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As I Lay Dying

Paperback || William Faulkner || Vintage UK

The death and burial of Addie Bundren is told by members of her family, as they cart the coffin to Jefferson, Mississippi, to bury her among her people. And as the intense desires, fears and rivalries of the family are revealed in the vernacular of the Deep South, Faulkner presents a portrait of extraordinary power - as epic as the Old Testament, as American as Huckleberry Finn.

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When Stars are Scattered

2023 || Paperback || Victoria Jamieson e.a. || Faber & Faber

A heart-wrenching true story about life in a Kenyan refugee camp that will restore your faith in real-life happy endings. Omar and his brother Hassan, two Somali boys, have spent a long time in the Dadaab refugee camp.

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American Born Chinese

2023 || Paperback || Gene Luen Yang || Roaring Brook Press

A New York Times-bestselling graphic novel, a Michael L. Printz Award winner, a National Book Award finalist,


and now an original series on Disney+!



Bonus Content: Includes an interview with author Gene Luen Yang and series creator Kelvin Yu



A tour-de-force by New York Times bestselling graphic novelist Gene Luen Yang, American Born Chinese tells the story of three apparently unrelated characters: Jin Wang, who moves to a new neighborhood with his family only to discove...

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Winter Garden

2014 || Paperback || Kristin Hannah || Macmillan

From the New York Times number one bestselling author of The Nightingale and The Four Winds, comes Kristin Hannah's haunting, heartbreakingly beautiful novel that illuminates the intricate mother-daughter bond and explores the enduring links between past and present. Meredith and Nina Whitson are as different as sisters can be. One stayed at home to raise her children and manage the family apple orchard; the other followed a dream and travelled the world to become a famous photo journalist.

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Fingersmith

Paperback || Sarah Waters || Little, Brown & Company

The book that inspired Park Chan-wook's astonishing film The Handmaiden. Shortlisted for the Orange Prize and the Booker PrizeLondon 1862. Sue Trinder, orphaned at birth, grows up among petty thieves - fingersmiths - under the rough but loving care of Mrs Sucksby and her 'family'.

But from the moment she draws breath, Sue's fate is linked to that of another orphan growing up in a gloomy mansion not too many miles away.

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Slam

2020 || Paperback || Nick Hornby || Penguin Books

'There was this time when everything seemed to have come together. And so obviously it was time to go and screw it all up.'Sam is sixteen and a skater. Just so there are no terrible misunderstandings: skating = skateboarding.

There's no ice. Life is ticking along nicely for Sam: his mum's got rid of her rubbish boyfriend, he's thinking about college and he's met someone. Alicia.Then a little accident happens.

One with big consequences for someone just finding his way in life. Sam can't run (l...

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The Handmaid's Tale

The iconic Sunday Times bestseller that inspired the hit TV series

1996 || Paperback || Margaret Atwood || Vintage Publishing

The Republic of Gilead offers Offred only one function: to breed. If she deviates, she will, like dissenters, be hanged at the wall or sent out to die slowly of radiation sickness. But even a repressive state cannot obliterate desire - neither Offred's nor that of the two men on which her future hangs...

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We Were Liars

Paperback || E Lockhart || Hot Key Books

1. Read this book. 2. On reaching the final page, you may experience an urgent need to read it all over again. 3. Check your friends have read it. 4. NOW YOU ARE FREE TO TALK TO THEM ABOUT IT ENDLESSLYWinner of Goodreads Best Young Adult Fiction Book 2014'E. Lockhart is one of our most important novelists, and she has given us her best book yet. Thrilling, beautiful, and blisteringly smart, We Were Liars is utterly unforgettable.'- John Green, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Fault...

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Pride and Prejudice

2003 || Paperback || Jane Austen || Penguin Books

One of the BBC's '100 Novels That Shaped Our World''The best-loved book by our best-loved novelist' IndependentWith its 'light and bright and sparkling' dialogue, its romantic denouement and its lively heroine, Pride and Prejudice is Jane Austen's most perennially popular novel. The love story of Elizabeth Bennet and Fitzwilliam Darcy, who misjudge, then challenge and change each other, is also a novel about the search for happiness and self- knowledge in a world of strict social rules, where...

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Private Peaceful

2020 || Paperback || Michael Morpurgo || HarperCollins

A stunning edition of this modern classic of World War One, featuring an introduction by the author and insightful testimonies from soldiers.