.99
Rural
 
£18.99
Being Human
 
£22.00
On Women
 
£16.99
Age of the City
 
£20.00
Traditionalism
 
£25.00
This is Not America
 
£18.99
Lenin Walked on the Moon
 
£14.99
American Whitelash
 
£25.00
How to Survive a Crisis
 
£20.00
Know Your Place
 
£16.99
This Thread of Gold
 
£20.00
Critical
 
£16.99
The Good Virus
 
£25.00
Fighting for Life
 
£20.00
The Power of the Outsider
 
£20.00

Home, Food & Drink

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Ramen
 
£20.00
Create
 
£30.00
Paella
 
£20.00
Beat the Budget
 
£16.99
Hungry Woman
 
£30.00
SLICE
 
£12.99
PING!
 
£20.00
Pinch of Nom Budget
 
£17.99
Love, Lists and Labels
 
£16.99
Recipes from the World of H.P Lovecraft
 
£16.99
Mindful Chef
 
£26.00
Danny Loves Pasta
 
£22.00
Hungry Heart
 
£16.99
Sew for Yourself
 
£45.99
Sugar Rush
 
£19.99
Super Easy Air Fryer Recipes
 
£12.99
The Clever Camper Cookbook
 
£14.99
Summers in France
 
£35.00
Wine Club
 
£21.99
Malta
 
£26.00

Paperbacks

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Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
You Made a Fool of Death With Your Beauty
Edible Economics
Sound Within Sound
Lessons
Fight Night
Verse, Chorus, Monster!
Beyond Measure
The Geometer Lobachevsky
The Rabbit Hutch
Bi
Faith, Hope and Carnage
Trust
The Book of Goose
The Facemaker
Happy-Go-Lucky
The Kingdom of Sand
Berlin
The Playbook
Stalking the Atomic City

Children's

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Glow
 
£16.99
Loki: A Bad God's Guide to Ruling the World
 
£7.99
Until the Road Ends
 
£7.99
Grandad's Pride
 
£12.99
Kofi and the Rap Battle Summer
 
£7.99
Star Cat: A Turnip in Time!
 
£9.99
The Case of the Lighthouse Intruder
 
£7.99
Wigglesbottom Primary: The Sports Day Chicken
 
£6.99
The Worst Class in the World Total Mayhem!
 
£6.99
Blobfish
 
£7.99
'Twas the Night Before Pride
 
£7.99
Pip and Posy, Where Are You? At the Seaside (A Felt Flaps Book)
 
£6.99
Pip and Posy, Where Are You? In the Garden (A Felt Flaps Book)
 
£6.99
Home is Where My Heart Is
 
£12.99
Into the Wild
 
£7.99
Thunderboots
 
£7.99
Vivi Conway and the Sword of Legend
 
£7.99
Greenwild: The World Behind The Door
 
£12.99
Rani Reports
 
£7.99
Tales From Beyond the Rainbow
 
£11.99

Teen and Young Adult

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I Kissed Shara Wheeler
 
£8.99
Five Survive
 
£8.99
Bite Risk
 
£7.99
Darkhearts
 
£8.99
Mirror Me
 
£8.99
Rhubarb Lemonade
 
£7.99
Bad Influence
 
£7.99
This Summer's Secrets
 
£8.99
As Long As the Lemon Trees Grow
 
£8.99
SH!T BAG
 
£8.99
Never Trust a Gemini
 
£7.99
The Dos and Donuts of Love
 
£7.99
You're Not Supposed to Die Tonight
 
£8.99