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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
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Ms. Harris's Book of Green Household Management: The Essential Thrift Bible Caroline Harris
January 2010 Good Housekeeping selection.
The road to greener living is paved with sustainably sourced flagstones and earnest intentions. Make this the year you follow through on at least some of your resolve (and stay budget-aware) with Ms Harris’s guilt-free and... Format: Paperback - Released: 03/12/2009
A Last English Summer Duncan Hamilton
Shortlisted in the Best Biography and Best Cricket Book categories of the British Sports Book Awards 2011.
Shortlisted for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award 2010.
Combining reportage, anecdote, biography, history and personal
recollection, A Last English Summer is an... Format: Hardback - Released: 01/07/2010
The Other Hand Chris Cleave
December 2010 Good Housekeeping selection.Good Reading for Christmas by Caroline Lucas...
'Earlier this year I read The Ot her Hand by Chris Cleave, and was drawn in by the blurb on the back cover, “We don’t want to tell... Format: Paperback - Released: 05/02/2009
Brooklyn Colm Toibin
Shortlisted for the Galaxy International Author of the Year 2010.
December 2010 Good Housekeeping selection.
Good Reading for Christmas by Maureen Lipman...
'The sensitive man in my life will get Colm Tóibín’s Brooklyn. He portrays the young Irish girl Eilis Lacey by... Format: Paperback - Released: 04/03/2010
I Think I Love You Allison Pearson
December 2010 Good Housekeeping selection.
Good Reading for Christmas by Fiona Phillips...
‘I’ve always regarded books as treasured presents to give. To my friend Amanda, I’ll give Allison Pearson’s I Think I Love You. We were born around the same time, and... Format: Hardback - Released: 24/06/2010
Peepo! Janet Ahlberg, Allan Ahlberg
December 2010 Good Housekeeping selection.Good Reading for Christmas by Philippa Gregory...
'To the children in my life, I will give Peepo!, the great classic by Janet and Allan Ahlberg, where the England of the Second World War is seen... Format: Board book - Released: 29/05/1997
The Snowman Raymond Briggs
December 2010 Good Housekeeping selection.Good Reading for Christmas by Aled Jones...
‘Christmas allows my family to spend precious time together. This year, I’ll be giving my five-year-old son Lucas The Snowman by Raymond Briggs, a magical story I’m proud... Format: Paperback - Released: 25/09/1980
Tumtum and Nutmeg: A Circus Adventure Emily Bearn
December 2010 Good Housekeeping selection.Good Reading for Christmas by Virginia Ironside...
'I’m definitely giving my goddaughter the latest in her favourite series, Tumtum and Nutmeg: A Circus Adventure by Emily Bearn. I picked up the first book and read... Format: Paperback - Released: 04/10/2010
Harvesting the Heart Jodi Picoult
November 2010 Good Housekeeping selection.
Jodi Picoult’s latest offering, Harvesting the Heart, sees new mother Paige struggling with being a parent. Doubting her ability to cope and haunted by the fact that her own mother left her when she was only... Format: Hardback - Released: 14/10/2010
A Serving of Scandal Prue Leith
Cooking for the higher echelons of Government is certainly lucrative but put a foot wrong, let the tabloids misinterpret something and your world can come crashing down. This scenario is at the heart of Prue Leith’s latest book, a lovely... Format: Paperback - Released: 14/10/2010
Curry Easy Madhur Jaffrey
November 2010 Good Housekeeping selection.
Queen of Indian cuisine Madhur Jafrey shows us how to save time in Curry Easy, with 175 mouth-watering recipes. Format: Hardback - Released: 16/09/2010
Separate Beds Elizabeth Buchan
October 2010 Good Housekeeping selection.
The best-selling author of The Good Wife, Elizabeth Buchan, is back with Separate Beds in which a couple whose marriage is on the brink are offered a second chance at happiness. But will they take... Format: Paperback - Released: 02/09/2010
The Perfect Couple Robyn Sisman
October 2010 Good Housekeeping selection.
