Staff Picks: 2024

2024 Staff Picks

Explore our top picks for 2024. Click on the book title to see it in our catalogue.

Teen Fiction

Throne of glass by Sarah J. Maas - Sam

Loveless by Alice Oseman - Ciaran

Fire keeper's daughter by Angeline Boulley - Maria

Adult Non-Fiction

The Wager: a tale of shipwreck, mutiny and murder by David Grann - Helen

RecipeTin Eats Dinner: 150+ recipes from Australia's favourite cook by Nagi Maehashi - Anna

Our moon: a human history by Rebecca Boyle - Susi

Doppelganger: a trip into the mirror world by Naomi Klein - Maria

Bono by Helen Brown - Jacqui

Wintering: the power of rest and retreat in difficult times by Katherine May - Sally

Adult Fiction

The scent of oranges by Kathy George - Irene

Pet by Catherine Chidgey - Linda & Anna

Doing time by Jodi Taylor - Ngaio

What the river knows by Isabel Ibañez - Twyla

The reformatory by Tananarive Due - Renee

Guilty by definition by Susie Dent - Sally

Our holiday by Louise Candlish - Nicki

Babel : or, The necessity of violence : an arcane history of the Oxford Translators' Revolution by R. F. Kuang - Laiza

Death in Brittany : a mystery by Jean-Luc Bannalec - Janina

There should have been eight by Nalini Singh - Beth

The martian by Andy Weir - Ben

Playground by Richard Powers - Helen

Junior Fiction

The night bus hero by Onjali Q. Raúf - Linda

Mystery at the manor by Alasdair Beckett-King - Leo

Tyger by S. F. Said - Maria

DVDs

Kung fu panda 4 - Ngaio

Despicable me 4 - Nicki

The LEGO Batman movie -Twyla

Minari - Laiza

Logan - Ben

Jules - Sarah

Kanopy

The Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Pie Society - Beth

Maid in Manhattan - Laiza

Clueless - Janina

Board games

Codenames: top secret word game - Karen

Arkham horror - Ciaran

Happy little dinosaurs - Laiza