It's Mother's Day this weekend. We hope you've bought a card and some flowers and are planning an elaborate lunch or breakfast for her! If you're looking for any book recommendations for your mum, here are some suggestions for you, including the painfully funny and honest graphic memoir about a summer a mother and her son spend together, Days of Bagnold Summer.
Ideas for presents for your mum
It's Mother's Day this weekend. We hope you've bought a card and some flowers and are planning an elaborate lunch or breakfast for her! If you're looking for any book recommendations for your mum, here are some suggestions for you, including the painfully funny and honest graphic memoir about a summer a mother and her son spend together, Days of Bagnold Summer.
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The Pleasure Seekers
BloomsburyThe dual heritages of India and Wales come together in this funny, bittersweet tale spanning four generations of Patels from dancer and poet, Tishani Doshi -
Gillespie & I
FaberAs she sits in her Bloomsbury home, with her two birds for company, elderly Harriet Baxter sets out to relate the story of her acquaintance, nearly four decades previously, with Ned Gillespie, a talented artist who never achieved the fame... -
Never Let Me Go
FaberIn one of the most acclaimed and strange novels of recent years, Kazuo Ishiguro imagines the lives of a group of students growing up in a darkly skewered version of contemporary England. -
The Lacuna
FaberBorn in the US and reared in a series of provincial households in Mexico, Harrison Shepherd is mostly a liability to his social-climbing mother, Salomé; his fortunes remaining insecure as Salomé finds her rich men-friends always on the losing side... -
Beyond Black
Harper PerennialAlison Hart, a medium by trade, tours the dormitory towns of London's orbital road with her flint-hearted sidekick Colette, passing on messages from dead ancestors. -
The Beggar Maid
VintageThis collection of stories reads like a novel following Rose's life as she moves away from her impoverished roots and forges her own path in the world. -
Gilead
ViragoDelighted to become a father so late in life, the Reverend John Ames is sad that there's no chance he'll live to see his son grown up. So he sets himself the task of writing a long letter for his... -
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Hamish HamiltonLeah, Felix and Keisha all grew up on the same estate in North West London. In different ways, they all work to escape where they've come from. They quickly realise that 'it's not where you're from, it's where you're at'... -
Nothing to Wear and Nowhere to Hide
FlamingoA spiky, feisty, hilarious collection of stories that expose women's clumsy, often doomed, attempts to negotiate a smooth path through life. -
Days of the Bagnold Summer
Jonathan CapeThere is something painfully familiar about this simple, funny and sad graphic novel about a mum trying to engage her awkward, moody teenage metalhead of a son over the 6 weeks of his summer holiday
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