Black Swan
The Jewel Box
Editors' choice
Grace Rutherford is a pioneer. By day she is the first female copywriter at a stuffy advertising agency. By night,…
A Dark Enchantment
1869. Young Englishman Godwin Tudor visits Athens intending to photograph antiquities, but soon discovers that modern Greece is far…
I Want to Live
This is the diary of a girl in her teens, writing during the mid-1930s under Stalin’s Soviet Union. Nina’s…
The Book Thief
This is a tale narrated by Death, or the Grim Reaper. He (or she or indeed it) tells the story…
The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas
The story opens in Berlin during World War II and is told through the eyes of nine-year-old Bruno who lives…
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