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BookBar brings people together through books. We are a bookshop, events and social space, serving wine, coffee and the best book recommendations. Our Shelf Medicate Prescription and Consultation Service prescibes bespoke book recommendations for aspiring and avid readers. Welcome to BookBar an independent bookshop and social space in London BookBar brings people together through books. Come and visit our bookshop, wine bar and events space in Islington or Chelsea, join us for one of our in person events, browse and order books online or join our BookClub. Upcoming Events BookBar Presents... 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Talking Classics by Mary Beard Price £16.99 The Village on the Edge of the World by Herta Müller Price £16.99 Weimar : Life on the Edge of Catastrophe by Katja Hoyer Price £30.00 Rough Edges by Natasha Carthew Price £20.00 Up All Night: A History of Going Out by Imogen Willetts Price £25.00 Hungry : A Biography of My Body by Katriona O'Sullivan Price £18.99 Said the Dead by Doireann Ni Ghriofa Price £18.99 Selfish Girls by Abigail Bergstrom Price £9.99 Elisa's Pick Elegy, Southwest by Madeleine Watts Price £10.99 Farewell, My Lovely by Raymond Chandler Price £9.99 The Kitchen Book by Ella Risbridger Price £26.00 Jess's Pick Tree by Aya Koda Price £11.99 Esme's Pick The Sisters by Jonas Hassen Khemiri Price £10.99 Polly's Pick Cathedrals by Claudia Pineiro Price £11.99 Villa Coco by Andrew Sean Greer Price £16.99 Bimbo by Ashley James Price £22.00 The Things We Never Say by Elizabeth Strout Price £18.99 Upcoming Event! American Fantasy by Emma Straub Price £18.99 Smallie by Eden McKenzie-Goddard Price £16.99 Hunger and Thirst by Claire Fuller Price £18.99 Amy's Pick Solace House by Will Maclean Price £20.00 Fruit Fly by Josh Silver Price £16.99 A Deadly Episode by Anthony Horowitz Price £22.00 Porcupines by Fran Fabriczki Price £16.99 Browse our full list of recommendations Books we can't wait to recommend in 2026 Last Night in Brooklyn by Xochitl Gonzalez Price £16.99 It Comes in Waves by Rukky Brume Price £16.99 Retro by Jessica M. Goldstein Price £16.99 Hard Place by Gab Torr Price £16.99 Mrs Dickens by Emily Howes Price £20.00 Tillinghast by Clare Cavenagh Price £16.99 Uprising by Tahmima Anam Price £16.99 Villa Coco by Andrew Sean Greer Price £16.99 All In by Claire Powell Price £16.99 Skin Contact by Elisa Faison Price £18.99 The Devoted by Catherine Cho Price £16.99 Whistler by Ann Patchett Price £20.00 Natural Disaster by Lisa Owens Price £16.99 Amy's Pick The Children by Melissa Albert Price £18.99 Chandler's Pick Exit Party by Emily St John Mandel Price £18.99 Partita by Barbara Kingsolver Price £20.00 Land by Maggie O'Farrell Price £25.00 Chrissy's Pick Stations by Louise Kennedy Price £20.00 Chrissy's Pick John of John by Douglas Stuart Price £20.00 Chrissy's Pick I Want You To Be Happy by Jem Calder Price £14.99 Cool Machine by Colson Whitehead Price £22.00 Chrissy's Pick American Hagwon by Min Jin Lee Price £22.00 The Traveller's Library by Chandler Bray Price £16.99 Browse our full list of recommendations Signed Copies Signed MEDesque : Everyday Recipes with Mediterranean Roots by Georgina Hayden Price £26.00 Signed Go Gentle by Maria Semple Price £20.00 Chandler's Pick My Year in Paris with Gertrude Stein by Deborah Levy Price £18.99 We all love! Transcription by Ben Lerner Price £14.99 Signed What Am I, a Deer? by Polly Barton (Author Edition) Price £16.99 Signed Half His Age by Jennette McCurdy Price £16.99 Signed Jesus Christ Kinski by Benjamin Myers Price £18.99 Signed Night People : How to