Ben MacIntrye’s latest true story of the most infamous castle in WW2 history, Colditz, in which dangerous daredevil and defiant allied prisoners were held captive. Perfect read to bunker down with this November.

The Pulitzer Prize winning novel ‘All the Light We Cannot See’ (2015) is the ideal Missed Opportunity read, especially with its upcoming TV adaptation on Netflix. Ten years in the making, this powerful and epic war novel is a stand out read for book clubbers. Mesmerising and bittersweet.

“We are together all day but we never have time, if you know what I mean?” Claire Kilroy throws the reader into the depths of those overwhelming and often isolating first few months of first-time motherhood with her sharply observed and brutally honest and uncompromising narrative.