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This month's 'featured books'
Books of the Month |
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The Wilding
Maria McCann
February 2010 Book of the Month.
Set just after the English Civil war this historical family drama is rich in historical detail. McCann has obviously researched the period well and it comes through...
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The Perfect Mother
Margaret Leroy
February 2010 Book of the Month.
A compelling read tackling one of those subjects that is difficult to comprehend – how a mother could purposefully harm her own child. Beautifully written and keeping...
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The Long Song
Andrea Levy
February 2010 Book of the Month.
With the recent television adaptation of Levy’s best known novel, Small Island, there has been great anticipation of this new novel and Levy does not disappoint....
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The Returners
Gemma Malley
February 2010 'new gen' Book of the Month.
The Returners is a gripping and thought-provoking thriller from the author of the equally provocative futuristic novels, The Declaration and The Resistance. What...
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This month's 'featured books'
Guest Editor - Simon Kernick |
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A Walk Among the Tombstones
Lawrence Block
Tenth book in the Matt Scudder series and still Block gets better and better. A gripping read from start to finish.
February 2010 Guest Editor Simon Kernick on A Walk Among the Tombstones
An author who perhaps more than any...
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The Last 10 Seconds
Simon Kernick
Simon Kernick is fast becoming one of the top crime writers in Britain today and at Lovereading we have been fans for a long time. Here we have another gritty, fast paced, suspense-filled triumph. This one is going to have...
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The Godfather
Mario Puzo
The ultimate gangster book and yet this is not just a story of the mafia in the 1940’s but also a story about family. Don Corleone, The Godfather, is a powerful, dangerous and devoted man. He is likeable despite the...
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The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
Agatha Christie
With the Murder of Roger Ackroyd, Agatha Christie wanted to write a mystery that the reader couldn't solve. When Roger Ackroyd is murdered following the suicide of his friend Mrs Ferrar, it seems everyone has something to gain from his...
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This month's 'featured books'
Costa Awards 2009 |
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The Girl with Glass Feet
Ali Shaw
Shortlisted for the Costa First Novel Award 2009.
Costa Book Awards 2009 Judges' comment: "This beautiful book captured our imagination, exquisitely blending reality and fantasy."
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Wolf Hall
Hilary Mantel
Winner of the Man Booker Prize 2009.
Shortlisted for the Costa Novel Award 2009.
Costa Book Awards 2009 Judges' comment: "One of the outstanding books of the year - historical fiction at its best."
Featured on The Book Show on Sky Arts on...
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The Ask and the Answer
Patrick Ness
Winner of the Costa Children's Book Award 2009.
Costa Book Awards 2009 Judges' comment: "A strikingly original and compelling work."
Shortlisted for the prestigious Teenage Book of the Year Award 2009.
Prize-winning author Patrick Ness follows up The Knife of Never...
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Brooklyn
Colm Toibin
Winner of the Costa Novel Award 2009.
Costa Book Awards 2009 Judges' comment: "A wonderfully-observed story of love and loss."
A great family drama about a young girl moving from Ireland to New Yok in search of work in the 1950's. Just...
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This month's 'featured books'
The TV Book Club |
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The Silver Linings Playbook
Matthew Quick
Due to be featured on The TV Book Club on More4 on 28 March 2010.
A funny and heart-breaking novel about a man, Pat, recovering from a mental breakdown that had him incarcerated in a mental institution for 4 years. His...
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The Way Home
George P Pelecanos
Due to be featured on The TV Book Club on More4 on 7 March 2010.
A crime novel that focuses largely on the relationship between a father and son. The crime element feels almost secondary to the intricate and tricky relationship...
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Brixton Beach
Roma Tearne
Due to be featured on The TV Book Club on More4 on 28 February 2010.
Beginning with the July 2005 London bombings this fascinating and enthralling novel draws you in from the start. In the midst of the panic unravelling in...
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Sacred Hearts
Sarah Dunant
Featured on The TV Book Club on More4 on 31 January 2010.
Convent life, you’d imagine, is one you choose – a vocation. But this
searing story of the nuns of Santa Caterina in 16th-century Italy
reveals how enforced convent entry was common...
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This month's 'featured books'
Debut Books |
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Out of Shadows
Jason Wallace
February 2010 'new gen' Debut of the Month title.
A memorable, moving and disturbing coming-of-age story about how
different individuals react to the political changes around them and,
especially, to the changing power structure between...
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Blacklands
Belinda Bauer
February 2010 Debut of the Month.
Featured on The TV Book Club on More4 on 24 January 2010.
There is an echo of the Moors Murders of the 1960’s in this story line...
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The Missing
Jane Casey
February 2010 Debut of the Month.
A terrific novel taking place in two separate times, 16 years apart, but with both disappearances affecting one character. It is very well structured, a most impressive...
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This month's 'featured books'
Maxim Jakubowski's Great Crime Sleuths |
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Loss
Tony Black
Tony Black's third novel LOSS is another bleak investigation for his poignant Edinburgh washed up journalist turned involuntary private investigator Gus Dury. Black writes about urban blight and the curse of alcohol like no other, but his down at heel...
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Sanctuary
Ken Bruen
2010 is going be Bruen’s year, with three major movies based on his books being released, including the star-studded LONDON BOULEVARD. His Galway PI series featuring Jack Taylor takes a scalpel to the soul of Irish society and SANCTUARY, his...
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Family Life: An Inspector Starrett Mystery
Paul Charles
Following the success of his urbane DI Christy Kennedy series set in London’s Camden Town and praised by Morse creator Colin Dexter, Charles has now begun a new series featuring Inspector Starrett of the County Donegal Serious Crime Unit. Traditional...
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Slammer
Allan Guthrie
If Guthrie had an American equivalent, it would be the incomparable James Ellroy. His world is dark, action-filled, rough and ready and his new novel SLAMMER is another walk on the wild side, as a young prison officer takes...
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This month's 'featured books'
Valentine's Day |
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Loves Me, Loves Me Not
Katie Fforde
A terrific collection of over forty new short stories that is published to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the founding of the Romantic Novelists Association. There is everything in here from gentle romance to sophisticated issue-led tales, historical to vampires....
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Silk
Rupert James
February 2010 Debut of the Month.
To ‘take silk’, the term used for a barrister who wants to become a QC, and silk, the sumptuous material much loved by the fashion industry. This...
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Finding Monsieur Right
Muriel Zagha
January 2010 Debut of the Month.
The chapters rotate between London and Paris as two girls house-swap, giving us a good flavour of life in both capitals with, in my mind, the English...
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Rich Girl, Poor Girl
Lesley Lokko
Follow Nic, Caryn and Tory as their friendships are tested, their love lives get complicated and power, revenge and money all play their part in the this blockbuster of a book. Pure entertainment for a rainy afternoon.
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This month's 'featured books'
'new gen' fiction for teens |
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Out of Shadows
Jason Wallace
February 2010 'new gen' Debut of the Month title.
A memorable, moving and disturbing coming-of-age story about how
different individuals react to the political changes around them and,
especially, to the changing power structure between...
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The Returners
Gemma Malley
February 2010 'new gen' Book of the Month.
The Returners is a gripping and thought-provoking thriller from the author of the equally provocative futuristic novels, The Declaration and The Resistance. What...
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My So-called Afterlife
Tamsyn Murray
February 2010 'new gen' Debut of the Month title.
A wonderful debut novel which, as well as being laugh-out-loud funny, is full of insights, compassion, and love. Fifteen-year-old Lucy has been stuck in...
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