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Looking For A Half Term Read?

Senior School Library


The recent BBC dramatisation of Tolstoy's 'War and Peace' has seen sales of this classic text soar and maybe some of our more voracious readers will have this set up as a half term project.

Hearing, however, that all the books nominated for the 2015 Costa Book Awards are also now in our Main School Library, we asked Senior Librarian Mrs Julie Needham what she would be recommending from the list. She said:

"I’d recommend Kate Atkinson’s 'A God In Ruins', the winner in the 2015 Novel category, twenty years after she won the then Whitbread Book of the Year with her first novel 'Behind the Scenes at the Museum'. The judges described her new novel as 'utterly magnificent', 'in a class of its own' and 'a genius book'. It's most definitely on my list for half term as I read the first in the series 'Life After Life', a 2013 winner, and was unable to put it down. 

Kate Atkinson is a very articulate, versatile writer, whose books are full of suspense, leaving you never quite sure what is going to happen. 'Life After Life' struck me as the novel equivalent of the much loved film ‘Sliding Doors’. What if you could re-live your life again and again from each point when you made a choice that led to disaster? What path would you take next time?

'A God in Ruins' follows the life of Teddy, younger brother to the protagonist in the first book, who initially met a tragic end but through the skill of fiction averted this in the next scenario."

Pupils and staff are reminded the Library not only has all the Costa Book Awards nominees on its shelves, but a rich variety of other excellent texts available for loan, so please make the most of this resource. Obviously we would be delighted to post some of our pupils' book reviews, so please email these to our Newsdesk!

 



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