Each week we bring you a sample of the books we’re reading, the films we’re watching, the television shows we’re hooked on, or the music we’re loving.

Gabrielle Williams is reading Loveland by Robert Lukins

So far as I'm concerned, Loveland by Robert Lukins is one of the best books of the year. May is married to the violent and volatile Patrick, and unfortunately their son Francis is turning into a chip off the old block. When May's grandmother bequeaths her a broken-down old house in Loveland, Nebraska, it feels like there is an opportunity for May to escape and perhaps even start a new life. Arriving in small town Loveland, May has to make a choice, and as she starts to discover the history of her grandmother's life here, the options become more and more closed off to her, until she comes up with the only avenue possible.

This is masterful storytelling and I'm pushing it into everyone's hands. 

Angela Crocombe is reading Dusty in the Outwilds by Rhiannon Williams

Dusty in the Outwilds is such an exciting story - a young girl's grandma is sick and possibly dying, when she hears her father and his brother talking about breaking up the property and selling it. The only person who could possibly stop them is their sister, the mythical Meg who disappeared to the 'Outwilds' when she was about twelve years old. Dusty, her friend Gus and his little sister, Nico, go searching in the bush for Meg and discover a portal into another world, a world inhabited by strange creatures and a woman who may be Meg grown up, but why is she killing the animals and kidnapping Nico?

This is a brilliant adventure for readers aged nine and up that has so many twists and turns I honestly don't know where it will end up, but I can't stop reading, desperate to discover what exciting thing will happen to Dusty and her friends next.

Karl Sagrabb is reading Out Stealing Horses by Per Petterson

This a quiet, meditative novel that explores the way we interact with our memories, welcome or otherwise, in our daily lives. The prose is sparse and clean, although perhaps that might be just the nature of Scandinvanian communication. It can sometimes be hard to tell with works in translation.  

My family is Norwegian and I can fell the call of the Spruce forests in my bones. This book puts me right back in northern Norway and explores the nostalgia for simpler ways of life and the fallibility of such yearning.