Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro As children, Kathy, Ruth, and Tommy were students at Hailsham, an exclusive boarding school secluded in the English countryside. It was a place of mercurial cliques and mysterious rules where teachers were constantly reminding their...
Maggot Moon by Sally Gardner In an alternate 1950s, Standish Treadwell is growing up in a Britain dominated by the dark, ruthlessly oppressive forces of The Motherland. Life is hard, but Standish struggles onwards – until his best and only friend Hector is taken away...
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde Written in his distinctively dazzling manner, Oscar Wilde’s story of a fashionable young man who sells his soul for eternal youth and beauty is the author’s most popular work. The exquisitely handsome Gray prays for eternal...
Coram Boy by Jamilia Gavin Coram Boy is the story of Toby, saved from an African ship as a child, and Aaron, the illegitimate son of the heir to a great estate. The two boys’ lives are linked by the Coram Man, a shady figure who collects abandoned and unwanted...
Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift Gulliver’s Travels tells the story of Lemuel Gulliver and his adventures in four very different fictional lands. It is narrated in the first person as Gulliver who encounters many weird and wonderful people, creatures and lands. ...