The Bookworm has been working very hard to strengthen its relationships with overseas publishers in order to bring in more and more hot titles.Our range has grown exponentially and we think you’ll approve – just look at the breadth of our book sections.
Bestselling & New Arrivals
The Enchantress of Florence Salman Rushdie |
The Rest is Noise Alex Ross |
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Out of Mao’s Shadow Philip Pan |
Beijing Portrait of a City Compiled by Alexandra Pearson and Lucy Cavender |
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The Age of the Warrior Robert Fisk |
The Hakawati Rabih Alameddine |
Online Ordering Facility
If we don’t yet stock the book you’re looking for, we can order it for you. Simply email us with the title, author, publisher and ISBN and we’ll let you know when it’s in. |
Gifts and Deluxe Stationery
Never one to rest on its laurels, The Bookworm has extended its shop beyond merely books. With our cards, notebooks, diaries, calendars, maps, guidebooks, phrasebooks, magazines and even jewellery, shopping for those year-round birthday presents has never been easier. We’ll even gift-wrap those special purchases for you. |
Book Club Picks
With so many good reads out there, selecting a good range of titles for your book club can be daunting, so we’ve done it for you and here are our suggestions.
Empress Orchid Anchee Min |
Freakonomics Malcolm Gladwell |
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The Jane Austen Book Club Karen Joy Fowler |
Reading Lolita in Tehran Azar Nafisi |
Your Top 10 Reads
This list was submitted by Michael Gericke.
Please send us your reviews and recommendations! For each submission published on our website we’ll give you two free tickets.
Please send us your reviews and recommendations! For each submission published on our website we’ll give you two free tickets.
Middlesex Jeffrey Eugenides A superbly written story about the Greek family’s adaption to America and some gloomy secrets resulting in a terribly confused daughter that wants to be a son… |
The Lost Horizon James Hilton This is the ultimate Tibet novel about the Shangri-La everyone wants to find for him or herself. Those who cannot feel the magic of this book must have serious problems… |
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A Prayer for Owen Meany John Irving A classic tale of a miraculous person. Read it and you have the feeling as if you would know him by heart. |
Snow Falling on Cedars David Guterson An intelligent piece about recent US history and a masterpiece about inter-cultural feelings and its limitations. |
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Olympia Anita Shreive A tragic love story that plays in a time when women did not really have a chance to live as they liked. |
Reviews
Reviews
The Inheritance of LossBy Kiran Desai – Winner of the Booker Prize for Fiction 2006
The Banquet Bugby Yan Geling
Suite Francaiseby Irene Nemirovsky
Bring Us Your Old Books

Got too many books to fit on your bookshelves? At The Bookworm, we’re only too delighted to take them off your hands. Just drop them in at any time.