The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
★★★★★
A delightful and charming story set in the aftermath of WW2, presented as a collection of correspondences between Juliet Ashton, an author, and the residents of the Channel island of Guernsey
Girl with a Pearl Earring
★★★★★
An imagining of the story behind the enigmatic eponymous girl from Vermeer's painting, the dutch Mona Lisa.
Interview With The Vampire
★★★★☆
The vampire Louis recounts his life story, and his journey to find meaning and connection in his immortal existence
Endless Night
★★★★★
Some are born to sweet delights, and some are born to the night that will engulf all, even those aforementioned, born to sweet delights
Bad Luck And Trouble
★★☆☆☆
One Reacher is tolerable, barely. Four of them isn't four times the fun.
The Graveyard Book
★★★★★
Noboday 'Bod' Owens lives in the graveyard, and has done so most of his life. His parents are ghosts, his guardian straddles the world of the living and the dead, and his best friend is a witch. But, the real danger for Bod are the sinister forces on his trail in the world of the living...
MASH: A Novel about Three Army Doctors
★★★★★
A collection of stories from the 4077th Mobile Army Surgical Hospitals (MASH), during the Korean war, in the early 50's.
In a Dark, Dark Wood
★★☆☆☆
Nora is invited to a former friend's hen-do in an isolated house in the woods. But someone ends up dead, and everyone is a suspect.
The Haunting of Hill House
★★★★☆
A scientist studying the paranormal ropes in a few people to live in a "haunted" house. All is quiet, until the house starts acting up...
Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus
★★★★★
A deeply moving tale of a scientist forced to confront the ethical and moral implications of his research, and pay the price for disregarding those implications.
The Silent Patient
★★★★☆
A criminal psychotherapist joins a facility with the specific aim of working with one of their celebrity inmates, painter Alicia Berenson. Does he just want the publicity, or does he have a more sinister motive...
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
★★★★☆
Jean-Baptiste Grenouille is born in the slums of 18th-century France, with an extraordinary gift of smell. Working as a perfumer, he starts the grisly task of bottling up.. the essence of women.
An Artist of the Floating World
★★★★☆
Set in post-war Japan, the story explores the rapid modernization of the country and the resentment held against the older generation for thrusting the country into a needless war.
Cloud Atlas
★★★★★
A thought-provoking tale spanning generations and eons, from the distant past to a post-apocalyptic far future, and examines how souls drift across time, and how the souls are interconnected