We gave the European sections a little bit of work to do during the summer. The films we've asked you to watch or the books we've suggested you read can all add to your general culture!
Any way here are a few more books to keep you going, many of them have already been adapted into films :
About WW2
Small Island by Andrea Levy
The Guernsey Literary and PatatoPeel Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows
Atonement by Ian McEwan
The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje
Land Girls by Angela Huth
Sarah's Key by Tatiana de Rosnay
The Boy in Striped Pyjamas by John Boyne
About the Deep South and Slavery including the Civil War
Gone with the Wind ( abridged version Penguin Easy Readers)
Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier
Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
Black Boy by Richard Wright
Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
A Place called Freedom by Ken Follett
Home Across the Road by Nancy Peacock
Roots by Alex Haley
The Help by Kathryn Stockett
Mudbound by Hillary Jordan
About Women's Rights
Falling Angels by Tracy Chevalier
The Man from Saint Petersburg by Ken Follett
Others I have enjoyed over the last few years
Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett ( Historical)
World Without End by Ken Follett (H )
Dissolution by C.J. Samson ( H )
Sovereign by C.J. Samson ( H )
Heartstone by C.J. Samson ( H )
The Secret Scripture by Sebastian Barry ( H )
Brixton Beach by Roma Tearne ( problems in Sri Lanka )
Gifted by Nikita Lalwani ( a young maths prodigy struggles with her gift and difficult family)
Say You're One of Them by Uwem Akpan (Children fighting for survival throughout the African Continent)
Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie ( In 1960,Nigeria blighted by civil war, three lives intersect)
Have a nice holiday !
