Always (#7 Felix & Zelda)

Morris Gleitzman

The final part in the highly moving 'Once' sequence about Felix, who began life in an orphanage, hiding from the Nazis. Late in life, Felix finds himself back where he started, living in an aged-care home that reminds him of his childhood orphanage. He's not happy. His body might be old, but his spirit ...

The Rainbow

Yasunari Kawabata

With the Second World War only a few years in the past, and Japan still reeling from its effects, two sisters - born to the same father but different mothers - struggle to make sense of the new world in which they are coming of age. Asako, the younger, has become obsessed with locating a third sibling, ...