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Good morning everyone and happy Tuesday. Today on Two For Tuesday I’m featuring the two books I’m hoping to read next.

💙The City And It’s Uncertain Walls by Haruki Murakami

💚 Poor Girls by Clare Whitfield

I’ve been a huge fan of Murakami for ages so I’m very excited to read his new book, especially as it’s set in a library. I’ve had a bit of a fascination with the Forty Elephants gang since reading another book called The Dazzle Of The Light by Georgina Clarke which featured them a few years ago. I’ve been hearing lots of great things about Poor Girls so I can’t wait to read it soon.

i have a few more pages of The Baby Dragon Cafe to read but I’ll then be diving into these.

Poor Girls is out now and The City And It’s Uncertain Walls is out on the 19th November. Find out more about the books below ⬇️.

What are you currently reading?

The City And It’s Uncertain Walls by Haruki Murakami

STEP INTO THE CITY

When a young man’s girlfriend mysteriously vanishes, he sets his heart on finding the imaginary city where her true self lives. His search will lead him to take a job in a remote library with mysteries of its own.

When he finally makes it to the walled city, a shadowless place of horned beasts and willow trees, he finds his beloved working in a different library – a dream library. But she has no memory of their life together in the other world and, as the lines between reality and fantasy start to blur, he must decide what he’s willing to lose.

A love story, a quest, an ode to books and to the libraries that house them, The City and Its Uncertain Walls is a parable for these strange times.

Poor Girls by Clare Whitfield

Men steal everything. Now we want our share.

1922. Twenty-four-year-old Eleanor Mackridge is horrified by the future mapped out for her – to serve the upper classes or find a husband. During the war, she found freedom in joining the workforce at home, but now women are being put back in their place.

Until Eleanor crosses paths with a member of the notorious female-led gang the Forty Elephants: bold women who wear diamonds and fur, drink champagne and gin, who take what they want without asking. Now, she sees a new future for herself: she can serve, marry – or steal.

After all, men will only let you down. Diamonds are forever.

In Poor Girls, Clare Whitfield exposes the criminal underbelly of 1920s London – but this isn’t a morality tale, it’s an adventure for the willingly wicked.