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Books of the Month This month's 'featured books'
Books of the Month
Flight Behaviour
Barbara Kingsolver
May 2013 Book of the Month. Winner of the Orange Prize for Fiction in 2010 and on the shortlist for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2013. A topical, engrossing and thought-provoking read exploring how...
Format: Paperback - Released: 18/04/2013
 
 

Elijah's Mermaid
Essie Fox
May 2013 Book of the Month. A panoply of characters bring Victorian London’s polarised society vividly to life. The lives of two orphans brought up by their grandfather and a baby found in...
Format: Paperback - Released: 09/05/2013
 
 

Walking Home
Simon Armitage
May 2013 Travel Book of the Month. A uniquely charming, droll, moving, British narrative from writer and poet Simon Armitage as he recounts his 256 mile (North to South) walk along the Pennine...
Format: Paperback - Released: 04/04/2013
 
 

Fallen Land
Patrick Flanery
May 2013 Book of the Month. A complex and thought-provoking psychological thriller that, through the metaphor of the characters' experiences, explores the utter failure of the American dream. A Boston family, looking for...
Format: Hardback - Released: 01/05/2013
 
 

Author of the Month This month's 'featured books'
Author of the Month
Pigs in Heaven
Barbara Kingsolver
Pigs in Heaven travels the roads from rural Kentucky and the urban Southwest to Heaven, Oklahoma, and the Cherokee Nation, testing the boundaries of family and the many separate truths about the ties that bind. It is a spellbinding novel...
Format: Paperback - Released: 11/04/2013
 
 

The Poisonwood Bible
Barbara Kingsolver
One of Susan Fletcher's favourite books. A fascinating story told from the perspective of a mother and her four daughters who have been taken to the Congo, by the father of the family, on a mission to bring God to...
Format: Paperback - Released: 11/04/2013
 
 

The Lacuna
Barbara Kingsolver
Winner of the prestigious 2010 Orange Prize for Fiction. The Poisonwood Bible was a very special book, this one, her first in ten years, is a very worthy book. You need stamina and time to tackle it and you do...
Format: Paperback - Released: 11/04/2013
 
 

Flight Behaviour
Barbara Kingsolver
May 2013 Book of the Month. Winner of the Orange Prize for Fiction in 2010 and on the shortlist for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2013. A topical, engrossing and thought-provoking read exploring how...
Format: Paperback - Released: 18/04/2013
 
 

Debuts of the Month This month's 'featured books'
Debuts of the Month
The Dog Stars
Peter Heller
Hig, bereaved and traumatised after global disaster, has three things to live for - his dog Jasper, his aggressive but helpful neighbour, and his Cessna aeroplane. He's just about surviving, so long as he only takes his beloved plane for...
Format: Paperback - Released: 09/05/2013
 
 

Miss Garnet's Angel
Salley Vickers
Salley Vicker's sensational debut novel, 'Miss Garnet's Angel' is a voyage of discovery; a novel about Venice but also the rich story of the explosive possibilities of change in all of us at any time. Her new book, The...
Format: Paperback - Released: 02/01/2001
 
 

The River of No Return
Bee Ridgway
What an original and engaging debut. Who would have thought you could have put romance, science fiction, magic historical fiction and time travel into such an unforgettable story. If you loved The Time Traveler's Wife or The Night...
Format: Hardback - Released: 23/05/2013
 
 

The Son
Michel Rostain
Winner of the Prix Goncourt for Debut Fiction in 2011. An award-winning bestseller first published in France with a truly unique perspective. Follow a grief-stricken father, after the sudden death of his son - through the son's eyes. This witty, wisdom-laden...
Format: Hardback - Released: 23/05/2013
 
 

eBooks This month's 'featured books'
eBooks
The Conception of Zachary Muse
Jason Hinojosa
This compelling, allegorical tale of the transformative power of nature, the devastatingly positive and negative effects of love and the power of feminine beauty is frankly hard to categorise. The writing is evocative and lyrical and the story has more...
Format: Book - Released: 26/02/2013
 
 

Telegraph Avenue
Michael Chabon
From the bestselling author of 'The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay'; his first novel in 5 years is a lovingly painted pop-culture epic. As summer in Oakland, California, draws to a close, Archy Stallings and Nat Jaffe are hanging...
Format: Paperback - Released: 15/04/2013
 
 

