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 by Mark Winkler (Michael Joseph) ISBN: 9781415209097 Home should be a refuge and solace – the safest place you know. This is not the case for Hennie Durant or Antoinette Maidenstone Basset. Both children of abusive, cruel fathers, Hennie and Antoinette are kindred spirits. Having lost most of his family to tragic circumstances, Hennie lives […]

by Tom Dreyer (Penguin Books) ISBN: 9781415208953 Gilbert du Toit is on a mission. He has seen fish in the sky two weeks after his father’s death. Not just one, but ‘a single mass of glistening fins’. When a shoal of fish appears for a second time, he knows these visions have meaning. He leaves

Awakening The Heroes Within by Carol S Pearson (Harper Elixir) ISBN: 978-0-06-250678-8

Nomad by James Swallow (Macmillan) ISBN: 978-1-78576-183-6

by Helen Sedgwick (Harvill Secker) ISBN 9781910701744 ‘Why draw a square house with a triangular roof when you can draw the patterns in the stars?’ This is definitely my best book of the year. It has everything I’m always looking for in a book: magic, science, and love stories. The tone and lyrical clear writing

by Jonathan Safran Foer (Hamish Hamilton) ISBN 9780241146187 The Blochs are an upper middle-class American family consisting of Jacob, the father: always questioning himself, ambivalent, neurotic; Julia, the mother: artistic, unfulfilled, controlling, argumentative, neurotic; Sam, the eldest son: intelligent, rebellious, aloof; Max, the middle son: hungry for facts which he is always collecting; and Benji, the youngest son: bright child, observant, impressionable. Sam, who is is