Be a DJ in ‘90s New York City by Mark Ronson Price £25.00 Signed Blue Sisters by Coco Mellors Price £9.99 You Are Here by David Nicholls Out of stock Amy's Pick A Language of Limbs by Dylin Hardcastle Price £10.99 Signed A Long Winter by Colm Toibin Price £12.99 Signed New Cemetery Price £14.99 Signed No Friend to This House by Natalie Haynes Price £20.00 Signed Ferment : The Life-Changing Power of Microbes by Tim Spector Price £25.00 Signed We Love You, Bunny by Mona Awad Price £16.99 Signed Will There Ever Be Another You by Patricia Lockwood Price £16.99 BookBar Favourite! Ungone by Hannah Patterson Price £10.99 Signed Indignity: A Life Reimagined by Lea Ypi Price £22.00 Amy's Pick Dusk by Robbie Arnott Price £16.99 Signed Tart by Slutty Cheff Price £16.99 Signed Picture Imperfect by Jacqueline Wilson Price £22.00 Browse our full list of recommendations bookbar bookbags Our iconic canvas BookBags are the perfect size for your daily essentials. Buy a BookBar Tote now! The BookBar loyalty card In partnership with Ambler Primary School. Buy a book and get a stamp. When you get ten stamps we'll donate a book to a child from Ambler. Visit our bookshop, wine bar, events and social space at 166 Blackstock Road to get started. Follow us on Instagram for our latest recommendations and news @bookbaruk Load More Check out our famous BookBar playlists, courtesy of BookBar's resident DJ

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Stuck in a reading rut? Want to get into the habit of reading but don't know where to start? Or simply want to expand your reading tastes? Our Shelf Medicate Prescription and Consultation Service is designed to help cure any literary ailment. Just what the doctor ordered. Shelf Medicate Subscriptions Stuck in a reading rut? Want to get into the habit of reading but don't know where to start? Or simply want to expand your reading tastes? Our Shelf Medicate Subscriptions are designed to cure any literary ailment. Just what the doctor ordered. Purchase a Shelf Medicate Subscription and receive a book delivered to your door every month, personally selected for you by BookBar's literary experts. Choose between the hardback or paperback subscription. You'll then meet with our expert for a consultation before embarking on your reading adventure. Paperback Subscription Paperback Subscription 12 months 1 book a month £230 (includes P&P) Add to Basket Hardback Subscription 12 months 1 book a month £350 (includes P&P) Add to Basket 6 months 1 book a month £125 (includes P&P) Add to Basket 6 months 1 book a month £190 (includes P&P) Add to Basket Give a BookBar Gift Voucher If you can't decide which Shelf Medicate Subscription to give someone you love, buy a BookBar voucher, and let them choose their subscription, book a consultation, or order their own books. Continue

The Coming-Down Time by Robert Selby Shadows on the Barley by Robert Selby (from 'The Coming-Down Time') When our train goes over the river sending all the bridge bats aquiver into the pink evening; when the poplar’s shadow on the barley is not wanting for company and the castle turret is gleaming, it’s time for that part of the day, a few hours at least, that we can say are ours. The train slows down into the freedom beyond the tunnel, into the redbrick commuter town where we can peel off our office flannel, excited like kids home from school, flinging windows wide, excitable for the kettle’s click, the shower, for the can’s nozzle in every flower; then you, in your PJs already, post-shower bob a glorious melee, feet up on the kitchen table reading the paper you didn’t get to on the morning train because, again, we had