Best Books

‘The House that Groaned’ is the debut graphic novel by the illustrator Karrie Fransman, who explores our contemporary preoccupation with physical imperfection, sexuality, and the reality that lurks behind every closed door. This short story is as macabre as it is entertaining.

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George R. R. Martin’s Song of Ice and Fire book series has recently become a cult phenomena and there is little question as to why. A tale of swords, sandals, betrayal, incest, intrigue and bloody battles this is a series of books that offers something for almost everyone. The first in the series is The Game of Thrones, which proves addictive enough to have you grasping for the second novel as soon as you put it down.

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Nineteen years after the cult success of ‘The Virgin Suicides’ and nine years after the critically acclaimed and Pulitizer Prize winning ‘Middlesex’, Jeffrey Eugenides returns to victory with ‘The Marriage Plot.’ Its style is classic yet contemporary and its content remains intellectually challenging, yet effortless to read.

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Recently deceased Madison Spencer traverses the underworld in Chuck Palahniuk’s twelfth book Damned. Hell (in Palahniuk’s eyes) is a place where inhabitants only form of entertainment are high-culture films such as The English Patient and a landscape decorated with foul landmarks such as the Steaming Dogpile Mountains. Nice. This book is fast-paced and as gross as you’d expect from The Fight Club author.

Born in the Somali desert, Waris Dirie lived her life like any other nomad child. She got up with the sun and spent her days looking after animals, caring for them because they were what her and her family’s life depended on. At the age of 5, she was circumcised, and at the fragile age of 12 her father wanted to marry her off to a much older man. This is where two worlds, which couldn’t be more different in nature, collide, and the real story begins…