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Bertrand Russell, born in Monmouthshire, 1872. English philosopher, mathematician, historian, social reformist, and pacifist. He is best known for the work Principia Mathematica, an attempt to ground mathematics on logic. Read Principia Mathematica
Read the opening extract of the brand new Liz Fenwick book before its publication on 23/05/2013
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The Twelve Justin Cronin
May 2013 Book of the Month and eBook of the Month.
The Passage was a huge and sweeping thriller telling the story of the end of civilisation and what happened to the...
Six Years Harlan Coben
May 2013 eBook of the Month.
The latest top-notch page-turner from Harlan Coben is a compelling psychological thriller exploring the power and passion of lost love. Told exclusively from the viewpoint of Jake...
Big Brother Lionel Shriver
May 2013 eBook of the Month.
Once again Shriver takes on a contentious topic head-on. In the case of Big Brother it is the effects on a family of a morbidly obese ‘big...
Blood of Kings Andrew James
May 2013 eBook of the Month.
Author Andrew James spent three years living in a snake and scorpion infested oasis, in the shadow of the Oracle of Ammon, the ram-headed Egyptian god, to...
Other Featured eBooks this Month
Flight Behaviour Barbara Kingsolver
May 2013 Book of the Month.
Winner of the Orange Prize for Fiction in 2010 and on the shortlist for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2013.
A topical, engrossing and thought-provoking read exploring how...
The Dinner Herman Koch
May 2013 Book of the Month.
This is one of those books like The Slap and We Need to Talk About Kevin where no one is likeable and the outcome difficult...
Fallen Land Patrick Flanery
May 2013 Book of the Month.
A complex and thought-provoking psychological thriller that, through the metaphor of the characters' experiences, explores the utter failure of the American dream. A Boston family, looking for...
Elijah's Mermaid Essie Fox
May 2013 Book of the Month.
A panoply of characters bring Victorian London’s polarised society vividly to life. The lives of two orphans brought up by their grandfather and a baby found in...
Tigers in Red Weather Liza Klaussmann
May 2013 Book of the Month.
Eight publishers were fighting over this debut novel from London-based New Yorker Klaussmann and all you need to do is read the Opening Extract to see why....
The Round House Louise Erdrich
May 2013 Book of the Month.
Hailed in the US as a Native American To Kill A Mockingbird and winner of the 2012 US National Book Award, this is a masterclass in...
Walking Home Simon Armitage
May 2013 Travel Book of the Month.
A uniquely charming, droll, moving, British narrative from writer and poet Simon Armitage as he recounts his 256 mile (North to South) walk along the Pennine...
Irresistible Liz Bankes
On seeing this book we were initially reluctant to feature it in NewGen, our teen/YA category - so we thought we would ask a handful of our teenagers in our Reader Review panel for their thoughts. As you can see...
The Abomination Jonathan Holt
May 2013 Debut of the Month.
With a gripping plot and complex characters this is the first of a dazzling, multi-layered trilogy set in modern-day...
The Deception Artist Fayette Fox
In this sharp and funny literary debut set in Northern California during the 1980s recession, Fayette Fox delves deep into the dark heart of an ordinary American family - and finds out that make-believe isn't just for kids.
A Piece of...
The Universe Versus Alex Woods Gavin Extence
We meet a 17-year old Alex as he is stopped by customs at Dover with a glove compartment full of marijuana and Mr Peterson's urn of ashes on the passenger seat beside him. I'm hooked. [We then go back to...
The Memory of Lost Senses Judith Kinghorn
A lyrically written and wonderfully evocative, romantic historical novel that draws you into the intriguing and secret lives of the characters in the hot lazy summer of 1911. A Countess, her grandson, a famous author writing her memoir and a...
The Colour of Milk Nell Leyshon
Written by 15-year old Mary in her dungeon awaiting the gallows in the 1830s, with a secret she cannot tell - this is an amazing book. Her country, semi-literate voice is highly compelling, forcing you to race through the slim...
