10 Feb
1837 Aleksandr Pushkin died at the age of thirty-seven, from a stomach wound suffered in a duel two days earlier. He is considered by many to be the greatest Russian poet and the founder of modern Russian literature. Read works by Aleksandr Pushkin
Read the opening extract of the brand new Lauren DeStefano book before its publication on 16/02/2012
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
Other Featured Books this Month
The Legacy of Eden Nelle Davy
February 2012 Debut of the Month.
A ‘Piece of Passion’ from Nelle’s editor, Jenny Hutton:When we first read The Legacy of Eden we were left breathless. Nelle is a phenomenal talent, writing... Format: Paperback - Released: 03/02/2012
Care of Wooden Floors Will Wiles
February 2012 Debut of the Month.
Inhabiting the spaces in-between everyday events - a place where tiny oversights can have disastrous, farcical and even fatal consequences. This is a unique, bold and brilliant... Format: Hardback - Released: 02/02/2012
The Book of Lies Mary Horlock
February 2012 Debut of the Month.
A well-written insight into the twisted mind of an unashamed murderer, as she admits in the second paragraph of this book (see link to the Opening Extract... Format: Paperback - Released: 16/02/2012
The Soldier's Wife Joanna Trollope
Can a man trained to fight adjust again to family and domestic life? And how will the family cope if he can't? Through the well observed, astute yet sensitive eye of the author this novel takes a keen look at... Format: Hardback - 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
Fighting Dirty June Hampson
The final, heart-pounding instalment in June Hampson's compelling gangland saga series. Our Editorial guru Sarah Broadhurst says of the series 'It’s evocative and gritty and it's got heart, violence, sex and an underground current which is very atmospheric.' See the... Format: Paperback - Released: 16/02/2012
The Copper Beech Maeve Binchy
A Special Edition of The Copper Beech by Maeve Binchy to celebrate Orion's 20th anniversary.
Maeve Binchy's marvellous portrait of
a small Irish town whose untroubled surface conceals the passions,
rivalries, friendships, ambitions and jealousies beneath. Format: Paperback - Released: 20/02/2012
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
Daughters-in-law Joanna Trollope
January 2012 Book of the Month.
Shortlisted for the Galaxy Popular Fiction Book of the Year Award 2011.
Rachel has always been at the centre of her family of three sons but now the... Format: Paperback - Released: 05/01/2012
The Other Family Joanna Trollope
Oh this is a tough one. Joanna certainly knows how to put her thumb on a bruise and continually push till it hurts. Why Richie never divorced his first wife to marry the mother of his three girls, his partner... Format: Paperback - Released: 09/12/2010
The Beginning of Spring Penelope Fitzgerald
One of Katharine McMahon's favourite books.
Highly evocative of time and place this wonderful novel set in the early 20th century is funny, touching and curious. A real treasure of a novel.
A "Piece of Passion" from the publisher...
Perhaps Penelope Fitzgerald’s... Format: Paperback - Released: 01/09/2003
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 Village Affair Joanna Trollope
To all intents and purposes this was Joanna’s first novel and it was the start of a genre labelled ‘aga saga’ – upper-middleclass country families getting into all sorts of messes. Joanna is queen of this type of novel and... Format: Paperback - Released: 21/09/1990
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
Brother and Sister Joanna Trollope
A hugely popular author that has her finger right on the pulse of family relationships. In this novel she tackles adoption. Format: Paperback - Released: 01/02/2005
The Pile of Stuff at the Bottom of the Stairs Christina Hopkinson
Mary Gilmour is struggling to cope. Her job is part time but housework is full time, leaving no time at all for her two young sons - let alone herself. For Mary, there is only one thing standing between her... Format: Paperback - Released: 16/02/2012
Five Days to Die Katia Lief
Your time is up...Emily Parker is missing, kidnapped from a car park in broad daylight and the police are clueless as to her whereabouts. The only man her family can turn to for help is retired FBI profiler John Geary.... Format: Paperback - Released: 02/02/2012
Full House (Quick Reads) Maeve Binchy
A World Book Day 2012 Quick Read.
Dee loves her children very much, but now they are all grown up, shouldn't they leave home? Format: Paperback - Released: 02/02/2012
22 Britannia Road Amanda Hodgkinson
After living wild in the forests for years, carrying a terrible secret, all Silvana knows is that she and Aurek are survivors. Everything else is lost. While Janusz, a Polish soldier who has criss-crossed Europe during the war, hopes his... Format: Paperback - Released: 02/02/2012
The First Day of the Rest of My Life Cathy Lamb
Madeline O'Shea tells people what to do with their lives. A renowned life coach, she inspires thousands of women through her thriving practice - exuding enviable confidence along with her stylish suits and sleek hair. But her confidence, just like... Format: Paperback - Released: 30/01/2012
Sing You Home Jodi Picoult
Zoe Baxter has spent ten years trying to get pregnant, and just when she's about to get her heart's desire, tragedy destroys her world. In the aftermath of loss and divorce, she throws herself into her career as a music... Format: Paperback - Released: 19/01/2012
Second Honeymoon Joanna Trollope
Yet another irrestible new novel from one of the UK's bestselling authors. Meet the Boyd family and the empty nest, twenty-first-century style. The youngest of the family is, at last, leaving home. Needless to say family life is never straight... Format: Paperback - Released: 01/01/2007
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 Snow Child Eowyn Ivey
A bewitching tale of heartbreak and hope set in 1920s Alaska. Jack and Mabel have staked everything on making a fresh start for themselves in a homestead 'at the world's edge' in the raw Alaskan wilderness. But as the days... Format: Hardback - Released: 01/02/2012
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
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Drop Dead Beautiful Jackie Collins
One of Katie Agnew's favourite books.
