Staff Reads: Books

Every evening, Allison watches her husband's new house, desperate to find some answers. Every morning, she puts on a brave face to teach kindergarten. She's a good teacher, everyone says so - this stalking is just a tiny crack in her usual self-control.

This is the story of one family, one dreamy summer - the summer when everything changes.

A wartime legacy. A lost love. A friendship to last a lifetime.

The Weekend explores growing old and growing up, and what happens when we're forced to uncover the lies we tell ourselves.

A reminder that even on the darkest of nights, victory is closer than it seems. With startling candour, Clare lays bare her truth in the hope that doing so will inspire anyone who's ever done battle with their inner critic.

488 Rules for Life is Kitty Flanagan's way of making the world a more pleasant place to live. Providing you with the antidote to every annoying little thing, these rules are not made to be broken.

A boy vanishes on his way home from school. His frantic mother receives a ransom call: pay or else. It's only hours before the deadline, and the police have no leads. Enter Timothy Blake, an FBI consultant with a knack for solving impossible cases but whose expertise comes at a price.

A deadly memoir about being bold, black and brave in work, life and love.

The yield in English is the reaping, the things that man can take from the land. Knowing that he will soon die, Albert 'Poppy' Gondiwindi takes pen to paper. His life has been spent on the banks of the Murrumby River at Prosperous House, on Massacre Plains. Albert is determined to pass on the language of his people and everything that was ever remembered.

Born from Levithan's tradition of writing a story for his friends each Valentine's Day, this anthology brings together a whole spectrum of romantic tales, including fiction, non-fiction and a story in verse. A diverse, witty and honest collection of all the things that can go right and wrong in love.

Yesterday, Lydia Quixano Perez had a bookshop in the Mexican city of Acapulco. Yesterday, Lydia was married to a journalist. Javier Crespo Fuentes was once her friend till one day Lydia's reporter husband Sebastian wrote an article about Javier, the "jefe" of the newest drug cartel that has gruesomely taken over the city.

For years, rumours of the "Marsh Girl" have haunted Barkley Cove, a quiet town on the North Carolina coast. So in late 1969, when handsome Chase Andrews is found dead, the locals immediately suspect Kya Clark, the so-called Marsh Girl.

On a freezing night in January 1941, a little Jewish girl is found on the steps of an apartment building in Bucharest. Inspired by the author's true family story of survival during the Second World War.