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  1. Secrets of the Tides by Hannah Richell
  2. The Child Who by Simon Lelic
  3. Pure by Andrew Miller
  4. The Legacy of Hartlepool Hall by Paul Torday
  5. No One Left to Tell by Karen Rose
  6. The Child Inside by Suzanne Bugler
  7. Drop Dead Gorgeous by Katie Agnew
  8. Finders Keepers by Belinda Bauer
  9. The Guardians by Andrew Pyper
  10. Before I Go to Sleep by S. J. Watson


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Author of the Month This month's 'featured books'
Author of the Month
The Last Time They Met
Anita Shreve
A beautifully written novel of lost love. The end of this book is a complete surprise and will make you want to read the novel all over again with this new perspective....
Format: Paperback - Released: 03/12/2001
 
 

Rescue
Anita Shreve
February 2012 Book of the Month. A tale of love, banishment and renewal, Rescue is a perfectly paced novel, written with Shreve's skilful lightness of touch and perceptive characterisation. Alternating between the life-and-death...
Format: Paperback - Released: 02/02/2012
 
 

Body Surfing
Anita Shreve
Another beautifully written book from this author, set against a New Hampshire seaside backdrop which she seems to love and indeed you want to be curled up on a veranda looking out to sea when reading this tale of a...
Format: Paperback - Released: 06/03/2008
 
 

Fortune's Rocks
Anita Shreve
This is considered one of her best novels and does deserve such praise. A wonderfully descriptive book, it is the attention to detail that makes this such an absorbing read, you can picture every line on each character’s face, each...
Format: Paperback - Released: 04/01/2001
 
 

eBooks This month's 'featured books'
eBooks
Sing You Home
Jodi Picoult
Zoe Baxter has spent ten years trying to get pregnant, and just when she's about to get her heart's desire, tragedy destroys her world. In the aftermath of loss and divorce, she throws herself into her career as a music...
Format: Paperback - Released: 19/01/2012
 
 

Last Man in Tower
Aravind Adiga
February 2012 MEGA Book of the Month. The compelling, complex and multi-layered novel from Aravind Adiga is his first after White Tiger which won the Booker in 2008. A suspense-filled story of...
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/02/2012
 
 

Angel Fire
L. A. Weatherly
If you're still into paranormal fiction or if you think you've had enough of it then think again. L A Weatherly's Angel sequence is original, fast-paced with characters you really warm to. Don't miss this, the second one in the...
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/10/2011
 
 

The House of Dust and Dreams
Brenda Reid
February 2012 Debut of the Month. Set in Greece in 1936 this is a charming tale of friendship, resilience and love in the face of war seen through the eyes of Evadne a...
Format: Paperback - Released: 16/02/2012
 
 

Debuts of the Month This month's 'featured books'
Debuts of the Month
White Heat
M. J. McGrath
Nothing on the tundra rotted ...The whole history of human settlement lay exposed there, under that big northern sky. There was nowhere here for bones to hide. On Craig Island, a vast landscape of ice north of the Arctic Circle,...
Format: Paperback - Released: 03/02/2012
 
 

Care of Wooden Floors
Will Wiles
February 2012 Debut of the Month. Inhabiting the spaces in-between everyday events - a place where tiny oversights can have disastrous, farcical and even fatal consequences. This is a unique, bold and brilliant...
Format: Hardback - Released: 02/02/2012
 
 

A Book for All and None
Clare Morgan
February 2012 Debut of the Month. A beautiful, haunting literary debut from an extraordinary new talent who we can see scooping future literary prizes. When you are the Director of the Creative Writing...
Format: Paperback - Released: 16/02/2012
 
 

The Thoughts and Happenings of Wilfred Price, Purveyor of Superior Funerals
Wendy Jones
February 2012 Debut of the Month. This charming and beautifully told debut novel, set in 1920s rural Wales, follows Wilfred Price a young, and emotionally confused undertaker! Strange as the choice of setting...
Format: Hardback - Released: 19/01/2012
 
 

New Year, New You This month's 'featured books'
New Year, New You
The Raw Food Diet : The Healthy Way to Get the Shape You Want
Christine Bailey
Eating more raw food ensures a vitamin and nutrient rich diet. It helps you detox, gain energy and by pruning your diet of all the cooked “nasties” means weight loss too. Ideal for beginners, Christine Bailey’s guide includes advice, plans,...
Format: Paperback - Released: 05/01/2012
 
 

The Austerity Book : Classic Tips for Enjoying Life Inexpensively
Jaqueline Mitchell
In 2012, as the new era of austerity kicks in and it feels like post-war Britain all over again, this book provides a survival guide and a perennial source of solutions for lean times, thanks to our cash-strapped forebears in...
Format: Hardback - Released: 07/12/2010
 
