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Interesting Facts About Space by Emily Austin

Enid is obsessed with space. She can tell you all about black holes and their ability to spaghettify you without batting an eye in fear. Her one major phobia? Bald men. But she tries to keep that one under wraps. When she’s not listening to her favourite true crime podcasts on a loop, she’s serially dating a rotation of women from dating apps. At the same time, she’s trying to forge a new relationship with her estranged half-sisters after the death of her absent father. When she unwittingly plunges into her first serious romantic entanglement, Enid starts to believe that someone is following her As her paranoia spirals out of control, Enid… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

Ableism
Infidelity recounted
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
Anxiety & panic attacks including nightmare & peladophobia
Parent with depression
Self-harm & attempted suicide of a parent recounted

Context : The protagonist’s high school boyfriend cheated on his girlfriend with her. She also did not realise some of her previous lovers were married. A secondary character is divorcing his wife for infidelity

Last Seen Leaving by Caleb Roehrig

Flynn’s girlfriend has disappeared. How can he uncover her secrets without revealing his own? Flynn’s girlfriend, January, is missing. The cops are asking questions he can’t answer, and her friends are telling stories that don’t add up. All eyes are on Flynn—as January’s boyfriend, he must know something. But Flynn has a secret of his own. And as he struggles to uncover the truth about January’s disappearance, he must also face the truth about himself.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

Homophobia
Rape & sexual assault
Suicide
Murder

Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan

It is 1985 in a small Irish town. During the weeks leading up to Christmas, Bill Furlong, a coal merchant and family man faces into his busiest season. Early one morning, while delivering an order to the local convent, Bill makes a discovery which forces him to confront both his past and the complicit silences of a town controlled by the church.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

Religious bigotry
Suicidal ideation & mentions of suicide

Wet Paint by Chloë Ashby

Since the death of her best friend Grace, twenty-six-year-old Eve has learned to keep everything and everyone at arm’s length. Safe in her detachment, she scrapes along waiting tables and cleaning her shared flat in exchange for cheap rent, finding solace in her small routines. But when a chance encounter at work brings her past thundering into her present, Eve becomes consumed by painful memories of Grace. And soon her precariously maintained life begins to unravel: she loses her job, gets thrown out of her flat, and risks pushing away the one decent man who… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

Rape (on-page)
Suicide & suicidal ideation
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)

Saha by Cho Nam-Joo

In a country called ‘Town’, Su is found dead in an abandoned car. The suspected killer is presumed to come from the Saha Estates. Town is a privatised country, controlled by a secretive organisation known as the Seven Premiers. It is a society clearly divided into the haves and have-nots and those who have the very least live on the Saha Estates. Among their number is Jin-Kyung, a young woman whose brother, Dok-yung, was in a relationship with Su and quickly becomes the police’s prime suspect. When Dok-yung disappears, Jin Ky-ung is determined to get to the bottom of things.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

Ableism & classism
Sexual assault
Pregnancy & abortion
Suicide
Death of a child
Blood & injury depiction
Unethical human experimentation & medical procedures (on-page)
Gun violence
Police brutality
Animal cruelty

All Our Hidden Gifts by Caroline O’Donoghue

After Maeve finds a pack of tarot cards while cleaning out a closet during her in-school suspension, she quickly becomes the most sought-after diviner at St. Bernadette’s Catholic school. But when Maeve’s ex–best friend, Lily, draws an unsettling card called The Housekeeper that Maeve has never seen before, the session devolves into a heated argument that ends with Maeve wishing aloud that Lily would disappear. When Lily isn’t at school the next Monday, Maeve learns her ex-friend has vanished without a trace… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

Homophobia & religious bigotry including mention of a homophobic hate crime (physical assault)
Racism & racial slurs
Domestic violence mentioned
Suicidal ideation (on-page)
Suicide & attempted suicide mentioned
Alcohol consumption
Blood & injury depiction including self-harm for magic & emesis
Kidnapping
Whipping mentioned
Bullying

Penance by Eliza Clark

It’s been nearly a decade since the horrifying murder of sixteen-year-old Joan Wilson rocked Crow-on-Sea, and the events of that terrible night are now being published for the first time. That story is Penance, a dizzying feat of masterful storytelling, where Eliza Clark manoeuvres us through accounts from the inhabitants of this small seaside town. Placing us in the capable hands of journalist Alec Z. Carelli, Clark allows him to construct what he claims is the ‘definitive account’ of the murder – and what led up to it. Built on hours of interviews with witnesses and family members, painstaking historical research, and most… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

Homophobia & lesbophovia
Sexual assault of a child recounted (protagonist)
Necrophilia & hybristophilia discussed
Alcohol consumption & drug use
Death of a daughter from suicide mentioned
Death of a classmate from drowning mentioned
Murder by being burned alive (on-page)
School shooting mentioned
Bullying

Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison

This is the story of Macon “Milkman” Dead, heir to the richest black family in a Midwestern town, as he makes a voyage of rediscovery, travelling southwards geographically and inwards spiritually. Through the enlightenment of one man, the novel recapitulates the history of slavery and liberation.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

Hate crimes including mentions of the real-life murder of Emmett Till
Incest mentioned (cousin, father-daughter)
Suicide by jumping from a building
Alcohol consumption & smoking
Attempted murder by strangulation
Gun & knife violence

Sula by Toni Morrison

Sula and Nel are two young black girls: clever and poor. They grow up together sharing their secrets, dreams and happiness. Then Sula breaks free from their small-town community in the uplands of Ohio to roam the cities of America. When she returns ten years later much has changed. Including Nel, who now has a husband and three children. The friendship between the two women becomes strained and the whole town grows wary as Sula continues in her wayward, vagabond and uncompromising ways.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

Racial slurs (n slur)
Infidelity mentioned
Alcohol consumption & abuse mentioned
Smoking mentioned
Death of a mother from suicide by fire (self-immolation)
Death of a man from being set on fire by his mother
Death of a child from an accidental drowning including further mentions of people drowning during a tunnel collapse
Physical assault of children mentioned
Battle scene recounted with mentions of the bloody death of a solider from gun violence

Mrs England by Stacey Halls

West Yorkshire, 1904. When newly graduated nurse Ruby May takes a position looking after the children of Charles and Lilian England, a wealthy couple from a powerful dynasty of mill owners, she hopes it will be the fresh start she needs. But as she adapts to life at the isolated Hardcastle House, it becomes clear there’s something not quite right about the beautiful, mysterious Mrs England. Ostracised by the servants and feeling increasingly uneasy, Ruby is forced to confront her own demons in order to prevent history from repeating itself. After all, there’s no such thing as the perfect family – and she should know.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

Domestic abuse
Suicide mentioned
Attempted murder of a child