Bookshop - Fiction

A limited and highly subjective collection of some of the books out there. Some are from Nottingham writers and some are not. There is no real logic to the selection other than we think you might find them interesting.

Every so often, we will add books to the list by posting them in the recommended section.

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Fiction Books

The Bee Hive
Simon Adepetun

Eleven-year-old Daniel Jeremiah Chambers has parents Philip and Susan who love work and shopping and who just don't listen. Daniel is an only child ... no, he's lying ... he has a sister, Alice, who has a dolly fixation; Dan is sure she is an alien.

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Huckleberry Dreaming
by Brooklyn Beaumont

cover Brooklyn Beaumont makes a striking debut with Huckleberry Dreaming—a genre-bending sci-fi tale where fractured memory and authoritarian control shape a young man’s search for truth.

Set on a planet split between nostalgic 1950s Americana and high-tech surveillance, Beaumont’s world is as eerie as it is familiar. Fans of S.E. Hinton, Orwell, Bradbury, and Black Mirror will feel right at home in this retro-dystopian landscape, where the past and present blur, and reality itself is up for debate.

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Maze of Fates: A Dominion City Blues Story
by Geronimo Bosch

Agnise would do anything for her lover, Dolores, including selling sexual favours in the sleazy underworld of Dominion City. They work together out of The Elite Lounge, where their employer, Silla, has become entangled in their romantic affairs.

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A Vintage Summer
by Cathy Bramley

London has not been kind to Lottie Allbright. Realising it’s time to cut and run, she packs up and moves back home – but finds her family in disarray.

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It’s Gone Dark Over Bill’s Mother’s
by Lisa Blower

"Lisa Blower lifts that carpet to explore lives deemed superfluous by business, media and government. Her well-rounded and convincing characters have limited choices as they face deprivation, disappointment and a relentless struggle for survival."

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The Westbrook Affair
A R Dance

This book is set in Yorkshire and Nottinghamshire between the years 1828 and 1867. It chronicles the lives of families from opposite ends of the social divide, and how a man-made disaster eventually leads to the discovery of a lost family fortune.

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A Christmas Carol
Charles Dickens
Hachette Children’s Group (Orion Children’s Books)

cover ‘Christmas is the perfect time to share the magic of reading with your family and Scrooge’s journey to redemption is still as thrilling, moving and joyous over 175 years after it was written. This has to be the perfect Christmas book’ – Cressida Cowell

Ebenezer Scrooge is a bitter and selfish old man, and worst of all . . . he hates Christmas! But this Christmas Eve there’s a surprise in store for Scrooge when four spooky ghosts pay him an unexpected visit. Over the course of the night, the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Christmas Present and Christmas Yet to Come show Scrooge how his mean and nasty behaviour has affected everyone around him . . .

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Pleasantly Disturbed
Lee Stuart Evans
Fiction

cover The late 1980s.

Robin dreams of becoming Jim Kerr, singer in the best band in the world, Simple Minds, despite having no talent whatsoever.

Fliss is a musical genius, perhaps the East Midlands’ answer to Kate Bush, if only she had more confidence.

Until rock stardom inevitably descends upon him, Robin takes a job at the local garage, where for the first time in his life he finds a sense of purpose; while Fliss, pushed by her mother, reluctantly auditions for TV’s biggest talent show and proves an instant hit.

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Gobstoppers, Shrimps and Sour Monkeys
by Fosseway Writers

cover "This smorgasbord of stories and poems from the talented group of Fosseway Writers is by turns witty, dark and poignant - and deliciously moreish." Clare Harvey

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The Blind Bowman 1
Shadow of the Wolf
Tim Hall
Fiction

cover Blinded by the Sheriff, he takes refuge in the ancient heart of Sherwood Forest, where primal powers and forgotten magicks reach out to him. But the wildwood itself is under threat, and the old gods face extinction.

Only the blind bowman, Robin Hood, together with his soulmate, Marian, can stand against the forces of darkness . . .

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The Darkest Hour
By Guy Jones
E book

cover A private is on sentry duty the night before embarkation to the docks in preparation for D-Day. He is frightened, trying not to think about what lies ahead of him. He only has 2 cigarettes to see him through the night.

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The Rumpelstiltskin Trilogy Part 1
For The Love of Goerge
by Guy Jones
Fiction
E Book

cover Trapped in a loveless marriage, is George the light at the end of the tunnel?

Her life changes when George walks in to the reproduction antique shop, she notices that the park fence needs painting and he persuades her to take a Biology A Level.

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The Wooden Box
by Guy Jones

cover Sam's Friend Tracey had a Grandmother who invented things. One of the the things she invented, just before she died was a large wooden box. Large enough to carry a person ... two if they were intimate … it had a guide book with the instructions not to move it … BOTH NOW AND IN THE PAST

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Yuletide Yarns
By: Guy Jones

cover A short collection of Yuletide Yarns – short stories and flash fiction – to get you into the mood for the festive season.

