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This month's 'featured books'
Guest Editor - Joanna Trollope
Brother and Sister Joanna Trollope
A hugely popular author that has her finger right on the pulse of family relationships. In this novel she tackles adoption. Format: Paperback - Released: 01/02/2005
Second Honeymoon Joanna Trollope
Yet another irrestible new novel from one of the UK's bestselling authors. Meet the Boyd family and the empty nest, twenty-first-century style. The youngest of the family is, at last, leaving home. Needless to say family life is never straight... Format: Paperback - Released: 01/01/2007
The Siege of Krishnapur J.G. Farrell
February 2012 Guest Editor Joanna Trollope on J.G. Farrell...
He won the Lost Booker prize for Troubles and the real Booker – forever ago - for The Siege Of Krishnapur. I love the elegance of his writing, and the... Format: Paperback - Released: 01/07/1996
Wolf Hall Hilary Mantel
February 2012 Guest Editor Joanna Trollope on Hilary Mantel...
I loved her writing, long before the mega success of Wolf Hall. She wrote the best novel (bad title – A Place of Greater Safety) I ever read about the French... Format: Paperback - Released: 04/03/2010
This month's 'featured books'
eBooks
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
Revelation Space Alastair Reynolds
A Special Edition of Revelation Space by Alastair Reynolds to celebrate Orion's 20th anniversary.
REVELATION SPACE: a huge, magnificent space opera that ranges acrioss
the known and unknown universe ...towards the most terrifying of
destinations. Format: Paperback - Released: 20/02/2012
Wolf Hall Hilary Mantel
February 2012 Guest Editor Joanna Trollope on Hilary Mantel...
I loved her writing, long before the mega success of Wolf Hall. She wrote the best novel (bad title – A Place of Greater Safety) I ever read about the French... Format: Paperback - Released: 04/03/2010
Pure Andrew Miller
Winner of the Costa Book of the Year award 2011.
The author of the prize-winning, hugely acclaimed Ingenious Pain returns to the 18th century with an enthralling tale set in pre-revolutionary Paris.
Following the judging, Geordie Greig, chair of the final... Format: Paperback - Released: 05/01/2012
This month's 'featured books'
New Year, New You
Calories and Corsets : A History of Dieting Over Two Thousand Years Louise Foxcroft
There is nothing new under the sun – especially on the subject of diets. The latest diet craze is just part of an endless recycling of past fads, the gizmos, machines, the pills – all make a regular appearance to... Format: Hardback - Released: 05/01/2012
The Miracle of Olive Oil Dr Penny Stanway
Written by an experienced doctor who is also a trained cook, The
Miracle of Olive Oil is a compact yet comprehensive practical guide to unlocking the secrets of what has been called 'liquid gold. With sections on health, beauty... Format: Paperback - Released: 02/02/2012
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
This month's 'featured books'
Author of the Month
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
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
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
A Change in Altitude Anita Shreve
Anita Shreve always manages to throw a curve ball into events and change her characters lives irrevocably. A newly married couple find out how little they know about each other while on a Kenyan expedition. Get ready for powerful, emotional... Format: Paperback - Released: 29/04/2010
This month's 'featured books'
Valentine's Day
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
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
My Sweet Valentine Annie Groves
An emotional and engrossing portrayal of the lives of four women as Valentine's day approaches, in 1941 wartime London. Format: Paperback - Released: 02/02/2012
The Look of Love Judy Astley
Her 16th social comedy takes on the reality TV world. Format: Paperback - Released: 05/01/2012
This month's 'featured books'
Debuts of the Month
Good People Ewart Hutton
February 2012 eBook of the Month.
Small town hypocrisy shamelessly satirised in a twisting murder plot in rural Wales. An entertaining, cleverly plotted debut. Format: Hardback - Released: 02/02/2012
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
The Book of Lies Mary Horlock
February 2012 Debut of the Month.
A well-written insight into the twisted mind of an unashamed murderer, as she admits in the second paragraph of this book (see link to the Opening Extract... Format: Paperback - Released: 16/02/2012
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'
Books of the Month
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
Tom-All-Alone's Lynn Shepherd
February 2012 Book of the Month.
Described by the author as a homage to Charles Dickens but also an incredibly well researched and re-imagined, gripping Victorian murder mystery based on his classic 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
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
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