Recommendations for summer, from Book Stop, Tavistock

Recommendations for summer, from Book Stop, Tavistock

Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata

Welcome to the weird and (occasionally) wonderful world of Keiko Furukura and her beloved Convenience Store. Marginalised by ordinary society, and following a confusing and at times problematic childhood, Keiko finds it difficult to find her place in the modern world, until she stumbles across the Convenience Store. In this delightful fable of contemporary human existence, Keiko, with the guidance of the bizarre and repulsive Shiraha, must make a choice - between her place as a cog in the global corporate machine (‘my hourly pay covered the basic requirement to condition my body so it was fit to take to work’) and the perhaps equally oppressive social imperative created by others' opinions and expectations. A marvellous Japanese novel which will get you thinking.

Published by Granta: £8.99

Big Sky by Kate Atkinson

Top notch crime fiction. Jackson Brodie returns.

Doubleday: £20

No One is Too Small to Make a Difference by Greta Thunberg

Collected speeches of the teenage Nobel Peace Prize nominee

Penguin: £2.99

All Among the Barley by Melissa Harrison

Fantastic literary fiction set in rural 1930s England

Bloomsbury: £8.99

Our House by Louise Candlish

Thriller of the year.

Simon & Schuster: £8.99

Oi Duck-Billed Platypus! by Kes Gray and Jim Field

More picture book fun from authors of Oi Cat! and Oi Dog!

Hodder Children's: £6.99