If you’ve ever wanted to step inside the mind of Patti Smith, The Bread of Angels is a rare and beautiful invitation. In this luminous memoir, she reflects on childhood, faith, art, and the friendships that shaped her, writing with the same spare, incantatory beauty that marks her songs and poetry.

There’s a quiet honesty here that feels deeply generous, as she traces the small, sacred moments that formed her creative life. It’s less a conventional autobiography and more a meditation on devotion. Thoughtful, searching, and tender, this is one to savour slowly.

We’re very pleased to be recommending Rachel Kushner’s Creation Lake, a novel that’s as sharp and intelligent as it is quietly gripping. It follows Sadie Smith, an American operative sent to infiltrate a radical eco-collective in rural France - a premise that unfolds into something far stranger and more thought-provoking than a simple thriller.

As strange manifestos from a reclusive thinker begin to circulate, the novel deepens into a cool, sly meditation on power, belief, and civilisation. Kushner’s prose is precise and electric. This is bold, daring fiction for readers who like their novels clever, unsettling, and wholly original.