Blogs in April 2021

The Physics of Climate Change 20th April 2021

‘Brilliant and fundamental, this is the necessary book about our prime global emergency’ Ian McEwan The news is full of hotly debated and divergent claims about the impacts and risks of climate change. Lawrence Krauss, one of the world’s...

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Listen, Slowly 5th April 2021

This remarkable and bestselling novel from Thanhha Lai, author of the National Book Award-winning and Newbery Honor Book Inside Out & Back Again, follows a young girl as she learns the true meaning of family. This middle grade novel...

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Butterfly Yellow 5th April 2021

Winner of the Scott O’Dell Award for Historical Fiction! Perfect for fans of Elizabeth Acevedo, Ibi Zoboi, and Erika L. Sanchez, this gorgeously written and deeply moving own voices novel is the YA debut from the award-winning author of...

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Play The Red Queen 10th November 2020

Viet Nam, 1963. A female Viet Cong assassin is trawling the boulevards of Saigon, catching US Army officers off-guard with a single pistol shot, then riding off on the back of a scooter. Although the US military is not...

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The Song of Kieu 16th August 2020

Ever since it exploded into Vietnam’s cultural life two centuries ago, The Song of Kieu has been one of that nation’s most beloved and defining central myths. It recounts the tragic fate of the beautiful singer and poet Kieu,...

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