The Nile's Books of the Month: June

The Nile's Book of the Month:
Non-Fiction

Is It Too Early To Bitch? by Grace Rouvray

We talk about romance as life’s greatest love stories, but sometimes the rarest thing we’ll ever find is a soulmate in a friend.

In the first week of their drama undergrad degree, Grace Rouvray and Katie Lees become best friends, bonding through a timeless tradition: bitching.

Over the next 13 years, this lightning-in-a-bottle friendship becomes the most constant and important relationship in both their lives. Carrying them through miserable second jobs, breakups and the creation of a comedy duo, it survives long-distance years sustained by voice notes, and thrives when they live just one minute (and eleven seconds) apart in Sydney’s Inner West. They become each other’s rock, each other’s person. Until the impossible happens, and Katie dies suddenly.

What follows is an unravelling. Does Grace deserve to grieve Katie as deeply as her family? Can ‘just a friend’ be the most important person in your life? And how do you move forward when you’ve lost someone who was ostensibly your whole world?

Hilarious, heartbreaking and deeply honest, Is It Too Early To Bitch? is a love letter to and memoir of the magic of a unique friendship, and a celebration of all friendship and its life-changing power.

The Nile's Book of the Month:
Fiction

The Midnight Train by Matt Haig

When your life flashes before your eyes, where would you stop?

No one can change the past, but the Midnight Train can take you there. The chance to re-live the moments that meant most. To see what kind of person you really were.

For Wilbur his best days were with Maggie, the love of his life. On his honeymoon in Venice.

Before he gave it all away.

He wishes he could go back and live differently. But to do so risks everything …

A magical, time-travelling love story, from the world of The Midnight Library.

The Nile's Book of the Month:
Young Adult

Shadow Reaper by Lynette Noni

The city of Aravell is in peril, plagued by a deadly blackmist that kills all it touches, and reapers who roam the streets, stealing magic from innocent children in their thirst for power. Seventeen-year-old Viridia Solace has trained for years to hunt these reapers but their ranks keep growing, led by the man who murdered her parents- the Reaper Priest.

When the Priest’s most loyal follower, Reeve Ashton, is captured, he offers Viri a chance to avenge her parents … for a price. She knows better than to bargain with a reaper, let alone this reaper, but his offer is too good to resist.

Soon she’s breaking him out of prison, colluding with his crew of magic thieves, and following him deep into the blackmist forest in search of an ancient legend, all so they can stop the Reaper Priest’s plot to doom the city. Viri is staking her life on Reeve’s plan, but how can she trust a silver-tongued criminal to keep his word? And how can she trust her own heart when a buried secret could shatter everything?

Full of relentless twists, enemies-to-lovers romance, found family, and high stakes action, Shadow Reaper is the start of a breathtaking new duology from international bestselling author Lynette Noni.

The Nile's Book of the Month:
Children's Book

The House That Walked Away by Simon Howe

The House That Walked Away is a magical story about belonging and family, for readers young and old. A reminder that not only is home where the heart is, but that we can be a home for the hearts of others.

In this simple, surreal and stunning story, a house sets off on a journey to find a home. Dissatisfied and restless, the house wanders from place to place, hopeful but uncertain. Each time it settles down, the comfort is fleeting, and the urge to move on returns.

But everything changes when a curious family notices the house, and decides to follow…