On Bee's Bookshelf

Goodbye 2024, Hello 2025! Despite my health kind of kicking my butt this year and making it a little tough to hit my (admittedly self-imposed) reading targets, I still discovered some absolutely amazing stories that stayed with me throughout the year. And I'm so excited to see some familiar faces on the list again. If you missed some of these stunning 2024 releases, definitely check them out! - Bee x  Interesting Facts About Space - Emily Austin (February 2024) I love Emily Austin so much. An amazingly anxious novel about Enid, a young woman trying to navigate her complicated life and working through a lifetime of trauma - with brilliantly peculiar storytelling, brilliantly realistic characters and so much heart that you can't help but fall in love with every line.  Listen for the Lie - Amy Tintera (February 2024) Five years ago, Lucy's best friend was murdered. She doesn't remember it, but everyone still thinks she did it. And now Podcaster Ben is dragging it all up ag...

  Blurb: When the internet collapsed, it took the world with it, leaving its digital ghosts behind – and they are hungry. Former photojournalist Katerina fled the overrun cities to the relative safety of her grandmother’s village on the edge of a forest, where she lives a solitary life of herbal medicine and beekeeping. When a wordless boy finds her in the marketplace with nothing but her name in his pocket, her curiosity won’t allow her to turn him away. But haunting his arrival are rumours of harvest failure and a rampant digital disease stirring up the ghosts, and the mood in the village starts to sour. Accused of witchcraft, Katerina and Stefan escape into the forest, searching for his missing father and the truth behind the disease. If there is a cure, Katerina alone might find it, but first she must find the courage to trust others – because the ghosts that follow her aren’t just digital. Review:  The internet dies and comes back to life, and you can’t google to find out...

Blurb:  When your boss is at a conference in a city where there's a suspicious death, it's unlucky. If it happens twice, it's odd. But when she's in the same city at the same time as a third unexplained death . . . Could she be a stone-cold killer? Millie's always known her boss Freya is a psycho – the demanding and ever-changing coffee orders, the cryptic instructions, the apparently expected mind reading and don't even start on the insistence that Millie wears heels . . . All. The. Time. But it only extends as far as exacting office standards. Right? As Freya's assistant, Millie has privileged access to her diary and travel history and when a pattern emerges of men (who seem to have no connection to each other) dying in cities where Freya is travelling, Millie is determined to figure out what's going on. After all, a stone-cold killer could be exactly what Millie needs . . . Review:  A brilliant bloody tale about how climbing the corporate ladder reall...