Booker prize listed author, Sebastian Barry, has achieved something quite remarkable with this poetic, tale of Winona Cole, an ‘injun’ girl at the time of the American Civil War, when American Indians were considered to be less than human. Barry uses a local idiom so skilfully it makes the story [...]

A beautifully written, highly evocative novel about Olivia (Oli) who experiences synaesthesia ie she sees words, people and sensations with colour. For example, her friend Maggie is velvet lilac and this colour is perfect for this character. A moving story as Olivia finds her way after rejecting the conservative path [...]

This is a novel where things are not what they seem. And even when you think you have it all sorted there is a surprise twist at the end! Grace, a delightful daughter with a disability, suddenly goes missing. Her devoted mother, Meg, is killed during her disappearance. Jon, a [...]