Summer Reading: Inspired by the classics

Throughout the break we will post ideas for your summer reading list. The list below includes books inspired by the classics:

The final solution: a story of detection, by Michael Chabon (Sherlock Holmes)

Mr Pip, by Lloyd Jones (Great Expectations)

March, by Geraldine Brooks (Little Women)

A thousand acres: a novel, by Jane Smiley (King Lear)

Wide Sargasso Sea, by Jean Rhys (Jane Eyre)

Junior fiction: Wicked: the life and times of the wicked witch of the west, by Gregory Maguire (The Wizard of Oz)