Three For Tuesday: Book Club Reads (Help Needed) #BookClubReads #NewBooks #WhichOne

Good morning everyone and happy Tuesday. As some of you might know I run one of the book clubs at Rossiter books and I’m stuck between three books for our next read!

🪷The Book Of Fire by Christy Lefteri
🪷Frank & Red by Matt Coyne
🪷The Mars House by Natasha Pulley

I’m intrigued by The Mars House as it’s been on my list for a while and it was one of the books on the BBC 2 Book Club so I know it will be good. I’m a bit nervous though as it’s got a science fiction element to it which I think might put people off. I’ve heard great things about Frank & Red and think there will be a lot to discuss in it. However my colleague will have just done The List Of Suspicious Things for her bookclub and I’m worried they’re too similar. Finally The Book Of Fire is another book I’ve heard lots of great things about but I’ve heard the style is a bit different.

Which one would you chose/ want to read? Please let me know!

Find out more about the books below ⬇️

The Book Of Fire by Christy Lefteri

A captivating, moving novel of survival, hope and redemption, THE BOOK OF FIRE is the blazing new book from the international bestselling author of THE BEEKEEPER OF ALEPPO and SONGBIRDS.

AMONG THE ASHES, ONE FAMILY FOUND HOPE . . .

In a tiny, beautiful Greek village, deep in an ancient forest, live a family – Irini, Tasso and their daughter, sweet Chara. One day their world is rocked when a forest fire consumes the village, leaving houses burned and lives irreparably damaged.

But what happens after the fire?

Frank & Red by Matt Coyne

Sometimes, the friend you need is the one you never saw coming.

Frank and Red are a mess.

Frank is a grumpy old curmudgeon. A recluse whose only company is the ‘ghost’ of his dead wife, Marcie. He is estranged from his friends, his son, and the ever-changing world beyond his front gate.

And then Red moves in next door.

Red is six. A boy struggling to adjust to the separation of his mum and dad, a new school, and the demonic school bully. Red is curious, smart, he never stops talking, and he’s got a trampoline.
From the moment Red’s blonde mop appears over the top of the fence that divides their two gardens, the unlikeliest of friendships is born.

. . . And it is a friendship that will change both of their lives forever.

The Mars House by Natasha Pulley

January Stirling was one of the principal dancers of London’s Royal Ballet. Now he’s a climate refugee bound for Tharsis, the notorious terraformed colony on Mars. It’s a utopia for the naturalised population. For January, as a dangerous Earthstronger whose body is unadjusted to the weaker Martian gravity, it’s a life sentence to hard labour and ferocious discrimination.

But he will live.

Aubrey Gale, energy trillionaire and hereditary senator, is running for election on a hardline platform to protect the native population from dangerous immigrants. The path to equality is simple, requiring all Earthstrongers who choose to come to Mars to undergo the disabling and sometimes fatal process of surgical naturalisation.

Which is no life at all.

When a disastrous media encounter plunges Aubrey and January’s lives into chaos, the solution is a five-year made-for-reality-TV marriage that could secure January’s future and ensure Aubrey’s political success . . . but it soon becomes clear that thousands of lives hang in the balance, and nothing is as it seems.

Timely and utterly unputdownable, The Mars House is an exceptional genre-blending story about privilege, strength, life, and love across class divisions – perfect for fans of Babel by R.F. Kuang, The Ferryman by Justin Cronin, and This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone.