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This month's 'featured books'
Orion 20th Anniversary
No Time for Goodbye Linwood Barclay
A Special Edition of No Time for Goodbye by Linwood Barclay to celebrate Orion's 20th anniversary.
Winner of the Richard & Judy Summer Read 2008.
A fantastic opening plot that pulls you straight in to the story and makes you have to... Format: Paperback - Released: 20/02/2012
The Tiger's Wife Tea Obreht
February 2012 Book of the Month.
Shortlisted for the Galaxy International Author of the Year Award 2011.
THE ORANGE PRIZE WINNING DEBUT FROM A TRULY EXTRAORDINARY TALENT.
A Special Edition of The Tiger's Wife... Format: Paperback - Released: 20/02/2012
Himalaya Michael Palin
A Special Edition of Himalaya by Michael Palin to celebrate Orion's 20th anniversary.
Winner of TV& Film Book of the Year at the British Book Awards 2005
The
beautiful, glossy, illustrated hardback that accompanied the television
series brought down to a text-led portable-sized paperback... Format: Paperback - Released: 20/02/2012
The Shadow of the Wind Carlos Ruiz Zafon
A Special Edition of The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon to celebrate Orion's 20th anniversary.
Barcelona, a city of secret police and secret love. In it a
bookseller’s son finds a forgotten novel and stumbles upon a mystery as
all... Format: Paperback - Released: 20/02/2012
This month's 'featured books'
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Don't Cry Beverly Barton
The crime scenes are horrifying: the victims arranged with deliberate care, posed to appear alive despite their agonized last moments and the shocking nature of their deaths. For grief counsellor Audrey Sherrod it's clear the murders are the work of... Format: Paperback - Released: 02/02/2012
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
No Time for Goodbye Linwood Barclay
A Special Edition of No Time for Goodbye by Linwood Barclay to celebrate Orion's 20th anniversary.
Winner of the Richard & Judy Summer Read 2008.
A fantastic opening plot that pulls you straight in to the story and makes you have to... Format: Paperback - Released: 20/02/2012
The Tiger's Wife Tea Obreht
February 2012 Book of the Month.
Shortlisted for the Galaxy International Author of the Year Award 2011.
THE ORANGE PRIZE WINNING DEBUT FROM A TRULY EXTRAORDINARY TALENT.
A Special Edition of The Tiger's Wife... Format: Paperback - Released: 20/02/2012
This month's 'featured books'
Books of the Month
Horse Play Jo Carnegie
February 2012 Book of the Month.
A great fun, racy portrait of country living for fans of Jilly Cooper and Fiona Walker. Set in the fictional picture postcard village of Churchminster... Format: Paperback - Released: 19/01/2012
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
1000 Places to See Before You Die Patricia Schultz
February 2012 Travel Book of the Month.
Presents the 1,000 most astonishing destinations in the world and brings them to life in lively, evocative prose that reveals why the place is so wonderful.... Format: Paperback - Released: 01/01/2012
The Tiger's Wife Tea Obreht
February 2012 Book of the Month.
Shortlisted for the Galaxy International Author of the Year Award 2011.
THE ORANGE PRIZE WINNING DEBUT FROM A TRULY EXTRAORDINARY TALENT.
A Special Edition of The Tiger's Wife... Format: Paperback - Released: 20/02/2012
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Debuts of the Month
The Sky's Dark Labyrinth Stuart Clark
February 2012 Debut of the Month.
A vivid, thrilling portrayal of the lives and work of Kepler and Galileo and their struggles with the social and political forces around them. It's the first... Format: Paperback - Released: 17/10/2011
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
22 Britannia Road Amanda Hodgkinson
After living wild in the forests for years, carrying a terrible secret, all Silvana knows is that she and Aurek are survivors. Everything else is lost. While Janusz, a Polish soldier who has criss-crossed Europe during the war, hopes his... Format: Paperback - 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
This month's 'featured books'
Author of the Month
Sea Glass Anita Shreve
Shreve brings us some great characters along with a good historical novel based around the time of The Depression after the stock market collapse of 1929. If you don’t know much about this period she provides interesting insight into the... Format: Paperback - Released: 21/11/2002
Testimony Anita Shreve
Featured on The Book Show on Sky Arts on 30 October 2008.
A sex scandal rocks the sheltered world of a private Vermont school, affecting students, parents and teachers alike. The story moves quickly as Shreve switches the narrative from one... Format: Paperback - Released: 04/06/2009
A Wedding in December Anita Shreve
Not quite as in depth as some of her other novels, probably just because there are a lot of characters to deal with. Seven old college friend reunite for a wedding and old wounds, secrets and unresolved tensions come to... Format: Paperback - Released: 01/06/2006
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
This month's 'featured books'
Guest Editor - Joanna Trollope
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
The Other Family Joanna Trollope
Oh this is a tough one. Joanna certainly knows how to put her thumb on a bruise and continually push till it hurts. Why Richie never divorced his first wife to marry the mother of his three girls, his partner... Format: Paperback - Released: 09/12/2010
Half of a Yellow Sun Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
A 2011 World Book Night selection.
February 2012 Guest Editor Joanna Trollope on Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie...
Here’s a real find. A gorgeous (in every sense) young writer who makes modern stories sound fresh but as if they come from ancient story... Format: Paperback - Released: 15/01/2007
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