Staff Picks

Michelle's pick
If you like the first movie Fifty Shades of Grey, you should not miss the third and final installment of the Fifty Shades series: Fifty Shades Freed. Some scenes were filmed in Vancouver. I watched the movie first, but reading the novel after gave me a better understanding of enjoyable storytelling. Feel free to give it try. It is a relaxing choice in summer holiday!

Michael's pick
Quite simply one of the greatest films of all time, and father of the modern mob movie (pun intended). Endlessly quotable, and endlessly parodied, very few films have ever been made that are as good as this.

Michael's pick
If you’ve read any of the other books in the series, all you need to know is that Pippi’s legendary pirate father is in this. If you haven’t read any of the other books in the series … all you need to know is that Pippi’s legendary pirate father is in this. I don’t think I should have to say any more than that.

Sabrina's pick
Spy thriller. Psychological exploration. Black comedy. War fiction. Confessional. This book is somehow all of these things. Our protagonist, a spy living a double life as an American immigrant and North Vietnamese agent, tells his story in flashback as he is tortured by a commandant. Winner of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize.

Michel's pick
A weird book, a very weird book, a quite weird book is joyful, it is so joyful because there is boldness in it. This notoriously divisive, experimental, domestic, feminist, Cubist prose-poem hasn't lost any of its hypnotic power over the last hundred-odd years.