Great Circle by Maggie Shipstead

Told from a dual-narrative perspective, we read the story of Marian Graves. In 1950, she embarks on a Great Circle flight around the globe. Something terrible happens and she disappears.

In Los Angeles in 2014, actress Hadley Baxter is playing the part of Marian Graves in a biopic. She has heard of the great adventurer as she read about her in a book called ‘something like Brave Ladies of the Sky.’ She only picked up that book because she lost both of her parents in a plane accident and was desperately seeking answers.

It’s an absolutely fantastic book, clocking in at just over 600 pages. An immense story, worthy of every delightful and dramatic page.

Sorrow and Bliss by Meg Mason

A brilliant book that deserves the rapturous applause it’s getting! Martha Friel seems to have it all. A great job (as a writer for a magazine), a lovely husband and a nice house. Yet, as she approaches her 40th birthday, something is still not feeling right. In fact, it hasn’t been right since she was 17, when she suddenly got unwell. Can she find out what has caused her years of pain and anguish?

Animal Lisa Taddeo

Another fantastic read with one of the most dramatic opening lines I’ve read in a while: ‘I drove myself out of New York City where a man shot himself in front of me.’

Joan, our protagonist, has driven across to LA, with a mystery to solve. She hopes that Alice will help her. Their meeting, however, proves to be the biggest catastrophe in a catalogue of horrors.

It’s big, it’s bold, and not one to read in order to relax! Prepare yourself to be rocked and shaken to the core.