Fans of Robyn Sisman’s romantic comedies will enjoy her latest witty and fast-paced drama The Perfect Couple as ambitious barrister Kate is determined to win a vicious celebrity divorce case. However, the lawyer on the other... Format: Hardback - Released: 02/09/2010
I Love Curry Anjum Anand
October 2010 Good Housekeeping selection.
Be inspired by I Love Curry by Anjum Anand, which has 75 mouthwatering recipes. Format: Hardback - Released: 01/10/2010
The Butterfly Cabinet Bernie McGill
September 2010 Good Housekeeping selection.
The Butterfly Cabinet is a dramatic and haunting novel that tells the tale of two women whose lives are entwined by an appalling tragedy. Inspired in part by the true story of events surrounding the death... Format: Hardback - Released: 05/08/2010
It All Counts Carol Vorderman
September 2010 Good Housekeeping selection.
In It All Counts Carol Vorderman delves into the struggles she’s faced as a single working mum, her two marriages, her long stint as co-presenter of Countdown and the real story behind her departure from the... Format: Hardback - Released: 16/09/2010
Gallery Girl Wendy Holden
The very funny Wendy Holden sets her new novel in the world of contemporary art and artists. With all the introspection and drama you would expect from 'artistic types' we are introduced to a wonderful array of characters whose lives... Format: Hardback - Released: 19/08/2010
Kehua Fay Weldon
September 2010 Good Housekeeping selection.
Kehua! is a gripping tale of a young woman who flees New Zealand in the wake of a murder and finds herself haunted by a Maori ghost. Format: Hardback - Released: 01/08/2010
The Invisible Bridge Julie Orringer
One of the 20 Longlisted titles for the Orange Prize for Fiction 2011.
On the eve of World War II, two Hungarians meet in Paris and fall in love. But past secrets and the approaching conflict test their devotion to the... Format: Hardback - Released: 01/07/2010
Siddhartha Hermann Hesse
August 2010 Good Housekeeping selection.
On My Bookshelf by Joseph Fiennes...
I read Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse when I was 16 and it ignited my passion for literature – I’d been completely uninterested at school. It provides a simple breakdown of Buddhist... Format: Paperback - Released: 07/08/2008
The Essential Tales of Chekhov A.P. Chekhov
August 2010 Good Housekeeping selection.
On My Bookshelf by Joseph Fiennes...
The short stories of Anton Chekhov are continual reading for me and can be tuned into any time. They are beautiful observations of character and emotion with a glimpse of humanity... Format: Paperback - Released: 29/06/1999
An Evil Cradling Brian Keenan
August 2010 Good Housekeeping selection.
On My Bookshelf by Joseph Fiennes...
An Evil Cradling by Brian Keenan is an extraordinary account of the years he spent as a hostage in Beirut with journalist John McCarthy. I loved the bond that develops between... Format: Paperback - Released: 15/04/1993
South of Broad Pat Conroy
August 2010 Good Housekeeping selection.
Bestselling author of Prince Of Tides, Pat Conroy, has made his fans wait 14 years for South of Broad, an intricate and beautifully written tale of a boy trying to come to terms with his... Format: Hardback - Released: 01/07/2010
Bleed for Me Michael Robotham
August 2010 Good Housekeeping selection.
The engrossing thriller Bleed For Me by Michael Robotham follows a psychologist’s attempts to unravel the mystery surrounding his daughter’s best friend who has been charged with murder. Format: Hardback - Released: 10/06/2010
A Song for Jenny: A Mother's Story of Love and Loss Julie Nicholson
August 2010 Good Housekeeping selection.
Julie Nicholson’s life was torn apart when her daughter was killed in the 7/7 London bombings. A Song For Jenny is an honest account of a mother’s struggle to reconcile her feelings with her faith. Format: Hardback - Released: 24/06/2010
Pray for Silence Linda Castillo
July 2010 Good Housekeeping selection.
