English Recommends... Modern Scottish

Iain Banks - The Crow Road; The Wasp Factory
William Boyd - Restless
Andrew Greig - In Another Light
Des Dillon - Duck; Itchy Coo Blue; Me and My Gal
Luke Sutherland - Jelly Roll
Irvine Welsh - Trainspotting

English Recommends... Science Fiction/ Fantasy

Isaac Asimov - Nemesis
Douglas Adams - The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy
Iain M. Banks - Feersum Endjinn
Ray Bradbury - Fahrenheit 451
Aldous Huxley - Brave New World
John Wyndharn - The Day of the Triffids

English Recommends... Prejudice

Maya Angelou - I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Harper Lee - To Kill a Mockingbird
Robin Jerkins - The Cone‑Gatherers
Bernard MacLaverty - Cal
Alan Paton - Cry the Beloved Country
Alice Walker - The Color Purple

Holocaust Remembrance

Want to know more about the holocaust? Then pick up some of the moving fiction about it:

Once by Morris Gleitzman
Boy in the Stripped Pyjamas by John Boyne
Milkweed by Jerry Spinelli

Want to know more? Then read Anne Frank's Diary of a Young Girl - it's the real diary of a Jewish girl who tried to hide from the Nazis.

For more information then try the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's Encyclopedia

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