With Christmas fast approaching we want to make choosing books for your loved ones as stress-free and as good value as possible. To help you choose we have some special Christmas gift categories and to make it great value we will give you free postage on all orders over £20 and if you order before 22 Dec you can claim an extra 10% off!. Read on for more information.
To make Christmas book buying as easy as possible we have arranged them into Fiction and Non Fiction, Paperback and Hardback, and some irresistible stocking fillers. Just scroll down to find a selection of our Christmas recommendations, but visit the website to see the full range.
And as an extra incentive this Christmas we are giving you a further 10% off all orders placed before 22 Dec - So choose books for all the children you know, they will get enormous pleasure from them and you will have an easy time with the wrapping! All you need to do is enter the code 8AEDF-M83K7TLV into the checkout system.
Other Highlights this month:
Series of the Month – Lucifer Box from Mark Gatiss:
Finally a brilliant new book that completes the wonderfully different adventures of Lucifer Box written League of Gentlemen actor Mark Gatiss. The latest book, Black Butterfly, sees his Holmes-like detective character travel the world to investigate a spate of suspiciously bizarre ‘accidents’. Stephen Fry said of the series ‘Delicious, depraved, inventive, macabre and hilarious…More, I want more!’ – see if you agree………
So download some FREE Opening Extracts, choose some perfect presents and take advantage of all our special Christmas offers.
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The Fidelity Files
Jessica Brody
A sexy, entertaining American debut about a professional honey-trap (a woman who tests men’s potential for straying) finally finding love herself.
Comparison: Leonie Fox, Jennifer Weiner, Hester Browne.
Format: Paperback
Released: 30/10/2008
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The Spellman Files
Lisa Lutz
This book has some of the funniest dialogue and wackiest characters we have come across in a long time. The Spellman’s are a dysfunctional family firm of private investigators who sadly can’t leave the tools of the trade outside the…
Format: Paperback
Released: 04/08/2008
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Recipes for Cherubs
Babs Horton
An unloved child, Catrin, is sent by her flighty mother to spend the summer holidays with some eccentric aunts who run an hotel in Wales, twin sisters Catrin never knew existed. But time has passed since her mother left the…
Format: Paperback
Released: 06/05/2008
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My Vintage Summer
Jane Elmor
June 2008 Debut of the Month.
Alternating in time between teenage ambition and married boredom, our narrator tells each tale in real-time, building tension and compulsion as she goes. You badly need to know what…
Format: Paperback
Released: 06/06/2008
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A Quiet Belief in Angels
R J Ellory
January 2008 Book of the Month. I am championing this author. I think he is very special. His publisher claims he writes crime novels, and there certainly always is a crime,…
Format: Paperback
Released: 02/01/2008
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Heartsick
Chelsea Cain
This is pretty frightening stuff. The descriptions of the torture and horror inflicted on the central character are particularly unpleasant, not for the squeamish. It is about the psychology of pain and fear and dependency and it is utterly gripping….
Format: Paperback
Released: 01/02/2008
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Thirty-three Teeth
Colin Cotterill
This is very special. It is the second in a series which you will enjoy on its own but appreciate a lot more if you read the first too (The Coroner’s Lunch). We are in Laos, 18 months into…
Format: Paperback
Released: 03/04/2008
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White Corridor
Christopher Fowler
Bryant and May, like Holmes and Watson or Poirot and Hastings, are both compelling characters in their own right, but together they form one of fiction’s most pleasing duos. All Fowler’s books are intelligent and well-written but in Bryant and…
Format: Paperback
Released: 14/07/2008
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Heart-Shaped Box
Joe Hill
A pacy and frightening story of revenge from beyond the grave. Ozzie-like rock star Jude, buys a ghost over the internet, and a heap of trouble along with it. What starts as a quirky haunting quickly grows into a terrifying…
Format: Paperback
Released: 01/05/2008
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Dancing with Eva
Alan Judd
A reconstruction of the final days of Hitler’s life in the bunker and of his relationship with Eva Braun, seen through the eyes of two fictional characters, her secretary and a bunker guard, who meet sixty years later and piece…
Format: Paperback
Released: 07/04/2008
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Ferney
James Long
April 2008 Book of the Month. I fell in love with this book when it was first published in 1997. It did moderately well but not as well as it should. I…
Format: Paperback
Released: 17/04/2008
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Dexter in the Dark
Jeff Lindsay
Thoroughly enjoyable and highly recommended this is the 3rd in this
darkly comic serial killer series. Dexter has being abandoned by the
dark passenger that has made him who he is. Things get worse when its
clear it has been scared off by…
Format: Paperback
Released: 24/07/2008
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The Good Mayor
Andrew Nicoll
This is a delicious book! I loved every minute of its magical story-telling and found it difficult to put down. Andrew Nicoll succeeds in creating a vivid and atmospheric portrayal of the town of Dot, in an unspecified part of…
Format: Paperback
Released: 07/05/2008
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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…
Format: Hardback
Released: 03/03/2008
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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….
Format: Paperback
Released: 18/09/2008
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The Rose Labyrinth
Titania Hardie
November 2008 Book of the Month.
Usually known for her books of spells and potions as a white witch, Titania Hardie has written a charming novel. A dual-time tale of a secret world…
Format: Paperback
Released: 13/11/2008
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River Run Deep
Rachael Treasure
November 2008 Book of the Month.
A big, sweeping drama of a plucky girl making her mark in the male dominated outback of Australia. An action-packed novel of adventure, dreams, heartbreak and love….
Format: Paperback
Released: 06/11/2008
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Happy Birthday
Christina Jones
Christina Jones back with another of her quirky, lively feel-good tales. There are always plenty of characters to keep the action going in her novels and of course there is plenty of comedy and romance. Phoebe Bowler has just been…
Format: Paperback
Released: 06/11/2008
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The Almost Moon
Alice Sebold
Alice Sebold’s second novel is as moving and beautifully written as her first,The Lovely Bones.
She takes some very sad and disturbing subject matter and writes about
it in a way that completely captivates the reader. This is a story of
mental…
Format: Paperback
Released: 03/10/2008
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Ritual
Mo Hayder
A terrific author, not for the squeamish, with the start of a Bristol-based series ‘Walking Man’ starring DI Jack Caffery and a police diver Sergeant Flea Marley. The title gives you a clue as to the nastiness of this thriller,…
Format: Paperback
Released: 20/11/2008
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Chasing Windmills
Catherine Ryan Hyde
Two first-person narratives follow two threatened people who meet at night on a subway train, too frightened to go home. They fall in love. How they escape their confined lives and set out together is delightfully handled with, for me,…
Format: Paperback
Released: 06/11/2008
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Under a Blood Red Sky
Kate Furnivall
Author of the terrific The Russian Concubine (a must read) with her second, a great big saga of Stalin’s Russia, of labour camps, of unbearable hardship, of communist fear and betrayal and of love. She is a truly splendid…
Format: Paperback
Released: 06/11/2008
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A Lick of Frost
Laurell K Hamilton
The newest instalment in the adventures of Merry Gentry, and just as enjoyable as its predecessors. This series really has something other supernatural erotica can lack, a plot that is even more exciting than the sex scenes. Following on directly…
Format: Paperback
Released: 06/11/2008
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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…
Format: Paperback
Released: 04/09/2008
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Acheron
Sherrilyn Kenyon
This is part of a series but can be read as a stand alone if you are new to Sherrilyn Kenyon. It focuses on the character Ash and explains his history which is pretty dark and disturbing but thoroughly absorbing…
Format: Paperback
Released: 04/12/2008
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