Set in Osaka, we follow the story of Anna as she ventures into a new lift teaching at a Japanese school in Osaka. Old wounds from a vanished mother rise to the surface as she searches for her missing friend, Loll.

But not everything is smooth sailing. Care turns into heartbreak as external forces meddle and spew venom, striving to keep them apart. Will the forces win out or will their love overcome their differences?

Beautifully crafted through a dual narrative as we unravel both the murder at sea and the history of DI Rachel Harlow.

If you’re looking for a book that will make you laugh out loud and fall in love with the main character, this is it.

Mr Sidhu’s Post Office is the ultimate heart-warming novel, centring around Mr Sidhu, or David, as he's known to those in the community, who runs the local post office.

It’s a portrait of American motherhood and survival and an unflinching exploration of the consequences of overturning Roe Vs Wade

A genre-defying debut that bends sci-fi into a literary immigrant story that speaks to our modern ideas of identity in a unique and thought-provoking way.

I grew up loving stories about these big houses, everything from The Secret Garden to Brideshead Revisited, they occupy such a space in literature — and then you get older and realise that, if you’re working-class, you wouldn’t be one of the main characters, you’d have been below stairs.

A captivating study of human relationships and the impact of social media on people jumping to conclusions. Every step closer to the truth turned my stomach into a mess of knots as I worried for Odette and her safety.

She lets no one close to her, fighting hard to never allow herself to feel that loss again until Aleksandr walks into her life with his awful zodiac birth chart.

Did somebody cosy, heart-warming fantasy and a magic bookshop with an array of magically creatures?

With a darkly funny spin on what feels like The Haunting of Hill House meets workplace mishaps, Danielle is loving the freedom of working occasionally from home and all of the space of this stately home...

This book is a tender, coming-of-age novel that will make you smile and cry (take it from someone who may or may not have ugly cried multiple times on the train to work).

An interconnected tale of a couple who open their marriage and navigate a non-monogamous relationship.

Will the Earth survive the Sun’s red giant phase, or will the Sun consume it? The projections have gone back and forth, wobbling, and no one can say for certain.

Over the next five years, they explore their sexualities, navigating through jealousy, betrayal, desire, and obsession—and the friends and lovers in their circle find themselves asking new questions about their own lives and relationships. But when each is pulled in a new and unexpected direction, Ben and Frances are forced to confront the consequences of their experiment.

So many people have experienced miscarriage, and yet it’s hardly spoken about. Even less so in the context of queer relationships, where the journey to pregnancy is often so much more complex.

Louisa Bello’s debut is a thoughtful meditation on grief, childhood trauma and dual heritage.

If you read one book this summer, it has to be this one. Friendship, romance and comedy play out on the page in beautiful harmony, warming my heart with each sentence.

It’s almost time for a weird girl lit summer, and if that sounds like you’re kind of summer, then Decomposition Book NEEDS to be at the top of your TBR!