St Peter's Top 100...

HEROES & VILLAINS

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LITERATURE

Welcome to the 2016 edition of St. Peter's Top 100 - this year's theme is Heroes and

Villains in Literature.

There are some unexpected books within, but they are all marvellous in their own

way.

Be inspired for your summer reading, see if your favourite character is mentioned - if they inspired the same love or loathing

- and have a wonderful, heroic (or villainous, if you're so inclined) summer!

All of the books featured are collected in

to a list at the back of this booklet.

THE MONSTER Incredibly well

written and beautifully drawn,

this is a stark depiction that villains are not always what

they first appear.

RENATA

She is the real hero - not

Cantwell!

ALICEShe

transcends her

situation with a

curious (and curiouser)

combination of wisdom

and innocence.

JOHN GRADY COLE

One of the most dignified young heroes in modern literature. Sturdy and enduring as Odysseus,

passionate as Heathcliff and a throwback to a savage time of real

Cowboys and their black and white morality.

Fantastic!

HERO

HEROHERO

VILLAIN

For consistently saving Wooster...

JEEVES

NAPOLEON...It turns out he

was even worse

than Mr. Jones!

GEORGE BONE

Set in seedy West

London, 1939, just

days before Britain

declared war on

Germany.

George Bone is a lonely, bored line alcoholic - a good man but easily manipulated by more cunning members of

his drinking circle. George has a split personality, so he's in for both categories! When he is in one of his

'dead moods' he plots to kill the women who, in his

brighter moments, he is infatuated with. Thing is, she is a horrible human being and makes his life a misery, so

I'm not actually sure which if his personalities is the hero,

and which is the villain... Complicated stuff!

A feminist heroine..

.?

RUTH

TEDDY

Focusing on the heroic and seemingly perfect brother seen in Life After Life, this is a a

great tale of the different kinds of heroism, and the

impact we can have on the world.

HERO

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PENNYWISE APPEAL

A shape shifting, evil, demonic entity best known for

terrorising the community of Derry, Maine, living under the

sewers and preying on children... Perfect scary reading material to keep you up on those long

summer nights!

ANDY DUFRESNEA short story originally - so read

it if you like the film. The hero, of course, is enigmatic Andy Dufresne: incarcerated in

Shawshank for a crime he didn't commit, enduring dreadful

conditions and never giving up hope. Plenty of vile villains too - the Sisters and the Warden, who

pleasingly get their comeuppances.

LIN

Favourite villain/anti-hero - really grown to love the main character (several

names for him, but the one that sticks is 'Lin'). Many

would perhaps class him as a hero but he's an escaped convict on the run with an opium habit, a penchant for

violence and a scarily unpredictable moral and emotional compass. A

villain, for me, has to make me look at myself and

think that I'm a little bit evil, too. I can't stand

unrealistic villains; I like villains that blur the line and make you consider

your own morality.

HERO

HERO

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BRUCE ROBERTSON

Villain! He is truly hideous!

THE FATHER

An incredibly heroic tale of post-apocalyptic love between father and son.

RORSCHACH

ANTON CHIGURGH

Unequivocally and decisively

evil.

Of course...

POOH BEAR

HESTER PRYNNE

Dignity in the face of ignoranc

e

An alternate history, and

America have superheroes. Rorschach is the classic

comic antihero.

HERO

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CHARLES PARIS

This is the first in the long

running series of

light frothy murder

mysteries

staring that charming actor of middle aged years, Charles Paris.

(He's brought to life in the Radio 4 dramas

played expertly by Bill Nighy.)

Charles is an unlikely

hero but if not for him, treading the boards would be distinctly

more dangerous than it already is.

CROW

The strangest book and the strangest hero: Crow - the

unexpected bringer of healing to a family bludgeoned by grief.

Irreverent, witty, rude and just plain weird at times, sit

down and read it all in one go if you can, then look out of the window to see crows in a different light.

SHERLOCK HOLMES Sherlock Holmes is a hero

as for a job he goes around helping people find the answer. Although his

mind works really strangely, this doesn't a villain: it actually helps

him be a hero.

