'-an alarming account of a family over several decades, and the painful destruction of the various relationships, mother/daughter, husband/wife and sibling, all devastated by the potent combination of desire, jealousy and repression.'

' - a delicious story of love and electricity in a rural Irish community. Told with love and good humour, Williams brings to life the world of a village in Ireland that seems to have been left behind until the electric comes.'

'- taking the idea of greener grass to the extreme, Sauma charts the journey from a seemingly dead-end life on Earth, to a new horizon on planet Nyx and asks if we can escape from the worst of modern life? Or is there more to this fragile ecosystem that we could enjoy while we have the chance?'

' - a tale of intrigue that follows the adventures of Alwin in fourteenth-century Derbyshire. Carlin vividly conjures up the violence and strangeness of the the time for a young person trying to trace their origins.'

' - this is on my ’to be read’ list. Written by a brilliant former colleague, I’m really looking forward to the pleasure of reading her first novel.'

' - not a recent book, but the one I am reading at the moment. Clever science fiction stories told in a shimmering prose that haunts you long after you put the book down. The title story was adapted for the film ‘Arrival’. '