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Farewell, My Lovely

Raymond Chandler

F ANG CHA

Eight years ago Moose Malloy and cute li�le redhead Velma were

ge�ng married - un�l someone framed Malloy for armed robbery.

Now his stretch is up and he wants Velma back. PI Philip Marlow meets

Malloy and, out of the generosity of his jaded heart, agrees to help

him. Marlowe's search for Velma turns up plenty of dangerous

gangsters with a nasty habit of shoo�ng first and talking later. And

soon what started as a search for a missing person becomes a ma�er

of life and death . . .

Emma

Jane Austen

F ANG AUS

She's beau�ful, rich and clever, and has decided she's perfectly happy

with the single life. What Emma does love, however, is interfering in

other people's business (and she is always convinced she's right). When

she ignores the advice of her friend Mr Knightley and insists on

matchmaking for her friend Harriet, her carefully laid plans go

disastrously wrong.

Jane Eyre

Charlo�e Brontë

F ANG BRO

Having grown up an orphan in the home of her cruel aunt and at a

harsh charity school, Jane Eyre becomes an independent and spirited

survivor-quali�es that serve her well as governess at Thornfield Hall.

But when she finds love with her sardonic employer, Rochester, the

discovery of his terrible secret forces her to make a choice. Should she

stay with him whatever the consequences or follow her convic�ons,

even if it means leaving her beloved?

Persuasion

Jane Austen

F ANG AUS

Anne Elliot, heroine of Austen's last novel, did something we can all

relate to: Long ago, she let the love of her life get away. In this case,

she had allowed herself to be persuaded by a trusted family friend that

the young man she loved wasn't an adequate match, social sta�on-

wise, and that Anne could do be�er. The novel opens some seven

years a;er Anne sent her beau packing, and she's s�ll alone. But then

the guy she never stopped loving comes back from the sea.

The Maze Runner / The Scorch Trials / The Death Cure

James Dashner

F ANG DAS

A young-adult post-apocalyp�c dystopian science fic�on trilogy. A per-

son wakes up in a box with no memory of his past, other than that his

name is Thomas. When the elevator doors open, he is pulled into a

glade by a group of teenage boys who also have no memories besides

their name.

The Secret of Chimneys

Agatha Chris�e

F ANG CHR

At the request of George Lomax, Lord Caterham reluctantly agrees to

host a weekend party at his home, Chimneys. A murder occurs in the

house, beginning a week of fast-paced events with police among the

guests.

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

Roald dahl

F ANG DAH

Charlie Bucket loves chocolate. And Mr Willy Wonka, the most won-

drous inventor in the world, is opening the gates of his incredible cho-

colate factory to five lucky children. It's the prize of a life�me !

Rebecca

Daphné Du Maurier

F ANG DUM

While working as the companion to a rich American woman on holiday

in Monte Carlo, the narrator, a naïve young woman in her early 20s,

becomes acquainted with a wealthy Englishman, Maximilian de Winter,

a widower aged 42. A;er a fortnight of courtship, she agrees to marry

him and, a;er the wedding and honeymoon, accompanies him to his

mansion in Cornwall, the beau�ful West Country estate Manderley.

Madame Doub#ire

Anne Fine

F ANG FIN

Lydia, Christopher and Natalie are used to domes�c turmoil. Their pa-

rents' divorce has not made family life any easier in either home. The

children bounce to and from their vola�le mother, Miranda, and their

out-of-work actor father, Daniel. Then Miranda adver�ses for a clea-

ning lady who will look a;er and mind the children a;er work - and Da-

niel gets the job, disguised as Madame DoubDire.

If I Stay

Gayle Forman

F ANG FOR

Mia wakes up in a hospital with hardly any recollec�on of what has

transpired. There was a car crash… But what happened to her? Did her

family make it out of the accident OK? Will she herself survive? As the

magnitude of the tragedy becomes apparent, Mia realizes that her life

will never be the same. The ques�on that comes to define her life, and

the novel, is: “stay or go, live or die.”

