November 2025

The Hidden Life of Trees by Peter Wohlleben, 4
The Death of Noah Glass by Gail Jones, 3
Audition by Katie Kitamura, 2.5
The Rest of Our Lives by Ben Markovitz, 1
The Bureau by Eoin McNamee, 4
Audition by Katie Kitamura, 3.5
Endling by Maria Reva, 3
The Adversary by Michael Crummey, 3.5
The Waymakers by Kerri Andrews (ed), 3.5
Middlemarch by George Eliot, 4
Slow Horses by Mick Herron, 3.5

October 2025

Waterland by Graham Swift, 4.5
Time of the Child by Niall Williams, 4
Dream Count by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, 4
Question 7 by Richard Flanagan, 4
Average at best by Astrid Jorgensen, 2.5
Tenderfoot by Toni Jordan, 4
The Adversary by Michael Crummey, 4
Kiss and Make Up by Gene Simmons (Kiss), 3.5
The Vegetarian by Han Kang, 3.5
Another Day in the Colony by Chelsea Watego, 3.5
Tom Petrie’s Reminiscences of Early Queensland by Constance Campbell Petrie, 3.5
My Name is Emilia del Valle by Isabel Allende, 3
The River is Waiting by Wally Lamb, 4
Sh*tshow by Richard Russo, 3.5
Long Island by Colm Tóibin, 3.5
Air by John Boyne, 4

September 2025

Afterlives by Abdulrazak Gurnah, 4.5
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath, 4
Exposed, the Greek and Roman Body by Caroline Vout, 3
Orlando by Virginia Woolf, 4
The Waves by Virginia Woolf, 4
Juice by Tim Winton, 4
The Shepherd’s Hut by Tim Winton, 4.5
Summertime by J.M. Coetzee, 4
The Sound of One Hand Clapping by Richard Flanagan, 4
Unfinished Business by Shankari Chandran, 3.5
When the Crocodile Eats the Sun by Peter Godwin, 3
Half a Life by V.S. Naipaul, 2.5
Oblivion: A Memoir by Hector Abad Faciolince, 4.5
Flesh by David Szalay, 3.5
Seascraper by Benjamin Wood, 4
Spring Rain by Mark Hamer, 3.5
Another Life by Kristin Hannah, 3.5
The Watchtower by Elizabeth Harrower, 3

August 2025

The Rest of our Lives by Ben Markovits, 2.5
Universality by Natasha Brown, 2.5
You will be safe here by Damian Barr,  4
A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry, 4.5
Moon Tiger by Penelope Lively, 4
The Illuminations by Andrew Hogan, 3.5
We Do Not Part by Han Kang, 3
Annihilation by Michel Houellebecq, 3.5
The Dictionary of Lost Words by Pip Williams, 2.5
The Love Letters of Dylan Thomas by Dylan Thomas, 3
Knife: Meditations after an attempted murder by Salman Rushdie, 4
Until August by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, 4
A Ladder to the sky by John Boyne, 3.5

July 2025

There are Rivers in the Sky by Elif Shafak, 5
Death of a River Guide by Richard Flanagan, 4.5
A Ladder to the Sky by John Boyne, 4
Wanting by Richard Flanagan, 3
Bridge of Clay by Markus Zusak, 3
Britt-Marie Was Here by Fredrik Backman, 3
We Do Not Part by Han Kang, 3
Love Unedited by Caro Llewellyn, 3
Always Home, Always Homesick by Hannah Kent, 3
The Safe Keep by Yael van der Wouden, 3
Eurotrash by Christian Kracht, 3.5
The SafeKeep, by Yael Van Der Wouden, 3.5
All the broken places by John Bodye, 3
Always home, always homesick by Hannah Kent, 2.5
Accabadora by Michela  Murgia, 4.5
A beautiful family by Jennifer Trevelyan, 3.5

