Each week our wonderful staff share the books that they've been enjoying.

Aurelia is reading The Only One Left by Riley Sager

Every year, I always keep an eye out for the spookiest reads as we creep closer to Halloween. I've just finished my first of the season, Riley Sager's The Only One Left – and I could not have begun on a more chilling book. An unsolved mystery of a family brutally murdered; the only surviving daughter, Lenora, long-accused of the murders, is now an old woman, mute, paralysed and secluded in a haunted mansion on the cliffs above a roaring ocean; and our protagonist, Lenora's caretaker, who has secrets of her own and is determined to find the truth, no matter the cost.

Sager's Gothic masterpiece feels as classic as Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House and Edgar Allan Poe's Fall of the House of Usher. It crawls into your brain and rests there, gnawing at your thoughts as you uncover all the sordid secrets and twists that the Hope mansion holds right to its bitter end.

Baz is reading The Anthropologists by Ayşegül Savaş

A cooly written yet intimate story of a young couple who, used to moving around and staying in foreign places, living largely untethered lives, make their way to a larger city and decide to stay. Asya the narrator especially begins to 'yearn for a specific existence' and tries to establish some routines and rules for living.

I ate up this basically conflict-free novel. Asya and Manu love each other and their relationship is, and stays, a good one. It’s a bit unusual for that, perhaps, but in a good way. Its considerations and insights were illuminating. It was a treat to think about Asya and Manu’s life, and to observe with Asya, with respect and close attention, different people and their ways of being, as well as the little daily patterns that make up ordinary lives.

I also liked Savaş' previous novel White on White. I get along with Savaş' writing, her voice, her delicacy. The prose is elegant in its clarity and stylish simplicity. This book was a vibe.