This is Aravind Adiga’s first novel and the winner of the 2008 Man Booker Prize for Fiction.
The white tiger is a quick-reading thriller, written in the first person by the main character, Balram Hawai, a self-proclaimed entrepreneur in Bangalore, about how he came to be successful. We learn Balram’s life story via 7 letters he [...]
The white tiger by Aravind Adiga
East of time by Jacob Rosenberg
Jacob Rosenberg was born in 1922, in Lotz, Poland. Later along with the rest of his family, he was sent to Auschwitz and later Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camps. He was the only member of his family to survive the Holocaust. This is his story and that of his family and of the Jewish community in Lotz [...]
The Farseer trilogy by Robin Hobb
Robin Hobb’s novels are well-written and filled with incredibly deep and emotional caharacters. The Farseer trilogy is a series well worth a read, not only by a fan of fantasy novels.
The storyline deals with the life of FitzChivalry Farseer, illegitimate son of the King in Waiting. Abandoned as a child by his mother, he is [...]
NEW READING AREA
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THE BRC’S NEW READING AREA
As Term 4 comes to a close the Brennan Resource Centre is in the midst of a renovation. The area once devoted to the yearly storage of newspapers and the LOTE Collection is fast becoming a new Reading Area. It is anticipated that in 2009 the Wide Reading classes in Year 9 English will be [...]
Moscow rules by Daniel Silva
This is the eight and latest title in Daniel Silva’s Gabriel Allon series and is a sequel to The Secret servant. The author moves, in this novel, from investigating the historical crimes of the past, often related to the Holocaust, and their effects on the present, to crimes of the present and their possibly catastrophic [...]
