Piranesi (2021) by Susanna Clarke Winner of the 2021 Women’s Prize for Fiction A SUNDAY TIMES & NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Description Piranesi lives in the House. Perhaps he always has. In his notebooks, day after day, he makes a clear and careful record of its wonders: the labyrinth of Read more…
The Glass House (2020) by Eve Chase The truth can shatter everything . . . When the Harrington family discovers an abandoned baby deep in the shady woods, they decide to keep her a secret and raise her as their own. But within days a body is found in the Read more…
The End of Men (2022) by Christina Sweeney-Baird Description A RACE AGAINST TIME The year is 2025. Mankind is under threat. A FIGHT FOR THEIR LIVES Men are dying, but women remain safe. As the sickness spreads to every corner of the globe, people fight to protect the men they love Read more…
Miss Benson’s Beetle by Rachel Joyce WINNER OF THE WILBUR SMITH ADVENTURE WRITING PRIZE | BEST PUBLISHED NOVELWOMAN & HOME BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR and A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ‘The perfect escape novel for our troubled times.’ PATRICK GALE DESCRIPTION It is 1950. London is still reeling from Read more…
This month, we have a double-header, take your pick of either, or read both. A Certain Slant of Light (2005) by Laura Whitcomb In the class of the high school English teacher she has been haunting, Helen feels them: for the first time in 130 years, human eyes are looking Read more…
The Second Sleep (2020) by Robert Harris When a local parson of a remote village dies under mysterious circumstances, Christopher Fairfax, a young English priest, is dispatched on horseback from the cathedral city to conduct his burial. His orders are to give the sermon and leave as quickly as Read more…
The Mirror and the Light (2021) by Hilary Mantel The Sunday Times bestselling sequel to Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies , the stunning conclusion to Hilary Mantel’s Man Booker Prize-winning Wolf Hall trilogy. A Guardian Book of the Year * A Times Book of the Year * A Read more…
The Bees (2015) by Laline Paull Shortlisted for the Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction 2015 Longlisted for the Desmond Elliott Prize for New Fiction 2015 Description Enter a whole new world, in this thrilling debut novel set entirely within a beehive. Born into the lowest class of her society, Flora 717 Read more…
Dear Child (2020) by Romy Haussmann (transl. Jamie Bulloch) YOU ESCAPED. BUT HE WILL NEVER LET YOU GO. DESCRIPTION A windowless shack in the woods. Lena’s life and that of her two children follows the rules set by their captor, the father: meals, bathroom visits, study time are strictly scheduled Read more…
The Foundling (2020) by Stacy Halls. Description The captivating Sunday Times bestseller from the author of The Familiars Two women, bound by a child, and a secret that will change everything . . . London, 1754. Six years after leaving her illegitimate daughter Clara at London’s Foundling Hospital, Bess Bright Read more…