HERO

HEROHERO

ASLAN

For nobility...

ELENAVillains and heroes change with

each page, this is a visceral depiction of childhood friendships

in 1950s Italy.

MRS. DANVERS

Very sinister character - in the gothic mould which

appeals!

HEATHCLIFF

Hero AND villain.

Enough said.

AMY DUNNEFor being so

cleverly wicked.

TOM RIPLEY

How can a villain be so

charismatic and evoke

sympathy in this way?

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MARTIN BRODYThe hero is police chief Martin Brody-

the villain is of course the great white shark. The film's (still)

tremendous, but (predictably) the book's better!

MR. DARCY ...as hero.

(Controversial!)

SNAPE

As a villain (hero only in later books)

JEAN PAGET

The heroine is Jean Paget. A

story of survival, love

and determination.

For bravery and challenging various stereotypes, plus a

vote for Atticus Finch.

LORD PETER WIMSEY

Classicist, soldier, poet, equestrian, crack shot and, in a pinch, talented

advertising copywriter.

SCOUT

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SHAI'TANHe's essentially the Devil from a high

fantasy series. He's (it's?) a being that is

capable of influencing the world directly,

and as such seems to be a physical

embodiment of pure evil (can you imagine if the Devil were able

to pop up outside your house before you popped to the

shops?) Although he has been 'locked away'

for much of the series, the seals on the lock start to break, letting him

loose...

GEORGE SMILEY

George Smiley is everything a hero

shouldn't be: physically unimpressive, quiet,

cuckolded, unimpressed by the side he fights for, yet prepared to sacrifice almost everything and everyone for it. In the

end you want him to win because he is just a decent man doing his best. (He's also very,

very clever.) Carla, the villain, is a fanatical

communist, but we never get to know him, just

the consequences of his ruthlessness. This makes

him all the more menacing.

DORRIGO EVANS

A Booker prize winner and perhaps a dubious hero at

times: Dorrigo Evans, an Australian doctor surviving and trying

to help others survive in a Japanese prisoner of war camp on the Burma Death railway. This hero is brutal because he has to be and his

behaviour sometimes seems (perhaps

necessarily) callous. A book that explores the reductive power of war on people.

HERO

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TODD, VIOLA, MANCHEE vs. MAYOR PRENTISS

One of those interesting YA crossovers:

definite heroes are Todd, Viola and Manchee who struggle for free speech and independence through organised

resistance and personal bravery. Mayor Prentiss is one of the most disturbing,

duplicitous politician-cum-dictator villains you'll read for a while.

LETTIE HEMPSTOCK

Might look like a children's book but...

Meet Lettie Hempstock, an unassuming hero with

formidable powers of good against a terrifying

evil.

A fairytale - but much, much more!

SILAS MARNERA firm proponent of 'coal-hole discipline', Silas moves from a shrunken husk of a

man to a father to a fatherless child.

This is a novel full of heroism in the

most unlikely places.

HENRY WINTER

Heroic in the most classical sense of the word. Kills be use he has to, and chooses a terrible fate to save

others.

HERO

HEROHERO

HEROVILLAIN

HARRISON SHEPHERDHarrison Shepherd is our hero, but

only because as a diaries and writer he quietly records the lives of those

bigger and brighter than himself. From Mexico and iconic artists Diego

Rivera and Frieda Kahlo to the terrors of 1950s McCarthyism, Harrison continues to write the

truth even though it could lead to his imprisonment. Keep an eye on

this one's title and enjoy the ending!

WILLIAM STONER

Hard to say if William Stoner is a hero;

quiet and put upon, he's sent to college by his parents to

study agriculture and is converted (by

Shakespeare's Sonnet 73) to the study and

teaching of Literature. This is a story of

enduring the pettiness of everyday

life quietly and without much fuss. There's a sort of nobility in that.

ROBBIE TURNER

Robbie Turner is thrown into the Second World War after being

wrongly imprisoned and vilified. His love for Cecilia and his

determination to get back to her suggest heroic status that grows as the novel develops (with an unexpected twist in the tale).