June 2025

The Trees by Percival Everett, 3.5
Fire by John Boyne, 3.5
We Begin Our Ascent by Joe Mungo Reed, 3
Nesting by Roisin O’Donnell, 3.5
The Narrow Road to the Deep North by Richard Flanagan, 4.5
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson, 4
Gould’s Book of Fish by Richard Flanagan, 3.5
The Absolutist by John Boyne, 3.5
The Boy at the Top of the Mountain by John Boyne, 3.5
Orbital by Samantha Harvey, 2.5
The Deal by Alex Miller, 2.5
Memed, My Hawk by Yasar Kemal, 3

May 2025

The Secrets of the Huon Wren by Claire van Ryn, 3.5
The Gathering by Anne Enright, 3.5
Nesting by Roisín O’Donnell, 3
Fire by John Boyne, 3
Always Home, Always Homesick by Hannah Kent, 4
Air by John Boyne,3
Small Boat by Vincent Delecroix, 4
Eurotrash  by Christian Kracht, 4
All the Broken Places by John Boyne, 4
Water by John Boyne, 4
Earth by John Boyne, 4
The Heart’s Invisible Furies by John Boyne, 4.5
The Sunbird by Sara Haddad, 5
The Season by Helen Garner, 4
Sea People by Christina Thompson, 4
Imperium by Robert Harris, 3.5
Lustrum by Robert Harris, 3.5
Dictator by Robert Harris, 3.5
Dust Child by Nguyen Phan Que Mai, 3
Miss Benson’s Beetle by Rachel Joyce, 2.5

April 2025

Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI by Yuval Noah Harari, 4.5
Middle England by Jonathan Coe, 4
Normal Rules Don’t Apply: Stories by Kate Atkinson, 3.5
Precipice by Robert Harris, 3
Death at the Sign of the Rook by Kate Atkinson, 3
Butter by Asako Yuzuki, 2.5
Signs of Damage by Diana Reid, 2.5
The Echo Chamber by John Boyne, 3
Jude, The Obscure by Thomas Hardy, 4
The Lost Heart of Asia by Colin Thurbon, 3.5
Stone Yard Devotional by Charlotte Wood, 4
Juice by Tim Winton, 4
The Gigolo by Francoise Sagan, 3
The One Day by David Malouf, 4
We’ll Prescribe You a Cat by Syou Ishida, 3
The sunbird by Sarah Haddad, 5 (essential reading)
Language of Limbs by Dylin Hardcastle, 4
The son’s story by Marie-Hélène Lafon, 4
Unsheltered by Barbara Kingsolver, 3.5
Nest by Inga Simpson, 3.5
Under Story by Inga Simpson, 3
The American wife by Curtis Sittenfeld, 2.5

February 2025

Duel with Devil by Paul Collins, 3
The Axeman’s Carnival by Catherine Chidgey, 3.5
Homeland by Fernando Aramburu, 4
Dusk by Robbie Arnott, 3.5
On Beauty by Zadie Smith, 3.5
Orbital by Samantha Harvey, 4
The Shifting Fog by Kate Morton, 3.5

January 2025

The Season by Helen Garner, 4
Time of the Child by Niall Williams, 3.5
The Shortest History of the Soviet Union by Sheila Fitzpatrick, 4.5
The Last Queen by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, 3
The Art Thief by Michael Finkel, 3.5
The Position of Spoons by Deborah Levy, 3
The Safe Keep by Yael Van Der Wouden, 4
Return of the Soldier by Rebecca West, 3
Heart, be at Peace by Donal Ryan, 4
Dusk by Robbie Arnott, 3
Orbital by Samantha Harvey, 4
Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan, 4
Bee Sting by Paul Murray, 3.5
Tell me Everything by Elizabeth Strout, 4
The Glassmaker by Tracey Chevalier, 3.5
Sneaky Little Revolutions by Charmian Clift, 4.5
We Are The Stars by Gina Chick, 4
Caledonian Road by Andrew O’Hagan, 4
The Vegetarian, 4
The Secret Pilgrim by John Le Carre, 3
Intermezzo by Sally Rooney, 4
Homecoming by Kate Morton, 3
Creation Lake by Rachel Kushner, 3
Greek Lessons by Han Kang, 2.5

