Category: Fiction | Series: The Handmaid's Tale | Reading Level: 1 Fiction
The wait is over And so I step up, into the darkness within; or else the light. When the van door slammed on Offred's future at the end of The Handmaid's Tale, readers had no way of telling what lay ahead for her - freedom, prison or death. With The Testaments, the wait is over. Margaret Atwood's sequel ...Show more
Category: Fiction
Lauren Pailing is born in the sixties, and a child of the seventies. She is thirteen years old the first time she dies. Lauren Pailing is a teenager in the eighties, becomes a Londoner in the nineties. And each time she dies, new lives begin for the people who loved her - while Lauren enters a brand new ...Show more
Category: Fiction
Life's not always a piece of cake... Meet Lucy, master wedding cake baker, idealistic school canteen crusader, and someone whose broken heart just won't seem to mend... Lucy is quietly confident that she has made the right choices in life. Surrounded by friends and family in a small country town, Lucy c ...Show more
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: 1 Fiction
THE NEW NOVEL FROM THE PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OF THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD THE NICKEL BOYS is Colson Whitehead's follow-up to the Pulitzer Prize- and National Book Award-winning bestseller THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD, in which he dramatizes another strand of United States history, this time ...Show more
Category: Fiction
Reyna knows her relationship with Boyd isn't perfect, yet as she visits him throughout his three-month stint in prison, their bond grows tighter. Kiki, now settled in New York after a journey that took her to Turkey and around the world, admires her niece's spirit but worries that she always picks the w ...Show more
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: 1 Fiction
A thrilling and ambitious new novel from the author of the bestselling and prize-winning TERRA NULLIUS Shane Daniels and Romany Zetz have been drawn into a war that is not their own. Lives will be destroyed, families will be torn apart. Trust will be broken. When the war is over, some will return to a ...Show more
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: 1 Fiction
The major new novel from David Nicholls. One life-changing summerCharlie meets Fran... In 1997, Charlie Lewis is the kind of boy you don't remember in the school photograph. His exams have not gone well. At home he is looking after his father, when surely it should be the other way round, and if he th ...Show more
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: 1 Fiction
'This story has its genesis in fact, when three Fraser Island people were taken to Germany in 1882-83. The sole survivor was Bonangera (Boni/Bonny) whose life-size plaster cast remains at the Musée des Confluences Lyon, France. The silencing that Badtjala people continue to endure in the localise ...Show more
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: 1 Fiction
People went on about death bringing friends together, but it wasn't true. The graveyard, the stony dirt - that's what it was like now. They knew each other better than their own siblings, but Sylvie's death had opened up strange caverns of distance between them. Four older women with a lifelong friends ...Show more
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: 2 Crime
Even the darkest journey must come to an end... 'Haunting, intoxicating' Ali Land, author of Good Me, Bad Me 'Deeply affecting' Chris Whitaker, author of All the Wicked Girls Three years ago, Lelle's daughter went missing in a remote part of Northern Sweden. Lelle has spent the intervening summers dr ...Show more
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: 2 Crime
In this propulsive, twist-filled, and haunting psychological suspense debut perfect for fans of Sharp Objects and Room, a seventeen-year-old girl struggles to remember the role she played on the night her life changed forever. For the past two weeks, seventeen-year-old Kate Bennet has lived again ...Show more
