Alleyn's School Reading List

This list aims to offer reading recommendations to the students and staff of Alleyn's School. You can search for books in four ways. By category on the left or, if you know what you're looking for, by using the search box just below the list of categories. Be inspired by our most recent entries on the right or by accessing the full record of all previous entries that appears lower down the page, also on the right, organised by their date of entry. Happy browsing!

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Wednesday, 14 December 2011

Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

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'Psychologically, the latter part of Great Expectations is about the best thing Dickens ever did.' George Orwell A terrifying enco...
Tuesday, 6 December 2011

Call the Midwife by Jennifer Worth

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A fascinating slice of social history - Jennifer Worth's tales of being a midwife in 1950s London has been commissioned as a major BBC T...
Sunday, 20 November 2011

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll

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'So many out-of-the-way things had happened lately, that Alice had begun to think that very few things indeed were really impossible...
Thursday, 20 October 2011

A Swift Pure Cry by Siobhan O'Dowd

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An extraordinary story of one girl's courage in the face of prejudice and hardship within a small community in Ireland. 'Beautiful...
Thursday, 13 October 2011

Danny the Champion of the World by Roald Dahl

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"My father, without the slightest doubt, was the most marvellous and exciting father any boy ever had." Danny feels very lucky. ...
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