Pride Month at the Library

This week, the Library team have been working on displays and reading lists for Pride Month!

We have included some of our personal favourites below but for a longer list check out our page on the Library App.

Radio Silence by Alice Oseman (STM Library)

'Best known at GCH for their highly successful Heartstopper series, Alice Oseman is also the author of several brilliant contemporary YA novels - my favourite of which is Radio Silence.

Radio Silence follows sixth form student Frances and her new friend Aled - the creator of her favourite podcast and brother of Frances's missing childhood friend. 

Together, the two characters start to question everything they know about themselves and what they want from life in this exploration of identity, academic pressure and the complexities of teenage friendships.'

- Ms. Weston 

More Than This by Patrick Ness (STA/STM Libraries)

Chosen by Mrs. Swan 

'A boy called Seth drowns, desperate and alone in his final moments, losing his life as the pounding sea claims him. But then he wakes. He is naked, thirsty, starving. But alive. How is that possible? He remembers dying, his bones breaking, his skull dashed upon the rocks. So how is he is here? And where is this place? It looks like the suburban English town where he lived as a child, before an unthinkable tragedy happened and his family moved to America. But the neighbourhood around his old house is overgrown, covered in dust and completely abandoned. 

 

What's going on? And why is it that whenever he closes his eyes, he falls prey to vivid, agonizing memories that seem more real than the world around him? Seth begins a search for answers, hoping that he might not be alone, that this might not be the hell he fears it to be, that there might be more than just this...' 

Girl, Woman, Other by Bernadine Evaristo (STM Library)

'Girl, Woman, Other deservedly earned Bernadine Evaristo the Booker Prize in 2019 (shared with fellow feminist literary trailblazer Margaret Atwood) for its innovative structure and compelling intertwined narratives that explore gender, class, sexuality and race. Evaristo's characters are mostly women of colour, and range from banker to cleaner, teacher to activist, old to young, rich to poor, gay and straight. As the author herself explained, "I wanted to put presence into absence".' 

- Ms. Steadman

For more recommendations, check out our displays at St Andrew's Library (pictured below) and at St Michael's Library.

Happy Pride Month!