The Liars' Gospel
Naomi Alderman
Naomi Alderman's The Liars' Gospel makes the oldest story - the story of Jesus - entirely new. 'He was a traitor, a rabble-leader, a rebel, a liar and a pretender to the throne. We have tried to forget him here.'...
Format: Paperback - Released: 25/04/2013
 
 

The Cleaner of Chartres
Salley Vickers
A captivating, magical and slightly sinister story of secrets, forgiveness, loss and love. It’s the perfect book for readers who loved Joanne Harris' Chocolat. No one knows where the mysterious cleaner came from, and she is happy to hide...
Format: Paperback - Released: 23/05/2013
 
 

F Scott Fitzgerald This month's 'featured books'
F Scott Fitzgerald
This Side of Paradise
F. Scott Fitzgerald
A critical account of its own era, introducing many themes which would be developed in later works, Fitzgerald's first novel was an instant critical and commercial success, propelling him into the limelight as a literary celebrity. Baz Luhrmann's film adaptation of...
Format: Paperback - Released: 27/09/2012
 
 

The Beautiful and Damned
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Containing obvious parallels with F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald's own lives, The Beautiful and Damned is a tragic examination of the pitfalls of greed and materialism and the transience of youth and beauty. Baz Luhrmann's film adaptation of The Great Gatsby,...
Format: Paperback - Released: 17/08/2012
 
 

Tales of the Jazz Age
F. Scott Fitzgerald
A collection of early short stories which helped make F. Scott Fitzgerald's name. Baz Luhrmann's film adaptation of The Great Gatsby, starring Leonardo DiCaprio, opened the 66th Cannes Film Festival. A 'Piece of Passion' from Alessandro Gallenzi on the Alma Classics...
Format: Paperback - Released: 28/03/2013
 
 

The Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Regarded as Fitzgerald's masterpiece and one of the greatest novels of American literature, The Great Gatsby is a vivid chronicle of the excesses and decadence of the Jazz Age, as well as a timeless cautionary critique of the American dream. Baz...
Format: Paperback - Released: 04/07/2012
 
 

Reading Groups This month's 'featured books'
Reading Groups
The Conception of Zachary Muse
Jason Hinojosa
This compelling, allegorical tale of the transformative power of nature, the devastatingly positive and negative effects of love and the power of feminine beauty is frankly hard to categorise. The writing is evocative and lyrical and the story has more...
Format: Book - Released: 26/02/2013
 
 

Elijah's Mermaid
Essie Fox
May 2013 Book of the Month. A panoply of characters bring Victorian London’s polarised society vividly to life. The lives of two orphans brought up by their grandfather and a baby found in...
Format: Paperback - Released: 09/05/2013
 
 

The Light Between Oceans
M. L. Stedman
Isolated at the tip of Australia as a lighthouse keeper, emotionally traumatised World War I veteran Tom fears for his wife's sanity after her third miscarriage. Then a boat turns up carrying a dead man and a newborn baby. They...
Format: Paperback - Released: 09/05/2013
 
 

Golden Boy
Abigail Tarttelin
May 2013 Debut of the Month. This controversial book dealing with issues of identity, gender and sexuality and freedom of the press is set to...
Format: Hardback - Released: 09/05/2013
 
 

UK Top 10 This month's 'featured books'
UK Top 10
The Mystery of Mercy Close
Marian Keyes
April 2013 Book of the Month. Waspish, well-observed and tragically comic in places this is the fifth instalment in the Walsh Family series. Private Investigator Helen Walsh is really on her uppers, with...
Format: Paperback - Released: 11/04/2013
 
 

Gone Girl
Gillian Flynn
'What are you thinking, Amy?' The question I've asked most often during our marriage, if not out loud, if not to the person who could answer. I suppose these questions stormcloud over every marriage: 'What are you thinking? How are...
Format: Paperback - Released: 03/01/2013
 
 

Bring Up the Bodies
Hilary Mantel
Shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2013. With her dazzling, utterly absorbing style of writing Bring Up the Bodies focuses on the downfall and destruction of the charismatic Anne Boleyn. This is the sequel to the 2009 Man Booker-winning
Format: Paperback - Released: 07/05/2013
 
 

The Summer House
Santa Montefiore
Antoinette's world has fallen apart: her husband, the man she has loved for as long as she can remember, has died tragically in an accident. He was her rock, the man she turned to for love and support, the man...
Format: Paperback - Released: 25/04/2013
 
 


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