December 2024

Dusk by Robbie Arnott,  3
Playground by Richard Powers, 2.5
Orbital by Samantha Harvey, 3.5
Always Was Always Will Be by Thomas Mayo, 3.5
A Hundred Years of Dirt by Rick Morton, 3
Be Near Me by Andrew O’Hagan, 3
Wandering Stars by Tommy Orange, 3
Tell Me Everything by Elizabeth Strout, 3
Praiseworthy by Alexis Wright, 5

November 2024

The Safekeep by Yael van der Wouden, 4
My Friends by Hisham Mater, 4
There There by Tommy Orange, 3.5
Caledonian Road by Andrew O’Hagan, 3.5
To Sing of War by Catherine McKinnon, 2.5
A Month in the Country by J.L.Carr, 4.5
Small things like these by Claire Keegan, 3.5
The Empusium by Olga Tokarczuk, 4
Juice by Tim Winton, 4

October 2024

James by Percival Everett, 5
Stone Yard Devotional by Charlotte Wood, 4
Amy and Isabelle by Elizabeth Strout, 3
The Angry Women’s Choir by Meg Bignell, 3
Clear by Carys Davies, 4
West by Carys Davies, 4
Mission House by Carys Davies, 3.5
Tell me everything by Elizabeth Strout, 3
Remarkably bright creatures by Shelby Van Pelt, 2
Water by John Boyne, 3.5
Regions of Thick Ribbed Ice by Helen Garner, 3
Creation Lake by Rachel Kushner, 3.5
In Leichhardt’s Steps by Bruce Simpson, 2
Calypso by David Sedaris, 3
We solve murders by Richard Osman, 3
Word Perfect by Susie Dent, 5
Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole, 4

August -September 2024

James by Percival Everett, 5
So Late In The Day by Claire Keegan, 3
The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway, 3.5
Vilnius, Wilno, Vilna by Kristina Sabaliauskaite, 3.5
Stone Yard Devotional by Charlotte Wood,4
The Wind Knows my Name by Isabel Allende,3.5
Sunbirds by Miranda Riwoe,3.5
The Wild Places by Robert Macfarlane, 4
Dark Emu by Bruce Pascoe, 3.5
Stonefish (short stories) by Keri Hulme, 3.5
Vilnius Wilno – Three short stories by Kristina Sabaliauskaite, 4.5
Middlemarch by George Eliot, 5
James by Percival Everett, 4
Stone Yard Devotional by Charlotte Wood, 4
The Safe Keep by Yael van der Wouden, 3.5
The Heart in Winter by Kevin Barry, 3.5
Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver, 5
The Women by Kristen Hannah, 4
First They Killed My Father by Luong Ung,3.5
Wild Houses by Colin Barrett, 3
The Silence by Susan Allott, 4
Sunbirds by Mirandi Riwoe, 3.5
My Friends by Hisham Mater 4.5
The People in the Trees by Hanya Yanagihara, 4.5
To Paradise by Hanya Yanagihara, 4
Long Island by Colm Toibin, 3.5
Gravel Heart by Abdulrazak Gurnah, 3.5
One Another by Gail Jones, 2
Circe by Madeline Miller, 4.5
The Trees by Percival Everett, 4
The Edible Woman by Margaret Atwood, 3.5
The Women by Kristen Hannah, 3.5
March by Geraldine Brooks, 3.5
The Treeline by Ben Rawlence, 5
Soil by Matthew Evans, 4
The Creative Act by Rick Rubin, 3
The Thirteenth Tale by Dianne Setterfield, 2.5
Whiskey from Small Glasses by Denzil Meyrick, 2.5
Trespasses by Louise Kennedy, 4.5
The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart by Holly Ringland, 3.5
Mary’s Last Dance by Mary McKendry 3.5

