Blogs in March 2015

Call it Sleep 7th March 2015

David Schearl arrives in New York in his mother’s arms to begin his new life as an immigrant in the ‘Golden Land’. David is hated by his father – an angry, violent man unable to find his niche in...

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The Bell Jar 7th March 2015

When Esther Greenwood wins an internship on a New York fashion magazine in 1953, she is elated, believing she will finally realise her dream to become a writer. But in between the cocktail parties and piles of manuscripts, Esther’s...

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Harriet the Spy 7th March 2015

First published by HarperCollinsUS in 1964, this classic children’s novel has sold over 4 million copies and was awarded the New York Times Outstanding Book Award. Sixth-grader Harriet attends school on the New York’s Upper East Side along with...

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The Silent Girls 4th March 2015

The Silent Girls is an engrossing and dark psychological thriller that follows private investigator Frank Rath’s investigation into a string of mysterious disappearances of teenage girls during the dead of winter in the rural town of Canaan, Vermont. Chilling...

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We Are Not Ourselves 4th March 2015

LONGLISTED FOR THE GUARDIAN FIRST BOOK AWARD A stunning, heartbreaking debut – ‘We Are Not Ourselves’ is both the intimate story of a family and an epic of the American Century. Raised in the 1940s in the mostly Irish...

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