ATONEMENT
Ian McEwan

On the hottest day of the summer of 1935, thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis sees her sister
Cecilia strip off her clothes and plunge into the fountain in the garden of her country
house. Watching her is Robbie Turner, her childhood friend who, like Cecilia, has
recently come down from Cambridge.

By the end of that day the lives of all three will have been changed for ever. Robbie and
Cecilia will have crossed a boundary they had not even imagined at its start, and will
have become victims of the younger girl's imagination. Briony will have witnessed
mysteries and committed a crime for which she will spend the rest of her life trying to
atone.

RANDOM ACTS OF HEROIC LOVE
Danny Scheinmann

Two tales of love
Two stories of loss
One great emotional journey

1917. Moritz Daniecki has survived fighting in the Great War. But at what cost?
Abandoned in the Siberian wilderness, he is determined to return to his beloved Lotte,
the memory of whose single kiss has sustained him throughout the war. What lies before
him is a terrifying journey over the Russian Steppes. If he ever makes it, will she still be
waiting?

1992. Leo Deakin wakes up in hospital somewhere in South America. His girlfriend Eleni is
dead and Leo doesn't know where he is or how she died. He blames himself for the
tragedy and is sucked into a spiral of despair. But Leo is about to discover something
that will change his life for ever.

DIANA: DEATH OF A GODDESS
David Cohen

00.23 a.m. August 31st 1997. The Mercedes driven by Henri Paul in which Princess Diana,
Dodi Al Fayed and Trevor Rees-Jones were travelling crashes into a pillar in the Alma
tunnel in the centre of Paris, killing Paul, Dodi and Diana and seriously injuring
Rees-Jones.

That much is certain. But little else.

David Cohen never expected to be investigating Diana's death. But after a reliable source
asked him to fly to Geneva to listen to a dramatic story, he soon found himself on the trail
of a young Englishwoman who, he increasingly came to realize, had been tragically out of
her depth in the company of drugs dealers, arms dealers and secret service operators.

Here, for the first time, Cohen reveals answers to some of the most troubling questions
surrounding the events of that fateful night. He discloses why the Mercedes was taking
the wrong route to Dodi's flat. He uncovers incriminating information about the owner of
the infamous white Fiat Uno from French security sources. He reveals Henri Paul's true
role on behalf of MI6. And, after years of careful investigation, he demonstrates the links
between the mysterious cult, The Order of the Solar Temple - a cult whose members,
including Princess Grace of Monaco, have died in a series of suspicious circumstances -
and the circumstances surrounding Diana on the night she died.

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THE LOVELY BONES
Alice Sebold

My name was Salmon, like the fish; first name, Susie. I was fourteen when I was
murdered on December 6, 1973. My murderer was a man from our neighborhood. My
mother liked his border flowers, and my father talked to him once about fertilizer.

This is Susie Salmon, speaking from heaven - which looks a lot like her school
playground, with the good kind of swing sets, counsellors to help newcomers adjust, and
friends to room with. Everything Susie wants appears as soon as she thinks of it - except
the one thing she wants most: to be back with the people she loved on earth.

Watching from her place in heaven, Susie sees her happy, suburban family devastated by
her death, isolated even from one another as they each try to cope with their terrible loss
alone. Over the years, her friends and siblings grow up, fall in love, do all the things she
never had the chance to do herself. But life is not quite finished with Susie yet...

THE ROAD
Cormac McCarthy

A father and his young son walk alone through burned America, heading slowly for the
coast. Nothing moves in the ravaged landscape save the ash on the wind. They have
nothing but a pistol to defend themselves against the men who stalk the road, the clothes
they are wearing, a cart of scavenged food - and each other.

PLAIN TRUTH
Jodi Picoult

A shocking murder shatters the picturesque calm of Pennsylvania's Amish country - and
tests the heart and soul of the lawyer who steps in to defend the young woman at the
centre of the storm...

The discovery of a dead infant in an Amish barn shakes Lancaster County to its core. But
the police investigation leads to a more shocking disclosure: circumstantial evidence
suggests that eighteen-year-old Katie Fisher, an unmarried Amish woman believed to be
the newborn's mother, took the child's life.

When Ellie Hathaway, a disillusioned big-city attorney, comes to Paradise, Pennsylvania
to defend Katie, two cultures collide - and, for the first time in her high-profile career, Ellie
faces a system of justice very different from her own. Delving deep inside the world of
those who live 'plain', Ellie must find a way to reach Katie on her terms. And as she
unravels a tangled murder case, Ellie also looks deep within - to confront her own fears
and desires when a man from her past comes back into her life.

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BOY: TALES OF CHILDHOOD
Roald Dahl

'An autobiography is a book a person writes about his own life and it is usually full of all
sorts of boring details. This is not an autobiography. I would never write a history of
myself. On the other hand, throughout my young days at school and just afterwards a
number of things happened to me that I have never forgotten'

Boy is a funny, insightful and at times macabre glimpse into the early life of Roald Dahl,
one of the world's favourite authors. We discover his experiences of the English public
school system, the idyllic paradise of summer holidays in Norway, the pleasures (and
pains) of the sweetshop, and how it is that he avoided being a Boazer.

This is the unadulterated childhood - sad and funny, sinister and delightful - that inspired
the much-loved children's writer.

FINEST HOUR
Tim Clayton & Phil Craig

'In 1940, the first full year of the Second World War, Britain was on the verge of
being occupied. The German forces had swept west, pushing the British and
French to Dunkirk, and invasion by Germany seemed inevitable. The Battle of
Britain turned the tide. This book...tells the story of that year in the words of the
ordinary people caught up in the war - pilots, soldiers, sailors, drivers, secretaries,
nurses and civilians. Using interviews, diaries, letters and memoirs, the story is told
with an immediacy that fiction could not achieve.'
SUNDAY TIMES

THE BOOK THIEF
Markus Zusak

HERE IS A SMALL FACT:
YOU ARE GOING TO DIE.

1939. Nazi Germany. The country is holding its breath.
Death has never been busier.

Liesel, a nine-year-old girl, is living with a foster family on Himmel Street. Her parents
have been taken away to a concentration camp. Liesel steals books. This is her story and
the story of the inhabitants of her street when the bombs begin to fall.

SOME IMPORTANT INFORMATION:
THIS NOVEL IS NARRATED BY DEATH.
it's a small story, about
a girl
an accordionist
some fanatical Germans
a Jewish fist fighter
and quite a lot of thievery.
ANOTHER THING YOU SHOULD KNOW:
DEATH WILL VISIT THE BOOK THIEF THREE TIMES.

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