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  • A deeply philosophical story

    I’d heard of Roland Barthes before, but I had very little idea of his philosophy and works. A Lover’s Discourse, vaguely aligned to Barthes’ work of the same name, tells the story of a Chinese woman in London post-Brexit

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  • A fractured but compelling read

    Shortlisted for the Waterstones Children’s Book Prize, For She is Wrath is a clever gender-flipping retelling of Dumas’ The Count of Monte Cristo.

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  • A witty romp

    Who would have thought Virginia Woolf could be so funny? Orlando, her gender-bending tale of an Elizabethan man traversing centuries, is, frankly, hilarious.

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  • A beautiful heartbreak

    Winner of the 2024 Nobel Prize in Literature, Han Kang’s writing is a love letter to South Korea. Her writing is majestic, poetic, and haunting. Human Acts is no different.

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  • A harrowing and enraging narrative

    This book, the next offering from author of The Underground Railroad, is just as heartbreaking as his first.

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