Keep the Aspidistra Flying: Popular Penguins

George Orwell

A novel by the author of 1984 about a man determined to reject middle-class values who finds living in noble poverty more difficult than expected.   Gordon Comstock despises the materialism and shallowness of middle-class life--the worship of money, the striving for dull, stuffy respectability. To live ...

The Heart's Invisible Furies

John Boyne

Forced to flee the scandal brewing in her hometown, Catherine Goggin finds herself pregnant and alone, in search of a new life at just sixteen. She knows she has no choice but to believe that the nun she entrusts her child to will find him a better life. Cyril Avery is not a real Avery, or so his parent...