If you like a blood and guts and hope to have a career working with blood & guts this story will interest you. If follows the intertwining lives of four aspiring medical students. How they struggle to make the right decisions about their lives, their loves and their patients, often using gruesome humour to tell [...]
Bog child by Siobhan Dowd
Curled up deep in the bog is the body of a child. Fergus’s discovery leaves him and his Uncle Tally wondering if she has been murdered. The mystery of the bog child close to the boarder of Northern Ireland unfolds amidst the mad world Fergus has around him. It is the 1980’s, his brother is [...]
The Attack by Yasmina Khadr
Yasmina Khadra is the pseudonym for Mohamed Moulessehoul, a former Algerian army officer who decided to write under his wife’s name to avoid army censorship.
Dr Amin Jaafari is a Palestinian with Israeli citizenship. He is an incredibly successful surgeon, awarded numerous honours and living a seemingly idyllic life with his beloved wife, Sihem. They have [...]
The Cellist of Sarajevo by Steven Galloway
This is a gripping story of Sarajevo under siege.
In 1992, not long after the beginning of the siege of Sarajevo, 22 people were killed and scores injured when a mortar shell struck a queue outside a bakery. For the next 22 days, Vedran Smailovic, a well-known Sarajevo cellist played a slow, stately piece, usually attributed [...]