HERO

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FLORA POSTEA formidable hero but in the nicest possible way! Flora is a breath of

well-mannered fresh air through the nasty old Starkadders of Cold

Comfort Farm - who turn out to be not so nasty after all. With skin as thick as a rhino's and the sunniest disposition you could ever hope to encounter, Flora turns everything

she touches to the good.

Booker shortlisted for a not-so-little story but from the first page, addictive and immersive. The hero is Jude:long-suffering, tragic but I challenge you not to

want to be his BFF. Truly dreadful villains for our time

are Caleb and Dr. Traylor, representative of how dark the

hearts of men can be.

JUDE

Victor Frankenstein is very disturbing

because he builds a great creature out of dead body parts - which is quite villainous.

VICTOR FRANKENSTEIN

AEGON THE UNLIKELY

A hero, he is witty, cynical,

kind and caring. A generally likeable

character.

HERO

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VILLAIN

CANDIDE

BENDRIX

MERSAULT

Hero

JEAN VALJEAN ETIENNE LANTIER

It was on the library shelves

and seemed

too fitting to exclude..

.

MARIANNE

HEROHERO

HERO

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PATRICK SUMNER

The hero, Patick

Sumner, a disgraced

naval surgeon,

square up to whales,

polar bears

and worst of all, the depraved Henry Drax. A graphic, bloodthirsty romp. A kind of aquatic Revenant - but set in Greenland - and Hull!

So truly villainous... An

extraordinary villain called Henry Drax - in a savage and beautiful

novel about the nineteenth century

whaling trade.

RUDOLPH RASSENDYLL

The hero, the doppelgänger of his distant cousin, the wastrel Prince Rudolph of

Ruritania, who is kidnapped on the night before his

coronation by his dastardly brother, Black Michael. My

favourite villain in literature is Michael's ambitious young sidekick, Rupert of Hentzau (the eponymous antihero of the sequel). In the Prisoner of Zenda, Rassendyll, who is

conveniently holidaying in Ruritania, must commit

himself fully to acting said the King so as to ensure the coronation goes ahead and to keep the plot to kidnap and ultimately assassinate the King under wraps. Little does he know that he will fall hopelessly in love with the King's betrothed, the beautiful Princess Flavia,

forcing him to make

the desperate choice

between heart and duty. It's a rip-snorting,

swashbuckling, romantic thriller.

PRESIDENT SNOW

President Snow is shown to be

intelligent rather than just

powerful. He is tactical and

careful in his evil, maintaining the air of mystery

and managing to hide his evil side behind that of a loving president.

HERO

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PECHORIN

The antihero is Pechorin: like all

good baddies, he's brooding, bored,

cynical, attractive and manipulative: a wasted talent. You have the sense he could have been so much more but is the 'superfluous

man'.

FRODO BAGGINSSay no more. A reluctant adventurer that has greatness

thrust upon him and, as a result, wrestles with the 'meaning' of heroism. Can everyone be heroic?

Also Aragorn, who fits the bill in every way.

THE GENTLEMAN WITH THE THISTLEDOWN HAIR

An incredibly well created world of magic, with many pages wandering around York or in libraries. The villain is more terrible than he initially appears, which is always

fantastic.

NOMBEKO MAYEKIA quirky tale of heroism in the face of (possible) nuclear war, and how knowledge (and Nombeko) is the

champion of everything. HERO

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ALEC LEMAS

A world weary but pretty splendid antihero: Alec Lemas. This is Cold War literature at its absolute best - where no one really knows who the

'goodies' and the 'baddies' are until it's almost too late. Alec is a sacrifice but in the end,

he chooses that destiny.

DR. MARINUS

Definitely a hero. Not the only book he/she appears in by David Mitchell, but if you like your heroes intelligent, compassionate and able to

travel in time, this is one for you.

COUNT FOSCO BERTHA DORSET

This elegant socialite leaves her own best friend stranded in the South of France, her reputation destroyed with false rumours of

adultery. You don't want her as an enemy.