The Queen of Glitz comes up trumps – she brings Lucky Santangelo back with a fistful of problems, both emotional and lethal. Jackie Collins...
The Poisonwood Bible Barbara Kingsolver
One of Susan Fletcher's favourite books.
A fascinating story told from the perspective of a mother and her four daughters who have been taken to the Congo, by the father...
Rupture Simon Lelic
Shortlisted for the Galaxy New Writer of the Year 2010.
September 2010 Debut of the Month.
CWA John Creasey (New Blood) Dagger Finalist 2010.
It...
Bitter Leaf Chioma Okereke
This elegantly written story revolves around the beautiful Jericho and the love triangle she finds herself in and the repercussions this has in the fictional African village of Mannobe. The...
Me Before You Jojo Moyes
Will Traynor knows his motorcycle accident took away his desire to live. He knows everything feels very small and rather joyless now and he knows exactly how he's going to...
The Legacy of Hartlepool Hall Paul Torday
January 2012 MEGA Book of the Month.
From the author of instant bestseller Salmon Fishing in the Yemen, comes a highly readable,...
Jubilee Shelley Harris
It is 1977, the Queen's Silver Jubilee, and a photographer captures a moment forever: a street party with bunting and Union Jacks fluttering in the breeze. Right in the centre...
Before I Go to Sleep S. J. Watson
January 2012 Book of the Month.
Featured on The TV Book Club on More4 on 29 January 2012.
Winner of the Galaxy Crime &...
Tiny Sunbirds Far Away Christie Watson
Winner of the Costa First Novel Award 2011.
Set in the Niger Delta, Tiny Sunbirds Far Away explores the world of twelve-year-old Blessing and her family. Part comic, part tragic, it...
The Family Fang Kevin Wilson
Featured on The TV Book Club on More4 on 18 March 2012.
The Family Fang is an utterly unique, moving and hilarious novel
about one of life's greatest mysteries: the relationship...
The Month Before's Featured Books
Room Emma Donoghue
One of our Great Reads you may have missed in 2011.
A 2012 World Book Night selection.
Winner of the Galaxy Paperback of the Year Award 2011.
This was shortlisted for the Man...
When God Was a Rabbit Sarah Winman
One of our Debuts of the Year 2011.
Winner of the Galaxy New Writer of the Year Award 2011.
Shortlisted for the Galaxy Paperback of the Year 2011.
An utterly charming family...
A Tiny Bit Marvellous Dawn French
Winner of the Galaxy Popular Fiction Book of the Year Award 2011.
A Tiny Bit Marvellous is the brilliantly observed story of a modern family all living in
their own separate...
The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake Aimee Bender
One of our Great Reads you may have missed in 2011.
Young Rose, aged 9 when the story opens, finds that she can tell the mood of the person who cooked...
The Decision Penny Vincenzi
September 2011 Book of the Month and eBook of the Month.
A stunning new novel from No.1 bestselling author Penny Vincenzi. It's the...
The Girl on the Cliff Lucinda Riley
Could a secret from 1914 end a century of heartache? A tiny figure stands at the cliff edge - hair flying in the breeze. Grania Ryan is hypnotised by the...
The Unseen Katherine Webb
December 2011 Book of the Month.
One of our Great Reads you may have missed in 2011.
A mix of the occult, murder and...
Marriage and Other Games Veronica Henry
November 2011 Book of the Month.
Sarah Broadhurst is a big fan of Veronica’s books - she likens them to those of a...
The Real Katie Lavender Erica James
The delightful, sparkling new novel from Sunday Times bestseller Erica James. At 30, Katie Lavender thinks she is better than most when it comes to
dealing with life's surprises. But...
Angels at Christmas Debbie Macomber
A timely re-release of two of of Debbie’s Christmas themed stories; Those Christmas Angels and Where Angels Go. Both tales feature the helpful, if a little enthusiastic, angels Shirley, Goodness...
The Thread Victoria Hislop
November 2011 Book of the Month.
This is the enthralling new novel from the million-copy bestselling author of The Island and
Left Neglected Lisa Genova
A moving novel about a busy, vibrant woman in her 30s who has a car accident, leaving her to deal with a crippling disorder called left neglect. This is an...
The Christmas Angel Marcia Willett
'We're all pilgrims', he said thoughtfully. 'One way or another, aren't we? Always searching for something'.
Forming a slightly unconventional family setup with Dossie are the
jovial nuns of the local...
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