Explore the literal and metaphorical resonance of sound in poet Raymond Antrobus's "outstanding" coming-of-age memoir, The Quiet Ear. Belt out a melody in "beautiful harmony" with the marriage of David Levithan's fiction and Jens Lekman's tunes in the "stunning" Songs for Other People's Wedding. Join an experimental classroom through Jamie Sumner's "insightful and absorbing" middle-grade novel, Schooled. And laugh in the face of disaster alongside novelist Rabih Alameddine as he expounds for The Writer's Life on the quirks of the cantankerous characters at the heart of The True True Story of Raja the Gullible (and His Mother). A world of enthralling literature is just one click away!
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