Love the way his character

develops and his sinister quality

is slowly revealed

through the the novel. Brilliant

"cultured" villain.

HERO

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THE JOKER

This gives an amazing back story to one of

the most famous comic book villains

there is.

Considered the

definitive Joker story, and one of the best Batman

stories ever published.

HERMIONE GRAINGER Although Harry gets

all the credit for fixing everything, it's really Hermione who

is the clever one saving the day.

CORMORAN STRIKE

War veteran, Oxford graduate, amputee and advocate of the rights of the poor and disenfranchised.

BALRAM A sympathetic villain -

does hideous things but has an honest and

naive narrative voice.

MARIE-LAURESet largely in Nazi

occupied France, this enormously readable novel is made all the

more charming because of Marie-

Laure - a young blind girl, struggling against

the German occupation in any way

she can. Her commitment to her dear Papa, and her continued hope in

everything makes her quite the hero.

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GLORIA

Unassuming barmaid with a smile that lights up the days of down

and outs, Gloria becomes 'brighter than

any one of Zeus' daughters' as she fights

back against her circumstances.

HAROLD FRY

Harold, in the tradition of all mild mannered, kindly

men who undertake a crusade, becomes ennobled by it. A wonderful modern

Odyssey.

STEPHEN KUMALOA dignified and spiritual

presence whom we follow on a tragic journey through a

divided Johannesburg and out into a form of re-birth and renewal

towards the end of this deeply moving and

important novel. A life-changer, this one.

PATRICK BATEMAN

The murders are so graphic and

hideous - and his voice so honest

and brutal.

HERO

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THE GOVERNESSControversial whether she is a hero or villain -

but she's clearly a sexually repressed psychotic villain!

ATTICUS FINCH

My favourite hero of all time!

ALEXA villain who never gains any form of sympathy and yet is intriguing

throughout.

SAM MARSDYKEThis is a superbly

presented villain with whom you sympathise right up until the final

few chapters.

FRANK/FRANCIS

Frank's obsession with animal cruelty is scary - and his

honest voice is both psychotic and mesmerising. But perhaps it

is his brother, Eric 'the dog killer', who is the villain of the piece. Or is it their father...?

IGNATIUS J. REILLY

One of my favourite characters of all time.

Hideous, dreadful in every imaginable way, and

contemptuous of all around him. It's brilliant.

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GEORGE SMILEY

We all love the glamour of a swashbuckling James Bond; although that perhaps works

better in book there's something very satisfying about the unexpected hero

which adds to the suspense and twisted and turns of the plot.

John Le Carre's George Smiley emerges as a mastermind rom the murky, hidden

world of Cold War Era British intelligence, double agents and double dealing. 'The

Spy Who Came in From the Cold' is bleak, tense and sparsely written and a great starting point if you haven't read any Le Carre. 'Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy' is the first of a trilogy charting s battle for

control of British intelligence in the face of Soviet infiltration where our hero rarely

knows who to trust, but successfully relies on instinct.

MICHAEL DILLON

In Brian Moore's 'Lies

of Silence' the hero is even

more unexpected:

Michael Dillon is going about his life as a

hotel manager in the Belfast

of the troubles when he is thrust

into the forefront by

the IRA

taking him and his wife hostage and threatening her to try to force

him to bomb his own hotel. The terror, bravery, cowardice (and an affair) build the tension with the plot twists continuing to the very

last paragraph.

HERO

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LEO

A Shakespeare reselling, so it is of

course full of dastardly villains. Leo takes the crown as the biggest of them all - King Leontes in

The Winter's Tale has become a hedge fund manager, crazed with jealousy he commits some dreadful acts.

Winterson manages to flesh out his character so that he can never be considered truly evil, but this makes his crimes all the more powerful.

RICHARD PARKER

Despite trying to eat him a couple of

times, ultimately

it's Richard Parker that keeps Pi alive.

MISS HAVERSHAM

Justified in her

villainy in my

opinion..!

GATSBY

Perhaps controversial, but he's a charismatic villain - the very best

kind!

HOLDEN CAULFIELD

The teenage icon for rebellion and angst couldn't be

excluded from this list...

