20th October, 2021, Steyning Cricket Club
The Garden Jungle: or Gardening to Save the Plane
There have been some fabulous natural history books published this year, and this is one of my favourites. Dave Goulson, professor of Biology at the University of Sussex, takes us through the ways in which the average garden can support the myriad of creatures that...
The Gospel of the Eels
This is a lovely exploration of the complicated natural history of the eel, and of those entangled in its slimy coils, from Aristotle and Freud, to the author and his father. After nearly two and a half thousand years of study, we now know the rough outline of the...
Akin
From Emma Donoghue, the international bestselling author of Room, comes Akin, a brilliant tale of love, loss and family, enjoyed by our evening book group in August. A retired New York professor's life is thrown into chaos when he takes his great-nephew to the French...
Pizazz
Sussex-based author and illustrator Sophy Henn is a firm local favourite having wowed local primary schools with her highly entertaining author visits for her previous series, the hilarious Bad Nana books. Her young fans will be delighted that she’s now back with the...
The Island of Sea Women
A new novel from Lisa See, the New York Times bestselling author of The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane, set in the fascinating, unforgettable world of the formidable female pearl divers of Jeju, a small Korean island. Mi-ja and Young-sook are best friends who come from...
Expectation
What happened to the women we were supposed to become? Hannah, Cate and Lissa are young, vibrant and inseparable. Living on the edge of a common in East London, their shared world is ablaze with art and activism, romance and revelry - and the promise of everything to...
The Mystery of Henri Pick
In the small town of Crozon in Brittany, a library houses manuscripts that were rejected for publication: the faded dreams of aspiring writers. Visiting while on holiday, young editor Delphine Despero is thrilled to discover a novel so powerful that she feels...
The Infinite
The Infinite by Patience Agbabi. Canongate £7.99 The Infinite is the first children’s novel by Nigerian-born poet Patience Agbabi, and it’s a thoroughly entertaining time travel eco-adventure, perfect for ages 9-13. Elle Bibi Imbele is a ‘Leapling’ – she was born on...
No Fixed Address
No Fixed Address by Susin Nielsen. Anderson Press £7.99 Susin Nielsen is rapidly becoming our favourite writer for the hard-to-reach spot between kids’ books and hard-hitting ‘YA’. She writes with humour, empathy, and sensitivity, and creates authentic, relatable yet...
Recursion
Recursion by Blake Crouch. Pan Macmillan £8.99 'Recursion' is the perfect lockdown page-turner! Blake Crouch may just have invented something totally new - his genre-bending novel 'Recursion', is a mash-up of mind-blowing sci-fi and suspenseful thriller, embedded...