The Child Thief Dan Smith
A page-turning, atmospheric and taut historical thriller, set in 1930s Russia. Perfect for any fan of snowy-scened Scandinavian crime. A stranger appears in a village and soon after a girl vanishes. Only her uncle, an ex-soldier, has the necessary skills...
The Candle Man Alex Scarrow
Jack the Ripper’s London... an eerily quiet dining room on the Titanic and a series of murders that covers two decades are the outline of Alex Scarrow’s (October Skies) stunning new historical thriller. Once you read the first chapter...
Dark Room Steve Mosby
Barry Forshaw on Steve Mosby...
Edgy Brit Steve Mosby (author of the splendid Dark Room) specialise in fiction that takes no prisoners, and is guaranteed to take readers into very dangerous territory – in which the protagonist’s ill-advised...
1356 Bernard Cornwell
Shortlisted for the Specsavers National Book Awards 'Popular Fiction of the Year' 2012.
With characteristically meticulous research Cornwell’s new historical blockbuster weaves a complex story, epic in scope, that has as its climax the battle of Poitiers, the second but less...
Wife 22 Melanie Gideon
A witty and wise story about a woman amidst a midlife crisis who agrees to anonymously participate in a survey about marital happiness, only to experience a reawakening through the power of confession. Satirising our obsession with the internet the...
Go Not Gently Cath Staincliffe
Single mum and private investigator Sal Kilkenny’s two new clients look to have pretty straightforward cases - proof of adultery and proof of abuse. But things are rarely what they seem at first glance....The second in the much praised Sal...
Looking For Trouble Cath Staincliffe
Complex, satisfying and very human crime stories set in Manchester with struggling single mother Sal Kilkenny, private eye, at the physical and emotional heart of the plot. In her first case she is asked by a mother to find her...
The Cleaner of Chartres Salley Vickers
A captivating, magical and slightly sinister story of secrets, forgiveness, loss and love. It’s the perfect book for readers who loved Joanne Harris' Chocolat. No one knows where the mysterious cleaner came from, and she is happy to hide...
The Ask and the Answer Patrick Ness
Shortlisted for the CILIP Carnegie Medal 2010.
Prize-winning author Patrick Ness follows up The Knife of Never Letting Go with equally hard hitting The Ask and the Answer. Trying to escape, Todd and Viola fall into the hands of Mayor...
Monsters of Men Patrick Ness
Winner of the CILIP Carnegie Medal 2011.
This is a spine-tingling, page turning read. Heaped with well-deserved awards, the Chaos Walking Trilogy comes to a brilliant conclusion in Monsters of Men.
Set in a dystopian future in a world...
The Knife of Never Letting Go Patrick Ness
A 2013 World Book Night selection.
The electrifying and unflinching debut novel about the impossible choices of growing up by award-winning fiction writer Patrick Ness.
Shortlisted for the 2009 Branford Boase Best Debut Novel Award.
Shortlisted for the Carnegie Award 2009. Winner of...
If You Find Me Emily Murdoch
Debut author Emily Murdoch tells a deeply moving spellbinding story of a young girl’s courage and survival in a darkly observed contemporary America. Carey’s childhood is hard; she lives in the woods with her mother and her younger sister. There’s...
Deadlands Lily Herne
Yes there are zombies in this book, but don’t be put off as you will miss a gritty, sharply written, even at times funny, dystopian novel. An unspecified apocalypse leaves Capetown a wasteland of zombies and cowering humans protected by...
Fisher of Men Pam Rhodes
A heart-warming comedy of manners with real spiritual resonance and depth. Who would have thought a sleepy country village could hold so many colourful characters, thorny issues and be such a social minefield? Kind, earnest and shy Revd Neil Fisher...
The Knot Jane Borodale
From the author of the Orange New Writers shortlisted The Book of Fires comes The Knot, an extraordinarily evocative story of obsession, love and secrets.
Zoo Time Howard Jacobson
Winner of the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize 2013.
The new novel from the author of The Finkler Question, winner of the Man Booker Prize 2010. Zoo Time is a novel about love - love of women, love of literature and love...