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CAPTAIN BLUEBEAR

tells the tales of the first thirteen and a

half lives of our hero, Captain

Bluebear. Fortunately,

bluebears have twenty seven lives, so it's not too much to worry about. The

time is spent on Zamonia, an amazing fantasy world. Lose yourself in joy when

you read this.

This rather

daft, fun and

enormously

enjoyable book

GRACE AND TIPPI

A story about

conjoined twins, but also a story about belonging, love, and feeling 'different.'

The twins are heading to school after years

of being homeschooled.

Written in free verse, this is a heartbreaker.

DRACULA

...for obvious reasons!

LIESEL

In this story of

Nazi Germany,

narrated by Death itself,

Liesel is a book thief, amongst

many other qualities. This is an enchanting

book.

THE WHALE

I certainly wouldn't want to bump in to him

in the sea...

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MATILDA

One of my favourites as a child, Matilda was brave and capable of

everything and anything. What a

perfect hero.

MARK WATNEYNever before has a botanist been so

exciting. Mark Watney not only keeps his wits about him when stranded on Mars, he keeps his sense of humour too. A

great read.

CHRISTOPHER JOHN FRANCIS

BOONE

Young Christopher faces a few difficulties in life, but when he discovers that a

murder has taken place, he determines to solve it. He's courageous and determined,

and doesn't let anything stop him.

CHERYL GLICKMANA thoroughly weird novel, and a

thoroughly weird hero. Cheryl has a houseguest. It all unravels from

there.

HERO

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MONKEY

From the classic Chinese tale, Monkey was hatched from a

stone egg, and given the secrets of heaven and Earth.

A truly classic hero who saves his friends from various

mishaps on their journey.

THE FATHERA nameless

father leaves his family to build them a

life in a foreign land. He battles a

world of

unknowns to provide for his family. A hero for our times.

MARJANE SATRAPI

A defiant teenager who lives through the Iraq -

Iran War. Her strength of character sees her

through in fine form.

GUYLAINGuylain has a job which is

slowly eroding his soul, so he takes small steps to try

and compensate. This novel is an utter pleasure, and Guylain

a lonely, slightly strange, magnificent hero - particularly

when it comes to books.

THE TRIFFIDS

The first post apocalyptic book I ever read, and what a great one to start with. The Triffids were, and still

are, terrifying.

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PAGE ONE The Monster - A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness Renata - Across the River and into the Trees by Ernest Hemmingway Alice - The Adventures of Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll John Grady Cole - All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy

PAGE TWO Jeeves - Jeeves and Wooster by P. G. Wodehouse George Bone - Hangover Square by Patrick Hamilton Ruth - The Life and Loves of a She-Devil by Fay Weldon Napoleon - Animal Farm by George Orwell Teddy - A God in Ruins by Kate Atkinson

Books featured are...

PAGE THREE Pennywise Appeal - IT by Stephen King Andy Dufresne - Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption by Stephen King Lin - Shantaram by Gregory David Roberts

Books featured are...PAGE FOUR Bruce Robertson - Filth by Irvine Welsh The Father - The Road by Cormac McCarthy Anton Chigurgh- No Country For Old Men by Cormac McCarthy Pooh Bear - Winnie the Pooh by A. A. Milne Hester Prynne - The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne Rorschach - Watchmen by Alan Gibbons

PAGE FIVE Charles Paris - Cast in Order of Disappearance by Simon Brett Crow - Grief is the Thing with Feathers by Max Porter Sherlock Holmes - The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

PAGE SIX Mrs. Danvers - Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier Heathcliff - Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte Amy Dunne - Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn Elena - My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante Tom Ripley - The Talented Mr. Ripley by Patricia Highsmith Aslan - The Chronicles of Narnia by C. S. Lewis

Books featured are...PAGE SEVEN Martin Brody - Jaws by Peter Benchley Mr. Darcy - Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen Shape - The Harry Potter Series by J. K. Rowling Jean Paget - A Town Like Alice by Nevil Shute Lord Peter Wimsey - The Dorothy L. Sayers collection Scout - To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee

PAGE EIGHT Shai'Tan- The Wheel of Time Series by Robert Jordan George Smiley - The Series by John Le Carre Dorrigo Evans - The Narrow Road to the Deep North by Richard Flanagan

PAGE NINE Todd, Viola and Manchee vs. Mayor Prentiss - The Chaos Walking Trilogy by Patrick Ness Lettie Hempstock- The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman Silas Marner - Silas Marner by George Eliot Henry Winter - The Secret History by Donna Tartt

Books featured are...PAGE TEN William Stoner - Stoner by John Williams Harrison Shepherd - The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver Robbie Turner - Atonement by Ian McEwan

PAGE ELEVEN Flora Poste - Cold Comfort Farm by Sally Gibbons Victor Frankenstein - Frankenstein by Mary Shelley Aegon the Unlikely - A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms by George R. R. Martin Jude - A Little Life by Hanya Yanigahara

PAGE TWELVE Candide - Candide by Voltaire Bendrix - The End of the Affair by Graham Greene Mersault - L'Etranger by Albert Camus Jean Valjean - Les Miserables by Victor Hugo Etienne Lontier - Germinal by Emile Zola Marianne - Heroes and Villains by Angela Carter

PAGE FOURTEEN Pechorin - A Hero of Our Time by Mikhail Lermontov Frodo Baggins - The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien The Gentleman with the Thistledown Hair - Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell by Suzanna Clarke Nombeko Mayeki - The Girl Who Saved the King of Sweden by Jonas Jonasson

PAGE FIFTEEN Alec Lemas - The Spy Who Came in From the Cold by John Le Carre Dr. Marinus - The Bone Clocks by David Mitchell Count Fosco - The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins Bertha Dorset - The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton

PAGE THIRTEEN Patrick Sumner - The North Water by Ian McGuire Rudolph Rassendyll - The Prisoner of Zenda by Anthony Hope President Snow - The Hunger Games Trilogy by Suzanne Collins

Books featured are...

Books featured are...PAGE SIXTEEN The Joker - The Killing a joke by Alan Moore Marie-Laure - All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doer Balram - The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga Cormoran Strike - Cuckoo's Calling by Robert Galbraith Hermione Grainger - The Harry Potter Series by J.K. Rowling

PAGE SEVENTEEN Gloria - Brand New Ancients by Kate Tempest Harold Fry - The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce Stephen Kumalo - Cry, The Beloved Country by Alan Paton Patrick Bateman - American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis

Books featured are...

PAGE TWENTY Richard Parker - The Life of Pi by Yann Martel Miss Haversham - Great Expectations by Charles Dickens Leo - The Gap of Time by Jeanette Winterson Gatsby- The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald Holden Caulfield - The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger

PAGE NINETEEN George Smiley - The Spy Who Came in From the Cold by John Le Carre Michael Dillon - The Lies of Silence by Brian Moore

PAGE EIGHTEEN The Governess - The Turn of the Screw by Henry James Atticus Finch - To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee Alex - A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess Sam Marsdyke- God's Own Country by Ross Raisin Frank/Francis - The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks Ignatius J. Reilly - A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole

Books featured are...PAGE TWENTY-ONE Grace and Tippi- One by Sarah Crossan Captain Bluebear- The 13 and a half Lives of Captain Bluebear by Walter Moers Dracula - Dracula by Bram Stoker The Whale - Moby Dick by Herman Melville Liesel- The Book Thief by Marcus Zusak

PAGE TWENTY-TWO Matilda - Matilda by Roald Dahl Mark Watney - The Martian by Andy Weir Christopher John Francis Boone - The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon Cheryl Glickman - The First Bad Man by Miranda July

Books featured are...PAGE Twenty-THREE The Father - The Arrival by Shaun Tan Marjane Satrapi - Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi Guylain- The Reader on the 6.27 by Jean-Paul Didierlaurent the Triffids - Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham Monkey - Journey to the West by Wu Cheng'en

With many thanks to all who contributed to this years great

selections!