Girl, Woman, Other: WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE 2019 by Bernardine Evaristo
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Teeming with energy, humour and heart, a love song to black Britain told by twelve very different people. Grace is a Victorian orphan dreaming of the mysterious African father she will never meet. Winsome is a young Windrush bride, recently arrived from Barbados. Amma is the fierce queen of her 1980s sq ...Show more
Bleak House (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Charles Dickens
Category: Classics | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
"It would have been far better if you had never been born." Esther, at 14, has never known love. Determined to live well, earn some love, and overcome the shadow of her birth, she takes her first steps into an unknown world. A family curse, a manipulating lawyer, poverty, and secrets threaten to destroy ...Show more
The Warden (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Anthony Trollope
Category: Classics | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
The Warden introduces us to the lives of some of the most beloved characters in all literature. Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library; a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket sized classics with gold foiled edges and ribbon markers. These beautiful books make perfect gifts or a treat for any book l ...Show more
Our Mutual Friend (Macmillan Collector's Library) (HB) by Charles Dickens
Category: Classics | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
A story about money and avidity And O there are days in this life, worth life and worth death.-Charles Dickens, Our Mutual Friend John Harmon, a young man recently returned to London as his father's heir, fakes his own death to hide his true identity, until he can get to properly know Bella Wilfer, the ...Show more
Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
For years, rumors of the "Marsh Girl" have haunted Barkley Cove, a quiet town on the North Carolina coast. So in late 1969, when handsome Chase Andrews is found dead, the locals immediately suspect Kya Clark, the so-called Marsh Girl. But Kya is not what they say. Sensitive and intelligent, she has surv ...Show more
Picnic at Hanging Rock by Joan Lindsay
Category: Classics
Read this fantastic, atmospheric Australian thriller about the mysterious disappearance of a group of young girls. It was a cloudless summer day in the year nineteen hundred. Everyone at Appleyard College for Young Ladies agreed it was just right for a picnic at Hanging Rock. After lunch, a group of thr ...Show more
The Hobbit - Deluxe Edition by J. R. R. Tolkien
Category: Fiction
A new deluxe slipcased edition of The Hobbit, featuring the definitive corrected and reset text, plus Tolkien's paintings and drawings in full colour. Bilbo Baggins enjoys a quiet and contented life, with no desire to travel far from the comforts of home; then one day the wizard Gandalf and a band of dw ...Show more
The Mitford Scandal (#3 Mitford Murders) by Jessica Fellowes
Category: Fiction | Series: The\Mitford Murders Ser.
The newly married and most beautiful of the Mitford sisters, Diana, hot-steps around Europe with her husband and fortune heir Bryan Guinness, accompanied by maid Louisa Cannon, as well as some of the most famous and glamorous luminaries of the era. But murder soon follows, and with it, a darkness grows ...Show more
The Guardians by John Grisham
Category: Fiction
He was framed for murder. Now he needs someone on the outside to save him. For 22 years Quincy Miller has sat on Death Row without friends, family or legal representation. He was accused of killing Keith Russo, a lawyer in a small Florida town. But there were no witnesses and no motive. Just the fact th ...Show more
The Only Woman in the Room by Marie Benedict
Category: Fiction
The New York Times and USA Today BestsellerHedy Lamarr possessed a stunning beauty. She also possessed a stunning mind. Could the world handle both? Her beauty almost certainly saved her from the rising Nazi party and led to marriage with an Austrian arms dealer. Underestimated in everything else, she ...Show more
Grandmothers by Salley Vickers
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: 1 Fiction
Grandmothers follows four grandmothers - Blanche, who can't seem to stop stealing things from the local pharmacy; Minna, who just wants a quiet life in her shepherd's hut, though the local children have other ideas; Cherry, who's adjusting to life in a care home; and Nan, whose favourite occupation is r ...Show more
The Whisper Man by Alex North
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: 2 Crime
Gripping, moving and brilliantly creepy, this is an outstanding new psychological thriller.If you leave a door half-open, soon you'll hear the whispers spoken...Still devastated after the loss of his wife, Tom Kennedy and his young son Jake move to the sleepy village of Featherbank, looking for a fresh ...Show more