Category: Staff Favourites | Series: The Handmaid's Tale | Reading Level: good
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. ...Show more
Category: Staff Favourites | Series: The Handmaid's Tale | Reading Level: 1 Fiction
Leigh Sales: “A work of literature that reads like an airport thriller. An incredible treat for fans of Margaret Atwood.” (Joint Winner of the 2019 Booker Prize) The wait is over And so I step up, into the darkness within; or else the light. When the van door slammed on Of ...Show more
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Kathy Lette: (author best known for her works 'Puberty Blues' & 'How To Kill Your Husband [And Other Handy Household Hints]', and friend of Bookoccino) "Trent Dalton’s raw, tender, original, riotous and rollicking tale about brother-love, resilience and a refusal to think that optimism is an ...Show more
Category: Staff Favourites | Reading Level: 1 Fiction
'YOU'RE NOT LOST. YOU'RE JUST LOOKING. Augusta Hope has never felt like she fits in. At six, she's memorising the dictionary. At seven, she's correcting her teachers. At eight, she spins the globe and picks her favourite country on the sound of its name: Burundi. And now that she's an adult, Augusta ha ...Show more
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A poignant ode to love and the memories that make a well-lived life, from the author of THE SINGLE LADIES OF JACARANDA RETIREMENT VILLAGE As the wife of retired ship's doctor Dr Henry Parker, Evelyn is living out her twilight years aboard the Golden Sunset. Every night she dresses for dinner - gown, tia ...Show more
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This was never the story of one woman, or two. It was the story of all of them... They have waited to have their story told, and I will make them wait no longer.In the early hours of the morning, Creusa wakes to find her beloved Troy engulfed in flames. Ten seemingly endless years of brutal conflict bet ...Show more
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On 21 June 1922, Count Alexander Rostov - recipient of the Order of Saint Andrew, member of the Jockey Club, Master of the Hunt - is escorted out of the Kremlin, across Red Square and through the elegant revolving doors of the Hotel Metropol. Deemed an unrepentant aristocrat by a Bolshevik tribunal, the ...Show more
Category: Staff Favourites | Reading Level: very good
Winner of the Man Booker Prize 2018In an unnamed city, middle sister stands out for the wrong reasons. She reads while walking, for one. And she has been taking French night classes downtown. So when a local paramilitary known as the milkman begins pursuing her, she suddenly becomes "interesting," the ...Show more
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(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
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