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  1. Bring Up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel
  2. A Rural Affair by Catherine Alliott
  3. The Last Summer by Judith Kinghorn
  4. 15 Seconds by Andrew Gross
  5. The Light Between Oceans by M. L. Stedman
  6. Women of a Dangerous Age by Fanny Blake
  7. The Chaperone by Laura Moriarty
  8. Dare Me by Megan Abbott
  9. Dead Scared by S. J. Bolton
  10. The Playdate by Louise Millar


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Debuts of the Month This month's 'featured books'
Debuts of the Month
The Waste Land
Simon Acland
Shortlisted for the People's Book Prize for Fiction 2012. Set during the extraordinary historical events of the First Crusade this is an original and compelling debut full of mystery, betrayal, secrecy, romance, humour and suspense. Like Dan Brown’s adventures...
Format: Paperback - Released: 10/06/2010
 
 

The Last Summer
Judith Kinghorn
May 2012 MEGA Debut of the Month. An enchanting, sweeping debut of big storytelling, of social and political change spanning the First World War and beyond, perfect for reading groups and fans of...
Format: Paperback - Released: 26/04/2012
 
 

Jubilee
Shelley Harris
A joyous, cleverly written, morally minded (but never preachy) novel. Set during a street party for the Queen's Silver Jubilee in 1977 and 35 years later, it explores the real story behind an iconic photograph taken in 1977 that seems...
Format: Paperback - Released: 24/05/2012
 
 

The Hollow Man
Oliver Harris
A Maxim Jakubowski Great Male Crime Sleuth. Not just another London cop with a troubled morality, Belsey whose patch is the unlikely one of affluent Hampstead, is a man very much on the skids: dishonest as they come, crooked to...
Format: Paperback - Released: 03/05/2012
 
 

The School of Life This month's 'featured books'
The School of Life
How to Worry Less About Money
John Armstrong, School of Life
John Armstrong looks at our relationship with money, for most of us it’s too little, for a few it’s too much – but how much is enough, how do we relate to money, the spending and saving of it, can...
Format: Paperback - Released: 10/05/2012
 
 

How to Change the World
John-Paul Flintoff, School of Life
On our own, can we make a difference? Of all six books, this was the one I was drawn to most, the examples of change, one person at a time, are inspiring and thought-provoking. John-Paul Flintoff also looks at the...
Format: Paperback - Released: 10/05/2012
 
 

How to Think More About Sex
Alain de Botton, School of Life
The title may seem strange in our sex obsessed age but Alain de Botton is arguing that we don’t think too much about sex, we’re merely thinking about it in the wrong way. The author offers insights and ways to...
Format: Paperback - Released: 10/05/2012
 
 

How to Find Fulfilling Work
Roman Krznaric, School of Life
How to know what you want to do, how to set about achieving your goal and how to sort out your need for certainty or money or is freedom of choice , with all the risks that involves, the most...
Format: Paperback - Released: 10/05/2012
 
 

Books of the Month This month's 'featured books'
Books of the Month
The Heroes
Joe Abercrombie
May 2012 Book of the Month. Why do people fight pointless wars and what does it take to be called a Hero? If you are a lover of action fantasy novels then the...
Format: Paperback - Released: 10/05/2012
 
 

Ballgowns: British Glamour Since 1950
Sonnet Stanfill and Oriole Cullen
May 2012 Non-Fiction Book of the Month. Published to tie in with an exhibition opening on 19th May and running throughout the year. A quite fascinating progress through recent women’s fashion for glamorous...
Format: Hardback - Released: 07/05/2012
 
 

Summer and the City
Candace Bushnell
May 2012 New Gen Book of the Month. Meet teenage Carrie Bradshaw as she hits the bright lights, big city of New York for the very first time! Find out how Carrie transforms...
Format: Paperback - Released: 26/04/2012
 
 

Insurgent
Veronica Roth
May 2012 New Gen Book of the Month. This is heart-pounding dystopian fiction at its very best. Insurgent is the thrillingly dark sequel to the New York Times bestselling debut, Divergent. No...
Format: Paperback - Released: 28/04/2012
 
 

eBooks This month's 'featured books'
eBooks
Manhattan in Reverse
Peter F. Hamilton
In 1998 Peter F. Hamilton, the master of space opera and top ten bestselling author, published his first collection of short stories in A Second Chance at Eden. Thirteen years later he returns to short fiction with a new collection....
Format: Paperback - Released: 10/05/2012
 
 

Role of Honour
John Gardner
Gardner's stunning reinvention of Bond secured critical acclaim and blockbusting sales around the world. Role of Honour, the fourth book in the series, kept 007 at No.1. James Bond series:1. Licence Renewed2. For Special Services3.
Format: Paperback - Released: 10/05/2012
 
 

Recipe for Love
Sasha Wagstaff
Summer in a luxurious Italian villa should be a taste of heaven, shouldn't it? Talented, passionate and notoriously private, Italian chef Rocco Disanti never talks to journalists. So why, when Cassia Blake has just three months to organise her wedding,...
Format: Paperback - Released: 10/05/2012
 
 

Black Cat Bone
John Burnside
Winner of the T S Eliot Prize for Poetry 2011. John Burnside's remarkable new book is full of strange, unnerving poems that hang in the memory like a myth or a song. These are poems of thwarted love and disappointment, of...
Format: Paperback - Released: 04/08/2011
 
 

Author of the Month This month's 'featured books'
Author of the Month
15 Seconds
Andrew Gross
May 2012 Book of the Month. If you love fast-paced, topical thrillers that you simply can't put down, then Andrew Gross and especially 15 Seconds is a great place to go. Pulled over...
Format: Paperback - Released: 26/04/2012
 
 

Killing Hour
Andrew Gross
The jaw-dropping unputdownable new novel from the guy who co-authored five No. 1 James Patterson bestsellers including Judge and Jury and Lifeguard. Now a bestselling novelist in his own right with hit thrillers The Blue Zone and...
Format: Paperback - Released: 14/04/2011
 
 

Reckless
Andrew Gross
Hauck has left law enforcement for a job with a big-time private security firm. But he quickly learns that life in the private sector can be every bit as dangerous as wearing a badge - if not more so...
Format: Paperback - Released: 04/03/2010
 
 

Don't Look Twice
Andrew Gross
A revenge killing. A dead public attorney. And a family caught in the cross-fire. For local detective Ty Hauck, life is good. A waterfront house, a new girlfriend and, after uncovering a Wall Street scandal, he's even a local hero....
Format: Paperback - Released: 28/05/2009
 
 


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