Our Summer selection will hopefully tick all boxes from the ideal beach read to a look at real life conspiracy theories and mis-information. Read one, two or all of them and come and join our next lively discussion at the start of next term!
Tackle! The latest novel by Jilly Cooper and needs no introduction, Rupert Campbell-Black is back and taking on the world of Football!
Brotherless Night by V. V. Ganeshananthan (winner of the 2024 Women’s Prize for Fiction) Sixteen-year-old Sashi wants to become a doctor. But over the next decade, as a vicious civil war subsumes Sri Lanka, her dream takes her on a different path as she watches those around her, including her four beloved brothers and their best friend, get swept up in violent political ideologies and their consequences. She must ask herself: is it possible for anyone to move through life without doing harm?
Doppelganger by Naomi Klein (winner of the 2024 Women’s Prize for Non-Fiction) When Naomi Klein discovered that a woman who shared her first name, but had radically different, harmful views, was getting chronically mistaken for her, it seemed too ridiculous to take seriously. Then suddenly it wasn’t. She started to find herself grappling with a distorted sense of reality, becoming obsessed with reading the threats on social media, the endlessly scrolling insults from the followers of her doppelganger. Why had her shadowy other gone down such an extreme path? Why was identity – all we have to meet the world – so unstable?
