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Good Housekeeping Book selections
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On this Good Housekeeping Books page, which is updated as each new edition of Good Housekeeping comes on sale, readers can access reviews and ‘try before you buy’ extracts for all titles featured in Good Housekeeping for current and past issues - wonderful archive of books well worth reading.
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The Brave
Nicholas Evans
September 2010 Book of the Month.
This will sweep you up in it’s grasp in the same way The Horse Whisperer did from it’s intriguing start and through the past and present...
Format: Hardback - Released: 16/09/2010
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The Small Hand
Susan Hill
October 2010 Good Housekeeping selection.
Best-selling author of The Woman In Black, Susan Hill is on top form with this chilling ghost story about a book dealer who comes across a derelict old house and suddenly feels an invisible child’s...
Format: Hardback - Released: 02/09/2010
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A Journey
Tony Blair
October 2010 Good Housekeeping selection.
Former Prime Minister Tony Blair releases his memoir The Journey, which charts the successes and controversies surrounding his time as premier and tells us more about Iraq, his complex relationship with Gordon Brown and how it...
Format: Hardback - Released: 01/09/2010
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The Charming Quirks of Others
Alexander McCall Smith
October 2010 Good Housekeeping selection.
The Charming Quirks Of Others is the latest installment in Alexander McCall Smith’s Isobel Dalhousie series, which sees the Scottish sleuth becoming entangled in an investigation at a local boarding school.
Format: Hardback - Released: 02/09/2010
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The Separate Beds
Elizabeth Buchan
October 2010 Good Housekeeping selection.
The best-selling author of The Good Wife, Elizabeth Buchan, is back with Separate Beds (MichaelJoseph) in which a couple whose marriage is on the brink are offered a second chance at happiness. But will...
Format: Paperback - Released: 02/09/2010
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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
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Trick of the Dark
Val McDermid
October 2010 Good Housekeeping selection.
Fans of a good thriller will enjoy Trick Of The Dark by crime writer Val McDermid, in which a shamed psychiatrist find herself drawn into a murder case that has taken place at her old Oxford...
Format: Hardback - Released: 02/09/2010
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The Fry Chronicles: A Memoir
Stephen Fry
October 2010 Good Housekeeping selection.
Stephen Fry is back with the second instalment of his memoirs, picking up at his university years. It’switty as ever and full of details about his more recent and turbulent life.
Format: Hardback - Released: 13/09/2010
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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
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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
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Started Early, Took My Dog
Kate Atkinson
Another outing for Jackson Brodie in Atkinson's next crime novel. She seems to really be getting in to her stride with this series and as each book can be read as a stand alone has not tied herself down to...
Format: Hardback - Released: 19/08/2010
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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
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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
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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
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The Red Queen
Philippa Gregory
September 2010 Good Housekeeping selection.
Philippa Gregory is back with The Red Queen – another stunning piece of historical fiction that this time centres on Lady Margaret Beaufort, who plots to place her son on the throne.
Format: Hardback - Released: 19/08/2010
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The Invisible Bridge
Julie Orringer
August 2010 Good Housekeeping selection.
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 limit. The Invisible Bridge by Julie Orringer is...
Format: Hardback - Released: 01/07/2010
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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
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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
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I Think I Love You
Allison Pearson
August 2010 Good Housekeeping selection.
Allison Pearson is back with I Think I Love You, a humorous yet poignant portrayal of teenageobsession and first love as experienced by Petra, a 13-year-old girl infatuated with 1970s heart-throb David Cassidy, and by...
Format: Hardback - Released: 24/06/2010
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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: 28/05/2010
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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
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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
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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
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At Home - A Short History of Private Life
Bill Bryson
Featured on The Book Show on Sky Arts on 29 May 2010.
July 2010 Good Housekeeping selection.
Bill Bryson turns is eyes inwards to look at the everyday things that add up to make the real history of the world. As he...
Format: Hardback - Released: 27/05/2010
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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
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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
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The Postmistress
Sarah Blake
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 of postmistress Iris and Emma, a newlywed doctor’s wife,...
Format: Paperback - Released: 27/05/2010
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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
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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
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One Hundred Years of Solitude
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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 have escaped from my crazy family...
Format: Paperback - Released: 02/08/2007
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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
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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
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The 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
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The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ
Philip Pullman
Featured on The Book Show on Sky Arts on 8 April 2010.
Pullman’s re-telling of the life of Christ. Controversial before it was even published Pullman’s book gives his view on the life of Jesus. He is not trying to shock...
Format: Hardback - Released: 01/04/2010
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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The Double Comfort Safari Club
Alexander McCall Smith
April 2010 Good Housekeeping selection.
The 11th in the No1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series sees sleuth Precious Ramotswe and her assistant Grace Makutsi on the trail of a mystery safari guide who has been named in the will of a generous...
Format: Hardback - Released: 04/03/2010
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Wolf Hall
Hilary Mantel
Winner of the inaugural Walter Scott Prize for historical fiction 2010.
Shortlisted for the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction 2010.
Shortlisted for the prestigious 2010 Orange Prize for Fiction.
“I thought it was absolutely wonderful.” Baroness Neuberger DBE (Orange Prize for...
Format: Paperback - Released: 04/03/2010
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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
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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
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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
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Corrag
Susan Fletcher
April 2010 Good Housekeeping selection.
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...
Format: Hardback - Released: 04/03/2010
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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
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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
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Angel
Elizabeth Taylor, Hilary Mantel
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
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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
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Jane Eyre
Charlotte Bronte
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 woman in the attic. It’s what a...
Format: Paperback (b Format) - Released: 29/06/2006
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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 friendsreunite as they approach 40.
Format: Paperback - Released: 04/02/2010
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Miss Mackenzie
Anthony Trollope
March 2010 Good Housekeeping selection.
On My Bookshelf by Joanna Trollope...
No writer of
his time was better at people than, as my family refer to him, The Real
Trollope – Anthony of the small specs and the huge beard. Miss Mackenzie is an...
Format: Paperback - Released: 14/03/2008
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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
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The Swan Thieves
Elizabeth Kostova
February 2010 Good Housekeeping selection.
From the author of the brilliantly atmospheric The Historian, comes this mesmerising psychological mystery that revolves around the conflicting powers of art. Psychiatrist Andrew Marlowe is faced with the case of his life when renowned...
Format: Hardback - Released: 28/01/2010
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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A Woman of Substance - 30th Anniversary Edition
Barbara Taylor Bradford
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 modern women’s commercial fiction writing to date. The heroine (as almost everyone knows)...
Format: Paperback - Released: 03/09/2009
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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
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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
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Life Class: The Selected Memoirs of Diana Athill
Diana Athill
November 2009 Good Housekeeping selection.
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...
Format: Hardback - Released: 02/11/2009
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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A Room of One's Own
Virginia Woolf
October 2009 Good Housekeeping selection.
On My Bookshelf by Philippa Gregory...
This was recommended to me when I was 23. I remember taking it on a camping holiday and reading it while blowing up the airbed with a foot pump! Woolf says...
Format: Paperback - Released: 28/02/2002
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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The Little Stranger
Sarah Waters
Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2009.
July 2009 Good Housekeeping selection.
With her usual masterly powers for evoking atmosphere, Sarah Waters treats us to this utterly unnerving ghost story. When Dr Faraday is called to the once-glorious, now decaying, Hundreds Hall...
Format: Hardback - Released: 28/05/2009
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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