
Staff Review: The Palestine Laboratory
Loewenstein’s thorough care in putting this book together cements it as a powerful addition to geo-political literature.

Staff Review: The Swimmers
The novel is split into two distinct sections, and Otsuka blends them together in a bewildering yet intriguing way through metaphor.

Staff Review: Enter Ghost
By all means, this is not an easy read, but it is an important one. I won’t be forgetting this story anytime soon.

Staff Review: COUP
A game built off lies, where there are two ways to move forward – play it safe and slow, or lie and hope the others don’t call your bluff.

Staff Review: Homesick
Intimate, devastating and clever yet not overly complicated, Homesick is a brilliant exploration of life, love and loss.

Staff Review: Everything Calls for Salvation
This is a beautiful and poetic little novella based on the author’s real-life experience in a psychiatric hospital.

Staff Review: Foxlight
Fen and Ray set out on a journey that will test their will and determination.

Staff Review: Woman, Eating
Whimsical and lucid, this is an easy read that is fun with a touch of melancholy.

Staff Review: How to Survive Your Murder
It doesn’t take itself too seriously and, like the best horror films, it ends abruptly and bizarrely, with potential for a sequel.

Staff Review: Sunbathing
It was lyrical and beautiful, so sensitively written, and confronted necessary topics including the complications of grief and guilt…

Staff Review: The Fraud
This is historical fiction with a fresh, funny energy, brimming with ideas about class, race and gender that are made to feel up-to-date

Staff Review: Creation Node
A brilliant tale of conflicting worldviews, unknowable entities, human life and death, and the importance of both compassion and curiosity

Staff Review: All My Mothers
It’s one girl’s journey to find her birth mother and the realisation that mothers – and family – can be found in the most unexpected places.

Staff Review: The Weekend
It’s an easy read but full of pathos and memorable moments. This is a book to be passed from woman to woman.

Staff Review: The Unwomanly Face of War
The reader feels as though they themself are sitting down with these women over a cup of tea to listen to their stories.

Staff Review: Loot
Richly detailed and action-packed, this novel feels both deeply personal and hugely expansive all at once.

Staff Review: Things I Learned in Art School
This is a dazzling, killer read of comic brilliance, and a perfect antidote to the disconcerting times we currently find ourselves in.

Staff Review: The Last Unicorn
Lyrical prose, flawed but loveable characters and an ominous villain, all tucked within a mystical fantasy world.

Staff Review: Under the Whispering Door
Klune does a great job of crafting his characters. They are warm and inviting, and I was sad to let them go at the end.

Staff Review: Orwell
A fascinating glimpse into the life of a fundamental, if controversial, figure in the world of speculative fiction.

Staff Review: Commune
There are struggles, celebrations, joys and sorrows in these pages, and it makes for an eye-opening read that will leave you wondering…

Staff Review: Femina
These deep dives into Medieval women’s lives are endlessly fascinating & are proof that women have never been separate from history.

Staff Review: Land of Milk and Honey
Every page is laden with rich, sometimes grotesque, delicious language, but the story still barrels forward at pace…

Staff Review: Cherry Beach
Beautiful and hopeful and sad yet strangely comforting, ‘Cherry Beach’ is a quick but intense read about friendship, love, and death.