July 2024

Night Boat to Tangier by Kevin Barry, 3.5
The Secret Scripture by Sebastian Barry, 4
After Lives by Abdulrazak Gurnah, 3.5
Kairos by Jenny Erpenbeck, 3
Table for Two by Amor Towles, 4.5
So Late in the Day by Claire Keegan, 4
NW by Zadie Smith, 3
The Last Gift by Abdulrazak Gurnah, 2.5
All the Words we Know by Bruce Nash, 1.5
Long Island by Colm Toibin, 3.5
Anam by Andre Dao, 4.5
One Another by Gail Jones, 3.5
The Life of Birds by David Atttenborough, 3.5
Nora Webster by Colm Toibin, 3.5
Mater 2-10 by Hwang Sok-Yong, 4
Yellowface by R.F. Kuang, 3
The Remarkable Mrs Reibey by Grantlee Kieza, 2.5
Belonging by Amanda Thompson, 4.5
Kill your husbands by Jack Heath, 2.5
Small things like these by Claire Keegan,4.5
Rivers of London by Ben Aaronovich, 3

June 2024

Mothers and Sons by Colm Toibin, 4
Swing Time by Zadie Smith, 3.5
Travel Light, Move Fast by Alexandra Fuller, 3.5
History of the Rain by Niall Williams, 4

May 2024

On Beauty by Zadie Smith, 3.5
My Sister, The Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite, 4
The White Ship: Conquest, Anarchy and the Wrecking of Henry I’s Dream by Charles Spencer, 4
A Long Walk to Water by Linda Sue Park, 4.5
Sarah, Plain and Tall by Patricia MacLachlan, 3
The Easy Life by Marguerite Duras,4
The Bee Sting by Paul Murray, 4
The In-Between by Christos Tsiolkas, 4
White Teeth by Zadie Smith, 4 and 4
Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver, 3
James by Percival Everett, 4
Grand Union by Zadie Smith, 3.5
Water by John Boyne, 3.5
Earth by John Boyne, 3.5
Crooked Plow by Itamar Vierira Junior,3
My Friends by Hisham Matar, 4.5

April 2024

The Island of Missing Trees by Elif Shafak, 4
The Things We Live With: Essays on Uncertainty by Gemma Nisbet, 3.5
Euphoria by Elin Cullhead, 3.5
Flourish by Antonia Case, 4.5
Up at the Villa by Somerset Maugham, 3.5
The Bee Sting by Paul Murray, 4.5
Kids Run the Show by Delphine Devigan, 2.5
Day by Michael Cunningham, 4
Question 7 by Richard Flanagan, 5
When God was a Rabbit by Sarah Winman, 4
21 Lessons for the 21st Century by Yuval Noah Harari, 2.5
Out Stealing Horses by Per Petterson, 4
Mullumbimby by Melissa Lucashenko, 3

March 2024

Homo Deus by Yuval Noah Harari, 3.5
The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman, 3
Cakes and Ale by Somerset Maugham, 4.5
Sunlight and shadows : writers in the south of France by Julia Carter, 3.5
Marzhan, Mon Amour by Katja Oskamp, 3
The Annual Banquet of the Gravediggers’ Guild by Mathias Enard, 4
The Beekeeper of Aleppo by Christy Lefteri, 4
The Book of Fire by Christy Lefteri, 3.5
Wifedom by Anna Funder, 4
This Plague of Souls by Mike McCormack, 3.
Flourish by Antonia Case, 4
Small things like these by Claire Keegan, 4
Oh William by Elizabeth Strout, 3
Unruly by David Mitchell, 3.5
The Vulnerables by Sigrid Nunez, 4
Hello Beautiful by Ann Napolitano, 3.5
The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller, 4
I Don’t by Clementine Ford, 4 and 3
Treasure and Dirt by Chris Hammer, 3
Murder at the Vicarage by Agatha Christie, 3
The Moving Finger by Agatha Christie, 3
Cold Enough for Snow by Jessica Au, 3.5
Go As a River by Shelley Read, 3.5

