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A Ladder to the Sky by John Boyne
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
A seductive, unputdownable psychodrama following one brilliant, ruthless man who will stop at nothing in his pursuit of success "Clever, chilling, and beautifully paced; a study of inner corrosion that Patricia Highsmith herself could not have done better." -- The Times (London) Maurice Swift is handso ...Show more
A Traveller at the Gates of Wisdom by John Boyne
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
The story of all of us, stretching across two millennia. Imaginative, unique, heart-breaking, this is John Boyne at his most creative and compelling. Some stories are universal. Some are unique. They play out across human history, and time is the river that flows through them. This story starts with a ...Show more
All The Broken Places by John Boyne
Category: Fiction | Series: The Sequel to The Boy In The Striped Pyjamas | Reading Level: very good
All the Broken Places is John Boyne's masterful sequel to his classic bestseller, The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas, taking a character from that novel on a journey to a place she never goes - the past. Through her story, Boyne explores the aftermath of the war and the effects of a lifetime of guilt. 1946. ...Show more
Earth: from the author of The Heart's Invisible Furies by John Boyne
Category: Fiction
It's the tabloid sensation of the year - two well-known footballers standing in the dock, charged with sexual assault, a series of vile text messages pointing towards their guilt. As the trial unfolds, Evan Keogh reflects on the events that have led him to this moment. Since leaving his island home, h ...Show more
My Brother's Name is Jessica by John Boyne
Category: Teen
Sam Waver's life has always been pretty quiet. A bit of a loner, he struggles to make friends, and his busy parents often make him feel invisible. Luckily for Sam, his older brother, Jason, has always been there for him. Sam idolises Jason, who seems to have life sorted - he's kind, popular, amazing at ...Show more
The Echo Chamber by John Boyne
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
From the author of The Heart's Invisible Furies and powered with the Boyne's characteristic humour and razor-sharp observation, The Echo Chamber is a satiric helter skelter, a dizzying downward spiral of action and consequence, poised somewhere between farce, absurdity and oblivion. What a thing of wond ...Show more
The Echo Chamber by John Boyne
Category: Fiction
From the author of The Heart's Invisible Furies and powered with the Boyne's characteristic humor and razor-sharp observation, The Echo Chamber is a satiric helter skelter, a dizzying downward spiral of action and consequence, poised somewhere between farce, absurdity, and oblivion What a thing of won ...Show more
The Heart's Invisible Furies by John Boyne
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good-near fine
Forced to flee the scandal brewing in her hometown, Catherine Goggin finds herself pregnant and alone, in search of a new life at just sixteen. She knows she has no choice but to believe that the nun she entrusts her child to will find him a better life. Cyril Avery is not a real Avery, or so his parent ...Show more
Water by John Boyne
Category: Fiction
The first thing Vanessa Carvin does when she arrives on the island is change her name. To the locals, she is Willow Hale, a solitary outsider escaping Dublin to live a hermetic existence in a small cottage, not a notorious woman on the run from her past. But scandals follow like hunting dogs. And she ha ...Show more
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