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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
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
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 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
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
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
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