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The Chaperone Laura Moriarty
May 2012 Book of the Month.
I am reminded of the 20s musical number "Anything Goes" here, for in "The Chaperone" it certainly does. This is 20s New York, the girl being chaperoned... Format: Paperback - Released: 26/04/2012
A Rural Affair Catherine Alliott
May 2012 Book of the Month.
Catherine Alliott is at her sparkling and brilliant best in this her latest feel-good read. Full of her trademark wit and characters you feel instantly drawn to.... Format: Paperback - Released: 10/05/2012
Women of a Dangerous Age Fanny Blake
May 2012 Book of the Month.
Publisher turned author Fanny Blake has written another insightful, funny, addictive read that women will totally understand and men would do well to read in order to... Format: Paperback - Released: 26/04/2012
Other Featured Books this Month
The Light Between Oceans M. L. Stedman
May 2012 MEGA Debut of the Month.
What a brilliant and memorable debut. Superb characters, heart-rending plot and, set on an island 100 miles from Australia, a uniquely beautiful setting. After the horrors... Format: Hardback - Released: 26/04/2012
Heart-shaped Bruise Tanya Byrne
May 2012 Debut of the Month.
This gripping, provoking and emotional debut, written from the perspective of a troubled young girl in a young offenders institute awaiting trial for a vicious crime, is... Format: Hardback - Released: 10/05/2012
The Playdate Louise Millar
May 2012 Debut of the Month.
This gripping contemporary thriller will have you turning the pages, and re-evaluating people you call friends. How do you know whether it’s dangerous to leave your children... Format: Paperback - Released: 04/05/2012
The River Woman Sorrel Pitts
May 2012 Debut of the Month.
'A fascinating story told by a very promising writer.' Sir Michael Parkinson.A young woman is found half frozen to death on a remote farm and... Format: Paperback - Released: 19/09/2011
The Underside of Joy Seré Prince Halverson
May 2012 Debut of the Month.
Captivating, beautifully written with a real sense of location this is a heart wrenching story of modern motherhood that is a real emotional roller-coaster.
STOP PRESS: For a... Format: Paperback - Released: 10/05/2012
Black Heart Blue Louisa Reid
May 2012 Debut of the Month.
Stunning, shocking, sad and incredibly touching. This debut tackles the horrors of domestic violence head on with beautiful writing and two amazing voices. Twin girls, one beautiful,... Format: Paperback - Released: 10/05/2012
Never Coming Home Evonne Wareham
March 2012 Book of the Month.
Winner of the 2012 Joan Hessayon New Writers' Scheme Award.
A debut from an exciting new talent. A well written contemporary romantic thriller, set in London, Italy and... Format: Paperback - Released: 15/03/2012
Dreams of Joy Lisa See
Set in 1950s China during Mao’s brutal ’great leap forward’ this heart-rending story of a mother's love is a gripping and mesmerising read. And with the research the author has done, an education as well. This book can be read... Format: Paperback - Released: 10/05/2012
That Summer in Ischia Penny Feeny
May 2012 Debut of the Month.
With intrigue, lost friendships and set on a sun-drenched Italian island, this is one of these stories that you just want to keep on reading. 25 years... Format: Paperback - Released: 03/05/2012
The Time of My Life Cecelia Ahern
Touching, warm, funny and poignant and a must for all of her fans. Cecelia Ahern's new novel has Lucy Silchester's Life as a central character (in fact he is a grumpy middle-aged man) who is out to sort out his... Format: Paperback - Released: 10/05/2012
An Inventory of Heaven Jane Feaver
The few years Mavis Gaunt spent in the village of Shipleigh, Devon, as a wartime evacuee - away from London and her parents' loveless marriage - were sufficient for her to conceive of the place as a heavenly retreat. But... Format: Hardback - Released: 17/05/2012
Her Giant Octopus Moment Kay Langdale
When a surrogate mother pretends the pregnancy has miscarried, and bears a daughter - to whom does the child belong? To her runaway birth mother, or her deceived father and his wife? Scout, born as a result of a surrogacy... Format: Paperback - Released: 10/05/2012
All For You Sheila O'Flanagan
The new fabulously addictive read from the No. 1 bestselling author As TV's favourite weather forecaster, Lainey is good at making predictions. But what she doesn't foresee is that her own life is about to hit a stormy patch. With... Format: Paperback - Released: 26/04/2012
That Summer at Hill Farm Miranda France
Farmer Hayes loves the land - but hates farming. His neglected wife Isabel adores her three children, but is temperamentally unsuited to life as a wife and mother. The Smith sisters have not spoken to one another for forty years,... Format: Paperback - Released: 03/05/2012
The Red House Mark Haddon
Family, that slippery word, a star to every wandering bark, and everyone sailing under a different sky. After his mother's death, Richard, a newly remarried hospital consultant, decides to build bridges with his estranged sister, inviting Angela and her family... Format: Hardback - Released: 10/05/2012
The Restaurant of Love Regained Ito Ogawa
Returning home from work, Rinko is shocked to find that her flat is totally empty. Gone are her TV set, fridge and furniture, gone are all her kitchen tools, including the old Meiji mortar she has inherited from her grandmother... Format: Paperback - Released: 26/04/2012
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The Legacy of Hartlepool Hall Paul Torday
From the author of instant bestseller Salmon Fishing in the Yemen, comes a highly readable, witty tale of unwanted inheritance, uptight Britishness and the preservation of a lost way...