A Quiet Belief on Angels

R.J. Ellory

F ANG ELL

Growing up in rural Georgia during the 1940's, Joseph Vaughan finds

himself at the center of a series of mu�la�ons and killings of young

girls. Just a teenager, Joseph becomes determined to protect his com-

munity from the killer, but he is powerless in preven�ng more murders

-and no one is ever caught. Ten years later one of his neighbors is

found hanging from a rope, surrounded by belongings of the dead girls;

the nightmare appears to be over. But even there the past won't leave

him alone - for it seems that the murderer s�ll lives and is killing again.

The Great Gatsby

Francis Sco� Fitzgerald

F ANG FIT

F. Sco� Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby brilliantly captures the disillusion

of a society obsessed with wealth and status. Young, handsome and

fabulously rich, Jay Gatsby appears to have it all, yet he yearns for the

one thing that will always be out of his reach, the absence of which

renders his life of gli�ering par�es and bright young things ul�mately

hollow. Gatsby's tragic pursuit of his dream is o;en cited as the Great

American Novel.

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

Mark Haddon

F ANG HAD

Fi;een-year-old Christopher Boone is mathema�cally gi;ed and social-

ly hopeless, raised in a working-class home by parents who can barely

cope with their child's quirks. Late one night, Christopher comes across

his neighbor's poodle, Wellington, impaled on a garden fork. Welling-

ton's owner finds him cradling her dead dog in his arms, and has him

arrested. A;er spending a night in jail, Christopher resolves to discover

just who has murdered Wellington.

Elizabeth is Missing

Emma Healey

F ANG HEA

Maud, an aging grandmother, is slowly losing her memory. Yet she re-

fuses to forget her best friend Elizabeth, whom she is convinced is mis-

sing and in terrible danger. But no one will listen to Maud—not her

frustrated daughter, Helen, not her caretakers, not the police, and es-

pecially not Elizabeth’s mercurial son, Peter. Armed with handwri�en

notes she leaves for herself, Maud resolves to discover the truth and

save her beloved friend.

When we were Orphans

Kazuo Ishiguro

F ANG ISH

Born in early-twen�eth-century Shanghai, Banks was orphaned at the

age of nine a;er the separate disappearances of his parents. Now,

more than twenty years later, he is a celebrated figure in London socie-

ty; yet the inves�ga�ve exper�se that has garnered him fame has done

li�le to illuminate the circumstances of his parents' alleged kidnap-

pings. Banks travels to the seething, labyrinthine city of his memory in

hopes of solving the mystery of his own past.

Brave New World

Aldous Huxley

F ANG HUX

Far in the future, the World Controllers have created the ideal society.

Through clever use of gene�c engineering, brainwashing and recrea�o-

nal sex and drugs all its members are happy consumers. Bernard Marx

seems alone harbouring an ill-defined longing to break free. A visit to

one of the few remaining Savage Reserva�ons where the old, imper-

fect life s�ll con�nues, may be the cure for his distress...

The Undomes0c Goddess

Sophie Kinsella

F ANG KIN

Workaholic a�orney Samantha Swee�ng has just done the un-

thinkable. She’s made a mistake so huge, it’ll wreck any chance of a

partnership. Going into u�er meltdown, she walks out of her London

office and ends up in the middle of nowhere. Asking for direc�ons at a

big, beau�ful house, she’s mistaken for an interviewee and finds her-

self being offered a job as housekeeper.

On the Road

Jack Kerouac

F ANG KER

Narrated by Sal Paradise, one of Kerouac's alter-egos, On the Road is a

cross-country bohemian odyssey that not only influenced wri�ng in the

years since its 1957 publica�on but penetrated into the deepest levels

of American thought and culture.

The Husband’s Secret

Liane Moriarty

F ANG MOR

Cecilia Fitzpatrick lives to be perfect: a perfect marriage, three perfect

daughters, and a perfectly organized life. Then she finds a le�er from

her husband, John-Paul, to be opened only in the event of his death.

