A powerful call to action over an education system that is default white, from a black man who has spent decades being failed by it as both a student and a teacher.
Funny, fierce, and frank, Casey McQuiston's first YA novel I Kissed Shara Wheeler is about breaking rules, getting messy, and finding love in unexpected places. Perfect or fans of Heartstopper!
Set in Prague and the wooded landscape of Bohemia, this is the story of a sharp-witted waiter. He learns his trade in pre-war Prague, marries an Arian beauty as the Germans invade, makes and loses a fortune and achieves a kind of serenity among the ruins of post-war Europe.
By the winner of the Orange Prize for Fiction 2001, this is a witty and tender romance that demonstrates that sometimes, unexpectedly, there can be something better than perfection.
His tautest, most compulsively readable work since American Psycho. A sequel to Less Than Zero, it imagines what became of that book's group of over-privileged, dead-eyed kids as forty-year-olds' Hari Kunzru, Observer