Delicious!
Ruth Reichl Dear Mr Beard, I sent my Magic Moments off yesterday, and that made me think of you. I hope the cookies will remind Father of our life here. Or maybe I should say what life used to be,…
Buddy Review: The Girl Who Never Was
Skylar Dorset THE GIRL WHO NEVER WAS is the story of Selkie Stewart, who thinks she’s a totally normal teenager growing up in Boston. Sure, her father is in an insane asylum, her mother left her on his doorstep—literally—when she…
Little Lies
Liane Moriarty She could hear men and women shouting. Angry hollers crashed through the soft humid salty summer night. It was somehow hurtful for Mrs Ponder to hear, as if all that rage was directed at her . . .…
Buddy Review: Since You've Been Gone
This month Faye and Caroline divulge their deep dark secrets as well as their thoughts on Morgan Matson‘s newest novel, Since You’ve Been Gone. The Pre-Sloane Emily didn’t go to parties, she barely talked to guys, she didn’t do anything…
Where Love Lies
Julie Cohen Lately, Felicity just can’t shake a shadow of uncertainty. Her husband Quinn is the kindest person she knows and loves her peculiarities more than Felicity feels she deserves. But suddenly it’s as if she doesn’t quite belong. Then…
Buddy Review: Memoirs Of A Neurotic Zombie
Jeff Norton ‘My name is Adam Meltzer and the last thing I remember was being stung by a bee while swinging at a robot-shaped pinata on my twelfth birthday. I was dead before the candy hit the ground.’ Memoirs of…
Four; A Divergent Story Collection
Veronica Roth Two years before Beatrice Prior made her choice, the sixteen-year-old son of Abnegation’s faction leader did the same. Tobias’s transfer to Dauntless is a chance to begin again. Here, he will not be called the name his parents…
Shadow and Bone
Leigh Bardugo The Shadow Fold, a swathe of impenetrable darkness, crawling with monsters that feast on human flesh, is slowly destroying the once-great nation of Ravka. Alina, a pale, lonely orphan, discovers a unique power that thrusts her into the…
Lies Like Love
Louisa Reid LIES ‘There were a few problems . . . bullying . . . a fire . . .’ LIKE’ I think she’s verging on psychosis . . . now she’s lashing out. ‘ LOVE’ She’s got no one…
Landline
Rainbow Rowell and Rebecca Lowman (narrator) Georgie McCool knows her marriage is in trouble. That it’s been in trouble for a long time. She still loves her husband, Neal, and Neal still loves her, deeply — but that almost seems…
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