February 2024

Night Blue by Angela O”Keeffe, 3.5
This is happiness by Niall Williams, 4
Jazz by Toni Morrison, 4
Prophet Song by Paul Lynch, 4
They Came to Baghdad, Agatha Christie, 2.5
How to Build a Boat by Elaine Feeney, 3.5
Water by John Boyne, 3
Man by Kim Thuy, 3.5
Em by Kim Thuy, 4
My Father’s House by Joseph O’Connor, 4
People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks, 4
On a Night of a Thousand Stars by Andrea Yaryura Clark, 3.5
The naturalist of Amsterdam by Melissa Ashley, 3.5
The bee sting by Paul Murray, 4.5
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari, 4
Prophet Song by Paul Lynch, 4
Yoga by Emmanuel Carrer 3.5
Jerusalem by Simon Sebag Montefiore – 5
The Last Colony: A Tale of Exile, Justice and Britain’s Colonial Legacy by Philippe Sands 4
365 Wishes by Richard Glover, 2
The Heart’s Invisible Furies by John Boyne, 4
The End of the Affair by Graham Greene, 3.5

January 2024

A Guide to the Birds of East Africa by Nicholas Drayson, 4
Night Blue by Angeela O’Keeffe, 3
A bird in the house by Margaret Laurence, 4
Romantic comedy by Curtis Seddenfeld, 4
Uprooting by Machelle Farrel, 3,5
Edinglassie by Melissa Lucashenko, 3
Travels with Charley in search of America by John Steinbeck, 4
This is Happiness by Niall Williams, 4.5
Last Devil to Die by Richard Osman, 3.5
The Escapades of Tribulation Johnson by Karen Brooks, 3
The Humans by Matt Haig, 2
The Bookbinder of Jericho by Pip Williams, 4
Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens by Shankari Chandran, 4
Between a Wolf and a Dog by Georgia Blain, 4
Admiring Silence by Abdulrazak Gurnah, 4
The Conversion by Amanda Lowrie, 3
Anything is possible by Elizabeth Strout, 4
Half A Life by V.S. Naipul, 4
This is Happiness by Niall Williams, 4
Aliss at the Fire by Jon Fosse, 4
Water by John Boyne, 3
The Night Travelers by Armando Lucas Correia, 3.5
Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari, 4.5
Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan, 4
The Covenant of Water by Abraham Verghese, 5
Wifedom by Anna Funder, 4.5
By the Sea by Abdulrazak Gurnah, 4
The Luminous Solution by Charlotte Wood. 3
Prophet Song by Paul Lynch, 4.5
Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens by Shankari Chandran, 4
The Conversion by Amanda Lohrey, 3.5

December 2023

Stone Yard Devotional by Charlotte Wood, 4
Lucy by the Sea by Elizabeth Strout, 4
The Gift of Rain by Tan Twan Eng, 4
How to Loiter in a Turf War by Coco Solid, 4
The Bookbinder of Jericho by Pip Williams, 3.5
Her Sunburnt Country by Deborah Fitzgerald, 3
Yellowface by Rebecca F Kuang, 2
Birnam Wood by Eleanor Catton, 3.5
The Keepsake by Julie Brooks, 3
Night Blue by Angela O’Keeffe, 3.5
The Conversion by Amanda Lohrey, 3
Old God’s Time by Sebastian Barry, 4
Moon Tiger by Penelope Lively, 4.5
Prophet Song by Paul Lynch, 3.5