In Pray for Silence by Linda Castillo, a gruesome murder on an Amish farm leads police chief Katie Burkholder to discover that someone close to home has been leading a lurid double life. Format: Paperback - Released: 04/06/2010
The Confession of Katherine Howard Suzannah Dunn
July 2010 Good Housekeeping selection.
The Confession of Katherine Howard by Suzanah Dunn (Harper Press) tells the story of this ill-fated teenage queen as she is thrust into the wealth and terror of Henry VIII’s court. Be lured into the heady... Format: Hardback - Released: 27/05/2010
Jubilee Eliza Graham
July 2010 Good Housekeeping selection.
In Jubilee by Eliza Graham, Meriel searches for the cousin who vanished from their village in 1953 – and discovers how World War II continues to shape the community years later. Format: Paperback - Released: 04/06/2010
The Poison Tree Erin Kelly
July 2010 Good Housekeeping selection.
The Poison Tree, by former Cosmopolitan writer Erin Kelly, tells the story of strait-laced student Karen whose life is upended when she meets Biba, a charming yet troubled aspiring actress. They spend a decadent summer together... Format: Hardback - Released: 10/06/2010
The Pindar Diamond Katie Hickman
July 2010 Good Housekeeping selection.
The Pindar Diamond by Kat ie Hickman is an enjoyable mystery entwining the talesof a dissolute merchant and a freed harem slave. Format: Paperback - Released: 07/06/2010
Little Women Louisa May Alcott, Louise Rennison
July 2010 Good Housekeeping selection.
On My Bookshelf by Lynda La Plante...
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott inspired me when I was very young. Years later I watched the film starring Katherine Hepburn and Elizabeth Taylor, and was taken aback at... Format: Paperback - Released: 06/03/2008
Blind Fury Lynda La Plante
July 2010 Good Housekeeping selection.
Anna Travis is back with another chilling case. The story has a slight nod to the Hannibal/ Clarice set up but has all the originality of a great Lynda la Plante. Format: Hardback - Released: 10/06/2010
The Postmistress Sarah Blake
Shortlisted for the Galaxy Paperback of the Year Award 2011.
June 2010 Good Housekeeping selection.
Sarah Blake’s second book after the critically acclaimed Grange House has already been a hit in the US. Set during World War II, it tells the story... Format: Paperback - Released: 09/04/2010
Small Dogs Can Save Your Life Bel Mooney
June 2010 Good Housekeeping selection.
Daily Mail advice columnist Bel Mooney explores how her rescue dog Bonnie has seen her through the hard times in Small Dogs Can Save Your Life. Format: Hardback - Released: 29/04/2010
The Song House Trezza Azzopardi
June 2010 Good Housekeeping selection.
The fourth novel from Welsh author Trezza Azzopardi, The Song House combines lyricism with a compelling slowburner of a plot. When mousey Maggie takes on the job of cataloguing the music collection of local eccentric Kenneth... Format: Hardback - Released: 07/05/2010
One Hundred Years of Solitude Gabriel Garcia Marquez
One of Dan Snow's favourite books.
June 2010 Good Housekeeping selection.
On My Bookshelf by Isabel Allende...One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Márquez is arguably the best Latin Americannovel ever written. I found characters that seemed to... Format: Paperback - Released: 02/08/2007
The Female Eunuch Germaine Greer
June 2010 Good Housekeeping selection.
On My Bookshelf by Isabel Allende...
The Female Eunuch by Germaine Greer gave me the language to express the anger I had as a young woman living in a patriarchy. Feminism has marked my life for the... Format: Paperback - Released: 15/05/2006
One Thousand and One Arabian Nights Geraldine Mccaughrean
June 2010 Good Housekeeping selection.
On My Bookshelf by Isabel Allende...
I read Arabian Nights in my adolescence in Lebanon. Those stories awakened my eroticism and fantasy – they were about desire and love, full of colour, fragrances, texture and sounds, and... Format: Paperback - Released: 15/07/1999
Island Beneath the Sea Isabel Allende
June 2010 Good Housekeeping selection.