Hidden Among Us Katy Moran
A sophisticated and complex novel told in different voices, this interweaves a contemporary family story with a haunting story of another world – the place where the elven folk live. As a newly formed family gather in an old...
The Garden of Evening Mists Tan Twan Eng
Winner of the Man Asian Literary Prize 2012.
It's Malaya, 1949. After studying law at Cambrige and time spent helping to prosecute Japanese war criminals, Yun Ling Teoh seeks solace among the jungle fringed plantations of Northern Malaya where she grew...
The Conception of Zachary Muse Jason Hinojosa
This compelling, allegorical tale of the transformative power of nature, the devastatingly positive and negative effects of love and the power of feminine beauty is frankly hard to categorise. The writing is evocative and lyrical and the story has more...
Scenes from Early Life Philip Hensher
I was a baby during the war. We stayed inside for months. All my aunts took turns in feeding me. I couldn't be heard to cry. You see, there were soldiers in the streets. They would have known what a...
Sweet Tooth Ian McEwan
The year is 1972. The Cold War is far from over. Britain is being torn apart by industrial unrest and terrorism. Serena Frome is being groomed for MI5. Serena is sent on a secret mission which brings her into the...
Thrill Seeker Kristina Lloyd
'I'd never set out to snag Mr Right but I'd veered so far off that track I was now at the mercy of Mr Dangerously Wrong...' A sexy and controversial erotic thriller - Fifty Shades Darker than E L James...
Telegraph Avenue Michael Chabon
From the bestselling author of 'The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay'; his first novel in 5 years is a lovingly painted pop-culture epic. As summer in Oakland, California, draws to a close, Archy Stallings and Nat Jaffe are hanging...
Maya's Notebook Isabel Allende
Abandoned by her parents as a baby, Maya has been brought up by her tough grandmother Nini and her gentle grandfather Popo. At school though, teenage Maya finds herself drawn towards the wrong crowd. Before she knows what's happened, Maya's...
Idiopathy Sam Byers
This bitterly humorous debut is a novel of love, narcissism, and ailing cattle. Katherine has given up trying to be happy. Her cynical wit repels the people she wants to attract, and attracts the people she knows she should repel....
Wool Hugh Howey
Inside, men and women live an enclosed life full of rules and regulations, of secrets and lies. To live, you must follow the rules. But some don't. These are the dangerous ones; these are the people who dare to hope...
Bad Blood S. J. Rozan
A Bill Smith/Lydia Chin Crime Novel. Most people believe Jimmy Antonelli is bad to the bone. New York detective - and an old friend of the family - Bill Smith is one of the few people who has ever been...
The Summer House Santa Montefiore
Antoinette's world has fallen apart: her husband, the man she has loved for as long as she can remember, has died tragically in an accident. He was her rock, the man she turned to for love and support, the man...
The Liars' Gospel Naomi Alderman
Naomi Alderman's The Liars' Gospel makes the oldest story - the story of Jesus - entirely new. 'He was a traitor, a rabble-leader, a rebel, a liar and a pretender to the throne. We have tried to forget him here.'...
Goodbye for Now Laurie Frankel
Imagine a world in which you never have to say goodbye. A world in which you can talk to your loved ones after they've gone - About the trivial things you used to share About the things you wish you'd...
Erotically Ever After Rachel Kenley
Immerse yourself in these well-loved tales that now have the ultimate in sensual happy endings. Black Lace Books : the leading imprint of erotic fiction for women.
Bad Angels Rebecca Chance
Step into Limehouse Wharf, the new, uber-luxury apartment building in Canary Wharf where celebrities who have had 'work' done can hole up until they have healed and which is about to see its most glamorous and scandalous Christmas yet. Staying...
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Girl with a Pearl Earring Tracy Chevalier
A 2013 World Book Night selection.
Centring on Vermeer’s household in the 1660s in Delft, this speculative historical novel tells of his relationship with a servant girl, Griet, who became his...
