Amanda Read

Gone Before Goodbye by Harlan Coben & Reese Witherspoon Description An unforgettable collaboration between an award-winning actress Reese Witherspoon and the and #1 internationally bestselling writer Harlan Coben. ‘A tour de force thriller. Coben and Witherspoon are a dream team!’ Lucy Foley ‘Full of jaw-dropping twists and turns’ Lisa Jewell ‘Savvy, smart Read more

V for Victory by Lissa Evans Description Longlisted for the Comedy Women in Print Prize 2021 It’s late 1944. Hitler’s rockets are slamming down on London with vicious regularity and it’s the coldest winter in living memory. Allied victory is on its way, but it’s bloody well dragging its feet. In a Read more

Quicksilver by Callie Hart Description 🗝️ Do not touch the sword. Do not turn the key. Do not open the gate. 🗡️ In the land of the unforgiving desert, there isn’t much a girl wouldn’t do for a glass of water.Twenty-four-year-old Saeris Fane is good at keeping secrets. No one knows about the strange powers she possesses, or the fact Read more

Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir Description A lone astronaut.An impossible mission.An ally he never imagined. ‘The most enjoyable hard SF I have read in years’ GUARDIAN ‘Weir’s finest work to date. . . This is the one book I read last year that I am certain I can recommend to Read more

Don’t let it break you, honey by Jenny Evans Description Cast in a cult film at the age of eighteen, Jenny Evans was on the cusp of something extraordinary; a route out of her hometown, a future of promise. But the new world she was exploring crumbled around her when Read more

The Names by Florence Knapp Description It is 1987, and in the aftermath of a great storm, Cora sets out with her nine-year-old daughter to register the birth of her son. Her husband intends for her to follow a long-standing family tradition and call the baby after him. But when Read more

Eating for England by Nigel Slater Description Written in a style similar to that of Nigel Slater’s multi-award-winning food memoir ‘Toast’, this is a celebration of the glory, humour, eccentricities and embarrassments that are the British at Table. The British have a relationship with their food that is unlike that Read more

Bitter Orange by Claire Fuller Description Frances Jellico is dying. A man who calls himself the vicar visits, hoping to extract a deathbed confession. He wants to know what really happened that fateful summer of 1969, when Frances – tasked with surveying a dilapidated country house – first set eyes Read more

Any title by Jane Austen Description In this month members each read a title of their choice by Jane Austen in celebration of 250 years since her birth. Take your pick from: Sense and Sensibility | Pride and Prejudice | Mansfield Park | Emma | Northanger Abbey | Persuasion | or one Read more