If you are looking to cozy up with a great new book, in honor of National Book Week Wellington Square Bookshop has compiled a list of suggested reading, just for YOU, grown-ups. Shop locally at Wellington Square Bookshop to add these new reads to your bookshelf.
1. Fresh Water for Flowers by Valerie Perrin
”Warbler, if you fly above this tomb sing him your sweetest song.”
Fresh Water for Flowers reads like a French film, conjuring pleasures and sensations with mention of orange blossoms, jasmine tea, and cedars. Written in short chapters the story builds, giving you more and more along the way.
Medium read - Fiction
2. Nine Bar Blues by Sheree Thomas
“In the beginning were the ancestors, gods of earth who breathed the air and walked in flesh.”
New to Sci-Fi? Nine Bar Blues will crack your brain open. Deeply haunting and rich prose, Thomas is a storyteller through and through.
Medium read Science Fiction
3. Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome by Joy A. DeGruy
Chapter 5 Slavery’s Children “For these are all our children. We will all profit by, or pay for, whatever they become.” —James Baldwin
A deep dive into the topic of race, DeGruy makes the reader take an uncensored look at our real American history. She discusses the horrifying acts of dehumanization and how 400 years of constant abuse and terror degraded the individual, the family unit, the community and therefore the whole race. Post Traumatic Save Syndrome delivers a long overdue perspective for understanding how we’ve all been impacted by 400 years of slavery and the so-called freedom thereafter.
Heavy read - NonFiction/History
4. The Midnight Library by Matt Haig
“While the Midnight Library Stands, Nora, you will be preserved from death. Now, you have to decide how you want to live”.
A full ride from page one, Haig squeezes out a gamut of emotions observing the beauty of ordinary life ... he’s adept in his writing and will lift your spirits.
Light read - Fiction
5. The Liar’s Dictionary by Eley Williams
“Too precise a meaning erases the mystery of your literature.”
Smart and funny, The Liar’s Dictionary is a witty debut novel about lexicographers obsessed. In an apropos 26 chapters, A-Z, two word-crazed characters work for the same dictionary publisher a century apart. This is a must read for anyone with a fondness for words.
Light read - Fiction/Historical Fiction