slumped together in sleep, in a jerking, dribbling heap, dreaming of shadows on the barley. Add to Basket Praise for The Coming-Down Time 'Vivid, precise and stamped with a very English restraint, these poems deftly connect people and place across the span of a long century. There are images, echoes and correspondences here that resound as truthfully and as poignantly as a village church bell.' Melissa Harrison '... a marvellous anatomy of English life over the past century, working outwards from its gripping evocation of a family centre in East Anglia by a writer who is at once poet, local historian and naturalist. The book focuses on the extraordinary development of war experience into the familiarity of the period which is 'now and England' showing in its final part how everyone's personal life is in direct descent from the personal lives of ancestors.' Bernard O'Donoghue 'War and peace, past and present, love and death: The Coming-Down Time has a large reach, but makes its themes feel intimate by catching them in language that is at once simple and capable of wonder. It's a striking achievement: moving and intelligent and memorable.' Andrew Motion

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The Booklist The Booklist is BookBar's way of telling you all about the books we love. With hand-picked recommendations tailored around interesting themes, current topics and the latest trends, you're guaranteed to find something for you. Each book listed here is personally recommended by BookBar's team of bookish experts with you in mind. When your order a book for delivery, we'll wrap it in our iconic wrapping, so every book you order is a gift to treasure. Please bear in mind that this is not our full stock listing; if you'd like to order something you can't see here, we may have it in stock at our bookshop and wine bar or we can order most books to arrive the next day. To order get in touch with us and we'd love to help. Hot Off the Press A selection of the best and most recent fiction releases Chrissy's Pick Frida Slattery as Herself by Ana Kinsella Price £16.99 The Things We Never Say by Elizabeth Strout Price £18.99 Upcoming Event! American Fantasy by Emma Straub Price £18.99 Smallie by Eden McKenzie-Goddard Price £16.99 Hunger and Thirst by Claire Fuller Price £18.99 Amy's Pick Solace House by Will Maclean Price £20.00 Fruit Fly by Josh Silver Price £16.99 A Deadly Episode by Anthony Horowitz Price £22.00 Porcupines by Fran Fabriczki Price £16.99 Signed Go Gentle by Maria Semple Price £20.00 Chandler's Pick My Year in Paris with Gertrude Stein by Deborah Levy Price £18.99 The Palm House by Gwendoline Riley Price £16.99 We all love! Transcription by Ben Lerner Price £14.99 Yesteryear by Caro Claire Burke Price £16.99 Lazar by Nelio Biedermann Price £16.99 Look What You Made Me Do by John Lanchester Price £20.00 What Am I, A Deer? by Polly Barton Price £14.99 Chandler's Pick My Lover, the Rabbi by Wayne Koestenbaum Price £14.99 Python's Kiss: Stories by Louise Erdrich Price £20.00 Polly's Pick The Renovation by Kenan Orhan Price £16.99 Women's Prize for Fiction 2026 Browse this year's longlist for the Women's Prize for Fiction The Benefactors by Wendy Erskine Price £10.99 Kingfisher by Rozie Kelly Price £10.99 The Mercy Step by Marcia Hutchinson Price £16.99 The Others by Sheena Kalayil Price £12.99 Paradiso 17 by Hannah Lillith Assadi Price £16.99 Gloria Don't Speak by Lucy Apps Price £12.99 Dominion by Addie E. Citchens Price £12.99 The Best of Everything by Kit de Waal Price £10.99 Booker Shortlist Flashlight by Susan Choi Price £10.99 A Beast Slinks Towards Beijing by Alice Evelyn Yang Price £11.99 Wild Dark Shore by Charlotte McConaghy Price £9.99 Moderation by Elaine Castillo Price £17.99 The Correspondent by Virginia Evan Price £16.99 Audition by Katie Kitamura Price £18.99 Book of the Year 2025 Heart the Lover by Lily King Price £9.99 New in Non-Fiction The very latest insightful and thought-provoking non-fiction reads Ghost Stories by Siri Hustvedt Price £22.00 Strangers : A Memoir of Marriage by Belle Burden Price £18.99 Famesick by Lena Dunham Price £18.99 Signed London Falling by Patrick Radden Keefe Price £22.00 Baldwin: A Love Story by Nicholas Boggs Price £30.00 A Hymn to Life: Shame has to Change Sides by Gisele Pelicot Price £22.00 How to End a Story by Helen Garner Price £20.00 Love Machines by James Muldoon Price £12.99 The Fire by Cecilia Sala Price £14.99 Dear England : Lessons in Leadership by Gareth Southgate Price £25.00 Book of Lives : A Memoir of Sorts by Margaret Atwood Price £30.00 How To Live An Artful Life by Katy Hessel Price £16.99 A Mind of My Own by Kathy Burke Price £22.00 The Anthony Bourdain Reader by Anthony Bourdain Price £25.00 Bread of Angels by Patti Smith Price £25.00 Dead and Alive by Zadie Smith Price £22.00 I Shop, Therefore I Am by Mary Portas Price £20.00 Fly, Wild Swans: My Mother, Myself and China by Jung Chang Price £25.00 Great Art Explained by James Payne Price £30.00 The Traitors Circle by Jonathan Freedland Price £25.00 New in Paperback The best books, recently released in their portable paperback format Tree by Aya Koda Price £11.99 Lush by Rochelle Dowden-Lord Price £9.99 Table for One by Emma Gannon Price £9.99 Confessions by Catherine Airey Price £9.99 Esme's Pick The Sisters by Jonas Hassen Khemiri Price £10.99 A New Me by Helen Oyeyemi Price £9.99 Gunk by Saba Sams Price £9.99 Sweet Heat by Bolu Babalola Price £9.99 The Impossible Fortune by Richard Osman Price £9.99 Book of the Year 2025 Heart the Lover by Lily King Price £9.99 Booker Longlist Seascraper by Benjamin Wood Price £9.99 Clown Town by Mick Herron Price £10.99 We all love! Rejection by Tony Tulathimutte Price £9.99 Chandler's Pick A Room Above A Shop by Anthony Shapland Price £9.99 Bring the House Down by Charlotte Runcie Price £9.99 The Original by Nell Stevens Price £9.99 Intl. Booker Shortlist The Director by Daniel Kehlmann Price £10.99 Stag Dance by Torrey Peters Price £9.99 Atmosphere by Taylor Jenkins Reid Price £9.99 Lonely Crowds by Stephanie Wambugu Price £9.99 Can't find the book you'd like to buy listed here? Tell us what you'd like and we'll get it for you. Order here Coming Soon Pre-order the books everyone will be talking about Eat Bitter by Lydia Pang Price £18.99 The Traveller's Library by Chandler Bray Price £16.99 Wifehouse by Sonya Walger Price £16.99 Having Spent Life Seeking by Kae Tempest Price £18.99 Partita by Barbara Kingsolver Price £20.00 Polly's Pick Wimmy Road Boyz by Sufiyaan Salam Price £16.99 Chrissy's Pick American Hagwon by Min Jin Lee Price £22.00 Land by Maggie O'Farrell Price £25.00 Chrissy's Pick Stations by Louise Kennedy Price £20.00 Cool Machine by Colson Whitehead Price £22.00 Chrissy's Pick John of John by Douglas Stuart Price £20.00 Chrissy's Pick Frida Slattery as Herself by Ana Kinsella Price £16.99 Chrissy's Pick I Want You To Be Happy by Jem Calder Price £14.99 Royal Court Reading List A birthday reading list inspired by the Royal Court's 70th season We all love! Rejection by Tony Tulathimutte Price £9.99 Paradiso 17 by Hannah Lillith Assadi Price £16.99 Audition by Katie Kitamura Price £18.99 Intl. Booker Shortlist The Director by Daniel Kehlmann Price £10.99 Women Talking by Miriam Toews Price £9.99 The Old Drift by