Tell Me An Ending by Jo Harkin

Tell Me An Ending is based on the idea of memory deletion and the various ways it could be used throughout society. I love speculative fiction, and the idea of parallels with Eternal Sunshine of The Spotless Mind brought this to the top of my list very quickly. If you delete a memory, how does...

The Glass Hotel by Emily St John Mandel

The Glass Hotel follows Paul and Vincent, brother and half sister, from their time as teenagers through to adulthood. Vincent and Paul didn’t have the easiest teenage years. Vincent lost her mother, and suffered from years of resentment from Paul for the collapse of his parent’s marriage. Both find themselves back living and working together...

The Testaments by Margaret Atwood

When I first heard there was a new book from Margaret Atwood my first question was, What happened to Offred? I couldn’t wait to read it to discover the truth and expected it to be a continuation of her story. The Testaments isn’t a direct follow on from Offred’s tale, and it is so much...

The Farm by Joanne Ramos @bloomsburybooks

Golden Oaks, or “The Farm” as it is known by residents, is a home for pregnant women designed to look after their every need. A nutritionally balanced menu, exercise planned out, and regular scans and checkups are available for all the guests. The women are all surrogates, carrying babies to term for a regular wage...

The Last by Hanna Jameson @vikingbooksuk @hanna_jameson

I received an advance copy of this book from the publisher. The Last is set in a dystopian future after nuclear war has begun. Major cities have been destroyed, the internet is only available in a few areas, and major transport links have been shut down. This leaves the residents of a hotel in Switzerland...

The Feed by Nick Clark Windo @Nickhdclark @headlinepg

The Feed begins in a not too distant future where the internet, social media and the rest of the world are only milliseconds away to anyone who has been enabled. Tom and Kate help us see an advanced and fast paced world we could easily imagine around the corner. One day it collapses, and everyone...

The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood

The Handmaid's Tale is an account of a woman whose name has been stripped away from her and reassigned as Offred (belonging to Fred). In her world there have been issues with fertility; Those who can bear healthy children are valued and used as handmaids for the husbands and wives who struggle to conceive. Women...

The Power by Naomi Alderman

Naomi Alderman has written a disturbingly insightful novel exploring what would happen if women were given more power. This isn't about gender equality, it's about the physical power to hurt at the flick of a wrist. The book covers ten years for four very different characters; two young girls, a female mayor and a male...

The Last of Us by Rob Ewing

All adults are wiped out after a terrible virus, leaving only six of children stranded on a Scottish island to fend for themselves. The Last of Us is compared to The Lord of The Flies and there are clear common themes between them. It's quite a strong comparison to make, and I wondered if it...

Station Eleven by Emily St John Mandel

A post-apocalyptic novel that could easily be made into a film. Station Eleven tells the story of a number of characters from before, during and after an outbreak of the Georgian Flu. You are thrown straight into the story just hours before the flu epidemic begins. Of all of them there at the bar that...