She opens it anyway, and everything she believed is thrown into doubt.

Into the Wild

Jon Krakauer

F ANG KRA

What would possess a gi;ed young man recently graduated from col-

lege to literally walk away from his life? By examining the true story of

Chris McCandless, a young man, who in 1992 walked deep into the

Alaskan wilderness and whose SOS note and emaciated corpse were

found four months later, Jon Krakauer explores the obsession which

leads some people to explore the outer limits of self.

Mys0c River

Dennis Lehane

F ANG LEH

Dennis Lehane's Mys�c River takes the material of the ordinary police

procedural thriller and shapes it into heart-break. As boys, Jimmy, Dave

and Sean were friends, un�l one day Dave was abducted by two men

pretending to be cops, and was never quite the same again.

The Catcher in the Rye

J.D. Salinger

F ANG SAL

The influen�al and widely acclaimed story details the two days in the

life of 16-year-old Holden Caulfield a;er he has been expelled from

prep school. Confused and disillusioned, he searches for truth and rails

against the "phoniness" of the adult world.

Alice Munro

Dear Life

F ANG MUN

Some of these 14 stories present new direc�ons in Munro’s explora�on

of her well-recognized universe (rural and small-town Ontario), while

other stories track more familiar paths, with characters and familial

situa�ons reminiscent of previous stories. That said, the truth is that on

whatever level of reader familiarity Munro is working, in every story

she finds new ways to make the lives of ordinary people compelling.

All the Bright Places

Jennifer Niven

F ANG NIV

Theodore Finch is fascinated by death, and he constantly thinks of

ways he might kill himself. But each �me, something good, no ma�er

how small, stops him. Violet Markey lives for the future, coun�ng the

days un�l gradua�on, when she can escape her Indiana town and her

aching grief in the wake of her sister’s recent death. When Finch and

Violet meet on the ledge of the bell tower at school, it’s unclear who

saves whom.

Animal Farm

George Orwell

F ANG ORW

"It is the story of a revolu�on that went wrong - and of the excellent

excuses that were forthcoming at every step for the perversion of the

original doctrine", wrote Orwell in 1945. Orwell wrote the novel at the

end of 1943 but it almost remained unpublished. Orwell's simple fable,

telling what happens when the animals drive out Mr Jones and a�empt

to run the farm themselves, has since become a world-famous classic.

A Streetcar Named Desire

Tennessee Williams

F ANG WIL

Fading southern bell Blanche Dubois depends on the kindness of stran-

gers and is adri; in the modern world. When she arrives to stay with

her sister Stella in a crowded, boisterous corner of New Orleans, her

delusions of grandeur bring her into conflict with Stella's crude, bru�sh

husband Stanley. Eventually their violent collision course causes

Blanche's fragile sense of iden�ty to crumble, threatening to destroy

her sanity and her one chance of happiness. One of the greatest Ameri-

can plays.

Romeo and Juliet

William Shakespeare

F ANG SHA

The greatest love story in English, William Shakespeare's Romeo and

Juliet is a play of star-crossed lovers who take a valiant stand against

social conven�on, with tragic consequences.

The Queen and I

Sue Townsend

F ANG TOW

When a Republican party wins the General Elec�on, their first act in

power is to strip the royal family of their assets and �tles and send

them to live on a housing estate in the Midlands. Exchanging Buck-

ingham Palace for a two-bedroomed semi in Hell Close, caviar for boi-

led eggs, servants for a social worker named Trish, the Queen and her

family learn what it means to be poor among the great unwashed.

Of Mice and Men

John Steinbeck

F ANG STE

Dri;ers in search of work, George and his simple-minded friend Lennie,

have nothing in the world except each other and a dream – a dream

that one day they will have some land of their own. Eventually they

find work on a ranch in California's Salinas Valley, but their hopes are

doomed as Lennie, struggling against extreme cruelty, misunderstan-

ding and feelings of jealousy, becomes a vic�m of his own strength.