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 …
In 1959, an orphan girl slips out of a revival tent and runs away from the sect who controls and crushes her life, unexpectedly finding her way to a house in the woods that's like something out of a fairytale. Sadly, she's soon taken back, but in 1965, and grown up, she flees her abusive …
In Havenwood, nine girls thrown together by chance are loyal to their community but are even more loyal to each other. They have become each others strength, and some in their religious enclave don't approve. When one of them goes missing, they wonder, did she leave without telling them or did something sinister happen? This …
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