Find our latest additions to the Relaxed Reads collection on the ground floor of the library at our York Campus.

What You Are Looking for is in the Library – Michiko Aoyama

“What are you looking for? So asks Tokyo’s most enigmatic librarian. For Sayuri Komachi is able to sense exactly what each visitor to her library is searching for, and provide just the book recommendation to help them find it…

What You Are Looking for is in the Library is about the magic of libraries and the discovery of connection. This inspirational tale shows how, by listening to our hearts, seizing opportunity and reading out, we too can fulfull our lifelong dreams.” — Front Flap.

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The south – Tash Aw

“When his grandfather dies, Jay travels south with his family to the property he left them, a once flourishing farm that has fallen into disrepair. The trees are diseased, the fields parched from months of drought, but still Jay’s father sends him out to work the land.

It is then that Jay finds himself drawn to Chuan, the son of the farm’s manager, different from him in every way except one. Whilst his family members begin to drift apart in the house, powerless against the global forces that dictate their lives, Jay’s connection with Chuan deepens into an intimacy that neither can fully understand or resist.” — Back Cover.

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Hail Mary – Funmi Fetto

“Funmi Fetto puts nine unforgettable Nigerian women centre stage in these expansive, exuberant stories… Passionate, raw, full of heart and humour, these are stories about women who will not be broken by the challenges life puts in their way.” — Back Cover.

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Green dot – Madeleine Gray

“Hera is in her mid-twenties. She has been trying – and failing – to build a life she cares about.

But then she meets Arthur. He works with her, he is older than her, and he is married. But in her soulless office, he is a source of much-needed entertainment. And though Hera has previously dated women, she falls headlong into a love affair that will consume her life.” — Back Cover.

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Katabasis – R. F. Kuang

“Grad student Alice Law has only ever had one goal: to become the brightest mind in the field of analytic magick. But the only person who can make her dream come true is dead and inconveniently – in Hell. And Alice, along with her biggest rival Peter Murdoch, is going after him. But Hell is not as the philosophers claim, its rules are upside-down, and if she’s going to get out of there alive, she and Peter will have to work together. That’s if they can agree on anything. Will they triumph, or kill each other trying?”

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Nonesuch – Francis Spufford

“It’s the summer of 1939. London is on the brink of catastrophic war, and everybody knows it. On a final night of abandon, Iris Hawkins, an ambitious young financial secretary (and ‘not an entirely good girl’), pursues a one-night stand. Some people, if you make the mistake of sleeping with them, leave you with a rash, or regrets. It seems that sleeping with young Geoff, a technical whizz at the BBC’s nascent television unit, leaves you pursued by a creature from another world. As Britain threatens to fall apart and the Nazi bombs descend, Iris finds herself stepping off the known world’s edge, into a reality where otherworldly powers lurk and act, where spirits can be called and enslaved, where time can be warped and rewound, and where a magical fascist is plotting her path back in time, gun in hand, in search of Churchill, to fire a shot that will end the war before it ever began. Naturally, only Iris can stop her.”

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