BOOKSHELF Latest reads

Escape Winter with the sun-filled linked stories in Cartes Postales From Greece, from GH favourite Victoria Hislop.

When Ellie starts receiving postcards from a stranger who lives in Greece, she’s intrigued enough to set off on a life-changing adventure.

Margaret Atwood joins the starstudded roll-call of authors retelling Shakespeare’s plays.

In Hag-seed, a theatre director set on revenging former friends puts on a production of The Tempest in a local prison. A witty and clever update.

The novel Room made Emma Donoghue an international bestseller. Her latest, The Wonder, set in Ireland in the 1850s, seems on the surface very different but this historical thriller has the same insistent tension and compulsive storytelling.