Book Clubs
Pile of Books is proud to present our two main book clubs: Ink Drinkers, with B.K Harbeke Revolutionary Love, with Ella Ronen Please check our IG page @pileofbooks_zh for the next meeting
Caste
In this brilliant book, Isabel Wilkerson gives us a masterful portrait of an unseen phenomenon in […]
The Living Sea of Waking Dreams
The Living Sea of Waking Dreams is an ember storm of a novel. This is Booker […]
Ocean State
For the Oliviera family – mum Carol, daughters Angel and Marie – autumn 2009 in the […]
Ruth & Pen
The brilliant debut novel from Emilie Pine, author of the international bestseller NOTES TO SELF Dublin, […]
Small Hours – The Long Night of John Martyn
Did any musician in the Seventies fly so free as John Martyn did on Bless The […]
Elizabeth Finch
Elizabeth Finch was a teacher, a thinker, an inspiration – always rigorous, always thoughtful. With careful […]
Gefährliche Heimkehr
Nur schnell raus aus Zürich und der Schweiz. Das muss die ehemalige Ermittlerin Lozen Graham. Nachdem […]
Lucy by the Sea
In March 2020 Lucy’s ex-husband William pleads with her to leave New York and escape to […]
Starlight Wood
We think we know the Romantic countryside: that series of picturesque landscapes familiar from paintings, poems […]
The Dawn of Everything
For generations, our remote ancestors have been cast as primitive and childlike – either free and […]
The Passenger
The best-selling, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Road returns with the first of a two-volume masterpiece: […]
Baltic
Baltic showcases the food culture of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania, three countries experiencing new energy and […]
1939
In the autumn of 1938, Europe believed in the promise of peace. Still reeling from the […]
Matrix
Cast out of the royal court by Eleanor of Aquitaine, deemed too coarse and rough-hewn for […]
Tenderness
D. H. Lawrence is dying. Exiled in the Mediterranean, he dreams of the past. There are […]
Ducks, Newburyport
LATTICING one cherry pie after another, an Ohio housewife tries to bridge the gaps between reality […]
Difficult Women – A History of Feminism in 11 Fights
Feminism’s success is down to complicated, contradictory, imperfect women, who fought each other as well as […]
Bewilderment
Theo Byrne is a promising young scientist who has found a way to search for life […]
Lessons
While the world is still counting the cost of the Second World War and the Iron […]
The Last Colony
After the Second World War, new international rules heralded an age of human rights and self-determination. […]
The Philosophy of Modern Song
Dylan, who began working on the book in 2010, offers his extraordinary insight into the nature […]
Music – A Subversive History
From the dawn of civilization to the modern-day music scene, this breathtaking global history reveals how […]
Monolithic Undertow – In Search of Sonic Oblivion
Monolithic Undertow alights a crooked path across musical, religious and subcultural frontiers. It traces the line […]
Burntcoat
In the bedroom above her immense studio at Burntcoat, the celebrated sculptor Edith Harkness is making […]
The Fell
At dusk on a November evening in 2020 a woman slips out of her garden gate […]
Trespasses
There is nothing special about the day Cushla meets Michael, a married man from Belfast, in […]
Our Missing Hearts
Twelve-year-old Bird Gardner lives a quiet existence with his loving but broken father, a former linguist […]
Black Leopard Red Wolf
‘Black Leopard, Red Wolf is the kind of novel I never realized I was missing until […]
The Retreat
Since childhood, Sandra Peters has been fascinated by the small, private island of Lieloh, home to […]
The Singularities
From the revered Booker Prize-winning author comes a playful, multilayered novel of nostalgia, life and death, […]
Record Play Pause -Confessions of a Post-Punk Percussionist, Vol. 1
‘A unique and thoughtful musical memoir’ Observer ‘Gritty coming-of-age story . . . plenty of anecdotes […]
Henry Cow – The World Is a Problem
In its open improvisations, lapidary lyrics, errant melodies, and relentless pursuit of spontaneity, the British experimental […]
Gingerbread
Perdita Lee may appear your average British schoolgirl; Harriet Lee may seem just a working mother […]
The Sentence
Louise Erdrich’s latest novel, The Sentence, asks what we owe to the living, the dead, to […]
A Loving, Faithful Animal
A haunting and vivid novel which excavates an Australia rarely seen in literature. New Year’s Eve, […]
Second Place
From the acclaimed author of the Outline trilogy, a fable of human destiny and decline, enacted […]
Her Diaries and Notebooks
Published for the very first time for the centenary of her birth, Patricia Highsmith’s diaries and […]