2022 Bestsellers
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The Folkestone Bookshop top ten bestselling books of 2022:
10. Brick by Brick by Cradle Community
The fight for prison abolition is a struggle for collective liberation: a transformative vision of a safer world, in which communities live free from exploitation on a thriving planet.
Drawing connections across social justice movements with a shared abolitionist ethic, this revolutionary book illuminates how harmful ideas of criminality and punishment can manifest in many ways beyond the prison industrial complex. This work is a collaboration with friends, mentors, and giants fighting for housing justice, food justice, climate justice, migrant justice, justice for survivors of violence, and more.
25 November 2021 / Paperback / ISBN: 9781914221033 / 216 pages
9. Her Body And Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado
Earthy and otherworldly, antic and sexy, queer and caustic, comic and deadly serious, Her Body and Other Parties swings from horrific violence to the most exquisite sentiment. In their explosive originality, these stories enlarge the possibilities of contemporary fiction.
3rd October 2017 / Paperback / ISBN: 9781781259535 / 248 pages
8. The Seaweed Collector's Handbook by Miek Zwamborn
Seaweed is so familiar and yet its names - pepper dulse, sea lettuce, bladderwrack - are largely unknown to us. In this short, exquisitely illustrated portrait, the Dutch poet and artist Miek Zwamborn shares her discoveries of its history, culture and use, from the Neolithic people of the Orkney Islands to sushi artisans in modern Japan. Seaweed troubled Columbus on his voyages across the Atlantic, intrigued von Humboldt in the Sargasso Sea and inspired artists from Hokusai to Matisse.
3 Jun 2021 / Paperback / ISBN: 9781788165471 / 192 pages, 70 images
7. The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida by Shehan Karunatilaka
Winner of the Booker Prize 2022. A searing satire set amid the murderous mayhem of Sri Lanka beset by civil war in 1990. Maali Almeida – war photographer, gambler and closet gay – has woken up dead in what seems like a celestial visa office. His dismembered body is sinking in the serene Beira lake and he has no idea who killed him. At a time where scores are settled by death squads, suicide bombers, and hired goons, the list of suspects is depressingly long, as the ghouls and ghosts with grudges who cluster round can attest. But even in the afterlife, time is running out for Maali. He has seven moons to try and contact the man and woman he loves most and lead them to a hidden cache of photos that will rock Sri Lanka.
4 Aug 2022 / Hardback / ISBN: 9781908745903 / 368 pages
6. X by Davey Davis
An electrifying novel about the creeping reality of political terror, and the violent pleasures found in Brooklyn's queer heartlands. Part noir, part erotic thriller, X is a vivid, moody and darkly funny portrait of those living on the margins of an increasingly hostile society. Broke and discontented, amateur sadist Lee spends their days working for a big corporation and their nights searching the warehouses and dungeons of Brooklyn looking for the mysterious, seductive, and bloodthirsty X.
27 Oct 2022 / Paperback / ISBN: 9781739784935 / 230 pages
5. The Forward Book of Poetry 2023
The Forward Book of Poetry is the indispensable annual guide to contemporary poetry. In bringing together the best new work published in the UK and Ireland, as chosen by the jury of the annual Forward Prizes, this anthology offers vital overview of the literary landscape to seasoned poetry lovers and new readers alike.
6 Oct 2022 / Paperback / ISBN: 9780571377589 / 176 pages
4. Bodies Are Cool by Tyler Feder
A great big thank you goes to Em at Books for Change for reading this at their storytime (the first Sunday of every month)! This is a favourite of our storytime regulars and we love to hear the little ones cheer “BODIES ARE COOOOOL” as they run around the bookshop.
This body positive picture book is a vibrant, joyful, and judgement-free celebration of every body shape and size. My body, your body, every different kind of body! All of them are good bodies! BODIES ARE COOL!
This heart-warming, inclusive book, filled with detailed and friendly illustration, is a celebration of every kind of body that exists in the world. Through an empowering, rhythmic text that is perfect for reading aloud, little ones can explore various skin tones, body shapes, hair types, and more, in an accessible way that instills body positivity and confidence.
3 Jun 2021 / Paperback / ISBN: 9780241519936 / 32 pages
3. Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer
“The land knows you, even when you are lost.”
“This is really why I made my daughters learn to garden—so they would always have a mother to love them, long after I am gone.”
In Braiding Sweetgrass, Kimmerer brings these two ways of knowledge together. Drawing on her life as an indigenous scientist, a mother, and a woman, Kimmerer shows how other living beings - asters and goldenrod, strawberries and squash, salamanders, algae, and sweetgrass - offer us gifts and lessons, even if we've forgotten how to hear their voices. In a rich braid of reflections that range from the creation of Turtle Island to the forces that threaten its flourishing today, she circles toward a central argument: that the awakening of a wider ecological consciousness requires the acknowledgment and celebration of our reciprocal relationship with the rest of the living world.
24 Sep 2015 / Paperback / ISBN: 9780141991955 / 400 pages
2. Her Majesty's Royal Coven by Juno Dawson
Hidden among us is a secret government department of witches known as Her Majesty's Royal Coven. They protect crown and country from magical forces and otherworldly evil, but their greatest enemy will come from within...
There are whisperings of a prophecy that will bring the coven to its knees, and four best friends are about to be caught at the centre. Life as a modern witch was never simple ... but now it's about to get apocalyptic.
Prepare to be bewitched by Juno Dawson's first adult series. A story of ancient prophecies and modern dating, of sacred sisterhood and demonic frenemies.
21 Jul 2022 / Hardback / ISBN: 9780008478506 / 464 pages
1. Dreamland by Rosa Rankin-Gee
You looked me in the eye and said that. Well, if you had, this is what you would have seen: soft wood, black cracks, fridges in the road. The broken spines of old rides at Dreamland.'In the coastal resort of Margate, hotels lie empty and sun-faded 'For Sale' signs line the streets.
The sea is higher - it's higher everywhere - and those who can are moving inland. A young girl called Chance, however, is just arriving. Chance's family is one of many offered a cash grant to move out of London - and so she, her mother Jas and brother JD relocate to the seaside, just as the country edges towards vertiginous change.
26 May 2022 / Paperback / ISBN: 9781471193842 / 480 pages