Classic books to read at least once in your lifetime
WEBJul 16, 2024 — The Great Gatsby. by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Buy the book. The book that best captures the flamboyance, the carelessness and the cruelty of the wealthy during America’s Jazz age. Evoking the glitz, glamour and the dark side of 1920s, The Great Gatsby is a cynical look at the limits of the American Dream. Don't Miss.
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WEBJul 7, 2023 — Went to London, Took the Dog: A Diary. Ten years after the publication of the prize-winning Love, Nina comes the author’s diary of her return to London in her sixty-first year. After twenty years, Nina Stibbe, accompanied by her dog Peggy, stays with writer Debby Moggach in London for a year.
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WEBJul 18, 2023 — Victor Frankenstein, a brilliant but wayward scientist, builds a human from dead flesh. Horrified at what he has done, he abandons his creation. The hideous creature learns language and becomes civilized but society rejects him. Spurned, he seeks vengeance on his creator.
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WEBAug 22, 2024 — Nick Brooks's Promise Boys is a trailblazing, blockbuster YA mystery about three teen boys of colour who must investigate their principal’s murder to clear their own names. When Principal Moore, headteacher at the Urban Promise Prep School is murdered, J.B., Ramón and Trey emerge as the case's prime suspects.
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WEBApr 25, 2024 — One of the best known dystopian novels of all time, 1984 is George Orwell's terrifying vision of a totalitarian future in which everything and everyone is slave to a tyrannical regime lead by The Party. The novel has a fascinating history, from the phenomenon the book became on publication to the impact it …
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WEBJul 16, 2024 — Winner of the 2020 Booker Prize, Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart is a powerful, heart-wrenching portrait of 1980s working-class Glasgow, seen through the eyes of young Shuggie, a boy growing up amidst poverty and addiction. At the heart of the novel is Shuggie’s relationship with his mother, Agnes, a proud but deeply troubled woman whose battle with alcoholism shapes the course of their lives.
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WEBAug 12, 2024 — Divine Might. by Natalie Haynes. Buy the book. In Divine Might Natalie Haynes, author of the bestselling Pandora’s Jar, returns to the world of Greek myth and this time she examines the role of the goddesses. We meet Athene, Artemis, Aphrodite and Hera; each with their own story.
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WEBMar 14, 2022 — Poetry can bring comfort in the toughest of times. Here, we have curated a selection of poems, from The Picador Book of Funeral Poems, for anyone searching for a fitting funeral reading to pay tribute to a loved one.Hopefully these poems of parting and passing, of sorrow and healing, will find a deep echo within those who find themselves dealing with grief or bereavement.
20 of the best feel-good books and uplifting reads
WEBAug 5, 2024 — Confessions of a Forty-Something F**k-Up. by Alexandra Potter. Buy the book. This hilariously uplifting book is a must-read for anyone who's ever felt like their life plans are being derailed (i.e. all of us!). When Nell’s happy ever after in California falls apart, she moves back to London single and jobless to find a lot has changed.
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WEBJul 12, 2024 — Sula. First published in 1973, Toni Morrison's Sula is an essential book in the formation of black feminist literary criticism, tackling themes of womanhood, race, slavery and love. Having grown up together in a poor but close-knit community, Nel and Sula are inseparable, until adulthood takes them on different paths.