Slow Dance by Rainbow Rowell
In high school, everyone knew that Shiloh and Cary would grow up and fall in love. Everyone, that is, except Shiloh and Cary. Now, they haven’t spoken in years, and life is not at all what either of them expected. When a chance meeting at a wedding sees them reunited, this will-they-won’t-they pair find themselves drawn back into a slow dance that’s spanned fifteen years, each of them afraid to put a foot wrong…
A nostalgia-fuelled journey through the late 90s and early 2000s, this second chance romance paints a realistic picture of two people in love who just can’t seem to get it right. A heartfelt, hopeful riff on Jane Austen’s Persuasion – this is an essential read for fans of Emily Henry, David Nicholls, and Claire Daverley’s Talking At Night!
Everything is Tuberculosis by John Green
John Green investigates the famously most curable and preventable disease in history, which has also
become the deadliest. Entwined with deep rooted cultural controversies, tuberculosis used to be a disease of the poets, from the shores of Lake Windemere, and has been implicated as responsible for the assassination of Franz Ferdinand. After befriending a young TB patient in Sierra Leone, Green investigates the scientific in parallel with the injustice of tuberculosis treatments across the world.
This book captures the duality that is the treatment of tuberculosis, drawing on the history, supported by modern patients and the cold scientific facts with expert authority to give a deeply passionate and empathetic account.
The Scream of the Whistle by Emily Randall-Jones
From Mr B’s Hall of Fame author Emily Randall-Jones comes a new spine tingling spooky mystery based in Wiltshire! Ruby can’t stand that her parents have split up, that she has to move to the middle of nowhere, that her family aren’t together anymore. When her grandmother tells her about an abandoned train line and a mystery train appears Ruby sets out on an adventure… but there is something is very wrong on this train. Like a creepy The Polar Express set in Wiltshire on May Day, this story has Randall-Jones’ telltale heartwarming characters, and a great mystery. Perfect for kids wanting to try a taste of horror!
Just a Little Dinner by Cecile Tlili
In a hot late‑August evening in Paris, two couples reunite in a 6th‑Arrondissement apartment for dinner, craving seaside escape but getting something far more volatile. Tlili’s tight, simmering prose peels back polite veneers: fractured bonds, subtle manipulation, petty cruelty, desperation barely controlled by politeness. What begins as a simple dinner spirals into an emotional explosion where every glance and half‑sentence cuts and cause people’s paths to divert. It’s a modern Parisian intimate, claustrophobic, with character-driven tensions, utterly contemporary read with a dash of class disparity and betrayal.