Top Five in the Wise Dog Office
These are our favourites right now - let us know what you're reading!
- Consequences - Penelope Lively Viking 2007
- A love story spanning several generatons, 70 years, love, loss, dreams and heartbreak, social change and the enduring nature of familial relationships
2. Poppyland - Raffaella Barker
Headline 2008
Two people fall in love at first sight, only to find over time that not only are their pasts linked by their homeland -the 'Poppyland 'of East Anglia, but their futures are inevitably bound together.
3. Half of a Yellow Sun - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Harper Collins 2007
Twin sisters are divided by their loves for very different men from opposing cultural and political backgrounds, but are drawn together by the traumas of conflict and war in strife-ridden Nigeria.
4. The Homecoming - Bernard Schlink
Pantheon Books 2008
Peter sets out to find out the truth about his parents' history, travelling across to Europe and America and back, and developing his own story as he goes, in a haunting tale of humanity and its ability to forgive.
5. The Cellist of Sarajevo
Atlantic Books 2008
A lone cellist plays in the square in the wreckage where a mortar fell earlier, killing people queueing for bread. Meanwhile townspeople must cross the streets in fear of their lives, and a female sniper watches over the cellist as he plays.
