Bear

by Marian Engel

£8.99

Reserve a copy

×

Reserve a copy

Reserve a copy of Bear for collection at the Marlow Bookshop. If you provide your email address below, we will contact you when this item is ready for collection. For delivery by post add the address to the order notes and we will be in touch to arrange payment.


    Fiction

    Paperback

    9781911547945

    Published April 2021

    ‘Bear,’ she cried. ‘I love you. Pull my head off.’

    Lou is a shy and diligent librarian at the local Heritage Institute. She lives a mole-like existence, buried among maps and manuscripts in her dusty basement office. With nothing and no one to go home to, she resigns herself to passionless sex on her desk with the Institute’s Director.

    When she is summoned to a remote island to inventory the house and estate of the late Colonel Jocelyn Cary, she takes it as an opportunity to head north and get out of the city, hoping for an industrious summer of cataloguing.

    Colonel Cary left many possessions behind, but no one warned her about the bear. Lou soon begins to anticipate the bear’s needs for food and company. But as summer blooms across the island and Lou shakes off the city, she realises the bear might satisfy some needs of her own.

    Nosy Neighbours by Freya Sampson | 9781804182437

    Nosy Neighbours

    Freya Sampson

    £9.99

    Mrs Gulliver by Valerie Martin | 9781800815391

    Mrs Gulliver

    Valerie Martin

    £16.99

    The Silver Bone by Andrey Kurkov | 9781529426496

    The Silver Bone

    Andrey Kurkov

    £20.00

    The Last Murder at the End of the World by Stuart Turton | 9781526634955

    The Last Murder at the End of the World

    Stuart Turton

    £16.99

    Murder on Lake Garda by Tom Hindle | 9781529902198

    Murder on Lake Garda

    Tom Hindle

    £16.99

    Every Day is Mother’s Day by Hilary Mantel | 9781841153391

    Every Day is Mother’s Day

    Hilary Mantel

    £9.99