Happy Families Janey Fraser
Bobbie’s at the end of her tether. Her children don’t listen to a word she says and her husband is never home. Even worse, her mother is bringing a new...
You Had Me at Hello Mhairi McFarlane
Winner of the Romantic Novelists' Association Contemporay Romantic Novel Award 2013.
This witty, funny book is a story about second chances; can they work or should you let sleeping dogs lie?...
Pilgrim Soul Gordon Ferris
Described as ‘the new Ian Rankin’ by the Daily Mail, Gordon Ferris writes disturbingly good post WW2 Glasgow-based crime thrillers with ex policeman turned journalist Douglas Brodie at their centre....
The Boy Who Fell to Earth Kathy Lette
Meet Merlin. He's Lucy's bright, beautiful son - who just happens to be autistic. Since Merlin's father left them in the lurch, Lucy has made Merlin the centre of her...
Eighty Days White Vina Jackson
February 2013 Provocative Prose Book of the Month.
A romantic, well-written, storyline combined with some steamy sex ... the writing duo behind the...
Valentina Evie Blake
Milan, 2012. Photographer Valentina Rosselli is living with her lover of one year, Theo Steen, but refuses to commit to anything more. When she is offered an intriguing photography assignment,...
Wildwood Colin Meloy
This delightful book isn’t easy to categorise. Written and illustrated by a husband and wife team this surreal, fairytale-like story is full of adventure and excitement – beginning with the...
The Paradise Guest House Ellen Sussman
April 2013 Book of the Month.
Romance, mystery and self-discovery are all in this poignant novel of one woman’s journey to Bali in...
The Last Runaway Tracy Chevalier
April 2013 Book of the Month.
Set in Ohio in 1850, the stunning new novel from the bestselling author of Girl With...
Broken Harbour Tana French
In Broken Harbour, a ghost estate outside Dublin - half-built, half-inhabited, half-abandoned - two children and their father are dead. The mother is on her way to intensive care. Scorcher...
The Headmaster's Wager Vincent Lam
Percival Chen is headmaster of the most respected English school in Saigon, a patriot, fiercely proud of his Chinese heritage. He is also a compulsive gambler and an incorrigible womanizer....
The Wolf Gift Anne Rice
After a brutal attack Reuben finds himself changing. His hair is longer, his skin is more sensitive and her can hear things he never could before. Now he must confront...
The Trader's Dream Anna Jacobs
Bram Deagan dreams of bringing his family from Ireland to join him in Australia, where he now runs a successful trading business. But when a typhus epidemic strikes Ireland, it...
Triggers Robert J. Sawyer
The president of the United States is shot in the head by a would-be assassin. Rushed to hospital and barely saved from death, he discovers that he has new memories...
Under Wildwood Colin Meloy
A sequel to the best-selling Wildwood, this sees its heroine Prue McKeel miserable back at home after her adventures in the magical Wildwood. Prue is always drawn back to...
Absolution Patrick Flanery
Shortlisted for the 2013 RSL Ondaatje Prize.
A sharp, clever, violent novel spanning the transition of South Africa from apartheid through Truth and Reconciliation to the present as seen by three...
By Any Other Name Laura Jarratt
A stunning, heart-stopping novel from the author of the critically acclaimed Skin Deep. Holly is a new girl at a new school in a new home with a new life...
Department 19: Battle Lines Will Hill
Book 3 from the talent behind the bestselling hardback YA debut of 2011. Dracula is on the verge of coming into his full power. Department 19 is on the back...
Taken Robert Crais
April 2013 Book of the Month.
Another addictive, adrenaline fueled, breakneck adventure for Elvis Cole Private Detective and Joe Pike. A very dangerous...
The Little Coffee Shop of Kabul Deborah Rodriguez
In a little coffee shop in one of the most dangerous places on earth, five very different women come together. SUNNY, the proud proprietor, who needs an ingenious plan -...
Seventy Times Seven John Gordon Sinclair
April 2013 Book of the Month.
Tension and black humour are well mixed in this impressive, sometimes pretty brutal, debut thriller from actor...
