The Infinite Wisdom of Harriet Rose by Diana Janney

Synopsis: Harriet Rose, like any other teenager, is naive, overconfident and has always felt she has something important to say. However, unlike most of her peers, her hero is Marcus Aurelius, in imitation of whom she has been composing philosophical reflections on life for some time. When Harriet’s father dies, the urge to write these [...]

Footprints in the Sand by Sarah Challis

When Emily Kingsley arrives at the church, late and sad, for her Great Aunt Mary’s funeral, she has no idea that her life is about to change completely. Still grieving for her broken relationship with the vain, mean and unfaithful Ted, and trying to come to terms with the cracks which seem to be appearing [...]

Out of My Depth by Emily Barr

When Susie decides to invite her old school friends for a reunion she tells herself that it’s just about showing off. It’s about letting Amanda, Izzy and Tamsin, see how well she’s done, with her successful career as an artist, her gorgeous house in France, her deliciously louche boyfriend. But the truth is that this [...]

Shirley by Charlotte Bronte

Date of Publication: 1849
Number of Pages: 599
Synopsis (from back cover of book): Written immediately after Jane Eyre, Shirley is a novel of wider sweep and scope. Its focus is less on individual men and women, although their stories add compulsive drama and tension, than on the individual perceived in close relation with the forces molding [...]

Hallam Foe by Peter Jinks

Title of book: Hallam Foe

Name of author: Peter Jinks
Paperback: 224 pages

Publisher: Headline Review

Synopsis:
Hallam Foe, a confused and sweetly old-fashioned teenager, is in doubt that his father and wicked stepmother are responsible for his mother’s suicide and, subsequently, must be watched at all times. In fact, he may as well spy on everyone else at the same time.
However [...]

I am Legend by Richard Matheson

Date published: 1954
Summary (taken from Dymocks website):
Robert Neville is the last living man on Earth, but he is not alone, for every other man, woman and child on the planet has become a vampire and they are hungry for Neville’s blood. By day he is hunter; by night, the prey. How long can one man [...]

Reading in Bed by Sue Gee

Synopsis: Opening at the Hay Festival, and ending with the prospect of a spring wedding, Sue Gee’s new novel is a lively story of tangled relationships and the sustaining powers of good books, loyal friends and conversation. Friends since university, with busy working lives behind them, Dido and Georgia have long been looking forward to [...]

Remember Me? by Sophie Kinsella

Title of book: Remember Me?
Name of author:  Sophie Kinsella

Synposis:
Lexi wakes up in a hospital bed after a car accident, thinking it’s 2004 and she’s a twenty-five-year old with crooked teeth and a disastrous love life. But, to her disbelief, she learns it’s actually 2007 - she’s twenty-eight, her teeth are straight, she’s the boss of her [...]

Persuasion by Jane Austen

Date of Publication: 1818
Number of Pages: 237
Synopsis (from back cover): “All the privilege I claim for my own sex…is that of loving longest, when existence or when hope is gone.”
Anne Elliot’s heartfelt words strike the keynote of Jane Austen’s last completed novel. It features a heroine older and wiser than her predecessors in earlier books, [...]

The Welsh Girl by Peter Ho Davies

Synopsis: In 1944, a German Jewish refugee is sent to Wales to interview Rudolf Hess; in Snowdonia, a seventeen-year-old girl, the daughter of a fiercely nationalistic shepherd, dreams of the bright lights of an English city; and in a nearby POW camp, a German soldier struggles to reconcile his surrender with his sense of honour. [...]