Jessica Graham from Primrose Hill Books

Primose Hill Books has been been a bookshop for 25 years, and Jessica finds the area a lively, exciting and interesting place. She's passionate about books and notes that "reccommending books is the lifeblood of the independent book shop."

The God of Animals by Aryn Kyle

"This isn't a book that you would necessarily pick up from the shelf: it has a very strange title; the author is unknown and the jacket is rather uninspiring. yet it's one of the best books I've read this year. It's an intelligent and moving novel, set in present-day Colorado. It's a beautifully-written coming-of-age tale, narrated by 12-year-old Alice after her sister has run away. It's an intelligent and moving novel that would appeal to anyone who likes large themes tackled, but it's also pacy. It's told with such verve and compassion that the reader is really sucked into it."