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The Power |
The Promise |
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The Reading List |
Remarkable Creatures |
Reservoir 13 |
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The Power by Naomi Alderman
What if
the power to hurt were in women's hands? Suddenly - tomorrow or the day after - teenage girls find that with a flick of their fingers, they can inflict
agonising pain and even death. With this single twist, the four lives at the heart of Naomi Alderman's extraordinary, visceral novel are utterly
transformed.
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The Promise by Damon Galgut
There is nothing unusual or remarkable
about the Swart family, oh no, they resemble the family from the next farm and the one beyond that, just an ordinary bunch of white South Africans, and if you don't believe it then listen to
us speak. The many voices of 'The Promise' tell a story in four snapshots, each one centred on a family funeral, each one happening in a different decade. In the background, a different
president is in power, and a different spirit hangs over the country, while in the foreground the family fights over what they call their farm, on a worthless piece of land outside Pretoria.
Over large jumps in time, people get older, faces and laws and lives all change, while a brother and sister circle around a promise made long ago, and never kept.
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Queenie by Candice Carty-Williams
Queenie Jenkins can't cut a
break. Well, apart from the one from her long term boyfriend, Tom. That's definitely just a break though. Definitely not a break up. Then there's her boss who doesn't seem to see her and her
Caribbean family who don't seem to listen (if it's not Jesus or water rates, they're not interested). She's trying to fit in two worlds that don't really understand her. It's no wonder she's
struggling. She was named to be queen of everything. So why is she finding it so hard to rule her own life?
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The Reading List by Sara Nisha Adams
Widower Mukesh
lives a quiet life after the loss of his wife Naina. He shops every Wednesday, goes to Temple, and worries about his disinterested granddaughter, Priya, who tucks herself away reading whilst
he watches David Attenborough. Aleisha is working at the local library on Harrow Road for the summer when she discovers a crumpled-up piece of paper in the back of 'To Kill A Mockingbird' with
a list of books that she's never heard of before - let alone read. In turn, each story on the reading list gives up its magic, transporting Aleisha away from the painful realities she's facing
at home. And when Mukesh arrives at the library, desperate to forge a connection with his bookworm of a granddaughter, Aleisha discovers that the reading list will be a lifeline for him too.
And so begins a new chapter between two lonely souls, who'll learn that fiction can teach them a whole lot about real life.
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Remarkable Creatures by Tracy Chevalier
On a
windswept English beach in the early 19th century, two women make discoveries that change the world. And in so doing find friendship, pride - and trouble.
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Reservoir 13 by Jon McGregor
Midwinter
in the early years of this century. A teenage girl on holiday has gone missing in the hills at the heart of England. The villagers are called up to join the
search, fanning out across the moors as the police set up roadblocks and a crowd of news reporters descends on their usually quiet home. Meanwhile, there is
work that must still be done: cows milked, fences repaired, stone cut, pints poured, beds made, sermons written, a pantomime rehearsed. The search for the
missing girl goes on, but so does everyday life. As it must.
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The Return by Victoria Hislop
Mercedes is a spirited young
Spanish girl whose passion is dancing. Her life is turned upside down by the Spanish Civil War & the oppression of Franco's dictatorship. When her brothers & her lover disappear
in the night, taken for interrogation by the army, she must find a way to flee, even if that means leaving her home & family forever.
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