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Headline Fiction - Lost Lambs by Madeline Cash

For the three Flynn daughters, it’s been disastrous since their parents opened up their marriage. Abigail, the eldest, is dating an ex-soldier several years her senior nicknamed ‘War Crimes Wes’. Louise, the middle child, maintains a secret correspondence with an online terrorist. And the brilliant youngest, Harper, is being sent to a wilderness reform camp. Rippling with humour, warmth and style, Lost Lambs turns family dysfunction into an art form.

LitFic & Book Buffet - Crux by Gabriel Tallent

Dan and Tamma are two teenagers growing up in poverty near Joshua Tree National Park, bound by friendship and a shared obsession with rock climbing. While Dan is pushed toward academic escape and Tamma is dismissed as a lost cause, the cliffs offer them purpose and hope. As their final year of high school unfolds and the risks they take grow more extreme, the pressures of home and ambition drive them toward a breaking point.

Light & Easy - This Book Made Me Think of You by Libby Page

When Tilly Nightingale learns her late husband has left her twelve books, one for each month of her first year without him, she begins an unexpected journey through grief and healing. As the stories take her around the world, and with the quiet support of a local bookseller, Tilly starts to
rediscover herself and imagine a future beyond loss, and the possibility of loving again.

Bookety Club - Just Watch Me by Lior Torenberg

Fleabag meets Big Swiss in this bold debut about a
charismatic misfit who livestreams her life for seven days and nights to raise money to save her comatose sister – a poignant and darkly funny exploration of grief, forgiveness and redemption. Lior Torenberg’s debut is both a razor-sharp tragicomedy about the internet economy and a surreptitiously moving tale about the desire to be watched – and the terror of being seen.

Twists & Turns - A Bad Bad Place

Glasgow, 1979. Twelve-year-old Janey won’t take her dog, Sid Vicious, for a walk. Not anymore. It’s Sid’s fault she found the murdered woman. Janey claims she can’t remember what she saw at the abandoned railway, but the police think she’s hiding something. And they’re not the only ones interested. Fear and rumour rip through the tight-knit community of Possilpark. Janey and her nana, Maggie, are dragged into the hunt for a murderer.

Real Reads - Two Women Living Together by Kim Hana and Hwang Sunwoo

Two independent Korean women in their late forties choose to live together, creating a shared life with their four cats and redefining what family can look like. As they reflect on friendship, ageing and society’s expectations around marriage and independence, this quietly radical book celebrates companionship, chosen family and carving out a life full of meaning on your own terms.

Romantasy - Silver & Blood by Jessie Mihalik

When a deadly beast stalks her village, Riela, an untrained mage, enters the forbidden woods to kill it and is nearly killed herself. Saved by Garrick, a powerful and dangerous immortal exiled from his kingdom, she awakens trapped in his enchanted castle as her magic begins to reveal unexpected depths. As desire ignites between them and secrets surface, Riela discovers her fate may be tied to Garrick’s lost power and that her life, or death, could decide everything he hopes to reclaim.

Backlist Bangers - The Wish Child by Catherine Chidgey

Set in wartime Germany, The Wish Child follows two
children from very different worlds as a nation’s ideology collapses around them. Drawn together in the ruins of Berlin, their brief connection shapes the rest of their lives in this haunting meditation on innocence, complicity and the lasting damage of corrupted ideals.

NEW SUBSCRIPTION - Local Voices by Elisabeth Easther

Hillary, Maggie, Shelley and Virginia are four women
grappling with sex, fertility, work and ambition in modern life. From app-managed conception and dating as a single mum to returning to work after motherhood and an unorthodox plan for a longed-for baby, their stories intersect in this sharp, funny novel about desire, pressure and the lives we want.