Recommended Reads for May 2012

Check out the reviews section of our website for the latest recommended reads - from children's fiction to poetry and classic reads we're sure there is something for everyone. We also welcome your reviews too - email them to 'Reviews' at info@bookapoet.co.uk and we'll let you know when we use it!

Below are the titles we recommended during May 2012:

‘Foxly's Feast’ by Owen Davey (Templar Publishing)

‘Banjo’ by Samantha Wynne-Rydderch (Picador Poetry)
‘Cinders: The Lunar Chronicles’ by Marissa Meyer (Puffin)
‘Department 19’ by Will Hill (Harper Collins Children’s Books)

‘I Spy with My Little Eye’ by Edward Gibbs (Templar Publishing)

'The Queen’ by Richard Brassey (Orion Books)

‘For My Beautiful Black Sister’ by Nathan B. Brooken (Self-Published)

'Legend' by Marie Lu (Razorbill at Penguin Books)
‘Bob’s Best Ever Friend’ by Simon Bartram (Templar Publishing)
‘What a Catch’ by David R Mellor (Mellordramatic)

 


June's recommended reads will start to appear on the website from next week. A selection of reviews will be published here too, as well as on our Facebook page and links from our Twitter account.

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‘Banjo’
By Samantha Wynne-Rydderch
Published by Picador Poetry on the 7th June 2012
RRP £9.99 (paperback)
ISBN 9780330544665

While Banjo opens with a clutch of fine lyrics, elegies and set-pieces, at the heart of Samantha Wynne-Rydderch’s new book is a remarkable tale of darkness and light, music and silence. Celebrating the centenary of Captain Scott’s arrival at the South Pole in 1912, Banjo gives us new psychological insight into the lives of the early Antarctic pioneers, as well as an extraoridinary account of the role played by music in surviving the long Antarctic winters. Banjo is Samantha Wynne-Rydderch’s most accomplished collection to date, and further evidence of a writer of great imaginative versatility.