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Your TOP 20 NOVELS

Reading is one of life’s greatest pleasures and, during lockdown, many of us have revisited or discovered some of the greatest fiction ever written. These are the books you’ve told us you love the most.

20 LORD OF THE FLIES by William Golding

When a plane crashes on a desert island, the only survivors are a group of schoolboys. Their attempts to govern themselves fall apart and terror sets in. A thought-provoking classic examining the cruel end of innocence. A line we love: ‘The thing is – fear can’t hurt you any more than a dream.’

19 GREAT EXPECTATIONS by Charles Dickens

We follow Pip as he meets eccentric Miss Havisham, falls for haughty Estella and becomes a gentleman. ‘I looked at the stars, and considered how awful it would be for a man to turn his face up to them as he froze to death, and

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