Our top six holiday reads!
- Aug 19, 2017
- 3 min read
The holidays should be full of fun and excitement but for those moments where you want to relax. Go pick up a book and fall into another world while you soak in that summer sun.
Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell. The story is based upon the life of Cath, who is a Simon Snow fan. Everyone is a Simon Snow fan, but for Cath, she believes being a fan is her life- and she's actually very good at it. Her and her twin, Wren, ensconced themselves in the Simon Snow series when they were just kids. But everything changes when they go off to college and Wren doesn't want to share a flat. Can she make it alone after all these years?
13 Reasons Why by Jay Asher. Clay Jensen returns home to find a strange package on his front step. Inside he discovers several cassette tapes recorder by Hannah Baker -his classmate, friend and crush- who committed suicide two weeks before. Hannah's voice tells him that there are thirteen reasons why she decided to end her life. Clay is one of them. If he listens, he'll find out why.
Someday, someday, Maybe by Lauren Graham. Franny Banks has just six months left of her three-year deadline she set for herself when she came to New York City, dreaming of Broadway. She throws herself into roles she doesn't enjoy -ad for ugly Christmas jumpers, waiting tables at a comedy club. Everyone tells her she needs a backup plan, and moving back to settle down with her perfectly nice ex-boyfriend. But she's not ready to give up just yet.
The Land of Paper Gods by Rebecca Mackenzie. At a boarding school for the children of British missionaries, Henrietta S. Robertson discovers that she has been singled out for a divine calling of her own. Ella is quick to share the news with her dorm mates, and soon everyone knows. As romours of war grow more inisidtent, so the girls' quest takes on a new urgency- and in such a mystical landscape, the prophetesses find the line between make believe and reality, good and bad, become dangerously blurred. So the adventure begins.
The Outrun by Amy Liptrot. When Amy returns to Orkney after a decade away, she is drawn back to the Outrun on the sheep farm where she grew up. As she approaches, memories of her childhood merge with the recent events that have set on this journey. Her past had shaped her - her father's mental illness - but as she grew up, she longed to leave the remote life she lived. She moves to London and found herself in a hedonistic cycle. Now thirty and with a drinking problem, she finds herself standing unstable at the cliff edge, trying to come to terms with what happened in London. Spending early mornings swimming in the bracingly cold sea, the days tracking Orkney's wildlife - puffins nesting on sea stacks, arctic terns swooping close enough to feel their wings - and nights searching the sky for the Merry Dancers, Amy slowly makes the journey toward recovery from addiction.
Golden Hill by Francis Spufford. In a small town on the tip of Manhattan Island, 1746, a handsome young stranger fresh off the boat pitches up at a countinghouse door on Golden Hill Street: this is Mr. Smith, amiable, charming, yet strangely determined to keep suspicion shimmering. Inside his pocket, he has what seems to be an order for a thousand pounds, and he won't explain why, or where he comes from, or what he is planning to do in the colonies that requires so much money.
Should the New York merchants trust him? Should they risk their credit and refuse to pay? Should they befriend him, seduce him, arrest him; maybe even kill him?
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