Isabel Allende’s new novel is the epic story of a slave girl set in 18th-century Haiti and New Orleans. Format: Hardback - Released: 29/04/2010
Angelology Danielle Trussoni
Reading like fast paced action movie the obvious comparison is with the Da Vinci Code although the inclusion of actual angels gives it a slightly supernatural element. Great characters and a twisting plot line make for a great action... Format: Hardback - Released: 01/04/2010
Jamie Does Jamie Oliver
May 2010 Good Housekeeping selection.Jamie Oliver returns with a bright and breezy look at food from our favourite holiday destinations. Jamie Does… will help you recreate everything from a Spanish paella to a Moroccan tagine or Greek salad. Format: Hardback - Released: 15/04/2010
My Antonia Willa Cather
May 2010 Good Housekeeping selection.
On My Bookshelf by Nicci French...
I read and re-read My Antonia by Willa Cather, and have passed it on to family and friends. It tells the story of poverty-stricken immigrant families living on the wild plains... Format: Paperback - Released: 11/12/2008
Complicit Nicci French
May 2010 Good Housekeeping selection.
What was meant to be a summer of music, fun and love turns in to a deadly, deceitful tangle of mistrust and suspicion. Another gripping page-turner from the writing duo that is Nicci French. Format: Hardback - Released: 25/03/2010
The Shipping News Annie Proulx
May 2010 Good Housekeeping selection.
On My Bookshelf by Nicci French...I have never met anyone who has read E Annie Proulx’s The Shipping News and not fallen in love with it. It has an odd cast of characters, awkward, bruised,... Format: Paperback - Released: 01/08/1994
The Twenty - Year Itch Linda Kelsey
April 2010 Good Housekeeping selection.
Linda Kelsey’s The Twenty-Year Itch sees uptight doctor Julie facing marital meltdown when her husband suddenly announces he is taking a grown-up gap year – by himself. An entertaining and sometimes moving insight into how challenging... Format: Paperback - Released: 18/03/2010
Angel Elizabeth Taylor
April 2010 Good Housekeeping selection.
On My Bookshelf by Hilary Mantel...
Angel by Elizabeth Taylor is a sparkling, pointed comedy. Angel is a bestselling author who suffers for her art, but writes truly terrible books. It’s an awful warning to writers –... Format: Paperback - Released: 06/04/2006
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat Oliver Sacks
April 2010 Good Housekeeping selection.
On My Bookshelf by Hilary Mantel...
In The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat, the famous neurologist Oliver Sacks opened his casebook to show the strangeness of the human condition. No invention could match these... Format: Paperback - Released: 07/11/1986
Corrag Susan Fletcher
A sweeping historical drama based around the massacre of the MacDonald clan in 1692 and told from the perspective of a young girl, now imprisoned, accused of being a witch. Rich in historical detail and wonderfully descriptive of the landscapes... Format: Hardback - Released: 04/03/2010
Smile Though Your Heart is Breaking Pauline Prescott
April 2010 Good Housekeeping selection.
Anticipated autobiography from Pauline Prescott, wife of the former Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott. Format: Hardback - Released: 04/03/2010
Top Tips for Life Kate Reardon
April 2010 Good Housekeeping selection.
Former fashion editor and Times columnist Kate Reardon had a surprise hit with her first book Top Tips For Girls and she follows it up with Top Tips For Life. Useful, entertaining and with a... Format: Hardback - Released: 04/03/2010
Mexican Food Made Simple Thomasina Miers
April 2010 Good Housekeeping selection.
TV cook and former Masterchef winner Thomasina Miers gives us the mouth-watering Mexican Food Made Simple, a vibrant collection of recipes and insights into Mexican food culture. Format: Hardback - Released: 04/03/2010
Revenge Sharon Osbourne
April 2010 Good Housekeeping selection.
