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7 best books like Teacher (Sylvia Ashton-Warner): Girl, Woman, Other, When Will There Be Good News?, The Moth Presents Occasional Magic: True Stories about Defying the Impossible, Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother, The Department of Sensitive Crimes, Amazing Grace: The Lives of Children and the Conscience of a Nation, Chocky
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...
When Will There Be Good News?
Author | Kate Atkinson |
ISBN | 0316154857 |
Three lives come together in unexpected and thrilling ways in Kate Atkinson's When Will There Be Good News?
On a hot summer day, Joanna Mason's family slowly wanders home along a country lane. A moment later, Joanna's life is changed forever...
On a dark night thirty years later, ex-detective...
The Moth Presents Occasional Magic: True Stories about Defying the Impossible
Author | Catherine Burns |
ISBN | 1101904429 |
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - From storytelling phenomenon and hit podcast The Moth--and featuring contributions from Meg Wolitzer, Adam Gopnik, Krista Tippett, Andrew Solomon, Rosanne Cash, Ophira Eisenberg, Wang Ping, and more--a new collection of unforgettable true stories about finding the...
Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother
Author | Amy Chua |
ISBN | 1594202842 |
An awe-inspiring, often hilarious, and unerringly honest story of one mother's exercise in extreme parenting, revealing the rewards—and the costs—of raising her children the Chinese way.
"This is a story about a mother, two daughters, and two dogs. This was supposed to be a story of...
The Department of Sensitive Crimes
Author | Alexander McCall Smith |
ISBN | 1524748218 |
The Department of Sensitive Crimes is Scandinavian Blanc, vastly different from Scandinavian Noir. There is nothing noir about the world of Ulf Varg, Detective Inspector in the Sensitive Crimes Department of the Criminal Investigation Authority for the city of Malmö, Sweden. Ulf is concerned...
Amazing Grace: The Lives of Children and the Conscience of a Nation
Author | Jonathan Kozol |
ISBN | 0060976977 |
The children in this book defy the stereotypes of urban youth too frequently presented by the media. Tender, generous and often religiously devout, they speak with eloquence and honesty about the poverty and racial isolation that have wounded but not hardened them. The book does not romanticize or...
Author | John Wyndham |
ISBN | 0140031219 |
Cover Artist: Harry Willock
Matthew, they thought, was just going through a phase of talking to himself. And, like many parents, they waited for him to get over it, but it started to get worse. Mathew's conversations with himself grew more and more intense - it was like listening to one end of...