The Black Crescent
Hamou Badi is born in a mountain village with the magical signs of the zouhry on his hands. In Morocco, the zouhry is a figure of legend, a child of both humans and djinns, capable of finding all...
Books: inequality
City of Stolen Magic
India, 1855. The British rule, and all across the country, Indian magic is being stamped out.
More terrifying still, people born with magic are being snatched from their homes. Rumour is that they...
I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings
The first and best-known of Maya Angelou's extraordinary seven volumes of autobiography is a testament to the talents and resilience of this extraordinary writer.
Loving the world, she also...
Body of Stars
A bold and dazzling exploration of fate and female agency in a world where women own the future but not their own bodies.
Like every woman, Celeste Morton holds a map of the future in her skin,...
Noughts & Crosses
Sephy is a Cross: she lives a life of privilege and power. But she's lonely, and burns with injustice at the world she sees around her.
Callum is a nought: he's considered to be less than...
Dancing in the Mosque
In the days before Homeira Qaderi gave birth to her son, Siawash, the road to the hospital in Kabul would often be barricaded because of the frequent suicide explosions. With the city and the military...
Wish We Knew What to Say
We want our children to thrive and flourish in a diverse, multi-cultural world and we owe it to them to help them make sense of the confusing and emotionally charged messages they receive about...
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IN THIS WORLD, PERFECTION IS EVERYTHING
Elena Fairchild is a teacher at one of the state’s new elite schools. Her daughters are exactly like her: beautiful, ambitious, and perfect. A good thing,...
Such a Fun Age
What happens when you do the right thing for the wrong reason?
Alix Chamberlain is a woman who gets what she wants and has made a living showing other women how to do the same. A mother to two...
The Handmaid’s Tale
Offred is a Handmaid living in what once was America and is now known as The Republic of Gilead. She has only one function: to breed.
Those in charge expect them to give themselves over to the new...
The Grace Year
A must read for fans of The Handmaid's Tale and bound to be the next big dystopian novel.
In the isolated village where Tierney lives it is forbidden to talk of The Grace Year. The year when...
The Hate U Give
Starr walks a fine line between two worlds: the poor neighbourhood where she grew up and the expensive school her parents have sent her to. In each world she is a different person. Then after a party...
To Kill a Mockingbird
Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird.'
A lawyer's advice to his children as he defends the real mockingbird of...
A Christmas Carol
Ebenezer Scrooge, is the living embodiment of a lack of Christmas spirit and a general lack of compassion for others. His attitude is challenged when the ghost of his old partner, Jacob Marley,...
Vox
Silence can be deafening.
Jean spends her days in almost complete silence, limited to a quota of just one hundred words a day.
No woman is able to speak over this limit without punishment by...
Between shades of Grey
Between Shades of Gray is a haunting and powerful Second World War novel by Ruta Sepetys That morning, my brother's life was worth a pocket watch ...One night fifteen-year-old Lina, her mother...
The Storyteller
After a tragic accident which left her deeply scarred, Sage Singer retreated into herself, allowing her guilt to govern her life. When she befriends kindly retired teacher Josef, it seems that life...
Diary of a Young Girl
Anne Frank was born in Frankfurt am Maine in Germany in 1929. She is the author of The Diary of a Young Girl, which tells the remarkable true-story of a young, Jewish girl against the backdrop of the...
Life Honestly: Strong Opinions From Smart Women
Life Honestly is a guide to modern life from some of today's most talented and insightful writers.
Within this book there are stories from bad sex to bad boys, from inequality to the joy of...
Blood Papa
In Rwanda from April to June 1994, 800,000 Tutsis were slaughtered by their Hutu neighbors in the largest and swiftest genocide since World War II. In Blood Papa, Hatzfeld returns to the hills and...
