Keira's Bookmark

The Keeper of Magical Things by Julie Leong (6/10)

Romantasy

Certainty wants to be of use, but her tepid magic isn’t of much use to anyone. Mage Aurelia is brilliant, but has managed to alienate everyone around her. Now they must work together (and maybe fall in love).

The Everlasting by Alix E. Harrow (30/10)

Fantasy/Romantasy

A lady-knight whose legend built a nation meets a retiring historian in awe of her fame. Una and Owen are tangled together in time, bound to tell the same story over and over again, no matter what it costs. But that story always ends the same way. If they want to write a different story, they’ll have to rewrite history itself.

The Bookshop Below by Georgia Summers (20/11)

Romantasy

Chiron’s bookshop is a world of deadly bargains and books that can change your life. Since he kicked her out, Cassandra has been using her magic in less-than-ethical ways but when Chiron dies, Cassandra must enlist a rival bookseller to help her restore the shop and counter dark forces threatening to destroy bookshops entirely.

Dawn of the Firebird by Sarah Mughal Rana (4/12)

Discarded daughter of the emperor, Khamilla is raised with her mother’s tribe until a violet raid awakens a heavenly magic inside her – suddenly she’s wanted in court. When a rival empire conquers her father’s court, Khamilla infiltrates the army’s academy in search of vengeance, but what she learns has her beginning to question her father’s teachings.

Next Time Will Be Our Turn by Jesse Q Sutano (11/11)

Izzy Chen has always considered herself the black sheep of the family for her attraction to women. So when her seventy-three-year-old grandma walks in to their family’s annual Chinese New Year dinner with a stunning woman on her arm, she’s more than a little shocked. Seeing herself in her teenage granddaughter’s struggles with identity and acceptance, Magnolia Chen tells Izzy her own story of star-crossed love.

We Survived the Night by Julian Brave NoiseCat (14/10)

The boy, rescued from death, grows into a man who will in turn abandon his own children, including his first-born son Julian Brave NoiseCat. Behind this father-son story lies an even darker history of abuse, colonialism and vicious attempts to erase North America’s First Peoples from their land.

The Night Creatures: Firefly by Robert Macfarlane, Illustrated by Luke Adam Hawker (#1) (23/10)

Written in lyrical verse, this story follows one light-seeking child who discovers a meadow illuminated by fireflies: “fallen constellations” that dance like stars among the summer grasses, setting fears to flight.

The Seven Rules of Trust by Jimmy Wales (28/10)

When Jimmy Wales founded Wikipedia more than two decades ago, he changed the landscape of knowledge forever. But in our ‘post-truth’ era, where the internet is a sea of disinformation and facts are increasingly malleable, Wales reminds us that it’s more important than ever to return to the problem at the heart of it all: that without trust, we have no knowledge. And without knowledge, we can’t fight back. These are his clear, actionable rules for building trust in business, leadership and life

Always Home, Always Homesick: A Love Letter to Iceland by Hannah Kent (6/11)

At 17, Hannah Kent wanted an experience – to soak up something of the world. She travelled to Iceland and found herself isolated but quickly falling in love with a remote part of the island during a dark winter. Back in Australia but with images of Iceland’s towering glaciers and windswept tundras in her dreams, Hannah began to write. Now a mother and a wife, she looks back on her year in Iceland.