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The Shadow of the Wind
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Exlusive Limited Edition. Barcelona, a city of secret police and secret love. In it a
bookseller’s son finds a forgotten novel and stumbles upon a mystery as
all copies of...
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Home
Marilynne Robinson
Winner of the Orange Prize for Fiction 2009
Jack Broughton returns to his family home after twenty years away. The book tackles the subject of family relationships and how they affect...
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The Senator's Wife
Sue Miller
Reviewed on Richard & Judy on Wednesday 24 June 2009.
A story of two couples and the relationships that build between them. Although the book may start off slowly it draws...
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The Lighted Rooms
Richard Mason
A number of themes are covered in this book from aging, to family relationships to war.Joan is suffering from Alzheimer's, her high flying daughter has put in her...
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Fieldwork
Mischa Berlinski
June 2009 Debut of the Month.
Told in the first person by a freelance journalist, this is an investigation into the circumstances that led an...
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Once Upon a Time in England
Helen Walsh
Award winner at the Somerset Maugham Awards 2009.
A stunning novel set in the 1970’s and 80’s covering a myriad of social topics from mixed race marriage, homosexuality, drugs, race, family...
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The Bean Trees
Barbara Kingsolver
A book about love and friendship. Kingsolver always creates believable and interesting characters who enthral the reader and this story is no different. Taylor does not want to get pregnant...
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Breath
Tim Winton
Like all good literature this is a novel on many levels. The exhilaration of danger, the power of the sea and the joy of youth challenging the elements sing from...
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The Spare Room
Helen Garner
This is a strange book about death for the narrator, the carer, somehow demands your sympathy more than the poor dying cancer sufferer, Nicola. She stays in her friend’s spare...
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Sunday at the Skin Launderette
Kathryn Simmonds
Shortlisted for the Costa Poetry Award 2008.Costa Book Awards 2008 Judges' comment: "This first collection is witty, humane, confident, full of everyday details but with a capacity to...
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Another Point of View
Lisa Jardine
The presenter of ‘A Point of View’ puts down in writing some of the thoughts and views she expresses so eloquently on her Radio 4 programme. A diverse range of...
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Genesis
Bernard Beckett
This will intrigue and fascinate you from the start. Set in a futuristic utopian society Anax is taking an exam which will decide if she can enter the elite ‘Academy’...
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The Corrections
Jonathan Franzen
A well observed novel about an American family. We follow each family member’s story and are given a great insight in to modern day America through each ones story and...
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The Shipping News
Annie Proulx
This novel has become a modern classic and deservedly so. Telling the story of Quoyle, who on the death of his wife moves the farthest reaches of Newfoundland. Tear and...
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Unless
Carol Shields
A beautifully written book about a mother, Reta, struggling to cope with her eldest daughter’s decision to make herself homeless, choosing to live on the street and beg for money...
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The Profit
John Karter
It is clear from the opening paragraphs that Piers Black is a character to loathe and yet he is mesmerising a nation with his ‘message’. Will anyone challenge him and...
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Lizard
Leonore Schick
Eliza Young has a lower leg that has got scales on it like a lizard. Not really alarmed by this, in fact positively embracing this strange new portion of her...
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The Cloverleaf Development
Keith Scales
An intriguing tale where everyone in a small town is drawn in to an investigation when two bodies are discovered, buried where developers want to build on the freeway. Great...
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Churchtown
Anthony Caleshu
Faye and Suzy seem as different as chalk and cheese. They have lived next door to each other all their lives and seem to have nothing but contempt for each...
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Selling Light
Effie Gray
A bittersweet tale where three very different people find their lives interconnecting. Clever, funny and sad this is a charming story about love and loss.
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Little Roasts
Rowena Macdonald
For an even shorter read have a dip in this collection of short stories from the Great Little Reads collection. If you just have a short journey to make or...
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Scottsboro
Ellen Feldman
Shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction 2009
Alabama 1931 and nine black youths fight with white ‘trash’ boys all riding illegally on a freight train. Two white girls cry rape....
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The Wilderness
Samantha Harvey
Shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction 2009
This is an incredibly thoughtful and insightful debut novel. Tackling the issue of Alzheimer’s from the sufferer’s point of view Harvey tells...
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The Invention of Everything Else
Samantha Hunt
Shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction 2009
It’s an absorbing tale of the relationship between a chambermaid and the scientific genius Tesla, with some enticing time-travel ideas.
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Molly Fox's Birthday
Deirdre Madden
Shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction 2009
Although we never actually meet the character from the title the readers feels they have met her through the reflections of her friend...
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Burnt Shadows
Kamila Shamsie
Shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction 2009
A stunning, captivating novel spanning generations and the globe. From the bombing of Nagasaki through to the attacks of 9/11 we follow Hiroko...
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Palace Council
Stephen L Carter
Reviewed on Richard & Judy on Wednesday 27 May 2009.
A complex and rewarding political thriller. Spanning 1952 – 1974 the novel has a brilliant perspective on being a black American...
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The Great Lover
Jill Dawson
Reviewed on Richard & Judy on Wednesday 10 June 2009.
Fact and fiction intertwine in this beautifully told story about a love affair between Rupert Brooke and a housemaid called Nell....
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Run
Ann Patchett
A gripping story from beginning to end about family relationships, aspirations and dreams. Patchett creates brilliant multi-faceted characters and keeps your attention with such great plot and story telling that...
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Cowboys are My Weakness
Pam Houston
A collection of short stories, each one gripping and captivating with strong female characters and great imagery. A great book to dip in and out of for a slice of...
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First Among Sequels
Jasper Fforde
The fifth in this madcap series
starring the wonderful Thursday Next, an agent with her work cut out
trying to save our fictional, but very real, heroes. To try and explain
these books...
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Brooklyn
Colm Toibin
A great family drama about a young girl moving from Ireland to New Yok in search of work in the 1950's. Just as she feels life is going somewhere in...
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That Awkward Age
Roger Mcgough
A new collection of poems from one of the country's best loved and revered poets. Confronting the awkward periods between life and death...we're sure you get the picture. Brilliant, funny,...
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The Little Stranger
Sarah Waters
The latest novel from prize-wining author Sarah Waters is a gothic ghost story, set in a run-down country house just after WWII. It centres upon a doctor who is called...
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