The bitter Russian wind swirls with snowflakes and magic as a fierce young girl takes on tradition in this utterly charming story. The Bear and the Nightingale is a dark fairytale, combining mystical folklore with family drama in a fantastic, frozen setting.
Making a Murderer meets 19th century Scotland as a grisly triple killing shocks a rural Highland village. You are called on to piece together the tricky fragments of evidence against a teenage boy, and deliver your verdict on whether he deserves the gallows for his crime.
The Wonder has all the tension and pace of a thriller, with a tragic ending ticking ever closer if the truth is not unveiled in time. Fans of Room will find the same tautness of plot here, and there is no doubt that Donoghue can craft a wonderful page turner that will keep readers guessing up until the last moment.
Think back to when you were ten years younger, and consider how you would judge your current self. Would you like the person you have become? This is the powerful question Liane Moriarty asks us to consider in this thought-provoking story.
If you’re looking for an unusual page turner with more twists than a 1960’s dance hall, this adrenaline-fuelled ride through Victorian London won’t disappoint.
A stunning exploration of the wavering line between genius and madness, and a warning against succumbing to the trappings of fame, all found within one of the most intriguing settings I have ever come across in a book.
This scatty, odd and comic novel is about squirrels, the pharmaceutical industry, and a couple who only really get to know each other after entering into an uncertain engagement. Veblen and Paul are swept up in a funny, dark and peculiar journey, facing family, expectations and doubts that that they must survive together if they are going to make it to their wedding day.
As mortar shells rain down on pretty French coastlines, the chestnut trees, river banks and museums of Paris are poisoned with wartime fear, and the lives of two teenagers on opposite sides of the conflict are changed forever.
An icy adventure through a parallel world, incorporating magic, Arctic exploration and the perfect protagonist, the His Dark Materials trilogy stole my heart and my imagination as a child.
This somehow lovely dystopian exploration of our future paints an unimaginably barren world after the majority of the human population has been wiped out by the sudden arrival of a killer flu.
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