School's Out by Christopher Dufosse

Title: School's Out
Author: Christophe Dufosse
Blurb: When a fellow teacher at his school is found dead, Pierre Hoffman assumes responsibility for class 9F and finds himself tutor to a group of well-behaved but strangely menacing pupils. Refusing to embrace the hostility felt towards the class by his colleagues, Hoffman initially takes it easy with his precocious charges. But a series of bizarre and disturbing episodes cause him to question their motivations and the circumstances of their previous teacher's apparent suicide.

Dismissing his growing unease as the product of an over-active imagination, Hoffman supports his preternaturally self-aware pupils' decision to organise a school trip to the Normandy coast and agrees to accompany them. But it is only once the trip has begun that Hoffman finally begins to understand his pupils' true intentions.

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How to Lose Friends and Alienate People by Toby Young

Title: How to Lose Friends and Alienate People
Author: Toby Young
Blurb: In 1995 high-flying British journalist Toby Young left London for New York to become a contributing editor at Vanity Fair. Other Brits had taken Manhattan - Alistair Cook, Tina Brown, Anna Wintour - so why couldn't he?

But things did not go according to plan. Within the space of two years he was fired from Vanity Fair, banned from the most fashionable bar in the city and couldn't get a date for love or money. How to Lose Friends and Alienate People is Toby Young's bestselling account of the five years he spent steadily working his way down the New York food chain, from glossy magazine to crash-test dummy for interactive sex toys.

Now a Motion Picture featuring Simon Pegg, Kirsten Dunst, Jeff Bridges and Gillian Anderson.

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The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold

Title: The Lovely Bones
Author: Alice Sebold
Blurb: My name is Salmon, like the fish; first name, Susie. I was fourteen when I was murdered on December 6, 1973. My murderer was a man from our neighborhood. My mother liked his border flowers, and my father talked to him once about fertilizer.

This is Susie Salmon, speaking from heaven - which looks a lot like her school playground, with the good kind of swing sets, counsellors to help newcomers adjust, and friends to room with. Everything Susie wants appears as soon as she thinks of it - except the one thing she wants most: to be back with the people she loved on earth.

Watching from her place in heaven, Susie sees her happy, suburban family devastated by her death, isolated even from one another as they each try to cope with their terrible loss alone. Over the years, her friends and siblings grow up, fall in love, do all the things she never had the chance to do herself.

But life is not quite finished with Susie yet....

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