November 2023

The conversion by Amanda Lohrey, 3.5
How to loiter in a turf war by Coco Solid, 4.5
Aue by Becky Manawatu, 3.5
Birnam Wood by Elanor Catton, 3.5
The Covenant of Water by Abraham Verghese, 4.
Edenglassie by Melissa Lukashenko, 5
Song of the Sun God by Shankari Chandran, 3.5
Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother by Amy Chua, 3
The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie, 4
Wifedom by Anna Funder, 4
Nine Parts of Desire by Geraldine Brooks, 3.5
Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens by Shankari Chandran, 3
The Soulmate by Sally Hepworth, 3
History of Loneliness by John Boyne,4
Ru by Kim Thuy, 4
The Bee Sting by Paul Murray, 3.5
I Heard the Owl call my Name by Margaret Craven, 3.5
Thirst for Salt by Madelaine Lucas, 3
The Bookbinder of Jericho by Pip Williams, 3.5
Pineapple Street by Jenny Jackson, 3
Cut Out by Michele Robert’s, 3.5
Brooklyn by Colm Toibin, 3.5

October 2023

Middle England by Jonathon Coe, 3.5
Unruly by David Mitchell, 3.5
44 Scotland Street by Alexander McCall Smith, 3
Prophet Song by Paul Lynch,3.5
The Black Snow by Paul Lynch,4
The Wager:A tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder by David Grann, 3.5
This Other Eden by Paul Harding,4
Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens by Shankari Chandra, 2, 5, 3 and 4.
Wifedom by Anna Funder, 5
Burial Rites, Hannah Kent, 4 and 4.5
Questions of Travel by Michelle de Kretser, 5
Song of the Sun God by Sankari Chandran, 3
Victory City by Salman Rushdie, 4
Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr, 4
Tom Lake by Ann Patchett, 2, 3 and 3.5
The Secret Life of Sunflowers by Marta Molnar, 4
I Heard the Owl Call My Name by Margaret Craven, 5
On Brunswick Ground by Catherine de Saint Phalle, 3
Three by Valerie Perrin, 3.5 and 4
Fresh water for flowers by Valerie Perrin, 3 and 4
The great white bard – Shakespeare , race and the future by Farah Karim Cooper, 4

September 2023

Wifedom by Anna Funder, 4
Burial Rites by Hannah Kent, 4
Stella Maris by Cormac McCarthy, 4
Freshwater for Flowers by Valerie Perrin,4
Hillbilly Elegy by J. D. Vance, 4

August 2023

Time Shelter by Georgi Gospodnov, 4
The Passenger by Cormack McCarthy, 3.5
Stella Maris by Cormac McCarthy, 3.5
Time Shelter by Georgi Gospodinov, 3.5
Cloud Cockoo Land by Anthony Doerr, 4
Limberlost by Robbie Anrott, 4.5
Wifedom by Anna Funder, 4.5
Young Mungo by Douglas Stuart, 4.5
Dottie by Abdulrazak Gurnah, 3.5
The Arrangement by Audrey Magee 4
Home Fire by Kamila Shamsie 3
Benito Cereno by Herman Melville. Short story.
Beautiful world by Sally Rooney 4.5
The remains of the day by Kazuo Ishiguro 4
Daisy jones and the six by Taylor Jenkins Reid 4
The Undertaking by Audrey Magee, 4
By the Sea by Abdulrazak Gurnah, 4
Graft by Maggie Mackellar, 3.5
Nothing bad ever happened here by Heather Rose, 3.5
Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer, 3.5
Fighting Fate by Justin Yerbury, 4.5
Miss Benson’s Beetle by Rachel Joyce, 3
Hanging Ned Kelly by Michael Adams, 3.5

July 2023

Another Day in the Colony, chelsea watego, 5 (non-fiction)
Shuggie Bain, Douglas Stuart, 5
Elizabeth Finch by Julian Barnes, 3.5
The Undertaking by Audrey Magee, 4
The Sun also Rises by Ernest Hemingway, 3
Young Mungo by Douglas Stuart, 4.5
Monsters, a fan’s dilemma by Claire Dederer, 4
One morning like a bird by Andrew Miller, 3.5
The last daughter by Brenda Matthews, 2.5
Snow Country by Yasunari Kawabata, 2.5The collected regrets of Clover by Mike Brammer, 1.5 – don’t bother!
The Undertaking by Audrey Magee, 4
How to Change Your Mind: What the Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us by Michael Pollan, 2.5
Geneva by Richard Armitage, 1.5
The Good Earth Trilogy by Pearl S. Buck, 4

