Recommendations for Sixth Formers and Staff by Giggleswick School https://padlet.com/GiggBooks/9y4ja3p8zso05anp A place to share the books you love in your own words en-us 2021-03-08 15:46:43 UTC 2024-07-01 09:53:43 UTC hello@padlet.com The Midnight Library, by Matt Haig GiggBooks https://padlet.com/GiggBooks/9y4ja3p8zso05anp/wish/1291969256 This is the story of Nora whose life has gone so badly (so she thought) that she simply doesn't want to live any more. And then she was given a chance to live out the many possible lives that she could think of and ever wish for. With so many choices, Nora has to figure out what is the best way to live.  For me, this is a light holiday read that makes you think about the many choices you've made in life and how they may have created the life you live today.
(Available in Sharpe Library)]]> 2021-03-10 09:26:20 UTC https://padlet.com/GiggBooks/9y4ja3p8zso05anp/wish/1291969256 The Jane Austen Society, by Natalie Jenner GiggBooks https://padlet.com/GiggBooks/9y4ja3p8zso05anp/wish/1292009752 If you are a Jane Austen fan and want a chance to escape to a cozy setting of a quintessential English village full of unique characters, this is the book for you. It is a fictional tale of an effort in the 1940s to save the house and legacy that Jane Austen left behind in Chawton, Hampshire.
(Available in Sharpe Library)]]> 2021-03-10 09:39:44 UTC https://padlet.com/GiggBooks/9y4ja3p8zso05anp/wish/1292009752 The Boy from the Woods, Harlan Coben https://padlet.com/GiggBooks/9y4ja3p8zso05anp/wish/1302893413 Great crime thriller, lots of twists - thoroughly enjoyed it!
Any of this authors books are excellent.]]> 2021-03-12 15:15:47 UTC https://padlet.com/GiggBooks/9y4ja3p8zso05anp/wish/1302893413 The Thursday Murder Club, Richard Osman https://padlet.com/GiggBooks/9y4ja3p8zso05anp/wish/1302904304 I was intrigued to read this as I love this author as a presenter on TV and also love crime thrillers.  Very well written, good characters and twists to the tale.
(Available in Sharpe Library)]]> 2021-03-12 15:18:06 UTC https://padlet.com/GiggBooks/9y4ja3p8zso05anp/wish/1302904304 The Word is Murder, Anthony Horowitz kjpeacock https://padlet.com/GiggBooks/9y4ja3p8zso05anp/wish/1302946792 Following on from his new Sherlock Holmes novels, Horowitz turns to 'real crime'; or is it? This 'meta' novel focuses on the character, writer Anthony Horowitz and ex-Detective Daniel Hawthorne who has approached Horowitz to ask him to write the story of his murder investigations. This is a story full of twists and turns which positions the reader alongside the hapless Horowitz. Great for fans of detective fiction looking for something which plays around with the genre.
(Available in Sharpe Library)]]> 2021-03-12 15:27:27 UTC https://padlet.com/GiggBooks/9y4ja3p8zso05anp/wish/1302946792 The Offing by Benjamin Myers https://padlet.com/GiggBooks/9y4ja3p8zso05anp/wish/1315769781 A 16 year old son of a miner walks to Robin Hood's Bay where he meet the eccentric Dulcie a worldly older woman who lives in a ramshackle cottage facing the sea. She introduces him to good food, sea-swimming and poetry and alters his life for ever.
A lyrical beautiful book.]]> 2021-03-16 14:06:59 UTC https://padlet.com/GiggBooks/9y4ja3p8zso05anp/wish/1315769781 Full Dark House, by Christopher Fowler GiggBooks https://padlet.com/GiggBooks/9y4ja3p8zso05anp/wish/1316276005 The 2 main characters in this series are called Bryant and May who are the special team in the Met's little known Peculiar Crimes Unit. They are the longest serving detectives and one is very old indeed. The books are full of humour , sleights of hand and very witty. I found them absolutely addictive.]]> 2021-03-16 15:28:21 UTC https://padlet.com/GiggBooks/9y4ja3p8zso05anp/wish/1316276005 The Little Paris Bookship, by Nina George GiggBooks https://padlet.com/GiggBooks/9y4ja3p8zso05anp/wish/1316327246 This is lovely about a man who runs a bookshop from his renovated barge on the Seine. It's also about his lost love and what happens on the arrival of his enigmatic new neighbour...]]> 2021-03-16 15:36:24 UTC https://padlet.com/GiggBooks/9y4ja3p8zso05anp/wish/1316327246 Atom: A Single Oxygen Atom's Odyssey from the Big Bang to Life on Earth... and Beyond, by Lawrence Krauss GiggBooks https://padlet.com/GiggBooks/9y4ja3p8zso05anp/wish/1325540962 2021-03-18 13:54:09 UTC https://padlet.com/GiggBooks/9y4ja3p8zso05anp/wish/1325540962 Where the Crawdads Sing, by Delia Owens kjpeacock https://padlet.com/GiggBooks/9y4ja3p8zso05anp/wish/1331470014 For years, rumours of the "Marsh Girl" have haunted Barkley Cove, a quiet town on the North Carolina coast. So in late 1969, when handsome Chase Andrews is found dead, the locals immediately suspect Kya Clark, the so-called Marsh Girl. But Kya is not what they say.
(Available in Sharpe Library)]]> 2021-03-19 20:49:11 UTC https://padlet.com/GiggBooks/9y4ja3p8zso05anp/wish/1331470014 The Mermaid of Black Conch, by Monique Roffey kjpeacock https://padlet.com/GiggBooks/9y4ja3p8zso05anp/wish/1331499213 March 1976: St Constance, a tiny Caribbean village on the island of Black Conch, at the start of the rainy season. A fisherman sings to himself in his pirogue, waiting for a catch but attracts a sea-dweller he doesn't expect. Aycayia, a beautiful young woman cursed by jealous wives to live as a mermaid, has been swimming the Caribbean Sea for centuries. And she is entranced by this man David and his song.

