Good read – Scuffed Granny

The Junior Officer’s Reading Club by Patrick Hennessey

There’s a substantive canon of work for 20th century wars – but what is life like for the modern soldier? Hennessey’s book gives a first-hand insight

This is a bloody psychological wild ride of a book, set in 70s’ Chicago, and centred on crime, families and power plays

The origin story of an unlikely superhero called Cockroach aka Kyle Alexander, an ordinary schoolboy who finds a magic ring…

If there were such a book as a manual for life and how to approach it, then this should be it: straight-talking sense, sharply delivered.

Love, passion, acceptance – all of these themes permeate through this English/Italian collection with intensity, humour and honesty

A project takes people back to nature and a nomadic lifestyle but is this going to be the idyll they think it will be?

A short book of poems, some prose, some stream-of-consciousness musings, forming an eclectic collection, delivered in the same erudite voice

An intriguing title for an intriguing book about an imaginative girl called April at a key time in her life

A memoir of a life which begins troubled but shows the true power of resilience and the importance of having the right support

A book which begins with a family in tragedy but gradually, through faith and healing and the support of others, the way is shown to them