 

The 15 Minute Rule : How to Stop Procrastinating and Take Charge of Your Life
Caroline Buchanan
It could be the tax return, bulging wardrobes or a major life change. If you are a procrastinator then these things never get done or get left to the very last minute. Caroline Buchanan suggests a new way – pick...
Format: Paperback - Released: 05/01/2012
 
 

The New Atkins New You Cookbook 200 Delicious Low-Carb Recipes You Can Make in 30 Minutes or Less
Colette Heimowitz
The bestselling New Atkins New You introduced a whole new way to do the classic Atkins diet, offering a more flexible, more effective and easier-to-maintain low-carb lifestyle. Now, The New Atkins New You Cookbook provides 200 delicious Atkins-friendly recipes for...
Format: Paperback - Released: 05/01/2012
 
 

Valentine's Day This month's 'featured books'
Valentine's Day
Love Food : Heartwarming Recipes Presented with Style
Tina Bester
Love Food consists of a series of recipes for robust, heartwarming food and is crammed with ideas for meals that are the culinary equivalent of a lovely long hug. The recipes are easy to follow, include no-nonsense advice and have...
Format: Hardback - Released: 04/01/2012
 
 

Q : A Love Story
Evan J. Mandery
In a gripping tale of time travel and true love that will appeal to fans of The Time Traveler's Wife and The Confessions of Max Tivoli, a successful writer meets his future self, who advises him not to...
Format: Hardback - Released: 02/02/2012
 
 

The Lover's Dictionary : A Love Story in 185 Definitions
David Levithan
A cleverly constructed novel whose story is told through the device of the alphabet. From 'Aberrant' and 'Abstain' to 'Yesterday' and 'Zenith' the author explores the intimacies and workings of love through his namelss narrator to paint a highly original...
Format: Paperback - Released: 02/02/2012
 
 

The Rules : How to Capture the Heart of Mr Right
Ellen Fein, Sherrie Schneider
Love it or hate it this notorious dating handbook has been bought by millions of women and is women's answer to equally 'marmite' book for men The Rules of the Game. Refreshingly blunt, and according to countless testimonials, astonishingly...
Format: Paperback - Released: 02/02/2012
 
 

Books of the Month This month's 'featured books'
Books of the Month
Planet Ponzi
Mitch Feierstein
February 2012 Non-Fiction Book of the Month. Even though this book has a US focus the blunt uncomfortable economic and political truths of the current global debt crisis and its inevitable painful conclusion...
Format: Hardback - Released: 02/02/2012
 
 

The Siege
Simon Kernick
February 2012 Book of the Month. One of Britain’s top writers has in Siege created a real edge-of-your-seat race against time thriller. Set in London, a top London hotel is being held hostage...
Format: Hardback - Released: 19/01/2012
 
 

Nine Uses for an Ex Boyfriend
Sarra Manning
February 2012 Book of the Month. Anyone who has been through a break up with a long term first love will totally relate to the characters in this sexy, funny, witty and well...
Format: Paperback - Released: 02/02/2012
 
 

The Great Escape
Fiona Gibson
February 2012 Book of the Month. This Laugh-out-loud funny tale, packed full real life cringe-worthy moments we all know so well, asks the question: Can any woman ever grab back a piece of...
Format: Paperback - Released: 16/02/2012
 
 

Guest Editor - Joanna Trollope This month's 'featured books'
Guest Editor - Joanna Trollope
Middlesex
Jeffrey Eugenides
February 2012 Guest Editor Joanna Trollope on Jeffrey Eugenides... He produces one amazing book every ten years or so…So over twenty years ago, it was The Virgin Suicides (brilliant) and about ten years ago, Middlesex (even better). He is that rare...
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/09/2003
 
 

Miss Mackenzie
Anthony Trollope
February 2012 Guest Editor Joanna Trollope on Anthony Trollope... The real Trollope. Of all the Victorians, Anthony Trollope is the most profoundly psychological of novelists – and he was writing long before Freud!. His women are particularly good, especially when...
Format: Paperback - Released: 14/03/2008
 
 

A Village Affair
Joanna Trollope
To all intents and purposes this was Joanna’s first novel and it was the start of a genre labelled ‘aga saga’ – upper-middleclass country families getting into all sorts of messes. Joanna is queen of this type of novel and...
Format: Paperback - Released: 21/09/1990
 
 

Daughters-in-law
Joanna Trollope
January 2012 Book of the Month. Shortlisted for the Galaxy Popular Fiction Book of the Year Award 2011. Rachel has always been at the centre of her family of three sons but now the...
Format: Paperback - Released: 05/01/2012
 
 


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