Winner of the Costa Book Award 2020.
(Available in Sharpe Library)]]> 2021-03-19 21:03:29 UTC https://padlet.com/GiggBooks/9y4ja3p8zso05anp/wish/1331499213 The Man in the Red Coat, by Julian Barnes kjpeacock https://padlet.com/GiggBooks/9y4ja3p8zso05anp/wish/1331510644 In the summer of 1885, three Frenchmen arrived in London for a few days' shopping. One was a Prince, one was a Count, and the third was a commoner with an Italian name, who four years earlier had been the subject of one of John Singer Sargent's greatest portraits. The commoner was Samuel Pozzi, society doctor, pioneer gynaecologist and free-thinker - a rational and scientific man with a famously complicated private life.

Pozzi's life played out against the backdrop of the Parisian Belle Epoque. The beautiful age of glamour and pleasure more often showed its ugly side: hysterical, narcissistic, decadent and violent, a time of rampant prejudice and blood-and-soil nativism, with more parallels to our own age than we might imagine.]]> 2021-03-19 21:09:04 UTC https://padlet.com/GiggBooks/9y4ja3p8zso05anp/wish/1331510644 The Less Dead, by Denise Mina kjpeacock https://padlet.com/GiggBooks/9y4ja3p8zso05anp/wish/1331520230 When Margo goes in search of her birth mother for the first time, she meets her aunt, Nikki, instead. Margo learns that her mother, Susan, was murdered soon after Margo's adoption. To this day, Susan's killer has never been found.

Nikki asks Margo for help. She has received threatening and haunting letters from the murderer, for decades. She is determined to find him, but she can't do it alone...]]> 2021-03-19 21:14:13 UTC https://padlet.com/GiggBooks/9y4ja3p8zso05anp/wish/1331520230 The Foundling, by Stacey Halls mmhannah2 https://padlet.com/GiggBooks/9y4ja3p8zso05anp/wish/1331560103 London, 1754. Six years after leaving her illegitimate daughter Clara at London's Foundling Hospital, Bess Bright returns to reclaim the child she has never known. Dreading the worst, that Clara has died in care, Bess is astonished to be told she has already claimed her. Her life is turned upside down as she tries to find out who has taken her little girl - and why.
(Available in Sharpe Library)]]> 2021-03-19 21:35:56 UTC https://padlet.com/GiggBooks/9y4ja3p8zso05anp/wish/1331560103 Hamnet, by Maggie O'Farrell kjpeacock https://padlet.com/GiggBooks/9y4ja3p8zso05anp/wish/1333236118 On a summer's day in 1596, a young girl in Stratford-upon-Avon takes to her bed with a fever. Her twin brother, Hamnet, searches everywhere for help. Why is nobody at home? Their mother, Agnes, is over a mile away, in the garden where she grows medicinal herbs. Their father is working in London. Neither parent knows that one of the children will not survive the week.

Hamnet is a novel inspired by the son of a famous playwright. It is a story of the bond between twins, and of a marriage pushed to the brink by grief. It is also the story of a kestrel and its mistress; a flea that boards a ship in Alexandria; and a glovemaker's son who flouts convention in pursuit of the woman he loves.
(Available in Sharpe Library) 
]]> 2021-03-20 22:44:04 UTC https://padlet.com/GiggBooks/9y4ja3p8zso05anp/wish/1333236118 Death in the Stars, by Frances Brody sghayton https://padlet.com/GiggBooks/9y4ja3p8zso05anp/wish/1342066586 Yorkshire, 1927. Eclipse fever grips the nation, and when beloved theatre star Selina Fellini approaches trusted sleuth Kate Shackleton to accompany her to a viewing party at Giggleswick School Chapel, Kate suspects an ulterior motive.

During the eclipse, Selina's friend and co-star Billy Moffatt disappears and is later found dead in the chapel grounds. Kate can't help but dig deeper and soon learns that two other members of the theatre troupe died in similarly mysterious circumstances in the past year. With the help of Jim Sykes and Mrs Sugden, Kate sets about investigating the deaths - and whether there is a murderer in the company.

When Selina's elusive husband Jarrod, injured in the war and subject to violent mood swings, comes back on the scene, Kate begins to imagine something far deadlier at play, and wonders just who will be next to pay the ultimate price for fame . . .
]]> 2021-03-23 10:15:23 UTC https://padlet.com/GiggBooks/9y4ja3p8zso05anp/wish/1342066586 The Giver of Stars, Jojo Moyes GiggBooks https://padlet.com/GiggBooks/9y4ja3p8zso05anp/wish/1371216373 A comforting and uplifting tale about horseback librarians (a real thing, in Depression-era America), an adventure through the Kentucky wilderness, and an ode to the power of books and reading. The perfect holiday read!]]> 2021-03-31 10:01:32 UTC https://padlet.com/GiggBooks/9y4ja3p8zso05anp/wish/1371216373 The Inugami Curse GiggBooks https://padlet.com/GiggBooks/9y4ja3p8zso05anp/wish/1524272822 In 1940s Japan, the wealthy head of the Inugami Clan dies, and his family eagerly await the reading of the will. But no sooner are its strange details revealed than a series of bizarre, gruesome murders begins....

This addictive read is for anyone who likes Agatha Christie's novels and want to immerse themselves in a mystery set in a very exotic setting.]]> 2021-05-14 12:13:24 UTC https://padlet.com/GiggBooks/9y4ja3p8zso05anp/wish/1524272822