Secrets of the Tides Hannah Richell
April 2012 MEGA Debut of the Month.
A sensitive, convincing and beautifully written novel. Full of descriptive power, it defines the beginnings and...
On Canaan's Side Sebastian Barry
April 2012 Book of the Month.
Getting a copy of a new novel from award-winning Sebastian Barry in the office is always a...
Women and Children First Gill Paul
During her research to write the poignant Titanic Love Stories Gill Paul became so taken up in the stories she decided to create this engaging romantic story. The central...
Escape Barbara Delinsky
We have all had ‘I can’t stand it anymore' moments but in Escape the heroine Emily decides enough really is enough and walks out of her job as a lawyer...
The Invisible Circus Jennifer Egan
April 2012 Book of the Month.
This is the stunning, emotional debut novel, first published in 1995, from the unclassifiable but excellent author...
Irma Voth Miriam Toews
The stifling, reclusive life of nineteen-year-old Irma Voth, recently married, and more recently deserted is turned on its head when a film crew moves in to make a movie about...
Hidden Treasures Fern Britton
This warm, insightful and humorous story is such an enjoyable novel and it's clear Fern Britton puts a lot of character into her writing. The central theme of the book...
The Weird Sisters Eleanor Brown
April 2012 Debut of the Month.
A trenchantly observant novel about the often warring emotions
between sisters that threaten to pull apart but...
About Last Night Adele Parks
'I need you to say that I was with you.' For thirty years, best friends Steph and Pip have been through thick and thin. There's nothing they would not do...
A Conspiracy of Friends Alexander McCall Smith
The third novel in McCall's acclaimed series about the colourful
inhabitants of Corduroy Mansions, Pimlico. This installment follows the
adventures of Oedipus Snark, the nasty Liberal Democrat and his mother...
The Lucky One: Film tie-in edition Nicholas Sparks
The movie of this romantic journey of discovery for an ex U.S. Marine, starring Zac Efron, is due for release in the UK on 2 May 2012. Logan Thibault finds...
The Paw Paw Tree Susan Fairfoot
A small boy is diagnosed as autistic but develops savant-type
brilliance. His father is unable to let go of recurring memories and
nightmares of a past reincarnation as a persecuted...
At Last Edward St. Aubyn
April 2012 Book of the Month.
At Last is a masterpiece of glittering dark comedy and profound emotional truth. If you haven't already...
Never Mind Edward St. Aubyn
THE FIRST PATRICK MELROSE NOVEL.
At his mother's family house in the south of France, Patrick Melrose has
the run of a magical garden. Bravely imaginative and self-sufficient,
five-year-old Patrick encounters...
Bad News Edward St. Aubyn
THE SECOND PATRICK MELROSE NOVEL.
Twenty-two years old and in the grip of
a massive addiction, Patrick Melrose is forced to fly to New York to
collect his father's ashes. Over...
Some Hope Edward St. Aubyn
THE THIRD PATRICK MELROSE NOVEL Patrick Melrose, cleaned-up and world-weary, is a reluctant guest at a glittering party deep in the English countryside. Amid a crowd of flitting social dragonflies,...
