23/06/2023
Looks like we're in for another warm weekend, so why not pick up a good book to spend it with? Here's a pick of some of the best new fiction we've got in store this week.
P.s We're opening until 5pm on Saturdays over the summer. Everyone should be reading in or near grass by 5.05pm. ☀️🌿
📕 'Lessons' by Ian McEwan
When the world is still counting the cost of the Second World War and the Iron Curtain has closed, eleven-year-old Roland Baines's life is turned upside down.
📙 'Ruth & Pen' by Emilie Pine
Dublin, 7 October 2019. One day, one city, two women: Ruth and Pen. They don't know each other, but both are asking themselves the same questions.
📘 'The Last White Man' by Mohsin Hamid
One morning, a man wakes up to find himself transformed. Overnight, Anders’s skin has turned dark, and the reflection in the mirror seems a stranger to him.
📕 'Cat Brushing' by Jane Campbell
A rousing and original debut story collection that probes the erotic, emotional, and intellectual lives of elder women.
📙 'Shanghai Immortal' by A.Y. Chao
Pawned by her mother to the King of Hell as a child, Lady Jing is half-vampire, half-hulijing fox-spirit and all sasshole.
📘 'Emergency' by Daisy Hildyard
Stuck at home alone under lockdown, a woman recounts her 1990s childhood in rural Yorkshire.
📕 'The Late Americans' by Brandon Taylor
In the shared and private spaces of Iowa City, a loose circle of lovers and friends encounter, confront, and provoke one another in a volatile year of self-discovery.
📙 'Blue Skinned Gods' by S.J. Sindu
In Tamil Nadu, India, a boy is born with blue skin. His father sets up an ashram, and the family makes a living off pilgrims who believe him to be the tenth human incarnation of the Hindu god Vishnu.
📘 'A Day of Fallen Night' by Samantha Shannon
Return to the universe of 'Priory of the Orange Tree' and into the lives of four women, showing us a course of events that shaped their world for generations to come.
