RECOMMENDED BY MILLIE

A radical novel on androgyny and double selves inspired by Virginia Woolf’s Orlando.

RECOMMENDED BY RILEY

Funny and gross at times, but always swiftly followed with some of the most devastating and tender prose I’ve ever read. The amount of life Tea lived in one year or rather what is gathered in this book is huge.

RECOMMENDED BY HANNAH

After Rita is found dead in a church she used to attend, the official investigation into the incident is quickly closed. Her mother is the only person still determined to find the culprit. However, weakened by illness, she is also the least able to.

RECOMMENDED BY KAT

Why the ongoing fascination with the ancient world? This witty, approachable book asks why—for better or (sometimes) worse—antiquity continues to exert such a powerful hold on the contemporary imagination.

RECOMMENDED BY RILEY

A grand tale of human behaviour at the extremes told by one of our greatest nonfiction writers.

RECOMMENDED BY KAT

There's a reason this LitRPG series has worked it's way into the mainstream.

RECOMMENDED BY HANNAH

RECOMMENDED BY HANNAH

A heart-wrenchingly fantastic generational saga with one very good cat!

RECOMMENDED BY HANNAH

Lovely, transportive and sometimes deeply sad. All the light and dark of the small moments that make a life. Sure to be a modern classic of animal and nature writing.

RECOMMENDED BY CASSY

Expect woe and weal, whimsy and comfort, and a melancholic hug in novella form from this modern classic of Japanese literature.

RECOMMENDED BY EDIE

Palaver follows an unnamed queer man living in Tokyo who is reunited with his mother after a decade, their relationship hovering over the complicated and foggy border of estrangement and love.

RECOMMENDED BY ELLE

Cozy, wholesome, and philosophical. Reading this two-part series felt like sinking into a warm hug. Elle wanted to go and live in this world.

RECOMMENDED BY ANNE

A subtle and powerful novella about childhood and murder that Anne read in one sitting (twice).

RECOMMENDED BY ELLE

A feminist gender-bending retelling of the Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice. Easy-to-read and beautiful.

RECOMMENDED BY JASMINE

Amazingly written but made Jasmine cry too much. Like Orwell’s Animal Farm set in an African authoritarian state.

RECOMMENDED BY JASMINE

This is some super great science writing, in depth but still totally devourable.

RECOMMENDED BY HANNAH

A Leopard-Skin Hat is both the celebration of a tragically foreshortened life and a valedictory farewell.

RECOMMENDED BY ELLE

Epic, with fierce, complex and well-written female characters. This book and sequel Day of Fallen Night ignited Elle's love of fantasy again.

RECOMMENDED BY KRISTY

Always Home, Always Homesick is Hannah Kent's exquisite love letter to a land that has forged a nation of storytellers, her ode to the transcendent power of creativity, and her invitation to us all to join her in the realms of mystery, spirit and wonder.

RECOMMENDED BY KAT

With Is a River Alive?, Robert Macfarlane has delivered his most urgent, political and exquisitely written book yet.