The yarns focus on Jamie Barrow and members of his family. As well as Jamie, there are tales involving Jamie and a couple of his siblings' Christmases as grown-ups.

Yuletide Yarns has been published as an ebook to reduce the resources used and ultimately to save the planet.

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Step Forward, Harry Salt
by Ross Lowe

cover Something strange is afoot in the Derbyshire hills. But what does that mean for Harry Salt? He’s a young man with a big secret. So big, that the Prime Minister wants a piece of him.

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The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse
by Charlie Mackesy

A book to bring people together, Charlie Mackesy’s inspirational paintings and delicate calligraphic text are a celebration of kindness, compassion and understanding, conveying an essential message for our time.

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The Land in Winter
Andrew Miller
the 2025 Booker Prize-shortlisted ‘word-of-mouth favourite’
Financial Times

cover DECEMBER 1962, THE WEST COUNTRY. Local doctor Eric Parry, mulling secrets, sets out on his rounds, while his pregnant wife sleeps on in the warmth of their cottage. Across the field, funny, troubled Rita Simmons is also asleep, her head full of images of a past life her husband prefers to ignore. He’s been up for hours, tending to the needs of the small dairy farm where he hoped to create a new version of himself, a project that’s already faltering.

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Ever Since We Small
By Celeste Mohammed
Fiction

cover An intricately woven tapestry of stories where survival, resilience and self-discovery are passed down through generations of an Indo-Trinidadian family.

Celeste Mohammed's second novel-in-stories, Ever Since We Small, is a family saga which covers a sweeping landscape from the days of the British Raj in India, to multicultural modern Trinidad.

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TRUST ME, I'M A THIEF
by Wilf Morgan

cover The Rogue's Run Trio are Arilon's greatest smugglers (so it says on their leaflet, anyway). Join them as they embark on their toughest job yet - and make their mark on the events of Secret of Waterwhistle Part 2. Get involved with this interactive story where YOU, the reader gets to make the choices and direct the story.

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Earth 2.0
Nottingham Writers Studio

cover Earth 2.0 - featuring 26 stories from a diverse case of local and international authors the collection asks the question, with rising global temperatures and mass migration due to climate change — what comes next?

“This anthology tackles one of the most pressing issues of our day - climate change. However, it’s not some dry, po-faced tome. We have frozen horror in Harsh Winter. A modern-day dating comedy in, The Tightrope and that’s just a couple of the exciting tales in the collection.” - Alan Walker

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Nothing Really Matters in Life More Than Love : 14
Fernandez Paz, Agustin, Auladell, Pablo, Dunne, Jonathan

The ten stories in this magnificent collection “all talk of the importance of love, that feeling that can transform us more deeply than any other, and also of its absence, the void it leaves in people when the twists and turns of life make it impossible.”

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The Half Life of Valery K
by Natasha Pulley

cover In 1963, in a Siberian gulag, former nuclear specialist Valery Kolkhanov has mastered what it takes to survive: the right connections to the guards for access to food and cigarettes, the right pair of warm boots to avoid frostbite, and the right attitude toward the small pleasures of life. But on one ordinary day, all that changes: Valery’s university mentor steps in and sweeps Valery from the frozen prison camp to a mysterious unnamed town hidden within a forest so damaged it looks like the trees have rusted

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A Start In Life
by Alan Sillitoe

cover A revival of Sillitoe’s novel, first published in 1970, about a Nottingham boy who flees to London. With an introduction by D.J.Taylor. 342pp

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Thirst
Darren Simpson
Fiction

cover Nobody talks about the strange happenings in Maimsbury. No one speaks of the hooded figures glimpsed in the woods, nor the children’s game that went so horribly wrong. But most of all, nobody dares whisper their doubts about the river they have worshipped for centuries.

Like everyone in Maimsbury, Gorse is used to the sacrifices made every spring to the River Yeelde. The life of a farm animal – in return for a year of plenty – seems a fair trade. That is, until a tragedy leads Gorse to a blood-curdling discovery.

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Thyme Travellers
An Anthology of Palestinian Speculative Fiction
Sonia Sulaiman
Fiction

cover Thyme Travellers collects fourteen of the Palestinian diaspora’s best voices in speculative fiction. Speculative fiction as a genre invites a reconfiguring of reality, and here each story is a portal into realms of history, folklore and futures. A man stands on the shore waiting to commune with those who live in the ocean. Pilgrims stretch into the distance, passing a stone cairn with a mysterious light streaming from it. Two Australian women fervently dig a tunnel to Jerusalem. Men from Gaza swim in the sea until they drown, still unconcerned. A father and son struggle to connect over the AI scripts prompting their conversation. Building on the work of trailblazing anthologies such as Reworlding Ramallah and Palestine +100, this volume is the first of its kind in Canada. Editor Sonia Sulaiman brings together stories by speculative fiction veterans and emerging writers from Australia to Egypt, Lebanon to Canada.

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Sweet Thames
Run Softly, Till I End My Song
Frances Thimann
Short Stories
Big White Shed

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