Nothing quite captures the zeitgeist like privileged teen angst, as displayed in the best novels about prep school. From The Catcher in the Rye’s Holden Caulfield to Hogwarts’ Harry Potter, the best boarding school fiction isn’t just the stuff of dark hallways and confused sexu...
Impish, sassy 12-year-old Gilly has a history of petty theft and she’s not too sorry about it. When she lifts a hair clip, she gets tossed in reform school-for at least three months. But when she meets fellow students Jax and Kayla, she learns there’s more to this school than i...
In graduate school at Berkeley, Madison, and National Taiwan University, I especially loved early Chinese poetry and modern fiction. I have been teaching at Smith College for twenty-five years, and I’m still passionate about both classical and modern literature. I have always spent a lot of ...
I discovered Enid Blyton.C I read every single one of "The Famous Five", "The Secret Seven" and "The Adventurous Four" books,but it was her boarding school books that thrilled me as a young girl and sparked a love of escapist fiction.That love of escapist fiction has never left me. ...
I usually read more non-fiction these days and 2024 was an excellent year for memoirs. My Family: The Memoir by David Baddiel is a pretty much perfect blend of comedy and empathy about his dysfunctional parents. Knife by Salman Rushdie is a frank account of the near-fatal attack the author...
I usually read more non-fiction these days and 2024 was an excellent year for memoirs.My Family: The Memoir by David Baddielis a pretty much perfect blend of comedy and empathy about his dysfunctional parents.Knife by Salman Rushdieis a frank account of the near-fatal attack the author suffe...
Also ranks #6 on The Best Movies About Giant Worms 26 A Little Princess Eleanor Bron, Liam Cunningham, Liesel Matthews 188 votes When young Sara (Liesel Matthews) is sent to a boarding school by her well-meaning World War I-bound father (Liam Cunningham), the imaginative girl makes the ...
From the internationally bestselling author of the "extraordinary" (Fredrik Backman) novel Stolen comes a harrowing story—inspired by true events—of five Indigenous children forced to attend a government-run boarding school in 1950s ... Book description Author Information Critics' Consensus: The ...
I highly recommend The Tidal Zone by Sarah Moss and The Wonder by Emma Donoghue which could be possible contenders for next year’s Wellcome Book Prize awarded to a fiction or non-fiction book about health or medicine. I really enjoyed The Essex Serpent by Sarah Perry which is one of the...
Nine Pints by Rose George is a non-fiction about “the mysterious, miraculous world of blood”. The title refers to the approximate amount of blood we have in our bodies, and George explores various blood-related topics across nine chapters covering disease, cultural attitudes and medical breakth...