Oryx and Crake is to environmentalism what the Handmaid's Tale is to feminism. Atwood casts an acerbic eye over the state of the planet...

This is the very moving story of a lifetime of love between Dr Henry Parker, a ship's doctor, and his wife. They met on her first cruise,...

A gorgeous book about how our family history makes us who we are. A young Jewish writer visit his grandparent's pre-war hometown in...

This is poignant, heartbreaking and beautifully written story about rewilding the remote Scottish highlands with wolves which once roamed...

Harlan Coben delivers another excellent thriller which starts as a simple missing teenage girl situation, evolves into so much more....

I absolutely adore this series for pre-schoolers. My children learnt to read thanks to the the excellent simple sentence structure, us of...

When Joe is 17, his father kills himself. Years later, when his own daughter is born, he decides to track down his father’s old friends...

This autobiography is both heart breaking and uplifting as Sam Bloom tells her story which inspired the international bestseller Penguin...

I adored this pocket-sized collection of intermingling super short stories, all set in a small Japanese neighbourhood. Charming, odd, and...

This is not a book for the faint hearted. The protagonist, or should I say perpetrator, is on a quest to reenact the 16th century...

I would put this debut on par with Burial Rites. It really is that good. Based on a true event during the reign of James I, the novel...

Superbly crafted; heart-breaking and heart-warming. Sam Watson, aka Honeybee, is a young man who is struggling with his identity. Almost...

The founder of McSweeney's journal, Eggers is an author and entrepreneur and one of the key voices of Gen X. This is his personal history...

This is a fictionalised account of the banning of Boris Pasternak's novel, Dr Zhivago, by the USSR and the CIA's decision to publish his...

I am engrossed by books that open my world to different cultures and this one has been beautifully written and an eye opener into India's...

A gorgeous look into the houses and furry friends of the Australian country. Welcome to the homes of working dogs, lap dogs, tennis ball...

An extraordinary book based on a true story that will draw you in from the very first page. During the Holocaust prisoners received...

Tully and Rachel are concerned when their father takes up with a woman half his age while their mother is suffering from dementia....

This is one wild ride of a book. I felt like I was being pelted with ideas, history, future and jokes. It’s a reworking of Frankenstein;...

This intriguing book in in my Top 5 favourite bios. North Koreas is shrouded in secrecy and very few people enter and even less leave....