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This month's 'featured books'
Debuts of the Month
Catch Your Death Louise Voss, Mark Edwards
January 2012 MEGA Book of the Month.
A shining example of the power of self-publishing, this was an eBook sensation in 2011 and is now a real book! Dan Brown meets Format: Paperback - Released: 05/01/2012
Tiny Sunbirds Far Away Christie Watson
Winner of the Costa First Novel Award 2011.
Set in the Niger Delta, Tiny Sunbirds Far Away explores the world of twelve-year-old Blessing and her family. Part comic, part tragic, it shows that some families can survive almost anything. Format: Paperback - Released: 01/12/2011
Today David Miller
August 1924. John Conrad arrives at his parents' home on the outskirts of Canterbury, where family and friends are assembling for the bank holiday weekend. His crippled mother has been discharged from a nursing home, his brother drives down from... Format: Paperback - Released: 01/01/2012
The Child Inside Suzanne Bugler
January 2012 Book of the Month.
Loss, grief, resentment and guilt can be a dangerous and destructive combination. The gripping new psychological drama from the author of Richard and Judy Book Club selection... Format: Paperback - Released: 05/01/2012
Before I Go to Sleep S. J. Watson
January 2012 Book of the Month.
Featured on The TV Book Club on More4 on 29 January 2012.
Winner of the Galaxy Crime & Thriller of the Year 2011.
Shortlisted for the Galaxy New Writer... Format: Paperback - Released: 05/01/2012
The Child Who Simon Lelic
January 2012 Book of the Month.
An author who is unafraid to tackle contentious subjects has a 12 year old killer as the dramatic centre of The Child Who. That he did it... Format: Hardback - Released: 05/01/2012
Live Wire Harlan Coben
January 2012 Book of the Month.
Sports agent and part time detective Myron Bolitar and his aristocratic and sociopathic side kick Windsor Horne Lockwood III (Win) are a brilliant crime thriller double act... Format: Paperback - Released: 05/01/2012
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Author of the Month
Play Dead Harlan Coben
June 2010 Book of the Month.
This is actually an old novel published years ago that subsequently went out of print. What a treat then for all Harlan Coben fans that Orion have... Format: Paperback - Released: 24/06/2010
Long Lost Harlan Coben
Another great read from the master recently voted favourite crime genre author by viewers for ITV3’s Bestseller Dagger. It is a Myron Bolitar mystery, a character who has definitely improved with age, here off to Paris to unmask a very... Format: Paperback - Released: 07/01/2010
The Woods Harlan Coben
A great stand alone thriller from Harlan Coben with two plot lines to follow. One is the case that lawyer, Paul Copeland, is prosecuting now and the other the murder investigation he was involved in as a teenager. Thoroughly gripping,... Format: Paperback - Released: 24/01/2008
Miracle Cure Harlan Coben
Following the success of his debut PLAY DEAD, another classic Coben is re-released for his huge army of fans. First published about 20 years ago, it doesn't quite have the non-stop suspense that his more recent books have but... Format: Paperback - Released: 09/06/2011
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New Year, New You
Have Your Cake and Eat it Too Sally Bee
As most of us know, denying yourself of your favourite sweet treats makes dieting a very hard road to follow. There is another way, to create healthier versions of desserts and cakes which is what Sally Bee has done with... Format: Hardback - Released: 05/01/2012
Healthy Living with Gluten Intolerance
Maintaining a healthy diet is a desirable and achievable aim. Yet, many
people with dietary issues or chronic conditions often are confused by
the plethora of advice available and unsure of what path to take to help
improve their health.... Format: Paperback - Released: 05/01/2012
Diet Rehab Mike Dow
Guides you through a 28-day weight-loss programme. This title shows us how to withdraw painlessly from bad foods and looks at why we craved them in the first place. Format: Paperback - Released: 05/01/2012
The Para Fitness Guide Sam McGrath
What better way to start the new year than to get fighting fit? Few of us have the willpower to get fit and lose weight on our own. What's needed is a military instructor watching over our exercise programme helping... Format: Paperback - Released: 06/12/2010
This month's 'featured books'
eBooks
The Noise Revealed Ian Whates
A Maxim Jakubowski Best Science Fiction selection.
Another new British author steeped in technology noir and the second volume in a new series that began with THE NOISE WITHIN. Pursued by sinister assassins, scientist Philip Kaufman is forced to flee... Format: Paperback - Released: 12/05/2011
Long Lost Harlan Coben
Another great read from the master recently voted favourite crime genre author by viewers for ITV3’s Bestseller Dagger. It is a Myron Bolitar mystery, a character who has definitely improved with age, here off to Paris to unmask a very... Format: Paperback - Released: 07/01/2010
Jubilee Shelley Harris
It is 1977, the Queen's Silver Jubilee, and a photographer captures a moment forever: a street party with bunting and Union Jacks fluttering in the breeze. Right in the centre of the frame, a small Asian boy stares intently into... Format: Hardback - Released: 29/12/2011
Blue Monday Nicci French
Monday: five-year-old Matthew Faraday is abducted. His face is splashed
across newspaper front pages. His parents and the police are desperate.
Can anyone help find their little boy before it is too late?
Psychotherapist Frieda Klein just might know something.... Format: Paperback - Released: 19/01/2012
This month's 'featured books'
Guest Editor - Simon Lelic
The Facility Simon Lelic
The startling second novel from the critically lauded author of Rupture. Format: Paperback - Released: 02/09/2011
Nineteen Eighty-Four George Orwell
January 2012 Guest Editor Simon Lelic selects Nineteen Eighty-Four...
Not exactly an original pick, I realise, and some (irrationally, in my mind) would dispute its literary merits. On the other hand, it has proved almost Shakespearean in its impact on... Format: Paperback (b Format) - Released: 29/01/2004
The Paris Review Interviews : Volume 1 Philip Gourevitch
January 2012 Guest Editor Simon Lelic selects The Paris Review Interviews , volumes I-IV...
Is it cheating to pick four books as one? This collection is not literature in itself but each volume, through interviews with leading writers collated over... Format: Paperback - Released: 18/01/2007
The Road Cormac Mccarthy
January 2012 Guest Editor Simon Lelic selects The Road...
Technically and philosophically, this is probably not McCarthy’s best book. His masterpiece, probably, is Blood Meridian – although I also love Child of God. And Outer Dark. And... Format: Paperback - Released: 01/06/2007