#TwoForTuesday: Birthday Stash Part 3! @PariniShroff @LalinePaull #BirthdayStash #TheBanditQueens PariniShroff #POD #LalinePaull #NewBooks

Good morning everyone. Today for Two For Tuesday I thought I’d show you the final two books I got for my birthday. These we bought from vouchers given to me by my lovely friend and fellow book lover Fleur. The Bandit Queens is a book I’ve been hearing lots of great things to about so I’m very excited to read it. I hadn’t heard much about POD but it sounds so intriguing I knew I had to read it.

I’m super tired today after my first shift as a Bookseller. It was really fun getting the shop ready to open and see all the books that we’re going to be selling – including some great special editions which I’ll be posting about later. However it’s been a long time since I’ve been on my feet all day and I’m a bit achy today.

What book are you most looking forward to?

The Bandit Queens by Parini Shroff

For Geeta, life as a widow is more peaceful than life as a wife…

Until the other women in her village decide they want to be widows, too.

Geeta is believed to have killed her vanished husband – a rumour she hasn’t bothered trying to correct, because a reputation like that can keep a single woman safe in rural India. But when she’s approached for help in ridding another wife of her abusive drunk of a husband, her reluctant agreement sets in motion a chain of events that will change the lives of all the women in the village….

A darkly irreverent and fresh take on a feminist revenge thriller, perfect for readers of My Sister the Serial Killer, How To Kidnap The Rich and the Sharon Horgan series Bad Sisters.

POD by Laline Paull

Bestselling author Laline Paull returns with an immersive and transformative new novel of an ocean world – its extraordinary creatures, mysteries, and mythologies – that is increasingly haunted by the cruelty and ignorance of the human race.

Ea has always felt like an outsider. She suffers from a type of deafness that means she cannot master the spinning rituals that unite her pod of spinner dolphins. When tragedy strikes her family and Ea feels she is partly to blame, she decides to make the ultimate sacrifice and leave.

As Ea ventures into the vast, she discovers dangers everywhere, from lurking predators to strange objects floating in the water. But just as she is coming to terms with her solitude, a chance encounter with a group of arrogant bottlenoses will irrevocably alter the course of her life.

In her terrifying, propulsive novel, Laline Paull explores the true meaning of family, belonging, sacrifice – the harmony and tragedy of the pod – within an ocean that is no longer the sanctuary it once was, and which reflects a world all too recognisable to our own.