The Newham Bookshop in Barking Road tells us these are the top sellers this month:

Tony Carr: A Lifetime in Football at West Ham United

Oliver Bullough: Butler to the World

Vaseem Khan: The Dying Day (now in paperback)

Nadia Shireen: Grimwood

Karen Millwood Hargrave: Julia and the Shark

Maudie Smith: My Must-Have Mum (Illustrated by Jen Khatun)

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