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1) Hard times
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Hard Times is Dickens's portrait of a Lancashire mill town in the 1840s. Through the characters of Gradgrind & Boudnerby he stigmatised the philosopy of Utilitarianism, which allowed human beings to be enslaved to machines and reduced to numbers.
4) The big man
Author
Language
English
Description
Dan Scoular is a working class legend of physical prowess, fighting for his small Ayrshire town's community, trying to keep it all afloat and intact in the face of social change and upheaval.
5) East of Eden
Author
Language
English
Description
Set in the rich farmland of California's Salinas Valley, this powerful, often shocking, story follows the intertwined destinies of two families - the Trasks and the Hamiltons.
Series
Explorations in sociology volume 29
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press in conjunction with the British Sociological Association
Pub. Date
1989
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Chatto & Windus
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
This is the story of a Scottish childhood of sordid council flats and B&Bs, screeching women, feckless men, fags and booze and drugs, the dole queue and bread and marge sandwiches. It is also the story of an irresistible, irrepressible heroine, a dysfunctional family you can't help but adore, and the absurdities of the 80s.
Author
Publisher
Virago
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
This memoir is the extraordinary story of how one woman, Masih Alinejad, an awe-inspiring journalist and activist from a small village in Iran, overcame enormous adversity to fight for what she truly believed and founded a major movement for women around the world with the simple removal of her hijab. It all started with a single photo, a bold statement on Masih's Facebook page: a woman standing proudly, her face bare, her beautiful, curly hair blowing...
12) The disappeared
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Reader
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
The Disappeared is a story of our times, of kidnap and rescue, of abuse and healing. It is the story of Stephen, a teacher whose love for the pupil who shares his dreams brings him face to face with ruin; of Sharon, the child of a feckless stepmother, and her criminal abusers; of Laura, the investigative high-flyer, now faced with rape and sexual slavery; of Justin, environmentalist and Heavy Metal fan, whose obsession with Muhibbah, rescued from...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
This title provides an authentic and eye-opening collection of interviews with 30 women from all walks of life in Saudi Arabia. At a time when the Kingdom appears to be on the cusp of change, this unique book captures the essence of what it is like to be a woman living in Saudi Arabia today.
14) The changeling
Author
Publisher
Canongate
Language
English
Formats
Description
Exploring the theme of the fate that awaits goodness and innocence in the face of growing up and learning to live in our society, this novel charts the story of Tom, a 13-year-old from a Glasgow slum, and the events of a holiday with his teacher.
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
At the heart of this story is an interracial couple, Steve and Jabulile, living in a newly - tentatively - free South Africa, he a university lecturer she a lawyer, both comrades in the Struggle and now parents of children born in freedom.
Author
Publisher
Vintage Books
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
Australia 1945. Until now Kate Dowd has led a sheltered life on her family's sprawling sheep station but, with her father's health in decline, the management of the farm is increasingly falling to her.
Kate is rising to the challenge when the arrival of two Italian POW labourers disrupts everything – especially when Kate finds herself drawn to the enigmatic Luca Canali.
Then she receives devastating news. The farm is near bankrupt and the bank...
Author
Publisher
Authentic Media
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
Arrested in Morocco, Graham Hutt and his friends were imprisoned and fined nearly half a million dollars - all for being in posession of what the police and the judge deemed to be 'something illegal in Morocco'. That 'something' was in fact the Bible. This is Hutt's account of his fight to prove his innocence.
20) Hamilton
Author
Language
English
Description
Hamilton is Maisie's childhood imaginary friend. As she grows up in Tyneside, Maisie writes about him, giving her the chance to broaden her horizons.
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