Skios Michael Frayn
April 2013 Book of the Month.
Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2012
This is a slickly written farce of mistaken identity set on...
The Perfume Collector Kathleen Tessaro
April 2013 Book of the Month.
In 1955 Grace finds she is the sole beneficiary of the estate of an unknown French relative...
Talking to the Dead Harry Bingham
April 2013 Book of the Month.
A favourite author of mine changes tack. He used to write sweeping, Jeffrey Archer-esque sagas (wonderful), now...
The Mystery of Mercy Close Marian Keyes
April 2013 Book of the Month.
Waspish, well-observed and tragically comic in places this is the fifth instalment in the Walsh Family series....
Among Others Jo Walton
April 2013 Fantasy Book of the Month.
Winner of the Hugo Award for Best Novel 2012.
This is an intriguing, wonderfully written, magical coming...
Tales of the Jazz Age F. Scott Fitzgerald
A collection of early short stories which helped make F. Scott Fitzgerald's name.
Baz Luhrmann's film adaptation of The Great Gatsby, starring Leonardo DiCaprio, opened the 66th Cannes Film Festival.
A 'Piece...
The Beautiful and Damned F. Scott Fitzgerald
Containing obvious parallels with F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald's own lives, The Beautiful and Damned is a tragic examination of the pitfalls of greed and materialism and the transience of...
The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald
Regarded as Fitzgerald's masterpiece and one of the greatest novels of American literature, The Great Gatsby is a vivid chronicle of the excesses and decadence of the Jazz Age, as...
This Side of Paradise F. Scott Fitzgerald
A critical account of its own era, introducing many themes which would be developed in later works, Fitzgerald's first novel was an instant critical and commercial success, propelling him into...
Tender is the Night F. Scott Fitzgerald
Peopled by an unforgettable cast of aristocrats and high-fliers, Tender is the Night is at once a scathing critique of the materialism and hypocrisy of the Roaring Twenties and a...
Labyrinth Kate Mosse
Winner of the Richard & Judy Best Read of the Year at the British Book Awards 2006.
I was privileged to visit Kate in her Carcassonne retreat and be shown...
No Way Back Andrew Gross
If you want a non-stop, addictive read then look no further than the heart-stopping new novel from Andrew Gross; the bestselling author of 15 Seconds and Reckless. A...
Not without You Harriet Evans
An intriguing and compelling read, evoking the glamorous facade of Hollywood and the fickle nature of fame, from the Sunday Times bestselling author who has been described as Rosamunde...
The New Republic Lionel Shriver
Through the character of Edgar Kellogg, ex fat kid, ex corporate lawyer and now wannabe journalist, Shriver explores the lengths you’ll go to and the things you’ll do when you...
The Cornish House Liz Fenwick
A gorgeously sprawling, emotional debut, about starting a new life in a beautiful, crumbling old house in Cornwall. Perfect for fans of Rosamunde Pilcher. Artist Maddie loses her husband...
Elegy for Eddie Jacqueline Winspear
April, 1933. To the costermongers of London, Eddie Pettit is simply a gentle soul with a near-magical gift for working with horses. When he is killed in a violent accident,...
The Scent of Lemon Leaves Clara Sanchez
Having left her job and boyfriend, thirty-year-old Sandra decides to stay in a village on the Costa Brava in order to take stock of her life and find a new...
Ancient Light John Banville
'Billy Gray was my best friend and I fell in love with his mother.' In a small town in 1950s Ireland a fifteen-year-old boy has illicit meetings with a thirty-five-year-old...
The Uninvited Liz Jensen
A seven-year-old girl puts a nail-gun to her grandmother's neck and fires. An isolated incident, say the experts. The experts are wrong. Across the world, children are killing their families....
Umbrella Will Self
Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2012.
Radical in its conception, uncompromising in its style, Umbrella is Will Self's most extravagant and imaginative exercise in speculative fiction to date.
Sir Peter Stothard,...
