Our newsletters
Sign up to our newsletters and be the first to hear about new books and special offers! Find out more.
Enter our competitions
Enter one of our competitions and you could walk away with a fantastic prize! Find out more.
About us
The Guardian Bookshop makes over 180,000 books available with up to 40% discount, as well as highlighting some of our favourite publications in each genre.
Find out more.
First book award longlist 2012
Absolution
By Patrick Flanery
Hardback
Published 01-Mar-2012
| RRP: | £12.99 |
| Our price: | £10.39 |
| You save: | £2.60 |
Set in modern South Africa, an elderly acclaimed author searches for a daughter lost amongst the wreckage of her mother's failings and a nation's shadowed history. With this muscular debut novel, Flanery announces himself, quite simply, as a future literary sensation. Longlisted for the Desmond Elliott Prize
In stock, usually despatched within 24 hours.
Art of Fielding
By Chad Harbach
Paperback
Published 16-Apr-2012
| RRP: | £8.99 |
| Our price: | £7.19 |
| You save: | £1.80 |
A wonderful, warm novel from a major new American voice.
In stock, usually despatched within 24 hours.
Tony Hogan Bought Me an Ice-cream Float Before He Stole My M
By Kerry Hudson
Paperback
Published 05-Jul-2012
| RRP: | £12.99 |
| Our price: | £10.39 |
| You save: | £2.60 |
When Janie Ryan is born, she's just the latest in a long line of Ryan women, Aberdeen fishwives to the marrow, always ready to fight. Her violet-eyed Grandma had predicted she'd be sly, while blowing Benson and Hedges smoke rings over her Ma's swollen belly.
In stock, usually despatched within 24 hours.
Yellow Birds
By Kevin Powers
Hardback
Published 06-Sep-2012
| RRP: | £14.99 |
| Our price: | £11.99 |
| You save: | £3.00 |
An unforgettable depiction of the psychological impact of war, by a young Iraq veteran and poet, THE YELLOW BIRDS is already being hailed as a modern classic.
This item is currently re-printing. You may still order this book and we will despatch it as soon as it becomes available.
Lifeboat
By Charlotte Rogan
Hardback
Published 29-Mar-2012
| RRP: | £12.99 |
| Our price: | £10.39 |
| You save: | £2.60 |
* THE LIFEBOAT is a daring and adventurous novel set just before the First World War. It begins in a courtroom, where an enigmatic young woman named Grace Sachs is on trial; in flashback, we learn why ...
In stock, usually despatched within 24 hours.
Origins of Sex
By Faramerz Dabhoiwala
Hardback
Published 02-Feb-2012
| RRP: | £25.00 |
| Our price: | £20.00 |
| You save: | £5.00 |
We believe that consenting adults have the freedom to do what they like with their own bodies. We publicize and celebrate sex. We discuss it endlessly. This title shows that the creation of this modern culture of sex was a central part of the Enlightenment, intertwined with the era's major social, political and intellectual trends.
This item is out of print and no longer available.
Behind the Beautiful Forevers
By Katherine Boo
Paperback
Published 07-Jun-2012
| RRP: | £14.99 |
| Our price: | £11.99 |
| You save: | £3.00 |
A landmark debut from a Pulitzer-winning New Yorker journalist: if Dickens were alive today, this is the book he might write about India.
Usually despatched within 7-10 days.
Sandstorm
By Lindsey Hilsum
Hardback
Published 05-Apr-2012
| RRP: | £17.99 |
| Our price: | £14.39 |
| You save: | £3.60 |
The overthrow of Muammar Gaddafi was a defining moment of early twenty-first century. In this title, the author traces the history of Gaddafi's strange regime from its beginnings - when he had looks, charisma and popular appeal, and posed as a kind of socialist revolutionary - to massacre at Abu Salim prison, and the paranoid, corrupt final state.
In stock, usually despatched within 24 hours.
Pelt
By Sarah Jackson
Paperback
Published 24-May-2012
| RRP: | £8.95 |
| Our price: | £7.16 |
| You save: | £1.79 |
First collection by young English poet featured in Bloodaxe's new poets anthology "Voice Recognition" (2009). Sarah Jackson lived in Brighton for many years, and now lectures at Nottingham Trent University.
In stock, usually despatched within 24 hours.
This week's bestsellers