Namwali Serpell Price £10.99 Blood and Guts in High School by Kathy Acker Price £10.99 Elisa's Pick Scaffolding by Lauren Elkin Price £9.99 Soldier Sailor by Claire Kilroy Price £9.99 The Buried Giant by Kazuo Ishiguro Price £9.99 Hannan's Pick We Hexed the Moon by Mollyhall Seeley Price £10.99 International Booker Prize 2026 Read and support the best works of long-form fiction or collections of short stories translated into English Intl. Booker Longlist On Earth As It Is Beneath by Ana Paula Maia Price £11.99 Intl. Booker Longlist She Who Remains by Rene Karabash Price £12.99 Intl. Booker Longlist The Remembered Soldier by Anjet Daanje Price £20.00 Intl. Booker Longlist We Are Green and Trembling by Gabriela Cabezón Cámara Price £9.99 Intl. Booker Longlist The Duke by Matteo Melchiorre Price £14.99 Intl. Booker Shortlist The Director by Daniel Kehlmann Price £10.99 Intl. Booker Longlist The Wax Child by Olga Ravn Price £14.99 Intl. Booker Longlist Taiwan Travelogue by Yang Shuang-zi Price £14.99 Intl. Booker Longlist Women Without Men by Shahrnush Parsipur Price £12.99 Intl. Booker Longlist The Witch by Marie NDiaye Price £12.99 Intl. Booker Longlist Small Comfort by Ia Genberg Price £12.99 Intl. Booker Longlist The Deserters by Mathias Énard Price £14.99 Intl. Booker Longlist The Nights Are Quiet in Tehran by Shida Bazyar Price £10.99 Read with Pride Our favourite fiction celebrating queer writers and stories Amy's Pick A Language of Limbs by Dylin Hardcastle Price £10.99 Deviants by Santanu Bhattacharya Price £9.99 Bellies by Nicola Dinan Price £9.99 Experienced by Kate Young Price £9.99 Rosewater by Liv Little Price £9.99 Chrissy's Pick Our Wives Under the Sea by Julia Armfield Price £9.99 Mrs S by K Patrick Price £9.99 Green Dot by Madeleine Gray Price £9.99 Detransition, Baby by Torrey Peters Price £8.99 Greta and Valdin by Rebecca K Reilly Price £9.99 Radical Love by Neil Blackmore Price £9.99 Wild Things by Laura Kay Price £9.99 The Happy Couple by Naoise Dolan Price £9.99 The Safekeep by Yael van der Wouden Price £9.99 Memorial by Bryan Washington Price £8.99 The Pairing by Casey McQuiston Price £18.99 In Memoriam by Alice Winn Price £9.99 Rainbow Milk by Mendez Price £9.99 Sexual Politics and Relationships A selection of books from our Sexual Politics and Relationships Shelves Disobedient Bodies by Emma Dabiri Price £7.99 Three Women by Lisa Tadeo Price £10.99 Tomorrow S Will Be Good Again by Katherine Angel Price £8.99 Mating in Captivity by Esther Perel Price £10.99 The Sex Lives of African Women by Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah Price £9.99 The Right to Sex by Amia Srinivasan Price £9.99 Arrangements in Blue by Amy Key Price £10.99 Porn : An Oral History by Polly Barton Price £13.99 Conversations On Love by Natasha Lunn Price £10.99 All About Love by Bel Hooks Price £11.99 Black Box by Shiori Ito Price £9.99 Notes on Heartbreak by Annie Lord Price £9.99 Staff Picks Check out what our team are currently recommending Tree by Aya Koda Price £11.99 Amy's Pick The Children by Melissa Albert Price £18.99 Esme's Pick The Sisters by Jonas Hassen Khemiri Price £10.99 Polly's Pick Cathedrals by Claudia Pineiro Price £11.99 Flo's Pick The Hounding by Xenobe Purvis Price £9.99 We all love! Transcription by Ben Lerner Price £14.99 Jess's Pick Helen Of Nowhere Price £12.99 Chandler's Pick My Lover, the Rabbi by Wayne Koestenbaum Price £14.99 We all love! Lost Lambs by Madeline Cash Price £16.99 Flo's Pick Calypso by David Sedaris Price £12.99 Amy's Pick Woo Woo by Ella Baxter Price £10.99 Chandler's Pick The Dance and the Fire by Daniel Saldaña París Price £11.99 Chandler's Pick