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Real Magic Books

An independent family bookshop at the heart of Wendover High Street, celebrating the people and pages where real magic is made.

 

Real Magic Books features the very best new fiction; children’s and young adult literature; nature and the outside world; people and places; modern thinking and philosophy; local writers and artists; selected classics and other carefully chosen titles from the world of publishing.

Shadow Ticket
What We Can Know
The Fathers
Seascraper
Happiness and Love
Saraswati: Shortlisted for the Waterstones Debut Fiction Prize
Running the Light: 'The best novel I've ever read about comedy' Megan Nolan
Men in Love
Helm: 'Incandescently good.' Sarah Perry
The Cut: 'A proper bloody thriller' - Mark Billingham
Endling: LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2025
Moderation
I'll Be Right Here
We Are Green and Trembling
Let Me Go Mad in My Own Way
Shy Creatures: The ‘extraordinary’ novel about family, love and freedom from the bestselling author of Small Pleasures
True Love
The Eyes Are the Best Part: THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING 'GOOD FOR HER' K-THRILLER
You Are Here: The Instant Number 1 Sunday Times Bestseller, from the author of One Day
Evenings and Weekends
The Safekeep
The Life Impossible
Dream Count
Hard by a Great Forest
Caledonian Road: The Sunday Times bestseller
Piglet
Glorious Exploits
Wild Houses
Normal Women
My Friends
Designing Hope: Visions to Shape our Future
The Economic Consequences of Mr Trump: What the Trade War Means for the World
A Pub For All Seasons: A Yearlong Journey in Search of the Perfect British Local
Ungovernable: The Political Diaries of a Chief Whip
Encounterism: Finding Joy and Wonder in Real Life
How to Defeat the Far Right: Lessons from Hope Not Hate
Another England: How to Reclaim Our National Story
On Giving Up
One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
The Twittering Machine: How Capitalism Stole Our Social Life
Led By Donkeys: Adventures in Art, Activism and Accountability
How to Blow Up a Pipeline: Learning to Fight in a World on Fire
The Bright Side: Why Optimists Have the Power to Change the World
Conspiracy Theory: The Story of an Idea (An Origin Story Book)
Fascism: The Story of an Idea (An Origin Story Book)
Prep: The startling coming-of-age novel by the Sunday Times bestselling author of AMERICAN WIFE
The Rachel Papers
Larry’s Party
Such a Fun Age: Longlisted for the 2020 Booker Prize
The Interestings
Sophie's Choice
Woman on the Edge of Time: The classic feminist dystopian novel
The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing
The Secret History
Sweet Caress: The Many Lives of Amory Clay
Swing Time: LONGLISTED for the Man Booker Prize 2017
My Brilliant Friend
Matilda (Colour Edition)
The Hunger Games
Milk Fed
Designing Hope: Visions to Shape our Future
What We Can Know
How to Defeat the Far Right: Lessons from Hope Not Hate
Up the Youth Club: Illuminating a Hidden History
Craftland: A Journey Through Britain’s Lost Arts and Vanishing Trades
Moonlight Express: Around the World By Night Train
True Love
The Lost Folk: From the Forgotten Past to the Emerging Future of Folk
Dream Count
Flesh
All or Nothing: How Trump Recaptured America
The Meteorites: Encounters with Outer Space and Deep Time
The Weirdest People in the World: How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous
Base Notes: The Scents of a Life
The Bee Sting
The Bookshop, The Draper, The Candlestick Maker: A History of the High Street
Up the Youth Club: Illuminating a Hidden History
PISSING WOMEN
Craftland: A Journey Through Britain’s Lost Arts and Vanishing Trades
A Different Kind of Power
Maurice and Maralyn: An extraordinary true story of shipwreck, survival and love
Nine Lives: In Search of the Sacred in Modern India
Careless People: A story of where I used to work
Remembering Peasants: A Personal History of a Vanished World
Resistance
The Weirdest People in the World: How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous
Diary of a Secret Drug Addict: Addiction, Dependence and Recovery. an Ex-User’s Guide to Breaking Free.
Base Notes: The Scents of a Life
The Bright Side: Why Optimists Have the Power to Change the World
Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World
The Great British Tree Biography: 50 Legendary Trees and the Tales Behind Them
Living on Earth: Life, Consciousness and the Making of the Natural World
Wildlands
Flower Block
The Cuckoo's Lea: The Forgotten History of Birds and Place
Storm Pegs: A Life Made in Shetland
The Lie of the Land: How a Tiny Group of Landowners Wrecked the Countryside, and How the Public Can Restore it
Give it a Grow: Simple Projects to Nurture Food, Flowers and Wildlife in any Outdoor Space
Birdland: A Journey Around Britain on the Wing
Nature's Memory: Behind the Scenes at the World’s Natural History Museums
Is a River Alive?
