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MENTAL HEALTH AWARENESS WEEK: FIVE BOOKS ABOUT THE PERPETUALLY ANXIOUS This week is Mental Health Awareness Week, with a focus on anxiety. The week aims to raise public consciousness about mental health issues and generate a more understanding support network for sufferers. Here we choose five brilliant books about characters who deal with anxiety starting with Good Morning, Midnight by Jean Rhys. Rhys' semi-autobiographical tale of a fragmented young woman's time alone in Paris is bitterly funny and sympathetically tragic. Her social interaction is perplexing and disjointed at best, coupled with a wild and furious internal dialogue of personal insights and intense self-admonition. READ MORE >

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TOP 5: NOVELS IN TRANSLATION Rosie Goldsmith, journalist and chair of European Literature Night, tells us about her favourite contemporary novels in translation. MORE >

JAMES DAWSON: QUEEN OF TEEN? YA author James Dawson is on the shortlist for the 2014 Queen of Teen prize. He tells us about what it's like to be nominated. MORE >

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WE WERE LIARS by E. Lockhart We Were Liars tells the story of Cadence, the eldest of the Sinclair grandchildren. The Sinclairs are a wealthy American family who spend every summer on their family island in a haze of beach trips, cocktails, and suppressed problems and tensions. Lockhart's writing is pleasingly lyrical and poetic for a YA novel. It will draw you in and keep you entranced as Cadence tries to work out what has happened to her and her family. While you may guess what has happened it won't lessen your enjoyment at the beautiful way Lockhart reveals and explores it, and the ending is moving without being sentimental. Exploring ideas of loyalty and corruption, prejudice and identity, We Were Liars is haunting and melancholic and a refreshingly different YA read. MORE >