Category: Contemporary Fiction | Reading Level: 1 Fiction
'Oh, what a book this is! Hoffman's exploration of the world of good and evil, and the constant contest between them, is unflinching; and the humanity she brings to us - it is a glorious experience. The book builds and builds, as she weaves together, seamlessly, the stories of people in t ...Show more
Category: Contemporary Fiction | Reading Level: 1 Fiction
At the start of the twentieth century, on the edge of the Russian empire, a family prospers. It owes its success to a delicious chocolate recipe, passed down the generations with great solemnity and caution. A caution which is justified- this is a recipe for ecstasy that carries a very bitter aftertaste ...Show more
Category: Contemporary Fiction | Reading Level: 1 Fiction
GERALDINE BROOKS: 'I loved “Commonwealth” and I love this one even more. Patchett has an Austen-esque gift for capturing the cadences of family life, especially in families that have been riven, sheered apart and flung off into new orbits. She’s equally good at depicting heartbr ...Show more
Category: Contemporary Fiction
(Joint Winner of the 2019 Booker Prize) Teeming with life and crackling with energy - a love song to modern Britain and black womanhood Girl, Woman, Other follows the lives and struggles of twelve very different characters. Mostly women, black and British, they tell the stories of their families, ...Show more
Category: Contemporary Fiction | Reading Level: 1 Fiction
From the million-copy bestselling author of The Miniaturist and The Muse, Jessie Burton's latest novel tells the story of three women and the complex connections they have shared across decades and continents. This is a novel about love, sex, work, motherhood, how we construct our pasts and dream our fu ...Show more
Category: Contemporary Fiction
Haiti. A poor country rich in courage, strength and love. As these four women are about to discover. Charlie, the rootless daughter of American missionaries, now working as a hairdresser in Northern California. But the repercussions of a traumatic childhood far from home have left her struggling for her ...Show more
Category: Contemporary Fiction
'A truly extraordinary book' - Dinah Jefferies 'I was completely spellbound' - Ruth Hogan 'Just marvellous' - Jo Baker 'A true storyteller' - The Times It was the longest night of the year when the strangest of things happened . . . ____________________ On a dark midwinter's night in an ancient inn on ...Show more
Category: Contemporary Fiction | Reading Level: 1 Fiction
'We desperately need your help Holly. We're running out of ideas and...' She takes a breath in as if summoning the energy, 'all of us are running out of time.' When Holly Kennedy is approached by a group calling themselves the PS, I Love You Club, her safe existence is turned on its head. Inspired by h ...Show more
Category: Contemporary Fiction
A big, bold and hauntingly beautiful story that captures a defining moment in Australia's history. Everywhere he looked he saw what Utzon saw. The drama of harbour and horizon, and at night, the star-clotted sky. It held the shape of the possible, of a promise made and waiting to be kept ... In 1965 as ...Show more
Category: Contemporary Fiction
Darkly comic, surreal and full of perceptiveness about human vulnerability and eccentricity, Frankie McMillan's small fictions often duck and dive away from the reader's expectations.With a poet's sense of how single words or phrases ripple out with alternate meanings, and a dramatist's feeling for how ...Show more
Category: Contemporary Fiction
For fans of The Little Paris Bookshop and The Elegance of the Hedgehog, The Girl Who Reads on the Métro is the French phenomenon by Christine Féret-Fleury ready to charm book-lovers everywhere . . . When Juliette takes the métro to her loathed office job each morning, her only esca ...Show more
Category: Contemporary Fiction
In his debut novel, rock legend Pete Townshend explores the anxiety of modern life and madness in a story that stretches across two generations of a London family, their lovers, collaborators, and friends. A former rock star disappears on the Cumberland moors. When his wife finds him, she discovers he ...Show more
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