Sharon Osbourne’s Extreme remains the bestselling autobiography ever to be written by a woman and now the diva TV star is trying her hand at fiction. Revenge is a Jackie Collins-style blockbuster novel about two... Format: Hardback - Released: 04/03/2010
Music and Silence Rose Tremain
March 2010 Good Housekeeping selection.
On My Bookshelf by Joanna Trollope...
Rose Tremain’s historical novels are big gems. My favourite is Music And Silence. It’s a book you just inhabit as you read. Format: Paperback - Released: 03/07/2008
Recipe for Life Nicky Pellegrino
March 2010 Editor's Choice.
Nicky Pellegrino has a knack for transporting you in to the Italian countryside, smelling and tasting the air and the food and feeling the sun on your face. Another lovely tale of relationships, friendships and discovering what... Format: Trade Paperback - Released: 18/03/2010
Jane Eyre Charlotte Bronte
One of Jeanette Winterson's favourite books.
April 2010 Good Housekeeping selection.
On My Bookshelf by Hilary Mantel...
‘I read Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre when I was very young and cared less about the love story than about the secret of the... Format: Paperback (b Format) - Released: 29/06/2006
Love Affair: The Memoir of a Forbidden Father-daughter Relationship Leslie Kenton
March 2010 Good Housekeeping selection.
Beauty guru Leslie Kenton is also hitting the headlines with Love Affair, a brave and reflective account of her disturbing relationship with her father, jazz great Stan Kenton. Format: Paperback - Released: 18/02/2010
Friends, Lovers and Other Indiscretions Fiona Neill
March 2010 Good Housekeeping selection.
Slummy Mummy Fiona Neill’s second novel, Friends, Lovers and Other Indiscretions, sees six friends reunite as they approach 40. Format: Paperback - Released: 04/02/2010
Cleo: How a Small Black Cat Helped Heal a Family Helen Brown
March 2010 Good Housekeeping selection.
Possibly the next Marley And Me, Cleo, by Helen Brown, is an honest and un-mawkish true story of ordinary people rebuilding their lives after a tragedy, with the help of a kitten. Even non cat-lovers... Format: Hardback - Released: 18/02/2010
How the British Fell in Love with Food Lewis Esson
March 2010 Good Housekeeping selection.
Top chefs including Rick Stein, Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall and Raymond Blanc contribute to the Guild of Food Writers’ How The British Fell In Love With Food, a wonderful collection of food nostalgia and recipes. Format: Paperback - Released: 04/02/2010
The Baby Diaries: Memories, Milestones and Misadventures Tess Daly
An honest open account of first time parenting with Tess Daly recording her world from the beginnings of her first pregnancy through to becoming a confident mother. It's always interesting to find out how others cope in these situations and... Format: Hardback - Released: 18/02/2010
Take a Chance on Me Jill Mansell
March 2010 Good Housekeeping selection.
Best-selling author of Rumour Has It, Jill Mansell returns with Take A Chance On Me – a fun, readable romp through the love life of Cleo Quinn, hapless in romance and still haunted by her Format: Hardback - Released: 18/02/2010
A Mother's Guide to Cheating Kate Long
March 2010 Good Housekeeping selection.
The Bad Mother’s Handbook was a hit for Kate Long and now she’s back with A Mother’s Guide To Cheating, an intelligent, well-observed and poignant portrayal of a mother and daughter navigating their way through... Format: Hardback - Released: 18/02/2010
Loves Me, Loves Me Not Katie Fforde
A terrific collection of over forty new short stories that is published to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the founding of the Romantic Novelists Association. There is everything in here from gentle romance to sophisticated issue-led tales, historical to vampires.... Format: Paperback - Released: 15/01/2010
Man's Search for Meaning: The Classic Tribute to Hope from the Holocaust Viktor E. Frankl
February 2010 Good Housekeeping selection.
On My Bookshelf by Tamsin Greig...
