After growing up with her dysfunctional parents, Ophelia vowed she would never get married and end up miserable like them, but when her mother develops dementia, she starts to feel like dying alone isn't such a good option. Then she meets Luke, a handsome man her mother would approve of, so she quickly agrees to …
1950's Massachusetts: two very different young women attend Radcliffe College. Ava has grown up shut away from other people on an apple orchard, with her religious and controlling parents who don't want her to know her true self. And Lauren comes from a wealthy family and from a long line of wild women, but after …
We all know someone who can read a room, and someone who can't read others at all. We've made friends instantly with someone, or admired someone's social ease, or have read someone's body language from across the room. What is going on when we meet people, when we feel comfortable building a relationship or repulsed …
Continue reading Why We Click: The Emerging Science Of Interpersonal Synchrony by Kate Murphy
On the way home from a gay club they got into with fake IDs, Colin and best friend Ren have to take a detour to avoid the local jocks, and they come across a weird, white thicket they've never seen before that has a strange effect on Ren. Soon he's acting different and hinting at …
In the Summer of 1966, Robert decides to realise his dream of opening a cafe when he sees the dilapidated corner cafe in the Carmelite market Square in Vienna is closing. A war orphan, raised by nuns, Robert is a kind and hardworking man, and though his cafe is not in a fashionable part of …
Alfred, a true Hitchcock fan, has opened a hotel themed after the movies by his favourite director, and it's full of memorabilia and references to films like North By Northwest, The Birds, Vertigo and more. When the hotel reaches it's first anniversary, he decides to invite his former college film studies buddies for a celebration, …
The interconnected night time lives of different in habitants of Tokyo are explored in this slim book, with each chapter starting at 1AM. Mitsuki works at a movie prop warehouse and has to source loquat fruits in the middle of the night. Kanako works at a 24 hour advice call centre and has a brother …
When Case arrives at her best friend Drea's house in the West Texas woods, she finds her friend isn't there to meet her, and not only do her housemates not know where she is, but they seem to know something they're not saying... Taking place over 24 hours, Case finds hidden journal pages and strange …
Continue reading Clever Creatures Of The Night by Samantha Mabry
Max and Annie, with their 12 year old son, invite their old university friends and their families from London, to the dry run of their glamping site Wildernest in Cornwall. As fights break out between the children, the adults are soon embroiled in their own tensions with each other. When one of the group goes …
English former movie star Lana invited her friends to her private Greek island each year to escape the long, dark British Winter. Elliot, our narrator and her closest friend, tells the story of the last trip to the island, where a murder takes place during a furious gale that cuts them off from civilization. He …
