Acts of Desperation by Megan Nolan 
“A debut novel and an instant classic.” Shatteringly well written, the author does what only great writers can do; translate nuanced and evasive feelings into language…As if it is the first time a particular emotion, feeling or experience has been properly acknowledged and documented; discovered, excavate
KITCHEN by BANANA YOSHIMOTO
“Life can be hard. Yes. But if a person hasn’t experienced true despair, she grows old never knowing how to evaluate where she is in life; never understanding what joy really is. I’m grateful for it.” Death, charming, loneliness, gentle. These words may seem at odds but Banana Yoshimoto harmonizes them
HENRY AND JUNE | DELTA OF VENUS by ANAIS NIN
The original destroyer. The girl who decided she could. Who didn’t care. And that was the essence of the problem. Henry and June: who in the crowd, and it is ultimately quite a crowd, can you identify with? The more you read, the deeper the struggle to acknowledge how seamlessly you become an essential pa
WHY YOU NEED TO READ : JOAN DIDION SLOUCHING TOWARDS BETHLEHEM | THE WHITE ALBUM | PLAY IT AS IT LAYS
“I’m not interested in the middle road…..maybe because everyone’s on it.” Read her for an insight into life as a sequence of images that shimmer around the edges. Because it is on those edges that you begin to hear a stranger music. “I write entirely to find out what I’m
SECOND PLACE by RACHEL CUSK
“”Is it possible to follow up the masterpiece that is the OUTLINE Trilogy [Outline, Transit, Kudos] with another book that is just as good?” This profound meditation on art, freedom, men and women, is a beautifully woven tapestry that takes you out of your domestic limbo and into a place Cusk loves to
MERMAID SINGING | PEEL ME A LOTUS by CHARMIAN CLIFT
“”Today we bought the house by the well. ” I think no beauty has been as true for me as this beauty of rocks and sea and the beauty of mountains that rush up between the blue. It seems to me that we have become simplified too, living here……Shedding so much, we are stripped to our [&he
