![]() ![]() Her impulsiveness and emotional antics lead her to dangerous situations but she is a good person deep inside. Peekay, the prodigal preacher’s kid, is the bumbling sidekick. ![]() ![]() Despite her dark personality, she is quite adorable when she goes through the motions of any regular high school kid, like making friends or being in love for the first time. Alex is cold and calm, loyal and fierce -my perfect anti-heroine. And Jack who is the hotter girl’s childhood friend, who also sleeps with her even though she clearly has a boyfriend.Īll three narrators are deeply flawed but I can’t help but be drawn in with their appeal. There’s Peekay who got dumped by her boyfriend for a hotter girl in school. Alex Craft, the girl who made the bold opening chapter, is out for revenge on the person responsible for her big sister’s murder. The book is told in alternating points of view of three teenagers living in an Ohio small town. ![]() “The Female of the Species” is a pulpy YA, packed with a girl power punch hellbent on its intent to smash patriarchy. With great satisfaction, I report that the book delivered. You cannot promise me murder, then cop out. There is no going back with a strong statement as that. “This is how I kill someone.” declares the book’s opening line. ![]()
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![]() ![]() I can't wait to see what Max Porter does next. It's solid, muscular, moving, funny and clever. The opposite of precious, it reads as though this were the only way it could have been done. ‘I picked up Grief Is The Thing With Feathers in my local bookshop, and thought, Really? A prose-poem novel about grief and Ted Hughes? Isn't it going to be precious and pretentious? Anyway: I think it's brilliant. ![]() Lanny longlisted for the RSL Ondaatje Prize 2020. Lanny longlisted for Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence: 2020 Lanny on the Waterstones Books of the Year shortlist 2019 Lanny on fiction shortlist for Foyles book of the year 2019 Lanny shortlisted for the BAMB Reader’s Awards, 2019. Lanny longlisted for the Booker Prize, 2019. Lanny shortlisted for the Gordon Burn prize, 2019. Lanny longlisted for the Wainwright Prize for nature writing, 2019. Shortlisted for the Grand Prix des Lectrices ELLE 2016 ![]() Shortlisted for the NBCC John Leonard First Book Prize 2016 Shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award 2015 Shortlisted for The Goldsmiths Prize 2015 Shortlisted for The British Book Industry Awards 2016, Debut Fiction Book of the Year Winner, with translator Saskia van der Lingen, of the Europese Literaruurprijs 2017 Winner of the Books Are My Bag Readers Awards 2016 Winner of the Sunday Times / Peters Fraser + Dunlop Young Writer of the Year Award 2016 ![]() Winner of the International Dylan Thomas Prize 2016 ![]() ![]() ![]() She must embark on a dangerous mission to seek the legendary giant the islanders believe will save them all, before it's too late.īut how can Emily save the day when rifts are forming between her and the very people she needs by her side? Must promises always be kept? And what happens when they are broken? 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Their uncommon bond is torn by Amir’s choice to abandon his friend amidst the increasing ethnic, religious, and political tensions of the dying years of the Afghan monarchy, wrenching them far apart. ![]() ![]() Hassan, his servant and constant companion, is a Hazara, a despised and impoverished caste. “It may be unfair, but what happens in a few days, sometimes even a single day, can change the course of a whole lifetime.”Īmir is the son of a wealthy Kabul merchant, a member of the ruling caste of Pashtuns. You should have stopped writing while you were ahead. The plots, characters, and settings in your 1st 2 books are truly works of art and some of the best I’ve read. 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