Olympic books

I don't know if you knew but there are some Olympic Games currently taking place in London as we speak.

To celebrate, we thought, instead of giving you more sports books to read, how about a list of books inspired by the colours of the Olympic rings...

Half of a Yellow Sun

by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Harper Perennial

Half of a Yellow Sun is set in Nigeria during the 1960s, at the time of the vicious Nigeria- Biafra war in which more than a million people died and thousands were massacred in cold blood

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Girl in a Blue Dress

by Gaynor Arnold

Tindal Street Press

In Alfred Gibson the fierce energy and brilliance of the most famous of the Victorian novelists is recreated, in a heart-warming story of first love--of a cocky young writer smitten by a pretty girl in a blue dress.

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Black Water Rising

by Attica Locke

Serpent's Tail

On a dark night, out on the Houston bayou to celebrate his wife's birthday, Jay Porter hears a scream. Saving a distressed woman from drowning, he opens a Pandora's Box.

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White and Red

by Dorota Maslowska

Atlantic

Andrzej 'Nails' Robakoski is a tracksuited slacker who spends most of his time doing nothing other than searching for his next line of speed and dreaming up conspiracy theories about the national economy. Dumped by his girlfriend Magda, a beautiful...

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The White Woman on the Green Bicycle

by Monique Roffey

Pocket Books

When George and Sabine Harwood arrive in Trinidad from England George instantly takes to their new life, but Sabine feels isolated, heat-fatigued, and ill at ease with the racial segregation and the imminent dawning of a new era.

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