Frankl was an Austrian Jewish psychiatrist who survived Auschwitz. Written a few years after his liberation, it describes his experiences in the death camps in terms of his psycho-therapeutic technique of... Format: Paperback - Released: 06/05/2004
A Book of Silence Sara Maitland
February 2010 Good Housekeeping selection.
On My Bookshelf by Tamsin Greig...
My husband gave me this book recently and I tried not to take it as a hint. Part investigation, part autobiography, it explores the writer’s journey into the study and experience... Format: Paperback - Released: 03/08/2009
The Middle Place Kelly Corrigan
February 2010 Good Housekeeping selection.
There are key things that put unusually sharp focus on our lives and bring into vivid perspective why we love the people we do. Kelly Corrigan’s awareness of a ‘middle place’ – the time when you... Format: Paperback - Released: 21/01/2010
The Museum of Innocence Orhan Pamuk
February 2010 Good Housekeeping selection.
‘It was the happiest moment of my life, though I didn’t know it.’ So begins this exquisite book by Nobel Prize-winning Pamuk (author of My Name is Red), and a love affair that can only... Format: Hardback - Released: 24/12/2009
Committed: A Sceptic Makes Peace with Marriage Elizabeth Gilbert
February 2010 Good Housekeeping selection.
If you were one of the women joining in the collective ‘awww’ at the end of Elizabeth Gilbert’s bestselling Eat, Pray, Love, your energy was well spent. It paid off and here is the sequel... Format: Paperback - Released: 04/01/2010
Mister Pip Lloyd Jones
February 2010 Good Housekeeping selection.
On My Bookshelf by Tamsin Greig...
Matilda, a young girl in Papua New Guinea during the civil war in the 1990s is taught in a semi-destroyed school by the only white man on the island. Popeye, as... Format: Paperback - Released: 20/03/2008
The Lacuna Barbara Kingsolver
Shortlisted for the prestigious 2010 Orange Prize.
January 2010 Good Housekeeping selection.
Barbara Kingsolver’s first novel in almost 10 years (she is the author of Prodigal Summer and the captivating The Poisonwood Bible) is an achingly complex story that digs... Format: Hardback - Released: 05/11/2009
Beauty Bible Beauty Steals Josephine Fairley, Sarah Stacey
January 2010 Good Housekeeping selection.
This book, say its doyenne authors Stacey and Fairley, is a personal beauty-counter consultant to accompany you as you shop for effective, budget glamour. All the products (from head to toe, scrubs to balms, luscious lips... Format: Paperback - Released: 12/11/2009
A Fair Maiden: A Dark Novel of Suspense Joyce Carol Oates
January 2010 Good Housekeeping selection.
The interplay between Marcus Kidder and Katya Spivak is powered by dubious intention from the moment of their first encounter. He is a 68-year-old member of the established rich in refined Bayhead Harbor; she is 16,... Format: Hardback - Released: 07/01/2010
Anna Karenina Leo Tolstoy
January 2010 Good Housekeeping selection.
On My Bookshelf by Wendy Holden...
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy is the best in its class – I am a novelist, but for my money the writers of the19th century set the bar for the whole... Format: Paperback - Released: 30/01/2003
French Provincial Cooking Elizabeth David, Juliet Renny
January 2010 Good Housekeeping selection.
On My Bookshelf by Wendy Holden...
I’m not much of a cook, but French Provincial Cooking by Elizabeth David (Penguin) makes me feel that I could be one. The food in it is so delicious-sounding and there’s... Format: Paperback - Released: 30/04/1998
A Woman of Substance - 30th Anniversary Edition Barbara Taylor Bradford
Shortlisted for the Woman’s Weekly best romantic novel written in the last 50 years.
January 2010 Good Housekeeping selection.
On My Bookshelf by Wendy Holden...
My third choice, A Woman Of Substance by Barbara Taylor Bradford (HarperCollins), is, I
believe, the greatest achievement in... Format: Paperback - Released: 03/09/2009
Kitchen Essays Agnes Jekyll
December 2009 Good Housekeeping selection.
