READING GUIDE CLASSICS
10 books you’ve simply GOT to read

1.
The Island
by Victoria Hislop


2. The Pirate's Daughter
by Margaret Cezair-Thompson



3. Small Island
by Andrea Levy



4. The Interpretation
of Murder
by Jed Rubenfeld



5. The Secret Life of Bees
by Sue Monk Kidd



6. Wicked
by Gregory Maguire



7. The Vanishing Act
of Esme Lennox

by Maggie O'Farrell



8. Anansi Boys
by Neil Gaiman



9. The Lost Art of
Keeping Secrets
by Eva Rice



10. Reading In Bed
by Sue Gee



 




ANANSI BOYS by NEIL GAIMAN

Anansi Boys by
Neil Gaiman



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3 REASONS TO READ…

1. Neil Gaiman is an inventive and award-winning author whose books include NEVERWHERE, AMERICAN GODS, STARDUST and CORALINE

2. Neil is listed in the Dictionary of Literary Biography as one of the top ten living post-modern writers

3. It's a great example of magic realism – novels where magical elements are blended into a realistic atmosphere

 

Fat Charlie Nancy is not actually fat. He was fat once but he is definitely not fat now. No, right now Fat Charlie Nancy is angry, confused and more than a little scared – right now his life is spinning out of control, and it is all his dad's fault.

If his rotter of an estranged father hadn't dropped dead at a karaoke night, Charlie would still be blissfully unaware that his dad was Anansi the spider god. He would have no idea that he has a brother called Spider, who is also a god. And there would be no chance that said brother would be trying to take over his life, flat and fiancée, or, to make matters worse, be doing a much better job of it than him. Desperate to reclaim his life, Charlie enlists the help of four more-than-slightly eccentric old ladies and their unique brand of voodoo – and between them they unleash a bitter and twisted force to get rid of Spider. But as darkness descends and badness begins is Fat Charlie Nancy going to get his life back in one piece or is he about to enter a whole netherworld of pain?



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