| The Sound of Harris | | Cecil Johnson | School days - the best days of your life? Of course they are! - and it's probably the same for the kids, too! Enter the Wild Wood that is secondary education and see it from the side of so-called authority. Remember that teachers can be wags, too, and their sense of humour is their only hope of at least playing a draw...
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| Jemima J: A Novel about Ugly Ducklings and Swans | | Jane Green | | With a fast-paced plot that never quits and a surprise ending no reader will see coming, Jemima J is the chronicle of one woman's quest to become the woman she's always wanted to be, learning along the way a host of lessons about attraction, addiction, the meaning of true love, and, ultimately, who she really is. |  | |
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| Tulagi Hotel | | Heikki Hietala | | A wonderful novel which follows the life of ace US Marine fighter pilot Jack McGuire. Trying to rebuild his life post WW2, he moves to the Solomon Islands, where he builds a hotel on an island he flew over in his combat years. From his days on the family farm and the trauma of the loss of his twin brother, through flying school to his war service and retirement, we share his hopes and disappointments, his exhilarations and despairs. |  | |
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| On Beauty | | Zadie Smith | | "On Beauty" concerns a pair of feuding families - the Belseys and the Kipps - and a clutch of doomed affairs. It puts low morals among high ideals and asks some searching questions about what life does to love. For the Belseys and the Kipps, the confusions - both personal and political - of our uncertain age are about to be brought close to home: right to the heart of family. |  | |
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