Refreshing reads to help you pause, plan, and make an early night essential.
Turned Out Nice Again - Richard Mabey
Why we love it: Mabey explores our weather obsession in a fascinating mix of the scientific, historial, literary and mythological.
Hand Quilted With Love - Sarah Fielke
Why we love it: Fielke gives a whislte-stop yet informative tour of everything novice and advanced stitchers need to know, including guides to fabrics, equipment and sewing techniques.
Why we love it: after realising her dream of keeping back-garden chickens, Taylor shares advice on how a garden and 'the girls' moods changes throughout the year, this lovely book is also packed full of tempting recipes which will leave you earning for a coop too.
Why we love it: Chrissy introduces 12 ancient 'supergrains' with historical background and nutritional values. With over 100 recipes to bring these forgotten grains back to life in the kitchen.
An explosive tale of faith, sex and power.
Petite Mort - Beatrice Hitchman
Fans of silent films and historical fiction will delight in this chocolate box of a novel, which mixes love, lust, amd scandel with the stardust of 1900s Paris.
Frances and Bernard Carlene Bauer
Inspired by the relationship between Flannery O'Connor and Robert Lowell, Frances and Bernard is warm, intelligent and addictive.
The Banner of the Passing Clouds - Anthea Nicholson
Nicholson brings to life the drab, oppressive towerblock landscape of a crumbling state of USSR-ruled Georgia, but also the songs, humour and passions of its people in this tense, gritty novel.
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