ME Recommends: Back To School
It’s back to school season! A time for new stationery, cosy autumn films, and - our favourite - campus novels! The Mushens Entertainment team have shared their pick of back to school reads for you to enjoy, from the weird to the wonderful…
Juliet recommends…
Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell – following twin sisters in their first year at university, one of whom is leaving fandom behind, whilst the other is burying herself in finishing her epic slash fanfiction – whilst dealing with first love. Makes me feel very cosy!
Liza recommends…
My back to school read is Old School by Tobias Wolff. This was one of the first books I read in high-school that really resonated with me. It follows a boy at an elite prep school in New England who plagiarises a short story to win a competition to meet Ernest Hemingway only to be found out and expelled. I have never been able to stop thinking about this novel.
Rachel recommends…
The Things We Do to Our Friends by Heather Darwent. Clare arrives at the University of Edinburgh with a secret. She meets the charismatic, beautiful and intimidatingly rich Tabitha. Soon Clare is sucked into her dizzying world of champagne on rooftops and summers in France. Then Tabitha reveals the dark project she is working on and Clare can't say no…
Twisty and tense with an ending you won’t see coming, I loved this thriller’s University of Edinburgh setting!
Kiya recommends…
Bunny by Mona Awad. A total fever-dream of a book, Bunny follows Samantha Heather Mackey, who has just begun a highly selective MFA program in New England and is initially repulsed by the clique in her fiction writing cohort - a group of insufferable rich girls who call each other "Bunny.” Everything changes when the Bunnies issue her with an invitation, and Samantha finds herself inexplicably drawn to their front door, across the threshold, and down their rabbit hole…
One of the weirdest books you will ever read, it’s completely bizarre, brilliantly funny, and fantastically addictive!