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When the Floods Came
| A Novel by Clare Morrall | In a world prone to violent flooding, Britain, ravaged 20 years earlier by a deadly virus, has been largely cut off from the rest of the world. Survivors are few and far between, most of them infertile. Children, the only hope for the...
The Girls of Slender Means
| A Novel by Muriel Spark | The May of Teck Club 'exists for the Pecuniary Convenience and Social Protection of Ladies of Slender Means below the age of Thirty Years'. Nevertheless, and though there is a war on, they find the time between elocution lessons to jostle...
How To Build A Girl
| A Young Adult Novel by Caitlin Moran | This is a raunchy, hilarious coming of age story about Johanna Morrigan, 14 who lives with her parents and four siblings in a cramped council estate in Wolverhampton in the 90’s. Chronic poverty, deprivation and unemployment...
The Rumour
| A Novel by Lesley Kara | This is the debut novel by Lesley Kara. The Rumour is a Sunday Times bestseller and 2019’s bestselling print crime and thriller debut. The story follows, Jo Critchley, a young mother, who has given up a well-paid job in London to move back...
The Trouble with Goats and Sheep
| A Novel by Joanna Canon | In the hot summer of 1976, Mrs Creasy is missing. Ten-year olds Tilly and Grace take it upon themselves to investigate the disappearance. In their naïve attempt to help they uncover a web of deception. It seems everyone in the cul-de-sac...
The Patient
| A Novel by Steena Holmes | Where was her editor? The idea behind the story was a good one - a therapist suspects that one of her patients is a serial killer. The murderer kills the parents while the children sleep blissfully unaware. Danielle Rycroft is a therapist...
The Exact Opposite Of OK
| A Young Adult Novel by Laura Steven | I chose to read this book because it won the 2019 Comedy Women in Print Prize and it didn't disappoint. It's a YA novel making it a quick and easy read. Izzy is gloriously captured as a teenage feminist with that dangerous mix...
Sid . . . The Catapult Kid
| A Children's Picture Book by Sarah Baker & Illustrator Hazel Alemany | I loved this hilarious rhyming story about speed demon Sid and his ambitious creation to launch himself into hypervelocity using his specially constructed catapult. Sarah Baker's fast paced...