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If you’ve ever experienced anxiety and depression so intensely that you’ve hid in bed all day, trying to block out the sun filtering through your window with your duvet cover or have known and loved someone who suffers from mental illness or are simply a sentient human...

We love romance and affairs of the heart. To celebrate the remarkable year that was for romance, our expert booksellers winnowed the list to present their favourites—here are the the romance reads that won over our hearts in 2015. A Desperate Fortune by Susanna Kearsley Susanna Kearsley, a...

I’m calling it. 2015 was the year that crazy people, sequels and dysfunctional but warm-hearted families replaced Lady Porn. It’s true. I don’t think I’m speaking just for myself when I say that while there’s still value in getting lost in a good romance, getting wowed, wondered...

Once upon an evening dreary, I took a tumble, weak and weary, Over huge amounts of books that I had purchased from the store. On a shelf, I’d been restocking a bio of Stephen Hawking, Then I fell, it was most shocking, loudly crashing to the floor...

From the sinking ships to lost loves, there was no shortage of fantastic, fact-based reads in 2015. These are our favourite nonfiction reads of the year: Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisis Coates We can’t think of any book from this year that was more timely...

Looking for a great gift for the fiction aficionado in your life? This week we look at the top literary works of the year—life-altering prose from some of the most talented voices in fiction. Undermajordomo Minor by Patrick DeWitt A wonderfully funny, smart and beautifully written novel...

In a year full of blockbuster releases, these were the crème de la crème—the mysteries, suspense, and thrillers that kept your heart pumping and your pages turning. City of the Lost (Series) by Kelley Armstrong In City of the Lost, a eBook in six parts, New York Times...

Every year a few reads come along that take over the conversation—big, buzzy books, that everyone can’t help but talk about. These are the stories that dominated 2015: The Girl in the Spider's Web by David Lagercrantz More than eight years since Stieg Larsson’s beloved Millenium Trilogy came...

You know the joke – your book club is actually a drinking club, where there’s more chitchat about the kids over a nice glass of wine than actual discussion about the book you’ve all just read (or not read). There are a couple of sure discussion-blockers for...

Meet Martina -- the reigning queen of the the crime drama. The writer of 22 bestselling novels, including The Take, which was made into a TV series with Tom Hardy, Martina is our Author of the Month in the UK. And it couldn't have come at a better...