Butcher’s Crossing – John Williams

Blurb:Will Andrews is no academic. He longs for wildness, freedom, hope and vigour. He leaves Harvard and sets out for the West to discover a new way of living.In a small town called Butcher's Crossing he meets a hunter with a story of a lost herd of buffalo in a remote Colorado valley, just waiting…

I Capture The Castle – Dodie Smith

Blurb:Cassandra Mortmain lives with her bohemian and impoverished family in a crumbling castle in the middle of nowhere. Her journal records her life with her beautiful, bored sister, Rose, her fadingly glamorous stepmother, Topaz, her little brother Thomas and her eccentric novelist father who suffers from a financially crippling writer’s block. However, all their lives…

Stoner – William Stoner

This was one of my favourite books of 2016. Stoner follows the life of a man called William Stoner. (I know it doesn't sound interesting but oh my gosh I've never realised how the mundaine life of one person can really affect me in such a profound way). Stoner begins his life on a farm…