Library Haul ! August 2018

• I Am Malala. This is about a young woman who was shot at point blank range by the Taliban. Without much chance of survival and being transferred to a Birmingham Hospital in the UK for specialist treatment and safety, she miraculously pulls through. This book is her story.
• Animal Farm by George Orwell. This book looks at politics through the eyes of farm animals and rings a lot of truth with the Soviet regime and communism. It starts with a revolution and the animals wanting a better life. Though it isn't how things turn out, the animals form their own kind of government and leaders which aren't really any better than the human ones.
• The Smal Hand by Susan Hill. This book is about a man called Adam Snow who is an antique bookseller and while on a business trip, takes a wrong turn and finds an abandoned Edwardian house. Being curious, he had a look around and feels the unmistakable felling of a small cold child touching his hand. At first puzzled, he then soon feels terrible fear, panic and is visited by nightmares. Yet he is determined to learn more about the house, but while searching for an antique book, he ends up pulled further into the mystery of the house and the child.