Yes Please by Amy Poehler – A book which pretends to be a memoir but reads like a very funny life manual
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Under Glass and Stone and Doors of Gold and Rust (The Byrne House Box Set) by A.N. Willis
The Byrne House Box Set by A.N.Willis – Suspenseful and creepy, A.N. Willis’s books are good reads with credible and likeable characters and well-paced plots.
Assassin’s Creed: Black Flag by Oliver Bowden
Assassin’s Creed: Black Flag by Oliver Bowden – For fans of the game, this will be a welcome addition; for those unfamiliar, it is still an action-packed tale of pirates and adventure.
Seamless Transition by Will Shingleton
Will Shingleton’s book about the suggestion of subversive dealings in a college football team reads like a gripping Netflix documentary
Other Minds: The Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness by Peter Godfrey-Smith
Other Minds by Peter Godfrey-Smith – An interesting book which discusses the evolution of intelligence and focuses on how this manifests itself in the octopus
Whistling in the Dark by Lesley Kagen
Whistling in the Dark by Lesley Kagen: A book about growing up; about sisters; about the characters in a neighbourhood, all framed around some mysterious murders.
Old Baggage by Lissa Evans
Mattie Simpkin is a wonderful heroine with verve and drive and a willingness to ensure that young women of the early twentieth century know that they can achieve much – if they only know how to push.
Songs from the Other Side by Robyn Bernstein
A coming-of-age novel told by Jayne, a science lover whose life is transformed and how she uses her differing parents’ views to navigate it
From Russia With Love by Ian Fleming
James Bond’s trip to Turkey for the suggested love of a Russian beauty was a great introduction for me to the fiction of Ian Fleming
The Book With No Name by Anonymous
For me, bourbon conjures images of small chocolate biscuits but the Bourbon Kid is a far scarier prospect in this quirky detective horror thriller