Book of the month

Into the Darkest Corner by Elizabeth Haynes Catherine has been enjoying the single life for long enough to know a good catch when she sees one. Gorgeous, charismatic, spontaneous – Lee seems almost too perfect to be true. And her friends clearly agree, as each in turn falls under his Read more

Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and his Years of Pilgrimage by Haruki Murakami Reviewed by Amanda Read   In high school, Tsukuru Tazaki had four close friends.  The friends did everything together.  So concerned were they to maintain the status quo, they studiously avoided splintering into smaller groups.  Yet, while each of his Read more

The Fall River Axe Murders – Angela Carter Reviewed by Amanda Read   This short story takes place in the moments before the Borden family awake on that fateful day when:   Lizzie Borden took an axe And gave her mother forty whacks. When she saw what she had done She Read more

Clay by Melissa Harrison A boy tiptoes from a high-rise block in the half-light of dawn to see the neat prints left by a fox on the frosty grass. He is TC, eight years old and skipping school to spend his time exploring the city’s waste ground and forgotten wild Read more

    Life after Life – Kate Atkinson Life After Life follows Ursula Todd as she lives through the turbulent events of the last century again and again. With wit and compassion, Kate Atkinson finds warmth even in life’s bleakest moments, and shows an extraordinary ability to evoke the past. Read more

The book selected for June is Spare Brides by Adele Parks New Year’s Eve, 1920. The Great War is over and it’s a new decade of glamorous promise. But a generation of men and women who survived the extreme trauma and tragedy will never be the same. With countless men Read more