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A bestselling modern debut


BOOK TREE


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branches out into historical fi ction, children’s fantasy and some non- fi ction classics


Bring Up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel (2012) Also on the Booker Prize longlist was its eventual recipient Bring Up the Bodies, Hilary


Mantel’s sequel to Wolf Hall, which scooped the prize back in 2009. The novels follow Thomas Cromwell through Henry VIII’s court, and Mantel will conclude the trilogy with The Mirror and the Light.


Before I Go to Sleep by S.J. Watson (2011) The bestselling breakthrough debut from S.J. Watson may soon be moving to the big


screen. Ridley Scott has bought the rights and Nicole Kidman looks set to play Christine, a woman who has lost her memory and must read her diary every day to recall why she is suspicious of her husband Ben.


Wanderlust: A History of Walking by Rebecca Solnit (2000) Doris Haddock, or ‘Granny D’, walked across


the US in 1999 to demand campaign fi nance reform. Rebecca Solnit’s account of her voyage muses on walking as a cultural, political and personal act, drawing on tales of famous walkers – including Pride and Prejudice’s Elizabeth Bennet.


The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce (2012) Like Watson, Rachel Joyce is a graduate of the Faber Academy’s


creative writing course. Longlisted for last year’s Booker Prize, Harold Fry follows an elderly man who sets out to post a letter to a dying friend, before deciding to walk hundreds of miles to deliver it himself.


His Dark Materials Trilogy by Philip Pullman (1995) In response to fellow atheist Richard Dawkins’ negative views on children’s


The Other Boleyn Girl by Philippa Gregory (2002) Though initially skeptical of bringing Mary Boleyn, sister of Henry VIII’s wife


Anne, into the public eye in The Other Boleyn Girl, Philippa Gregory later said: “Hilary Mantel wrote her in Wolf Hall in her green petticoat, and I thought: ‘My Mary?’ She’s now fully recognised in history.”


The Heretics: Adventures with the Enemies of Science by Will Storr (2013) Dawkins’ kind – atheists and those ‘on the side of science’ – have their beliefs as thoroughly questioned as those on the side of religion in


Will Storr’s special mix of memoir, investigative journalism and neuroscience. The verdict? We may all be wrong, and that’s OK.


The Selfi sh Gene by Richard Dawkins (1976) Gregory and Richard Dawkins were both born in Nairobi, Kenya. Dawkins came to


prominence in 1976 following the publication of The Selfi sh Gene, which argued for a gene-centred view of evolution. Atheist Dawkins is also well known for his criticisms of Creationism.


stories, Philip Pullman wrote a critical essay, ‘Fairy Tales and Evidence’. Pullman himself received criticism from the Church for his anti-religious His Dark Materials Trilogy, which began with The Golden Compass.


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