Deliciously entertaining and founded on solid hosting skills (Jekyll, who was sister-in-law to the gardening grand dame Gertrude, invited Browning and Ruskin to her first dinner party), Kitchen Essays makes a perfect present for those who... Format: Paperback - Released: 20/10/2008
Who's Afraid of Jane Austen? How to Really Talk About Books You Haven't Read Henry Hitchings
December 2009 Good Housekeeping selection.
Did you know that one of Proust’s sentences runs to 958 words? Actually, have you in fact ever read Proust? Or do you just have some vague recollection about the taste of madeleines? Not to worry,... Format: Paperback - Released: 03/09/2009
The Gourmet Muriel Barbery
December 2009 Good Housekeeping selection.
Perfect for soupcons of literary pleasure in between the celebrations, this tiny novel follows the tantalising quest of Pierre Arthens, food critic terrible. As he lies on his deathbed on Rue de Grenelle, he desperately tries... Format: Hardback - Released: 01/09/2009
Life Class: The Selected Memoirs of Diana Athill Diana Athill
Santa may not welcome this hefty four-books-in-one-volume on your wish-list, but that’s what he is paid for. And he will be spreading the joy. Diana Athill is quite simply one of our most captivating and truth-seeking memoir writers, and this... Format: Hardback - Released: 02/11/2009
Celebrate: The Art of the Special Occasion Lucia Van der Post
November 2009 Good Housekeeping selection.
When it comes to partying, Christmas planning, christenings, even the occasional fete champêtre (posh picnic), we should ‘resist the temptation to think too much about the stress and try to think more about the joy’, says... Format: Hardback - Released: 05/11/2009
Small Wars Sadie Jones
Longlisted for the prestigious 2010 Orange Prize.
October 2009 Good Housekeeping selection.
Clara grew up in a house made ‘for Christmases and summers’. Her future husband Hal is fromdistinguished military stock. In the heat and brutality of the Cyprus Emergency,... Format: Hardback - Released: 27/08/2009
Remarkable Creatures Tracy Chevalier
Featured on The Book Show on Sky Arts on 5 November 2009.
October 2009 Good Housekeeping selection.
In this story of female friendship and fortitude, Tracy Chevalier shows her skill for working history’s lost individuals into far-reaching fiction. Author of the critically... Format: Hardback - Released: 24/08/2009
The Stepmothers' Support Group Sam Baker
October 2009 Good Housekeeping selection.
Former Cosmopolitan editor Sam Baker has first-hand experience of the very tricky businessof stepmother-hood. Now in her 40s, she became a stepmother, ‘the most loathed of fairy-tale baddies’, at just 26. In this feisty female-support... Format: Hardback - Released: 20/08/2009
Noah's Compass Anne Tyler
October 2009 Good Housekeeping selection.
Liam is 60, recently redundant, twice married, now single, and about to move into a sterile apartment with just his rocking chair and wry world-view. But a bang on the head and memory loss lead him... Format: Hardback - Released: 06/08/2009
A Room of One's Own Virginia Woolf
A Room of One's Own, based on a lecture given at Girton College
Cambridge, is one of the great feminist polemics, ranging in its themes
from Jane Austen and Charlotte Bronte to the silent fate of
Shakespeare's gifted (imaginary) sister... Format: Paperback - Released: 28/02/2002
The Longest Journey E.M. Forster, Gilbert Adair
October 2009 Good Housekeeping selection.
On My Bookshelf by Philippa Gregory...
Forster has a terrific eye for the difficulties encountered by the lower middle class in Edwardian society. It’s set in my grandfather’s England, on the chalk plains of Wiltshire. The story... Format: Paperback - Released: 27/07/2006
The Princess and the Goblin George MacDonald, Arthur Hughes
October 2009 Good Housekeeping selection.
On My Bookshelf by Philippa Gregory...
