04/06/2026
📚 June Releases 📚
You’re still wondering what to read this June ? Look no further ! We selected the new releases you’ll find on our shelves this month :
🌳 Land - Maggie O’Farrell
On a windswept peninsula stretching out into the Atlantic, Tomas and his reluctant son, Liam, are working for the Great Ordnance Survey Project to map the whole of Ireland. The year is 1865.
The British soldiers in charge are due to arrive any day, expecting the work to be completed, but Tomas is sent off course by an unsettling encounter in a copse. His life, and those of his family, will never be the same again.
🎬 It Used to be Witches : A Journey Through Q***r Cinema - Ryan Gilbey
Blending personal memoir, criticism and candid new interviews with filmmakers from across the LGBTQ+ spectrum, Ryan Gilbey’s engaging and dynamic It Used to be Witches is a non-chronological treasure-hunt through q***r cinema past and present.
Andrew Haigh and Cheryl Dunye are among the directors who reveal how q***r artists use film to express their most personal truths - and to challenge, defy and outrage a world that would rather they didn’t exist.
👹 We Dance Upon Demons - Vaishnavi Patel
As a reproductive health care worker in Chicago, Nisha is barely staying afloat in the ocean of abortion bans, screaming protestors, and her own all-consuming depression.
When she escapes to the Indian art exhibit at her favorite museum for a brief respite, Nisha suddenly finds herself bleeding, disoriented, and collapsed on the ground. The last thing she remembers is the statue that beckoned her to touch it.
🔎 My Grandfather, the Master Detective - Masateru Konishi
There used to be a café called Mon Cheri at Nishi Waseda, where members of the Waseda Mystery Club spent day after day frothing in excitement over the latest mystery novels. Now, one former member is enlisted by his granddaughter to solve real-life mysteries.
From impossible locked-room murders to confounding missing person cases, the granddaughter and grandfather team « weave stories » in master-and-apprentice fashion.
🗡️ One Knight Stand - Amie Kaufman & Meagan Spooner
Dearest reader … let me catch you up. Gwen, our lady knight. Isobelle, our knight’s lady. They fight monsters, and they’re in love.
Well, they fought one monster, once. And while they are in love, they haven’t discussed that fact with each other, and neither wants to be the first to bring it up.
This is going to be fine.
💣 Tehran Diaries : Dispatches from Iran Siege - Raha Nik-Andish
Over Iran, the sky is falling in. The US-Israeli bombardment has begun : there are bodies beneath the rubble. The Ayatollah is dead. The guards have abandoned the prisons. The rain is black with fuel ; it burns the skin and the streets.
In this searing and contemplative work, writer, academic and Tehran resident Raha Nik-Andish documents life in the islamic republic in the days and months leading up to « Operation Epic Fury ».
🪦 Rottenheart - Kat Dunn
Odette and Cecilia are young women, living between their grand homes in Hampstead and the imposing, ancient Herne House in Suffolk.
But when Lydia, Odette’s mother, inexplicably sickens and dies, a dark veil falls. As the funeral rites are performed, Odette’s aunt, the cold and implacable Claudine, increasingly takes charge of the household.
But as Claudine is announced as Odettes new stepmother, a sinister presence in the house makes itself known.
🫀 Born : The Untold History of Humanity - Lucy Inglis
Acclaimed cultural historian Lucy Inglis takes the reader on an epic journey through the stories of women over hundreds of thousands of years. From ancient Mesopotamian birthing practices to the lost contraceptives of Ancient Rome and the strange story of the feminists who fought for the right to forget childbirth, this is a truly sweeping history that explores the competing ideologies and lived realities that have shaped so many lives.
🇪🇺 The Most Underrated Places in Europe - Rough Guides
Skip the crowds - discover Europe’s best-kept secrets. Ditch the tourist traps and discover 50 underrated places that offer all the charm, culture and beauty - without the overwhelm.
Unfiltered, insightful and beautifully curated - this is travel reimagined.
But also :
Romance
🎾 The Open Era - Edward Schmit
Romantasy
🪄 Uncharmed - Lucy Jane Wood
🪴 The Someday Garden - Ashley Poston
Horror
🚨 Headlights - CJ Leede
Science Fiction
🪐 Slow Gods - Claire North
🖨️ Sublimation - Isabel J. Kim
🏨 The Dream Hotel - Laila Lalami
🎮 DIE : Loaded, Volume 1 : Zero Sessions - Kieron Gillen
Slice of life
✉️ The Correspondent - Virginia Evans
✍️ Mother Mary Comes To Me - Arundhati Roy
Children
🌊 Pablo and Splash : Viking Voyage - Sheena Dempsey
😎 The Sun Thief - Alice Hemming
Young Adults
👑 The Princess Diaries, The Graphic Novel - Meg Cabot
🎨 The Ocean Would Paint Me Blue - Zoulfa Katouh
Science
🗺️ This Way Up : When Maps Go Wrong (and Why it Matters) - Map Men
History
🇺🇸 A Short History of America : From Tea Party to Trump - Simon Jenkins
Classic
🌾 The Girls - John Bowen
Arts & Hobbies
🏺 Crossing the Wine-Dark Sea : Journeys through Ancient Literature - Emily Wilson
📚 Make Believe : On Telling Stories to Children - Mac Barnett
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