Stories by @rachani

James

"Percival Everett's gleeful reboot of Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn puts the enslaved Jim centre stage in a horrifying, painful and funny novel." © 2024 Guardian News & Media Limited

Night Watch

"A beautifully rendered novel set in West Virginia’s Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum in the aftermath of the Civil War where a severely wounded Union veteran, a 12-year-old girl and her mother, long abused by a Confederate soldier, struggle to heal". LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD IN FICTION • A NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR © 2024 The Pulitzer Prizes

Hamnet

Hamnet is a 2020 novel by Maggie O'Farrell. It is a fictional account of William Shakespeare's son, Hamnet, who died at age eleven in 1596, focusing on his parents' grief. (From Wikipedia)

The Wager

"A story of shipwreck, survival, and savagery, culminating in a court martial that reveals a shocking truth". Penguin Random House