The Serviceberry: An Economy of Gifts and Abundance
The Heart of the Woods
Mountains of Fire: The Secret Lives of Volcanoes
England: A Natural History
John and Paul: A Love Story in Songs – 'The first new Beatles story in decades'
A Sound So Very Loud: The Inside Story of Every Song Oasis Recorded
Street-Level Superstar: A Year With Lawrence: WINNER OF THE 2025 PENDERYN MUSIC BOOK PRIZE
I'm Not with the Band: A Writer's Life Lost in Music
Same Old Girl: 'a relatable read by a phenomenal writer' The Face
How to Run an Indie Label
Never Understood: The Jesus and Mary Chain
Last Night a DJ Saved My Life: The History of the Disc Jockey
My Family and Other Rock Stars: ‘Gloriously tender and funny . . . a bohemian rhapsody of her very own' Sunday Times Book of the
Travels Over Feeling: Arthur Russell, a Life
Strange Things Are Happening
In the Jingle Jangle Jungle: Keeping Time with the Brian Jonestown Massacre
The Secret Public: How LGBTQ Performers Shaped Popular Culture
Revolutionary Spirit: A Post-Punk Exorcism: The Teardrop Explodes, Care, The Wild Swans, And Beyond
The Story of The Streets
This is Your Brain on Music: Understanding a Human Obsession
Delicacy: AS SEEN ON BBC2’S BETWEEN THE COVERS
Stories I Might Regret Telling You
Still Pictures: On Photography and Memory
Victory City: A Novel
I'm with the Band: Confessions of a Groupie
The Book of Eve
Enchanted Creatures: Our Monsters and Their Meanings
The Lost Folk: From the Forgotten Past to the Emerging Future of Folk
The Occult, Witchcraft & Magic: An Illustrated History
Witchcraft. The Library of Esoterica
Weird Walk: Wanderings and Wonderings through the British Ritual Year
Storyland: A New Mythology of Britain
The Wheel: A Witch's Path to Healing Through Nature
Novice Witches and Apprentice Wizards: An Essential Handbook of Magic
The Magick Colouring Book: A Spellbinding Journey of Colour and Creativity
Magic Days: Your Daily Astrology, Numerology and Tarot Guide
Cosmic Numerology: How to Harness Your Full Potential Using the Power of Numbers and Planets
How I Cook (Signed Edition): A Chef’s Guide to Really Good Home Cooking
Comfort Eating: The Joy of Secret Snacks and Naughty Nibbles
You Can Cook Everything: A Contemporary Guide to Perfect Home Cooking Every Time
Kin: Caribbean Recipes for the Modern Kitchen
The Martini: The Ultimate Guide to a Cocktail Icon
Dinner: 120 vegan and vegetarian recipes for the most important meal of the day
The Food For Life Cookbook: 100+ Recipes Created with ZOE
One: Pot, Pan, Planet: A Greener Way to Cook for You, Your Family and the Planet
Baby Food Bible: A Nourishing Guide to Feeding Your Family, From First Bite and Beyond
Pizza Volume 01: A Guide to Your Pizza-Making Journey and Other Outdoor Recipes
Sobremesa: Tasty Mexican Recipes for Every Day
The Grazing Table: How to Create Beautiful Butter Boards, Food Platters & More
The Gourmand’s Lemon
Easy Wins: 12 Flavour Hits, 125 Delicious Recipes, 365 Days of Good Eating
A Day in Tokyo: A Japanese Cookbook
Enter Ghost
Restless Dolly Maunder
Soldier Sailor: 'Intense, furious, moving and often extremely funny.' DAVID NICHOLLS
The Wren, The Wren
River East, River West: Shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2024
Natural Burial Ground
Crisis Actor
Local Interest
Living In The World As If It Were Home
Citadel
England's Green
One Lark, One Horse
Thinking with Trees
The Kentish Rebellion
The Caiplie Caves
Amnion
Shine, Darling
Powsels and Thrums
Stonehenge: Sighting the Sun
Steeple Chasing: Around Britain by Church
London Orbital
Natural Burial Ground
Circles of Stone: Weird Tales of Pagan Sites and Ancient Rites
Pattern Under the Plough: Aspects of the Folk Life of East Anglia
Modern Nature: Journals, 1989 – 1990
Ithell Colquhoun: Genius of The Fern Loved Gully
Art Is Magic
Strange Relics: Stories of Archaeology and the Supernatural, 1895-1954
Lost & Found
Lapidarium: The Secret Lives of Stones
Visions of the Occult: An Untold Story of Art & Magic
The Weirdstone of Brisingamen
Base Notes: The Scents of a Life
Never Understood: The Jesus and Mary Chain
Strange Things Are Happening
In the Jingle Jangle Jungle: Keeping Time with the Brian Jonestown Massacre
Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin)
Johnny Cash: The Life in Lyrics: The official, fully illustrated celebration of the Man in Black
Believe in Magic: 30 Years of Heavenly Recordings
Access All Areas: A Backstage Pass Through 50 Years of Music And Culture
Ten Thousand Apologies: Fat White Family and the Miracle of Failure: A Sunday Times Bestseller and Rough Trade Book of the Year
Tenement Kid: Rough Trade Book of the Year
Faster Than A Cannonball: 1995 and All That
People Funny Boy: The Genius of Lee 'Scratch' Perry
Unrequited Infatuations: A Memoir
Monument Maker
Industry of Magic & Light
Empress Cixtisis
Sensible Footwear: A Girl's Guide: A graphic guide to lesbian and queer history 1950-2020
Crushing
Anatomy of Comics: Famous Originals of Narrative Art
Heartstopper Volume 2: Boy meets boy in the bestselling graphic novel, also on Netflix!
Art of My Neighbor Totoro
The Sun Also Rises: Deluxe Illustrated Edition
Love That Bunch
DUNE: The Graphic Novel, Book 1: Dune
Cheese, Wine, and Bread: Discovering the Magic of Fermentation in England, Italy, and France
The Art of Fermentation: New York Times Bestseller
The Food Almanac: Volume Two
Fermentation as Metaphor: From the Author of the Bestselling "The Art of Fermentation"
Tales of the Mushroom Folk
Fungipedia: A Brief Compendium of Mushroom Lore
The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins
The Mushroom Fan Club
Mushrooms: A Natural and Cultural History
Chanterelle Dreams, Amanita Nightmares: The Love, Lore, and Mystique of Mushrooms
Shroom: Mind-bendingly Good Recipes for Cultivated and Wild Mushrooms
Cheese Sex Death: A Bible for the Cheese Obsessed
Mushrooms: Over 70 Recipes That Celebrate Our Favourite Fungi
A Portrait of British Cheese: A Celebration of Artistry, Regionality and Recipes
Mushrooms: The natural and human world of British fungi
Cold War Steve Annual 2024
Portals: Gates, Stiles, Windows, Bridges, & Other Crossings
Failures of State: The Inside Story of Britain’s Battle with Coronavirus
Beasts of England
Let the Light Pour In
I'm a Fan
Sports Banger: Lifestyles of the poor, rich & famous
Hogarth: Life in Progress
Muse: Uncovering the Hidden Figures Behind Art History's Masterpieces
Funky Chickens
How They Broke Britain
Wolf Road: The bestselling animal adventure from TV's Alice Roberts
Mind Games: The Ups and Downs of Life and Football
The KLF: Chaos, Magic and the Band who Burned a Million Pounds
Killer in the Kremlin: The Explosive Account of Putin's Reign of Terror
Kick the Latch
Man-Eating Typewriter: Shortlisted for the Goldsmiths Prize 2023
Crisis Actor
Tremor
Wish I Was Here: 'The best writer you've never heard of' - Sunday Times
Ordinary Human Failings
The Parenthood Dilemma: Decisions in Our Age of Uncertainty
Hello Beautiful
The Shards: Bret Easton Ellis. The Sunday Times Bestselling New Novel from the Author of AMERICAN PSYCHO
Table for Two: Recipes for the Ones You Love
The Bookshop, The Draper, The Candlestick Maker: A History of the High Street
Ocean: A History of the Atlantic Before Columbus
Between Two Rivers: 'A WONDERFUL READ' -- TOM HOLLAND
Dispatches from the Diaspora: From Nelson Mandela to Black Lives Matter
Holding the Line: A true story of female-led resilience from the bestselling author of Demon Copperhead
The Golden Road: How Ancient India Transformed the World
The Eagle and the Hart: The Tragedy of Richard II and Henry IV
The Siege: The Remarkable Story of the Greatest SAS Hostage Drama
Clay: A Human History
Haywire: A Political History of Britain since 2000
How to Build Stonehenge: 'A gripping archaeological detective story' The Sunday Times
Messalina: The Life and Times of Rome’s Most Scandalous Empress
They Were Here Before Us: Stories from Our First Million Years
The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World: Now a major documentary series on Channel 5
Pirate Enlightenment, or the Real Libertalia
Varjak Paw
Over Sea, Under Stone: The Dark is Rising sequence
Matilda (Colour Edition)
Arkspire
The Earthshot Prize: A Handbook for Dreamers and Thinkers: Solutions to Repair our Planet
Maggie Blue and the White Crow
City of Stolen Magic