Box Hill by Adam Mars-Jones Price £12.99 Amy's Pick The Everlasting by Alix E. Harrow Price £22.00 Elisa's Pick Scaffolding by Lauren Elkin Price £9.99 Jess's Pick Kick the Latch by Kathryn Scanlan Price £9.99 Hannan's Pick The Buddha of Suburbia by Hanif Kureishi Price £9.99 Flo's Pick The Decagon House Murders by Yukito Ayatsuji Price £9.99 Esme's Pick The Compound by Aisling Rawle Price £16.99 Jess's Pick Vaim by Jon Fosse Price £12.99 The Women's Prize for Non-Fiction 2026 The longlist spans politics, memoir, science, history, biography, and art, in an extraordinary celebration of women’s writing Signed Indignity: A Life Reimagined by Lea Ypi Price £22.00 Nation of Strangers : Rebuilding Home in the 21st Century by Ece Temelkuran Price £18.99 To Exist As I Am by Grace Spence Green Price £16.99 Finding Albion by Zakia Sewell Price £25.00 Mother Mary Comes To Me by Arundhati Roy Price £20.00 Hotel Exile : Paris in the Shadow of War by Jane Rogoyska Price £25.00 The Genius of Trees by Harriet Rix Price £25.00 Death of an Ordinary Man by Sarah Perry Price £11.99 Ask Me How It Works: Love in an Open Marriage by Deepa Paul Price £18.99 To Be Young, Gifted and Black by Kadiatu Kanneh-Mason Price £16.99 With the Law on Our Side by Lady Hale Price £25.00 Art Cure: The Science of How the Arts Transform Our Health by Daisy Fancourt Price £22.00 Don't Let it Break You by Jenny Evans Price £22.00 The Finest Hotel in Kabul : A People’s History of Afghanistan by Lyse Doucet Price £25.00 Daughters of the Bamboo Grove by Barbara Demick Price £10.99 Food and Drink The most delectable reads of the moment The Kitchen Book by Ella Risbridger Price £26.00 Signed MEDesque : Everyday Recipes with Mediterranean Roots by Georgina Hayden Price £26.00 La Mesa Mexicana by Rosa Cienfuegos Price £39.95 FUSÃO : Untraditional recipes inspired by Brasil by Ixta Belfrage Price £28.00 Good Things : Recipes to Share with People You Love by Samin Nosrat Price £30.00 Padella by Tim Siadatan Price £25.00 Long Day? Cook This. : Easy East Asian Recipes with a Twist by Justin Tsang Price £26.00 OPA! : Recipes inspired by Greek tavernas Price £30.00 How I Cook: A Chef’s Guide to Really Good Home Cooking by Ben Lippett Price £26.00 Boustany by Sami Tamimi Price £30.00 Sama Sama by Julie Lin Price £28.00 In For Dinner by Rosie Kellett Price £27.00 Sweet : the secret to the best desserts by Alexina Anatole Price £27.00 Crunch : An Ode to Crisps by Natalie Whittle Price £10.99 Dinner by Meera Sodha Price £27.00 Amy's Pick The Condiment Book by Claire Dinhut Price £14.99 Nights Out At Home by Jay Rayner Price £22.00 Ottolenghi COMFORT by Yotam Ottolenghi Price £30.00 A Thousand Feasts : Small Moments of Joy … a Memoir of Sorts by Nigel Slater Price £12.99 SIFT : The Elements of Great Baking by Nicola Lamb Price £30.00 The Best of BookBar A selection of standout Book of the Month and Book Club picks that never fail to hit the mark Saraswati by Gurnaik Johal Price £9.99 Deviants by Santanu Bhattacharya Price £9.99 Good People by Patmeena Sabit Price £16.99 Book of the Year 2025 Heart the Lover by Lily King Price £9.99 Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri Price £9.99 Small Worlds by Caleb Azumah Nelson Price £9.99 The Safekeep by Yael van der Wouden Price £9.99 You Are Here by David Nicholls Out of stock Chrysalis by Anna Metcalfe Price £9.99 Chrissy's Pick Clear by Carys Davies Price £9.99 Polly's Pick Butter by Asako Yuzuki Price £9.99 All The Colours of the Dark by Chris Whitaker Price £9.99 Young Mungo by Douglas Stuart Price £9.99 I Will Greet The Sun Again by Khashayar J. 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