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This month's 'featured books'
Mystery / Thriller |
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Savage Moon
Chris Simms
Chris Simms is getting better and better. A chilling thriller, this will have you leaving the light on when you climb in to bed. When a woman’s body is found on Saddleworth Moor it is assumed she has been killed...
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Doors Open
Ian Rankin
This is the first book since we said a sad farewell to Rebus and is Ian Rankin’s first stand alone novel for a decade. Don’t worry you will not be disappointed as all of Rankin’s skill, imagination and clever plotting...
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Undersea Prison
Duncan Falconer
An ex-member of the elite Special Services has, up until now, been writing very much in Andy McNab vein but here turns tack a little into the adventure area. This is his fourth thriller.
Comparison: Clive Cussler, Matthew...
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Child 44
Tom Rob Smith
March 2008 Debut of the Month.
Winner of the CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger 2008This is a brilliant first novel from an exceptional writer. Set in Stalinist Russia, it is a tight and...
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This month's 'featured books'
'new gen' |
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Dark Alchemy
Prepare to be mesmerised by this spellbinding collection of brand new stories by
some of the masters of modern fantasy. It will be enjoyed by readers of all ages
and is guaranteed to raise the pulse and quicken the heartbeat....
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Somewhere Else
Sandra Glover
Part detective story, part gripping psychological drama, this is a fast-paced read with a convincing set of characters and an original storyline featuring one girl with two identities but which one is real?
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Sam Stern's Student Cookbook
Sam Stern, Susan Stern
Mouth watering recipes which are both easy to make and money saving make Sam Stern’s cookbook perfect for students. Written in snappy sentences, which give the impression that no one will have long to spend over the stove, the cooking...
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Bloodchild
Tim Bowler
If you’re on the hunt for a book that will really grab you, put shivers down
your spine and ensure that at the end of every chapter you gasp for breath then
Bowler’s Bloodchild is the novel for you. Incredibly...
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This month's 'featured books'
Relationship Tales |
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Class
Jane Beaton
September 2008 Debut of the Month.
This is really good fun and full of great characters to make each page a delight to read. As Sophie Kinsella says it’s “like Malory Towers for grown-ups”, it’s...
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Filthy Rich
Wendy Holden
A delicious tale of love, mud, money and mayhem; her best yet in my opinion. This author has a wonderful knack of gently ridiculing the middle-classes and the rich, of turning ordinary situations into escapades of total madness and of...
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The Things We Do for Love
Imogen Parker
Absorbing, romantic and very well written, this is the second novel chronicling the stories of two families, in the seaside town of Kingshaven, whose lives have become intertwined. This novel moves on to 1969 and follows the lives of two...
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One Fifth Avenue
Candace Bushnell
Please note that an extract from this title will not be available to download until 23 September 2008.
Lovereading view to appear soon...
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This month's 'featured books'
The Real World |
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I Think There's Something Wrong With Me
Nigel Smith
An incredibly funny account of Nigel Smith’s illness, and near death, told in a very frank, almost brutal way. As you ride along on Nigel’s journey you will be mentally exhausted from reading about everything he had to go through...
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My Life, My Way
Cliff Richard, Penny Junor
Cliff Richard has been part of the British music scene for 50 year and in this story of his life so far we find out how he has endured when many others have fallen by the way side. This will...
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My England Years
Sir Bobby Charlton
After the success of the first part of his fascinating autobiography following his Manchester United years Bobby Charlton is back with the next phase of his phenomenal career. For 22 years he played for his country and was involved in...
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Killing My Own Snakes
Ann Leslie
Ann Leslie has been one of our top journalists for over three decades and has come across a myriad of people in her time. This is the sort of memoir you really want to read as she has a multitude...
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This month's 'featured books'
Literary / Contemporary |
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The Book Club Bible
A comprehensive reading guide packed with 100 recommended titles from classics to current bestsellers … in fact a rival to me! But joking apart, it’s an excellent little book giving you a synopsis, background information, discussion points and reviews to...
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The Private Lives of Pippa Lee
Rebecca Miller
Reviewed on Richard & Judy on Wednesday 30 July 2008.
Wise, inspiring and brilliantly compelling, this is an unforgettable debut novel that will pull on the heart strings. There’s a real quality about the writing, which is spare with not a...
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The Septembers of Shiraz
Dalia Sofer
The plight of a family during the Iranian Revolution. This is very much in The Kite Runner territory, a brave and frightening book of loss, prejudice, prison life, civilian hardship and a lad with his own, very different problems,...
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This month's 'featured books'
Historical Fiction |
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People of the Book
Geraldine Brooks
September 2008 Book of the Month.
A book you can’t rush but must sit back and become totally absorbed in. Convoluted with fascinating detail and...
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The Things We Do for Love
Imogen Parker
Absorbing, romantic and very well written, this is the second novel chronicling the stories of two families, in the seaside town of Kingshaven, whose lives have become intertwined. This novel moves on to 1969 and follows the lives of two...
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A Small Part of History
Peggy Elliott
Written in an unembellished, reportive style, spotted with journal entries, this is the story of a family seen through the eyes of the women as they cross the vast hostile territories of America on the Oregan Trail in 1845. I...
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Sepulchre
Kate Mosse
As absorbing and fascinating as Mosse’s first novel Labyrinth, Sepulchre is rich in history, mystery, revenge and obsession. Again this is a time split novel following the story of two women separated by over a century but linked by...
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This month's 'featured books'
Biography / Autobiography |
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Safe Passage
Ida Cook
The pre-wartime exploits of two remarkable sisters who smuggled Jews out of Germany from 1934 on, posing as eccentric opera fans and financing the operations themselves.
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Killing My Own Snakes
Ann Leslie
Ann Leslie has been one of our top journalists for over three decades and has come across a myriad of people in her time. This is the sort of memoir you really want to read as she has a multitude...
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My Life, My Way
Cliff Richard, Penny Junor
Cliff Richard has been part of the British music scene for 50 year and in this story of his life so far we find out how he has endured when many others have fallen by the way side. This will...
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I Think There's Something Wrong With Me
Nigel Smith
An incredibly funny account of Nigel Smith’s illness, and near death, told in a very frank, almost brutal way. As you ride along on Nigel’s journey you will be mentally exhausted from reading about everything he had to go through...
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This month's 'featured books'
Family Drama |
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The Septembers of Shiraz
Dalia Sofer
The plight of a family during the Iranian Revolution. This is very much in The Kite Runner territory, a brave and frightening book of loss, prejudice, prison life, civilian hardship and a lad with his own, very different problems,...
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The Sisterhood
Emily Barr
I absolutely loved this. A story of two women whose lives become connected after the younger one, Helen, decides that Liz is her half sister, abandoned by Helens mother some thirty years before and sets out to reunite the family....
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This Year It Will Be Different
Maeve Binchy
A collection of short stories relating to Christmas which would make a good stocking filler for someone who hasn’t really read Maeve Binchy before. If you are a fan you may have read some of the stories before in other...
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The Village Green Affair
Rebecca Shaw
More village life in Turnham Malpas with familiar characters and a surprise new one … plus plenty of trouble.
Comparison: Miss Read, Erica James.
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