09 Feb
1881 Fyodor Dostoevsky died. His greatest work Crime and Punishment was published in 1866. In 1880 he gave a speech about poet Pushkin at unveiling of Pushkin monument in Moscow and was hailed as a prophet. Read Crime and Punishment
Anita Shreve, author of numerous bestselling thrillers which have spent more than 100 weeks on the New York Times Bestseller lists, is our Author of the Month for February.
Featured Books
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
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
Testimony Anita Shreve
Featured on The Book Show on Sky Arts on 30 October 2008.
A sex scandal rocks the sheltered world of a private Vermont school, affecting students, parents and teachers alike. The story moves quickly as Shreve switches the narrative from one... Format: Paperback - Released: 04/06/2009
Body Surfing Anita Shreve
Another beautifully written book from this author, set against a New Hampshire seaside backdrop which she seems to love and indeed you want to be curled up on a veranda looking out to sea when reading this tale of a... Format: Paperback - Released: 06/03/2008
A Wedding in December Anita Shreve
Not quite as in depth as some of her other novels, probably just because there are a lot of characters to deal with. Seven old college friend reunite for a wedding and old wounds, secrets and unresolved tensions come to... Format: Paperback - Released: 01/06/2006
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
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
Fortune's Rocks Anita Shreve
This is considered one of her best novels and does deserve such praise. A wonderfully descriptive book, it is the attention to detail that makes this such an absorbing read, you can picture every line on each character’s face, each... Format: Paperback - Released: 04/01/2001
Resistance Anita Shreve
Anita Shreve's compelling fourth novel - set in German-occupied Belgium in 1943-44. Format: Paperback - Released: 02/05/1996
Eden Close Anita Shreve
A fiction debut from the author of The Weight of Water and The Pilot's Wife. Format: Paperback - Released: 01/12/1994
Anita Shreve is the author of fifteen best-selling novels which have spent more than 100 weeks on the New York Times Bestseller Lists. The Weight of Water was short listed for the Orange Prize and The Pilot’s Wife was selected by Oprah Winfrey’s ‘Book club’ series. Shreve started her writing career as a journalist and her award-winning short stories and non-fiction have appeared in the New York Times Magazine, Cosmopolitan and Esquire. Shreve is married to a man she met when she was 13. She has two children and three stepchildren and lives in Massachusetts.
To find out more about Anita Shreve and her books visit her website.
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