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My Driver
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Vanessa Henman, a brittle middle-aged British writer, is attending a Pan-African Writers Conference in Uganda. She decides to pay her former cleaner, Mary Tendo, a surprise visit. But Mary, now the Executive Housekeeper of the Sheraton Hotel in Kampala, has secretly borrowed Vanessas ex-husband Trevor, a plumber, and taken him to her home village to help build a well. Vanessa decides instead to take a trip into Bwindi Impenetrable Forest to see the mountain gorillas. But she manages to insult her driver so much that he leaves her in the lurch, and as war threatens Bwindi from the Congo side of the border, its up to Trevor and Mary to come to her aid. A hilarious comedy of cultural errors.
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The Help
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Twenty-two-year-old Skeeter has just returned home after graduating from Ole Miss. She may have a degree, but it is 1962, Mississippi, and her mother will not be happy till Skeeter has a ring on her finger. Skeeter would normally find solace with her beloved maid Constantine, the woman who raised her, but Constantine has disappeared and no one will tell Skeeter where she has gone.
Aibileen is a black maid, a wise, regal woman raising her seventeenth white child. Something has shifted inside her after the loss of her own son, who died while his bosses looked the other way. She is devoted to the little girl she looks after, though she knows both their hearts may be broken.
A deeply moving book filled with poignancy, humour, and hope. Set in a time of change in 1960's USA. Very popular.
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Jasper Jones
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Brilliant, funny, heartbreaking and incredibly wise, this is the second novel from the author of Rhubarb. Craig ,who is from Perth, has just won the Indie Award for best Australian book for 2009.
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Good to a Fault
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When Clara Purdy takes a dreamy turn in her car and ends up plowing into the lives of the Gage family, her low-impact, nine-to-five life in the suburbs is transformed into heady, noisy chaos. Winner of the 2009 Commonwealth Writers' Prize (Canada and Caribbean region).
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Women in Black, The
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The Women In Black was written in 1993 but set in 1960, those mild days when ordinary people said "gosh" to express awe, horror, astonishment, sympathy or excitement. In Ladies' Frocks at F. G. Goodes, a large department store in Sydney, the sales assistants change into their black frocks on arrival every morning and out of them again every evening before going home. A brilliant depiction of life in the 60's (with all it's prejudices )told in a simple but humerous way.
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Wolf Hall
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England, the 1520s. Henry VIII is on the throne, but has no heir. Cardinal Wolsey is his chief advisor. Into this atmosphere of distrust and need comes Thomas Cromwell, a wholly original man: the son of a brutal blacksmith, a political genius, a briber, a charmer, a bully, a man with a delicate and deadly expertise in manipulating people and events. From one of our finest living writers, WOLF HALL that very rare thing: a truly great English novel, one that explores the intersection of individual psychology and wider politics. With a vast array of characters, and richly overflowing with incident, it peels back history to show us Tudor England as a half-made society, moulding itself with great passion and suffering and courage.
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