English Faculty Recommended Reads: Wk beginning 29th June

English Faculty Recommended Reads: Wk beginning 29th June


Lynn Court
Lynn Court
English Faculty Recommended Reads: Wk...

‘Brighton Rock’ (1938) by Graham Greene

‘Heaven was a word: hell was something he could trust.’

This fast-paced thriller is one of Greene’s most famous novels. It tells the tale of a gang war that is raging through the dark underworld of Brighton. Seventeen-year-old Pinkie, malign and ruthless, has killed a man and thinks he can get away with it…

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