The Month Before's Featured Books
The Woman Who Went to Bed for a Year Sue Townsend
Featured on The Book Show on Sky Arts on 22 March 2012.
The Woman Who Went to Bed for a Year is a funny and touching novel about what happens when...
The House on Willow Street Cathy Kelly
March 2012 Book of the Month.
The author is fast establishing herself as the new Maeve Binchy and the setting of this...
The Kashmir Shawl Rosie Thomas
March 2012 Book of the Month.
Winner of the RNA Epic Romantic Novel Award 2012.
Characters and settings are beautifully portrayed in this dramatic...
Please Look After Mother Kyung-sook Shin
March 2012 Book of the Month.
This book sold over 1.5 million copies when it was published in Korea and now its universal...
The Language of Flowers Vanessa Diffenbaugh
March 2012 Book of the Month.
One of our Debuts of the Year 2011.
The Language of Flowers is a heartbreaking and redemptive novel...
Bed David Whitehouse
March 2012 Debut of the Month.
What an extraordinary debut novel, full of evocative language and tragic humour, Bed is a coming-of-age story...
Absolution Patrick Flanery
March 2012 Debut of the Month.
This is a very confident debut novel that manages to be literary yet a page-turner at the...
A Private Affair Lesley Lokko
A Private Affair is the new spellbinding tale of love and friendship, glamour and guilt, secrets and deceit from bestselling author Lesley Lokko.
Freeing Grace Charity Norman
Warm, insightful and poignant, Freeing Grace tells the story of two families battling over one baby girl - Grace Serenity.
The Patchwork Marriage Jane Green
When Andi married Ethan she not only got the man she loved but also the chance to be a mother, to his daughters Emily and Sophia. Unable to have a...
Save Me Lisa Scottoline
You always put your own child first, don't you? When an explosion rips through her daughter's school, Rose McKenna faces a horrifying choice. Does she go in search of her...
The Death of Bees Lisa O'Donnell
I'm Marnie. Too young to smoke, too young to drink, too young to fuck, but who would have stopped me?Hazlehurst housing estate, Glasgow, Christmas Eve 2010. Fifteen-year-old Marnie...
Daughters Elizabeth Buchan
With an ex-husband embarking on a new marriage, and the surprising and late blooming developments in her own love life to contend with, Lara has enough to worry about, especially...
Before She Was Mine Kate Long
Freya is torn between her two mothers. Liv, her adoptive mother who nurtured and raised her, is earthy, no-nonsense. The total opposite to Melody: with her vibrant, explosive personality and...
Various Pets Alive and Dead Marina Lewycka
Featured on The Book Show on Sky Arts on 10 May 2012.
Set half in Doncaster, half in London, this is a very funny riff on modern values, featuring hamsters, cockroaches,...
The Sense of an Ending Julian Barnes
Winner of the Man Booker Prize 2011.
The Sense of an Ending is the story of one man coming to terms with the
mutable past. Laced with trademark precision,...
The Book of Summers Emylia Hall
Beth Lowe has been sent a parcel. Inside is a letter informing her that her long-estranged mother has died, and a scrapbook Beth has never seen before. Entitled The Book...
44 Charles Street Danielle Steel
Danielle Steel has once again delivered a thumpingly good story that brings together what seem a number of disparate characters into the life of a woman spurned - she has...
The Danger Game Kalinda Ashton
The danger game is not a winning game' Alice and Louise are sisters united by a distant tragedy - the house fire their brother died in and the disappearance of...
May Contain Nuts John O'farrell
Alice never imagined that she would end up like this. Is she the only mother who feels so permanently panic-stricken at the terrors of the modern world - or is...
The Best a Man Can Get John O'farrell
Michael Adams shares a flat with three other men in their late twenties. Days are spent lying in bed, playing computer games and occasionally doing a bit of work. And...
The Homecoming of Samuel Lake Jenny Wingfield
One of our Debuts of the Year 2011.
Funny, wise, heart-stopping and heartbreaking, with a cast of unforgettable characters, The Homecoming of Samuel Lake is a masterpiece of storytelling.
A "Piece...
Wish You Were Here Graham Swift
A masterly work from one of our greatest writers, told for the first
time in the third, rather than the first person. It's a true departure
in many ways and...
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