Category: Culture

Rating: 4/5 “Jane Eyre” starts describing the protagonist at the age of ten. She lives in a large, gloomy manor called Gateshead with her stubborn

Rating: 4/5 Marilla and Matthew Cuthbert are two siblings in their early sixties. For years, all the former has wanted are children of her own,

Rating: 4/5 ** spoiler alert ** Joe Grant has lived in a private hospital ward since he was two months old. Due to his serious

Rating: 5/5 Bastian Balthazar Bux is constantly bullied. They call him “screwball” and “nitwit”, “braggart” and “liar”. He is small and fat and sad and

Rating: 2/5 Are you bored stiff? Do you always feel like what you are doing is boring, and when you get to do what you

Rating: 4/5 Upon discovering an oddly secret note in a book by an Icelandic alchemist called Arne Saknussemm, Axel Lidenbrock is dragged into the centre

Rating: 5/5 Though a very easy read, I found this book very witty, with a fantasy yet sensible plot and characters that seem to jump

Rating: 3/5 Natalie, Lydia, and Christopher Hilliard are torn apart from happy, family life by their parents’ divorce. Miranda and Daniel have a habit of

Rating: 3/5 This story tells of the route the famous Odysseus took on his way back from the newly conquered city of Troy. He sailed

Rating: 3/5 When the baby Achilles was born, his mother, the sea-goddess Thetis, held him by the heel and dipped him in the River Styx,