Seven recommended reads from Songlight author Moira Buffini
By Faber
Seven recommended reads from Songlight author Moira Buffini
By Faber
The Chrysalids
John Wyndham
£8.99 £8.54This book blew my teenage mind, when I first read it at school. Set in a vivid and frightening future, it was a compelling character narrative that made me passionate about nuclear disarmament and yearn to have telepathic friends.
Nineteen Eighty-Four: 75th Anniversary Edition
George Orwell
£8.99 £8.54This book never loses its relevance. One of the great twentieth century novels. No wonder it has become part of our vocabulary.
The Tombs of Atuan: The Second Book of Earthsea
Ursula K. Le Guin
£14.99 £14.24Her imagination and careful rendering of different worlds, her use of magic as a spiritual force and her characters struggles to behave with integrity all leave me standing in admiration.
The Handmaid's Tale
Margaret Atwood
£9.99 £9.49This book left my heart pounding in fear when I first read it - and then reassured me that a better future was possible and must be fought for.
The Hunger Games
Suzanne Collins
£8.99 £8.54I love this book for inspiring my daughter, for its bold critique of consumer capitalism and for Katniss Everdeen, the ultimate action heroine.
Women Talking: The Oscar-winning film starring Rooney Mara, Jessie Buckley and Claire Foy
Miriam Toews
£9.99A book which glows with wisdom about the power of the powerless and the dangers of societies in which men rule.
The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
David Graeber and David Wengrow
£16.99 £16.14This is an inspiring and hopeful anthropology book about the way humans organise societies. A must for anyone who wanted to kill themselves after reading Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari.