Category: Fiction | Reading Level: 1 Fiction
From the author of the number one international bestseller The History of Bees, a captivating new novel about the threat of a worldwide water shortage as seen through the eyes of a father and daughter. In 2019, seventy-year-old Signe sets out on a hazardous voyage to cross an entire ocean in only a ...Show more
Category: Contemporary Fiction | Reading Level: 1 Fiction
'Oh, what a book this is! Hoffman's exploration of the world of good and evil, and the constant contest between them, is unflinching; and the humanity she brings to us - it is a glorious experience. The book builds and builds, as she weaves together, seamlessly, the stories of people in t ...Show more
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: 1 Fiction
Kitty Hawke, the last inhabitant of a dying island sinking into the wind-lashed Chesapeake Bay, has resigned herself to annihilation... Until one night her granddaughter blows ashore in the midst of a storm, desperate, begging for sanctuary. For years, Kitty has kept herself to herself - with only the c ...Show more
Category: Fiction
Europe, 1990. As the US begins to pull out its troops in a tide of isolationism, Britain is torn between its loyalties to the USA and its continental neighbours. In America, a space shuttle crashes on landing, killing all but one of the crew on-board: A British man named Mike Dreyfuss, who will become v ...Show more
Category: Contemporary Fiction | Reading Level: 1 Fiction
From the million-copy bestselling author of The Miniaturist and The Muse, Jessie Burton's latest novel tells the story of three women and the complex connections they have shared across decades and continents. This is a novel about love, sex, work, motherhood, how we construct our pasts and dream our fu ...Show more
Category: Contemporary Fiction | Reading Level: 1 Fiction
GERALDINE BROOKS: "I loved “Commonwealth” and I love this one even more. Patchett has an Austen-esque gift for capturing the cadences of family life, especially in families that have been riven, sheered apart and flung off into new orbits. She’s equally good at depicting heartbre ...Show more
Category: Contemporary Fiction
(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
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: 1 Fiction
Zachary Ezra Rawlins is a graduate student in Vermont when he discovers a strange book hidden in the library stacks. As he turns the pages, entranced by tales of lovelorn prisoners, key collectors, and nameless acolytes, he reads something strange: a story from his own childhood. Bewildered by this inex ...Show more
Category: Thriller | Reading Level: 2 Crime
The greatest chronicler of the age turns his incisive gaze to the tumultuous present in this superb new thriller.Nat, a 47 year-old veteran of Britain's Secret Intelligence Service, believes his years as an agent runner are over. He is back in London with his wife, the long-suffering Prue. But with the ...Show more
Category: Fiction
The new novel from Lisa See, the New York Times bestselling author of The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane, about female friendship and family secrets on a small Korean island. Mi-ja and Young-sook, two girls living on the Korean island of Jeju, are best friends who come from very diff ...Show more
Category: Thriller | Series: Jack Reacher Ser. | Reading Level: good
Jack Reacher is back in a brand new white-knuckle read from Lee Child, creator of 'today's James Bond, a thriller hero we can't get enough of' (Ken Follett). Jack Reacher is a former military cop, trained to notice things. He's on a Greyhound bus, watching an elderly man sleeping in his seat, with a fat ...Show more
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
This is not a detective story, this is a story about the making of a detective...William Warwick has always wanted to be a detective, and decides, much to his father's dismay, that rather than become a barrister like his father, Sir Julian Warwick QC, and his sister Grace, he will join London's Metropol ...Show more
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