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The Elephant Vanishes
1,600 LThe Elephant Vanishes is a collection of 17 short stories by Japanese author Haruki Murakami. The stories were written between 1980 and 1991. The stories mesh normality with surrealism, and focus on painful issues involving loss, destruction, confusion and loneliness.
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South of the Border, West of the sun
1,500 LSouth of the Border, West of the Sun portrays the story of Hajime, a youth born in post-war Japan to parents of average middle-class standing, his interactions and relationships with people through life and his struggles, in later years, to shake off a listless existence.
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After the Quake
1,000 LTales of upheaval and confusion, longing and love in the aftermath of the Kobe earthquake.
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Sputnik Sweetheart
1,500 LPart romance, part detective story, Sputnik Sweetheart tells the story of a tangled triangle of uniquely unrequited love. K is madly in love with his best friend, Sumire, but her devotion to a writerly life precludes her from any personal commitments.
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To Kill a Mockingbird
1,500 LTo Kill a Mockingbird is both a young girl’s coming-of-age story and a darker drama about the roots and consequences of racism and prejudice, probing how good and evil can coexist within a single community or individual.
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A Postcard from Paris
1,500 LA warm, emotional tale of love, friendship and following your heart.’ Milly Johnson
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Nine Lives of Rose Napolitano
2,400 LA stunning novel about love, loss, betrayal, divorce, death, a woman’s career and her identity, The Nine Lives of Rose Napolitano is about finding one’s way into a future that wasn’t the future one planned, and the ways that fate intercedes when we least expect it.
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My Dark Vanessa
1,500 LMy Dark Vanessa is a fictional account of a sexual relationship between a 15-year-old schoolgirl and her 45-year-old English teacher, Jacob Strane. The eponymous Vanessa, now in her 30s, is poring over all that happened to her in the wake of later sexual abuse allegations made against Strane by other girls.
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All The Light We Cannot See
1,500 LFrom Anthony Doerr, the highly acclaimed, multiple award-winning author of Cloud Cuckoo Land, the beautiful, stunningly ambitious instant New York Times bestseller about a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France as both try to survive the devastation of World War II.
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Play It As It Lays
1,700 LA profoundly disturbing novel that ruthlessly dissects American life in the late 1960s, from the author of The White Album and The Year of Magical Thinking.
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Woman Destroyed
1,500 LFirst published in 1967, this book consists of three short novellas on the theme of women’s vulnerability – in the first, to the process of ageing, in the second to loneliness, and, in the third, to the growing indifference of a loved one.
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The Alchemist
1,650 LThis is one of Paolo Coelho’s most successful novels and one of the best-selling books in the world during this century. Brilliant in the narrative, magical and simple in the way it communicates with the reader.
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Fahrenheit 451
1,500 LThe short novel presents a future American society in which the masses are hedonistic and critical thought through reading is outlawed. The central character, Guy Montag, is employed as a “fireman” (which, in this future, means “bookburner”). The number “451” refers to the temperature at which book paper combusts.
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