Our Books of the Month for January

With her wonderfully executed debut that reimagines the classic tale of Theseus, Ariadne and the Minotaur, Jennifer Saint joins the likes of Madeline Miller and Pat Barker in forging mesmerising retellings of ancient Greek myths from a female perspective.

A haunting journey through the world’s abandoned places, Flyn’s wide-ranging and reflective meditation on how nature continues in humanity’s absence is an eerie yet ultimately optimistic account of ecological diversity.

Unexplained disappearances at a sinister hotel (and former sanatorium) in the Swiss Alps spell trouble for vacationing detective Elin Warner in Pearse’s disturbing closed-community thriller.

Magical milliners abound in this endlessly inventive and thoroughly charming debut about enchanted headwear, vanished ships and the dark rumblings of war.

Historic blood feuds, vicious gangland bosses and corrupt coppers all coalesce in Lancaster's visceral, edge-of-the-seat Scottish police procedural .

Both a meditative, enriching tour through the seasonal changes experienced in a lovingly tended garden and a memoir of life as a professional gardener and the curious relationships that such a position engenders, Seed to Dust bursts with lyrical prose and nuanced insight.

A blisteringly beautiful and raw portrait of vulnerability and destruction brought about by desire, Acts of Desperation announces the arrival of an exciting new voice in fiction.