Maggie & Me

5 best books like Maggie & Me (Damian Barr): Girl, Woman, Other, Frankissstein: A Love Story, Sweet Sorrow, Bloodlust & Bonnets, Lowborn: Growing Up, Getting Away and Returning to Britain’s Poorest Towns

Girl, Woman, Other

Author	Bernardine Evaristo
ISBN	0241364906

Joint Winner of the Man Booker Prize 2019

Teeming with life and crackling with energy - a love song to modern Britain and black womanhood

Girl, Woman, Other follows the lives and struggles of twelve very different characters. Mostly women, black and British, they tell the stories...

Frankissstein: A Love Story

Author	Jeanette Winterson
ISBN	1473563259

From 'one of the most gifted writers working today' (New York Times) comes an audacious new novel about the bodies we live in and the bodies we desire

In Brexit Britain, a young transgender doctor called Ry is falling in love – against their better judgement – with Victor Stein, a celebrated...

Sweet Sorrow

Author	David Nicholls
ISBN	1444715410

One life-changing summer
Charlie meets Fran...

In 1997, Charlie Lewis is the kind of boy you don't remember in the school photograph. His exams have not gone well. At home he is looking after his father, when surely it should be the other way round, and if he thinks about the future at all,...

Bloodlust & Bonnets

Author	Emily McGovern
ISBN	1449497470

From the creator of the hit webcomic My Life As a Background Slytherin comes a hilarious graphic novel pastiche of classic Romantic literature led by a trio of queer misfits—and several angry vampires.

Set in early nineteenth-century Britain, Bloodlust & Bonnets follows...

Lowborn: Growing Up, Getting Away and Returning to Britain’s Poorest Towns

Author	Kerry Hudson
ISBN	1784742457

What does it really mean to be poor in Britain today? A prizewinning novelist revisits her childhood and some of the country's most deprived towns

'When every day of your life you have been told you have nothing of value to offer, that you are worth nothing to society, can you ever escape that sense...