The Song of Achilles, Madeline MillerGreece in the age of Heroes. Patroclus, an awkward young prince, has been exiled to the kingdom of Phthia. Here he is nobody, just another unwanted boy living in the shadow of King Peleus and his golden son, Achilles. Achilles, best of all the Greeks, is everything Patroclus is notstrong, beautiful, the child of a goddessand by all rights their paths should never cross. Yet one day, Achilles takes the shamed prince under his wing and soon their

before delving into the secrets which still lie at the heart of space and time

and writings

Lord of the Flies also represents a coming-of-age story of innocence lost

gives us a poignant and universal story about friendship and belonging

A generation after genocide

Huge American bestselling novel that tells of identical twins: a paranoid schizophrenic and his brother whose life is dominated by his resentment of and love for his damaged twin Dominick Birdsey's whole existence is coloured by the knowledge that his twin brother can never be fully responsible for his frightening behaviour

to the bitter consequences of having married without their families’ consent

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so faithful to speech and so charged with pain and wonder that the novel becomes poetry” ( The New York Times )

But because figurative art can be deemed an affront to Islam

who finds unexpected comfort in the company and forbidden gifts of a pregnant teenager

Over the course of his life