The Ballad of Midnight and McRae by Jess Lederman

This is a book as wide and deep as the western landscape in which it’s set, full of imagination, bound together with love and faith

All Fours by Miranda July

A book, which is rowdy but thoughtful, told from the viewpoint of a woman at the midpoint of life

Mad Honey by Jodi Picoult and Jennifer Finney Boylan

A book for our times, Mad Honey is a story of people, divisions, assumptions and wrong perceptions, with a murder trial at the centre of it