A generational story that follows a line of Māori mothers and their daughters, navigating the world.

Settle down, put on Young Sherlock or Enola Holmes and join Mrs Hudson as she embarks on the first of, what I can only imagine to be, many mysteries.

Another corker for cannibal-themed horror fans!

This is a raw and unflinching memoir of family, motherhood and a son’s struggles with mental ill health (bipolar disorder) and addiction.

The Strangling Fig is a gorgeously written ghost story that follows generations of women from the 1940s Partition of India through to 2000s America.

A friend asked me recently, “how does it feel to write about a version of the city that doesn’t exist anymore?”

Summer is a time that evokes childhood, beauty and freedom, but also becomes a setting to set a family’s tensions against, asking if they can ever break out of their own trappings.

The story gives voice to some difficult themes and while it does offer them space, it never makes them the focus of the plot or the characters, never turning them into a caricature and instead fleshing them out past their troubles.

The story itself felt passionate about nature, the planet and the ocean, and all of that came across through the characters. It moved me greatly and I couldn’t stop thinking about it, long after I’d put it down.

This book took me by surprise in the best way. I feel in love with each character and the themes were beautifully woven together.

With a Rooney-esque penchant for frustrating communication styles, you'll like this book if you enjoy wanting to shake characters through the pages. Be prepared to unravel along with them.

I didn’t really know what I wanted to write or what shape it would take but I knew (or hoped) that if I connected with the right people, things would come together.

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.

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

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.

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 love stories that explore working class community dynamics, especially those told from the perspective of children.

Family and heartbreak stretch through the eternity of this story as one man finds himself jumping through time.

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.

Grab a peach iced tea, set up a reading spot and prepare to be transported to the heat of present-day and 1976 Thailand, where Lin returns to care for her dying mother.