Songbirds by Christy Lefteri

Songbirds by Christy Lefteri'I've never read anything quite like Songbirds a beautifully crafted novel that sits at the intersection of race and class.' Jodi Picoult. She walks unseen through our world. Cares for our children, cleans our homes. She has a story to tell. Will you listen? Nisha has crossed oceans to give her child a future. By day she cares for Petra's daughter; at night she mothers her own little girl by the light of a phone. Nisha's lover, Yiannis, is a poacher,

Follow the family throughout a year of nature walks as they collect leaves

Germany stands as a bulwark for decency and stability

How Much of These Hills Is Gold is a sweeping adventure tale

never shying away from paradox in his relentless search for meaning

Brophy's art is fiction at its finest

memories of her own childhood loss flood into her consciousness

As he sewed and gazed out onto the landscape

woodland and scrubland

This is Britain as you've never read it

by a slow-moving stream

and Logan Mountstuart's - stretching across the twentieth century - is a rich tapestry of both

Rex's parents have split up and