June 2023

The Book you wish your parents had read by Philippa Perry, 3.5
Iris by Fiona Kelly, 4 and 3.5
Stoner by John Williams, 4
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck, 4.5
The Burning Island by Jock Serong, 2
Cities of the Plain, 3.5
By the Sea by Abdulrazak Gurnah, 5
The Seven Skins of Esther Wilding by Holly Ringland, 4
Curlews on Vulture Street by Darryl Jones, 2.5
Brisbane: the Aboriginal Presence 1824 to 1860 by Brisbane Historical Group, 3
Swords and Crowns and Rings by Ruth Park, 4
The Book of Evidence by John Banville, 3.5
One morning like a bird by Andrew Miller, 3.5
The signal line by Brendan Colley, 3.5
The sun walks down by Fiona McFarlane, 4

May 2023

The Promise by Damon Galgut, 3.5
The Mother Wound by Amani Haydar, 3.5
The Homecoming by Kate Morton, 3.5
The Ministurist by Jessie Burton, 3.5
The House of Fortune by Jessie Burton, 3.5
The Last Paimtimg of Sara de Vos by Dominic Smith, 3.5
King Leopold’s Ghost by Adam Hochschild, 5
One Hundred Days by Alice Pung, 4
How to Raise an Elephant by Alexander McCall Smith, 3
Bad art mother by Edwina Preston, 3.5
The undertaking by Audrey Magee, 3.5
Victory city by Salman Rushdie, 4
The seven skins of Esther wilding by Holly Ringland, 3
Everyone in my family has killed someone by Benjamin Stevenson, 2
Before Your Memory Fades by Toshikazu Kawaguchi, 3.5
Indelible Ink by Fiona McGregor, 3
The Good Doctor by Damon Galgut, 3.5

April 2023

The Singularities by John Banville, 4
The God of No Good by Sita Walker, 3
Limberlost by Robbie Arnott, 3.5
The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro, 4
Fake by Stephanie Wood, 3.5
Turns Out I’m Fine by Judith Lucy, 3
It’s Raining in Mango by Thea Astley, 4.5
The Gate of Angels by Penelope Fitzgerald, 4
Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan – 4
Kingdom of Fear by Hunter S Thompson 3.5
Stoner by John Williams 4.5
Stolen Tides: among the islands and atolls of the Pacific Ocean by Tom Bamforth 3.5

March 2023

The good doctor by Damon Galgut, 4
The art of looking up by Catherine McCormack, 4
Fake A startling true story of love in a world of liars, cheats, narcissists, fantasists and ponies by Stephanie Wood, 4
And every morning the way home gets longer and longer by Fredrik Backman, 3
Cold enough for snow by Jessica Au, 3
Turns out I’m fine by Judith Lucy, 3
Nobody’s looking at you by Janet Malcolm, 3.5
Still pictures by Janet Malcolm, 2.5
Rough magic, riding the world’s loneliest horse race, by Lara Prior Palmer, 2.5
Glory by No Violet Bulawayo, 4
Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus, 3.5
My Father by Marilyn French, 3.5
The Bleeding Heart by Marilyn French, 3
Return to Uluru by Mark McKenna, 3
The Gift of Asher Lev by Chaim Potok, 3
Boyhood by J M Coetzee, 3
All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy, 3
The Crossing by Cormac McCarthy, 3
Big Sky by Kate Atkinson, 2.5
Brooklyn by Colm Toibin, 3.5
Nora Webster by Colm Toibin, 3
The Shut Ins by Katherine Brabon, 3.5
Stella Maris by Cormac McCarthy, 4
The Book of Roads and Kingdoms by Richard Fidler, 3.5
1Q84 by Haruki Murakami, 3.5
Educated by Tara Westover, 4
Stolen Focus by Johann Hari, 3.5
Small things like these by Claire Kingston, 3.5
The other Eden by Paul Harding, 4