I find a lot of children’s books too drab and realistic – they should have a bit of magic. I read this book when I was six and had to spend... Format: Paperback - Released: 25/07/1996
The Ghost Lover Gillian Greenwood
September 2009 Good Housekeeping selection.
Josie Price is a cool and isolated narrator of life, who has spent much of her emotional energy on the Haddeley family. Following the death of Alice Haddeley, whom Josie loved almost as a daughter, Josie... Format: Hardback - Released: 06/08/2009
The Cassandra Chronicles Ariel Leve
September 2009 Good Housekeeping selection.
This was never intended to be a feel-good book but in a perverse way it proves itself a great mood-shifter and lifter. Darkly humorous Ariel Leve lays out her daily insecurities like a patchwork quilt... Format: Hardback - Released: 03/08/2009
Sacred Hearts Sarah Dunant
Shortlisted for the inaugural Walter Scott Prize for historical fiction 2010.
September 2009 Good Housekeeping selection.
Convent life, you’d imagine, is one you choose – a vocation. But this searing story of the nuns of Santa Caterina in 16th-century Italy reveals how... Format: Hardback - Released: 25/06/2009
Family Album Penelope Lively
September 2009 Good Housekeeping selection.
Shortlisted for the Costa Novel Award 2009.
Costa Book Awards 2009 Judges' comment: "An acutely-studied and skilful dissection of middle-class family life."
Such a cosy thing: comfortable middle-class family life. But in the large, well-worn domain... Format: Hardback - Released: 06/08/2009
Life at the Extremes Frances Ashcroft
September 2009 Good Housekeeping selection.
On My Bookshelf by Penny Smith...
Life At The Extremes: The Science Of Survival by Dr Frances Ashcroft is full of derring-do and really mad scientists trying to prove what they think they know. You know QI... Format: Paperback - Released: 02/07/2001
Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen
September 2009 Good Housekeeping selection.
On My Bookshelf by Penny Smith...
This wasn’t a set text for us at school, but I read it anyway and it got me into the classics big time. I had such vivid pictures of all... Format: Paperback - Released: 05/09/1995
Winnie-the-Pooh A.A. Milne, E.H. Shepard
September 2009 Good Housekeeping selection.
On My Bookshelf by Penny Smith...
Winnie The Pooh by AA Milne is brilliant because people are often like the animals – one of my brothers was like Eeyore, quite gloomy; I was like Rabbit, always tidying... Format: Paperback - Released: 06/05/2004
Mr Toppit Charles Elton
Reviewed on Richard & Judy on Wednesday 3 June 2009.
Featured on The Book Show on Sky Arts on 26 February 2009.
February 2009 Good Housekeeping selection.
If this book becomes a film – not unlikely given its author’s credentials as a... Format: Paperback - Released: 30/04/2009
The Wilderness Samantha Harvey
March 2009 Good Housekeeping selection.
Shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction 2009
With an extraordinary portrayal of how the mind reconfigures when Alzheimer’s takes hold, this novel is about a man called Jake and the loosening of his grip on the... Format: Paperback - Released: 05/02/2009
The Angel's Game Carlos Ruiz Zafon
June 2009 Book of the Month.
October 2009 Good Housekeeping selection.
Fans of The Shadow of the Wind will be pleased to find that the Cemetery of the Forgotten Books reappears in Zafon’s... Format: Hardback - Released: 01/06/2009
The Best of Times Penny Vincenzi
July 2009 Good Housekeeping selection.
The challenge of a shocking opener, as former GH columnist Penny Vincenzi says, is living up to the drama. Her fourteenth novel begins with a major crash on the M4 – in an instant, plans are... Format: Hardback - Released: 14/05/2009
Never Let Me Go Kazuo Ishiguro
July 2009 Good Housekeeping selection.
On my bookshelf by Emilia Fox...
I identified with this book because it’s set in a boarding school and reminded me of my own happy childhood and the friendships I made when I was at Bryanston School... Format: Paperback (b Format) - Released: 02/03/2006
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