Kevin the Vampire: A Most Mysterious Monster
The Extremely Embarrassing Life of Lottie Brooks
The Explorer: From the author of the internationally bestselling phenomenon Impossible Creatures
The Swifts
Mystery & Mayhem
Kay’s Incredible Inventions: A fascinating and fantastically funny guide to inventions that changed the world (and some that def
Hedgewitch: Woodwitch: Book 2: The enchanting series brimming with mystery and magic
The Boy Who Fell From the Sky
Acid West: Essays
Desert Solitaire: A Season in the Wilderness
Desierto: Memories of the Future
Desert Oracle: Volume 1: Strange True Tales from the American Southwest
The Motel Life
Sacred Sites: The Secret History of Southern California
The Circus of Dr. Lao
Across the Great Divide: A Photo Chronicle of the Counterculture
House Made of Dawn [50th Anniversary Ed]: A Novel
Motel Chronicles & Hawk Moon
No Country for Old Men
The Passion Of New Eve
How to Blow Up a Pipeline: Learning to Fight in a World on Fire
Scorched Earth: Beyond the Digital Age to a Post-Capitalist World
The Monkey Wrench Gang
Who Owns England?: How We Lost Our Land and How to Take it Back
Bullshit Jobs: The Rise of Pointless Work, and What We Can Do About It
Dark Age America: Climate Change, Cultural Collapse, and the Hard Future Ahead
Hippie Food
Breaking Things at Work: The Luddites Are Right About Why You Hate Your Job
The Revenge of Gaia: Why the Earth is Fighting Back and How We Can Still Save Humanity
Traffication: How Cars Destroy Nature and What We Can Do About It
Black Mass: Apocalyptic Religion and the Death of Utopia
Postcapitalist Desire: The Final Lectures
Deep Green Resistance: Strategy to Save the Planet
Exploring Degrowth: A Critical Guide
Revolt Against the Modern World: Politics, Religion, and Social Order in the Kali Yuga
The Serviceberry: An Economy of Gifts and Abundance
What Writers Read: 35 Writers on their Favourite Book
What I Ate in One Year : (And related thoughts)
The Heart in Winter
The Seventh Son
From Here to the Great Unknown: A Memoir
Women Living Deliciously: THE LIFE-CHANGING BOOK EVERY WOMAN DESERVES
Didion & Babitz: A Belletrist Book Club pick
The Place of Tides
The KLF: Chaos, Magic and the Band who Burned a Million Pounds
England: A Natural History
Want: Sexual Fantasies by Anonymous
Intermezzo: The global #1 bestseller from the author of Normal People
The Wager
Cold War Steve Annual 2025 (Signed Edition)
On A Woman's Madness
Heart Lamp: Winner of the 2025 International Booker Prize
Perfection
Eurotrash - A Novel
Under the Eye of the Big Bird: Shortlisted for the International Booker Prize 2025
Hunchback
Small Boat
Reservoir Bitches: Longlisted for the International Booker Prize 2025
Solenoid
There's a Monster Behind the Door
On the Calculation of Volume I: Shortlisted for the International Booker Prize 2025
The Book of Disappearance
Good Girl: Shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2025
The Ministry of Time: The romantic, sci-fi, comedic, literary, genre-defying bestseller
Somewhere Else: Recommended by Miriam Margolyes
AMMA
Crooked Seeds
All Fours
The Dream Hotel: Longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2025
The Persians
Dream Count
Nesting: Longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2025; the tender, soaring debut you won't be able to forget
A Little Trickerie
Birding: Longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2025
The Artist: Winner of the Waterstones Debut Prize
Tell Me Everything
Fundamentally: Shortlisted for the 2025 Women's Prize for Fiction
World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War
Station Eleven
The Knife of Never Letting Go: The first book in the iconic multi-award-winning trilogy; a gripping dystopian YA novel with them
Riddley Walker
The Last Murder at the End of the World: The Number One Sunday Times bestseller
The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins
Zone One
Oryx and Crake
Cat's Cradle
The Death of Grass
I Am Legend: The Best of the SF Masterworks
The Road
When the Wind Blows
What We Can Know
Prophet Song: WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE 2023

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