Classic books to read at least once in your lifetime
网页2024年7月16日 · The Great Gatsby. by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Buy the book. The book that best captures the flamboyance, the carelessness and the cruelty of the wealthy during America’s Jazz age. Evoking the glitz, glamour and the dark side of 1920s, The Great Gatsby is a cynical look at the limits of the American Dream. Don't Miss.
20 of the funniest books for a guaranteed laugh - Pan Macmillan
网页2023年7月7日 · Went to London, Took the Dog: A Diary. Ten years after the publication of the prize-winning Love, Nina comes the author’s diary of her return to London in her sixty-first year. After twenty years, Nina Stibbe, accompanied by her dog Peggy, stays with writer Debby Moggach in London for a year.
30 of the best dystopian novels of all time - Pan Macmillan
网页2024年4月25日 · One of the best known dystopian novels of all time, 1984 is George Orwell's terrifying vision of a totalitarian future in which everything and everyone is slave to a tyrannical regime lead by The Party. The novel has a fascinating history, from the phenomenon the book became on publication to the impact it has had on the English …
Must reads: 50 best books of all time - Pan Macmillan
网页2024年7月16日 · Winner of the 2020 Booker Prize, Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart is a powerful, heart-wrenching portrait of 1980s working-class Glasgow, seen through the eyes of young Shuggie, a boy growing up amidst poverty and addiction. At the heart of the novel is Shuggie’s relationship with his mother, Agnes, a proud but deeply troubled woman …
Sixteen essential books about the Holocaust - Pan Macmillan
网页2024年1月16日 · This is the moving story of Holocaust survivor Lily Ebert, written with her great-grandson Dov. When Lily was liberated at the end of the Second World War, a Jewish-American soldier handed her a banknote with the words ‘the start to a new life, good luck and happiness!’ written on it. Decades later, when Lily was 96, Dov decided to track ...
The most beautiful poems for funerals - Pan Macmillan
网页2022年3月14日 · Poetry can bring comfort in the toughest of times. Here, we have curated a selection of poems, from The Picador Book of Funeral Poems, for anyone searching for a fitting funeral reading to pay tribute to a loved one.Hopefully these poems of parting and passing, of sorrow and healing, will find a deep echo within those who find themselves …
The 50 best YA books of 2024, and all time - Pan Macmillan
网页2024年8月22日 · Nick Brooks's Promise Boys is a trailblazing, blockbuster YA mystery about three teen boys of colour who must investigate their principal’s murder to clear their own names. When Principal Moore, headteacher at the Urban Promise Prep School is murdered, J.B., Ramón and Trey emerge as the case's prime suspects.
A guide to Danielle Steel's latest books & bestsellers
网页2024年8月15日 · by Danielle Steel. The child of a loveless marriage between a young model and wealthy entrepreneur, Antonia Adams is unprotected and unloved. The only way for her to feel safe is to draw as little attention as possible – to be invisible. In her isolation, films are her only companion and escape.
Our favourite Christmas poems - Pan Macmillan
网页2023年12月5日 · An owl on an aerial had planets for eyes. The child at the window stared up at the sky, Where two aeroplanes sped to the east and the west, Like a pulled Christmas cracker. The child held her breath. And looked for a sign up above, as the moon. Shone down like a gold chocolate coin on the town.
20 of the best feel-good books and uplifting reads
网页2024年8月5日 · Confessions of a Forty-Something F**k-Up. by Alexandra Potter. Buy the book. This hilariously uplifting book is a must-read for anyone who's ever felt like their life plans are being derailed (i.e. all of us!). When Nell’s happy ever after in California falls apart, she moves back to London single and jobless to find a lot has changed.