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2026 is the National Year of Reading! To celebrate we are sharing some Library staff recommendations!

Recommendation 9: A Family Matter by Claire Lynch

A Family Matter moves between 1982, when young mother Dawn’s chance meeting with Hazel ignites a love she can’t easily claim, and 2022, when Heron hides a life-changing diagnosis from his daughter Maggie. As secrets surface, three lives shaped by silence edge toward uneasy truths.

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2026 is the National Year of Reading! To celebrate we are sharing some Library staff recommendations!

Recommendation 7: Untouchable by Mulk Raj

One of our Research and Academic Support Librarians shares: "I have owned this book since my undergrad, when it was on a big reading list... and I didn't read it. Since moving and building my shelves, I have made a deal with myself to read every book on there that I haven't read yet.

Untouchable is very different fare from my usual reading, and I am definitely out of practice reading early 20th century English. I am not very familiar with the caste system beyond the very basics, and this book is quite eye opening in that regard. It's also interesting in the context of the experience of colonisation of course, and the complex relationship an outcast can develop with a foreign-to-them culture when their own culture seems inhospitable to them."