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The Reading Room

New Releases

The Tower by Flora Carr

The Household by Stacey Halls

Caledonian Road by Andrew O'Hagan

Maurice and Maralyn by Sophie Elmhirst

The Lost Path by Jack Cornish

Brian the Lion Who Learned by Francis Stickley & Chris Chatterton

Cool Pasta by Tom Jackson

The Storm's Edge by Peter Marshall

Gennaro's Verdue by Genaro Contaldo

Bothy by Kat Hill

You Are Here by David Nicholls

Ho to Eat 30 Plants a Week

Less by Patrick Grant

Queen Macbeth by Val McDermid

The Fellowship of Puzzlemakers by Samuel Burr

Until August by Gabriel García Márquez

Staff Picks

Trespasses by Louise Kennedy

Hello Beautiful by Ann Napolitano

Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin

Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver

The Marriage Portrait by Maggie O'Farrell

Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus

A Tidy Ending by Joanna Cannon

Just Another Missing Person by Gillian McAllister

The Burnings by Naomi Kelsey

Invisible Child by Andrea Elliott

Rural by Rebecca Smith

The Last Days by Ali Millar

The Enigma of Room 622 by Joël Dicker

The List by Yomi Adegoke

Days at the Morisaki Bookshop by Satoshi Yagisawa

Anna O by Matthew Blake

Black Reed Bay by Rod Reynolds

Strong Female Character by Fern Brady

Fourteen Days

Close to Home by Michael Magee

Romantic Comedy by Curtis Sittenfeld

The Offing by Benjamin Myers

Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt

The Four by Ellie Keel

Blue Sisters by Coco Mellors

“Let’s be reasonable and add an eighth day to the week that is devoted exclusively to reading.”

— Lena Dunham

Welcome to The Reading Room

We are a small independently-owned bookshop in Melrose in the Scottish Borders. We have a wide range of titles in stock with a particular focus on books about Scotland. In addition, we also stock a range of maps, stationery and gifts.