Team favourites

Por Orb's Community Bookshop

Por Orb's Community Bookshop

Team favourites

We’re run entirely by volunteers and we’re all passionate about books. Here’s a list of some of our favourite reads.

The Vanishing Half: Shortlisted for the Women's Prize 2021

Brit Bennett

The Thursday Murder Club: (The Thursday Murder Club 1)

Richard Osman

Where the Crawdads Sing

Delia Owens

Girl, Woman, Other: WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE 2019

Bernardine Evaristo

The Boy, The Mole, The Fox and The Horse

Charlie Mackesy

Small Pleasures: Longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction...

Clare Chambers

Piranesi: WINNER OF THE WOMEN'S PRIZE 2021

Susanna Clarke

A Gentleman in Moscow: The worldwide bestseller

Amor Towles

On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous: 'A masterpiece' - Max Porter

Ocean Vuong

The Song of Achilles

Madeline Miller

Scabby Queen

Kirstin Innes

The Shadow King: SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2020

Maaza Mengiste

The Dutch House: Nominated for the Women's Prize 2020

Ann Patchett

Circe: The No. 1 Bestseller from the author of The Song of...

Madeline Miller

The Beekeeper of Aleppo: The must-read million copy bestseller

Christy Lefteri

Once Upon a River: The Sunday Times bestseller

Diane Setterfield

Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead

Olga Tokarczuk

All the Light We Cannot See

Anthony Doerr

Something Wicked This Way Comes

Ray Bradbury

Men Explain Things to Me: And Other Essays

Rebecca Solnit

Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge...

Robin Wall Kimmerer

Wild Geese: A Collection of Nan Shepherd's Writings

Nan Shepherd

Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race: The #1...

Reni Eddo-Lodge

I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings

Maya Angelou

The Salt Path: The 85-Week Sunday Times Bestseller from the...

Raynor Winn

The Lost Spells: An enchanting, beautiful book for lovers of...

Jackie Morris y Robert MacFarlane

Underland: A Deep Time Journey

Robert MacFarlane

The Scottish Bothy Bible: The Complete Guide to Scotland's...

Geoff Allan

Salt On Your Tongue: Women and the Sea

Charlotte Runcie