It's April and there are definitely (snow) showers! Thank god we've got a new crop of Books of the Month to bring a little light and escapism into your lives 🐣☀ 🔪 our thriller botm is the blackly funny thrill-fest Kidnap the Rich by Rahul Raina - think unputdownable and you're on the right track ❄ our fiction is Lean Fall Stand by the excellent Jon McGregor - a staccato burst of icy fear which transforms into a nuanced exploration of a traumatised mind 🌸 despite recent events we have David Hockey and Martin Gayford to reassure us that Spring Cannot Not Cancelled - so much more than an art book, this is a treatise on the joys of life itself (plus some really cool art) 🐻 and last but very much not least, The Last Bear by Hannah Gold is our very recent winner of the Waterstones Children's Book Prize, and a beautiful look at the places empathy can unlock within us