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

The Flying Man by Etienne Bijnens

A beautifully and intelligently composed novel about loss, regret and guilt interspersed with philosophical leanings and literary suggestion

The Lost and Found Journal of Me: A Year in the Life of the Awesomest Girl Who Ever Lived (January-June) by J.C. Dublin

A wonderfully reflective tool, which provides historical and factual information as a springboard for your girls to think and record ideas

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