Better Together Sheila O'Flanagan
The fabulously addictive new novel from No. 1 bestselling author Sheila O'Flanagan. When high-flying journalist Sheridan Gray loses her job, her boyfriend and her flat, she knows she must pick...
The Lower River Paul Theroux
Award-winning writer Paul Theroux draws upon personal experience of living in Malawi in his eye-opening novel, about one man's return to an Africa he no longer recognises, The Lower River...
The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald
Jay Gatsby's parties are legendary. Night and day, the rich and beautiful descend upon his mansion to drink and to dance. For Nick Carraway, newly arrived on Long Island, the...
The Wish List Jane Costello
There are six months left of Emma Reiss's twenties...and she has some unfinished business. Emma and her friends are about to turn thirty, and for Emma it's a defining moment....
Starting Now Debbie Macomber
For years, Libby Morgan dreamed only of making partner in her competitive, high-pressure law firm. She sacrificed everything for her career - her friends, her marriage, her chance at creating...
Dearest Rose Rowan Coleman
Winner of the Romantic Novelists' Association Epic Romantic Novel Award 2013.
When Rose Pritchard turns up on the doorstep of a Cumbrian B&B it is her last resort. She and her...
The Apothecary's Daughter Charlotte Betts
Winner of the Romantic Novelists' Association Historical Romantic Novel Award 2013.
A debut novel from an exciting new voice in historical romance set in bustling, malodorous London at the time of...
Witchstruck Victoria Lamb
Winner of the Romantic Novelists' Association Young Adult Romantic Novel Award 2013.
Meg Lytton has always known of her dark and powerful gift. Raised a student of the old magick by...
The Reluctant Fundamentalist Mohsin Hamid
In the wake of September 11, Changez, a Pakistani man in Manhattan, finds his position in the city he loves suddenly overturned, and his budding relationship with Erica eclipsed by...
My Animals and Other Family Clare Balding
Shortlisted for the Horse Racing Book of the Year at the British Sports Book Awards 2013.
Winner of the Specsavers National Book Awards 'Biography/Autobiography of the Year' 2012.
The author grew up...
Mick Jagger Philip Norman
He is a testament to British glamour, the ultimate architect and demi-god of rock. Bestselling biographer Philip Norman offers an unparalleled account of the life of a living legend, Mick...
The Storyteller Jodi Picoult
Once again Jodi Picoult doesn’t shy away from controversial subject matter, this time the Holocaust, using it as the emotional backbone to a compelling, arresting story of the cruelty and...
Burning Bright Tracy Chevalier
Tracy Chevalier's new novel is set in London at the end of the eighteenth century and its a wonderful read on every level. It is three years after the French...
Falling Angels Tracy Chevalier
A poignant and historical tale of two families brought reluctantly together, Falling Angels is an intimate story of childhood friendships, sexual awakening and human frailty. Its epic sweep takes in...
Remarkable Creatures Tracy Chevalier
In this story of female friendship and fortitude, Tracy Chevalier shows her skill for working history’s lost individuals into far-reaching fiction. Set in 19th century Lyme Regis, it centres on...
The Virgin Blue Tracy Chevalier
The compelling story of two women, born four centuries apart, and the ancestral legacy that binds them. Perfect for fans of Barbara Erskine, Kate Morton and Sarah...
Manuscript Found in Accra Paulo Coelho
Through a translated 10th century manuscript, based on the words and wisdom of a mysterious man known only as the Copt, Paulo Coelho addresses some fundamental human questions such as...
Gangsta Granny David Walliams
A story of prejudice and acceptance, funny lists and silly words, this new book has all the hallmarks of David's previous bestsellers. Our hero Ben is bored beyond belief after...
The Power Trip Jackie Collins
A Russian billionaire and his state of the art yacht. His beautiful and sexy supermodel girlfriend. And five dynamic, powerful and famous couples invited on the yacht's maiden voyage. A...
Good Husband Material Trisha Ashley
Another warm, wise and witty offering from Sunday Times bestseller Trisha Ashley. James is everything Tish has ever wanted in a husband - she's married a man who even her...