This is the book of the play, so it's a little hard to read as opposed to actually seeing it on the stage. However, it's still a good book. It follows Harry, Ron and Hermione's children as they're growing up, going to Hogwarts and finding themselves in all sorts of trouble just as their parents did when they went to the famous school of Witchcraft and Wizardry. It's...

April’s theme is to read a book with a connection to the seaside.

Book Review:  The Handmaid’s Tale  by Margaret Atwood   The Handmaid's Tale is a page-turning tale of a dystopian society ruled by a Christian fundamentalist regime. With the birth rate decreasing and women being treated as property of the state, their only option to survive is to bear children to elite couples. The author, Margaret Atwood, focuses on the life of...

If you’re stuck for inspiration, why not try one of our staff recommended picks?     General Fiction   Khaled Hosseini –  The Kite Runner, A Thousand Splendid Suns  or  And the Mountains Echoed Margaret Atwood –  The Blind Assassin Gabriel Garcia Marquez  – One Hundred Years of Solitude  or  Love in the Time of Cholera Sally Rooney –  Conversations with...

If you’re stuck for inspiration, why not try one of our staff recommended picks?   General Fiction   Emma Cline –  Daddy William Boyd –  The Dreams of Bethany Mellmoth Tracy Chevalier (ed.) –  Reader, I Married Him Maeve Binchy –  Return Journey   or  This Year It Will Be Different Zora Neale Hurston  – Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick Jeffrey...

Please note: a book that has been adapted into a television or Netflix show is also fine!   If you’re stuck for inspiration, why not try one of our staff recommended picks? General Fiction Alice Sebold  – The Lovely Bones Nicholas Sparks  – The Notebook Steven King –  The Shining, Carrie  or  IT Ian McEwan –  Atonement Michael Crichton –  Jurassic Park Helen Fielding...