Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
Oryx and Crake is to environmentalism what the Handmaid's Tale is to feminism. Atwood casts an acerbic eye over the state of the planet...
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Sep 26, 20211 min read
The Last Voyage of Mrs Henry Parker by Joanna Nell
This is the very moving story of a lifetime of love between Dr Henry Parker, a ship's doctor, and his wife. They met on her first cruise,...
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Sep 26, 20211 min read
Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer
A gorgeous book about how our family history makes us who we are. A young Jewish writer visit his grandparent's pre-war hometown in...
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Sep 26, 20211 min read
Once There Were Wolves by Charlotte McConaghy
This is poignant, heartbreaking and beautifully written story about rewilding the remote Scottish highlands with wolves which once roamed...
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Sep 26, 20211 min read
The Boy from the Woods by Harlan Coben
Harlan Coben delivers another excellent thriller which starts as a simple missing teenage girl situation, evolves into so much more....
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Sep 26, 20211 min read
Meg and Mog by Helen Nicoll, Jan Pienkowski
I absolutely adore this series for pre-schoolers. My children learnt to read thanks to the the excellent simple sentence structure, us of...
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Sep 26, 20211 min read
In Moonland by Miles Allinson
When Joe is 17, his father kills himself. Years later, when his own daughter is born, he decides to track down his father’s old friends...
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Sep 26, 20211 min read
Sam Bloom: Heartache & Birdsong by Cameron Bloom, Samantha Bloom, Bradley Trevor Greive
This autobiography is both heart breaking and uplifting as Sam Bloom tells her story which inspired the international bestseller Penguin...
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Sep 26, 20211 min read
People From My Neighbourhood by Hiromi Kawakami
I adored this pocket-sized collection of intermingling super short stories, all set in a small Japanese neighbourhood. Charming, odd, and...
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Sep 26, 20211 min read
The Tribute by John Byron
This is not a book for the faint hearted. The protagonist, or should I say perpetrator, is on a quest to reenact the 16th century...
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Sep 26, 20211 min read
A Net for Small Fishes by Lucy Jago
I would put this debut on par with Burial Rites. It really is that good. Based on a true event during the reign of James I, the novel...
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Sep 26, 20211 min read
Honeybee by Craig Silvey
Superbly crafted; heart-breaking and heart-warming. Sam Watson, aka Honeybee, is a young man who is struggling with his identity. Almost...
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Sep 26, 20211 min read
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers
The founder of McSweeney's journal, Eggers is an author and entrepreneur and one of the key voices of Gen X. This is his personal history...
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Sep 26, 20211 min read
The Secrets We Kept by Lara Prescott
This is a fictionalised account of the banning of Boris Pasternak's novel, Dr Zhivago, by the USSR and the CIA's decision to publish his...
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Sep 26, 20211 min read
The Henna Artist by Alka Joshi
I am engrossed by books that open my world to different cultures and this one has been beautifully written and an eye opener into India's...
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Sep 25, 20211 min read
Country Dogs on Doorsteps by Suzanne Stevenson
A gorgeous look into the houses and furry friends of the Australian country. Welcome to the homes of working dogs, lap dogs, tennis ball...
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Sep 25, 20211 min read
The Tattooist of Auschwitz by Heather Morris
An extraordinary book based on a true story that will draw you in from the very first page. During the Holocaust prisoners received...
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Sep 25, 20211 min read
The Younger Wife by Sally Hepworth
Tully and Rachel are concerned when their father takes up with a woman half his age while their mother is suffering from dementia....
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Sep 25, 20211 min read
Frankissstein by Jeanette Winterson
This is one wild ride of a book. I felt like I was being pelted with ideas, history, future and jokes. It’s a reworking of Frankenstein;...
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Sep 25, 20211 min read
The Girl With Seven Names: Escape from North Korea by Hyeonseo Lee
This intriguing book in in my Top 5 favourite bios. North Koreas is shrouded in secrecy and very few people enter and even less leave....
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