Flight Behaviour Barbara Kingsolver
May 2013 Book of the Month.
Winner of the Orange Prize for Fiction in 2010 and on the shortlist for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2013.
A topical, engrossing and thought-provoking read exploring how... Format: Paperback - Released: 18/04/2013
Other Featured Books this Month
The Son Michel Rostain
Winner of the Prix Goncourt for Debut Fiction in 2011.
An award-winning bestseller first published in France with a truly unique perspective. Follow a grief-stricken father, after the sudden death of his son - through the son's eyes. This witty, wisdom-laden... Format: Hardback - Released: 23/05/2013
The Lacuna Barbara Kingsolver
Winner of the prestigious 2010 Orange Prize for Fiction.
The Poisonwood Bible was a very special book, this one, her first in ten years, is a very worthy book. You need stamina and time to tackle it and you do... Format: Paperback - Released: 11/04/2013
1356 Bernard Cornwell
Shortlisted for the Specsavers National Book Awards 'Popular Fiction of the Year' 2012.
With characteristically meticulous research Cornwell’s new historical blockbuster weaves a complex story, epic in scope, that has as its climax the battle of Poitiers, the second but less... Format: Paperback - Released: 06/06/2013
Monsters of Men Patrick Ness
Winner of the CILIP Carnegie Medal 2011.
This is a spine-tingling, page turning read. Heaped with well-deserved awards, the Chaos Walking Trilogy comes to a brilliant conclusion in Monsters of Men.
Set in a dystopian future in a world... Format: Paperback - Released: 02/05/2013
The Knife of Never Letting Go Patrick Ness
A 2013 World Book Night selection.
The electrifying and unflinching debut novel about the impossible choices of growing up by award-winning fiction writer Patrick Ness.
Shortlisted for the 2009 Branford Boase Best Debut Novel Award.
Shortlisted for the Carnegie Award 2009. Winner of... Format: Paperback - Released: 02/05/2013
Welcome to Rosie Hopkins' Sweetshop of Dreams Jenny Colgan
Winner of the Romantic Novelists' Association Romantic Novel of the Year 2013.
Winner of the Romantic Novelists' Association Romantic Comedy Novel Award 2013.
Full of warmth, humour and fun, and a homage to Refreshers, Spangles and Star Bars. Rosie leaves a busy... Format: Paperback - Released: 29/03/2012
Zoo Time Howard Jacobson
Winner of the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize 2013.
The new novel from the author of The Finkler Question, winner of the Man Booker Prize 2010. Zoo Time is a novel about love - love of women, love of literature and love... Format: Paperback - Released: 23/05/2013
The Garden of Evening Mists Tan Twan Eng
Winner of the Man Asian Literary Prize 2012.
It's Malaya, 1949. After studying law at Cambrige and time spent helping to prosecute Japanese war criminals, Yun Ling Teoh seeks solace among the jungle fringed plantations of Northern Malaya where she grew... Format: Paperback - Released: 02/05/2013
Scenes from Early Life Philip Hensher
I was a baby during the war. We stayed inside for months. All my aunts took turns in feeding me. I couldn't be heard to cry. You see, there were soldiers in the streets. They would have known what a... Format: Paperback - Released: 31/01/2013
The Song of Achilles Madeline Miller
Winner of the Orange Prize for Fiction 2012.
A breathtakingly original rendering of the Trojan War - a devastating love story and a tale of gods and kings, immortal fame and the human heart. Format: Paperback - Released: 09/05/2013
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You Had Me at Hello Mhairi McFarlane
Winner of the Romantic Novelists' Association Contemporay Romantic Novel Award 2013.
This witty, funny book is a story about second chances; can they work or should you let sleeping dogs lie?...
A Foreign Country Charles Cumming
April 2013 Book of the Month.
This is another first-rate crime novel, perfect for fans of John le Carre, from an author...
Absolution Patrick Flanery
Shortlisted for the 2013 RSL Ondaatje Prize.
A sharp, clever, violent novel spanning the transition of South Africa from apartheid through Truth and Reconciliation to the present as seen by three...
Among Others Jo Walton
April 2013 Fantasy Book of the Month.
Winner of the Hugo Award for Best Novel 2012.
This is an intriguing, wonderfully written, magical coming...
The Scent of Lemon Leaves Clara Sanchez
Having left her job and boyfriend, thirty-year-old Sandra decides to stay in a village on the Costa Brava in order to take stock of her life and find a new...
Dearest Rose Rowan Coleman
Winner of the Romantic Novelists' Association Epic Romantic Novel Award 2013.
When Rose Pritchard turns up on the doorstep of a Cumbrian B&B it is her last resort. She and her...
The Apothecary's Daughter Charlotte Betts
Winner of the Romantic Novelists' Association Historical Romantic Novel Award 2013.
A debut novel from an exciting new voice in historical romance set in bustling, malodorous London at the time of...
Witchstruck Victoria Lamb
Winner of the Romantic Novelists' Association Young Adult Romantic Novel Award 2013.
Meg Lytton has always known of her dark and powerful gift. Raised a student of the old magick by...
Beneath the Major's Scars Sarah Mallory
Winner of the Romantic Novelists' Association Rose Award 2013.
After being shamelessly seduced by a married man, Zelah Pentewan finds her reputation is in tatters. Determined to rise above the gossip-mongers,...
My Animals and Other Family Clare Balding
Shortlisted for the Horse Racing Book of the Year at the British Sports Book Awards 2013.
Winner of the Specsavers National Book Awards 'Biography/Autobiography of the Year' 2012.
The author grew up...
May We be Forgiven A. M. Homes
Harry is a Richard Nixon scholar who leads a quiet, regular life; his brother George is a high-flying TV producer, with a murderous temper.They have been uneasy rivals since childhood.Then...
The Month Before's Featured Books
The 100 Greatest Ever Golfers Andy Farrell
Winner of the Best Golf Book at the British Sports Book Awards 2012.
What makes a great golfer? Is it innate talent, unstinting dedication, hard graft or inner strength? Can it...
Engage The Fall and Rise of Matt Hampson Paul Kimmage
Winner of the British Sports Book of the Year Award 2012.
Winner of the Best Biography/Autobiography at the British Sports Book Awards 2012.
'Engage!' was the last word Matt Hampson heard...
The End of the Wasp Season Denise Mina
Winner of the Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award 2012.
One of our Great Reads You May Have Missed in 2012.
Barry Forshaw on Denise Mina and...
The Silent Touch of Shadows Christina Courtenay
Winner of the Best Historical Read Award from the Festival of Romance 2012.
An intriguingly romantic and supernatural time slip mystery from Award winning historical novelist Christina Courtenay. Could the vivid...
The Garden of Evening Mists Tan Twan Eng
Winner of the Man Asian Literary Prize 2012.
Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2012.
It's Malaya, 1949. After studying law at Cambrige and time spent helping to prosecute Japanese war criminals,...
Narcopolis Jeet Thayil
Winner of the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature 2013.
Stretching across three decades, with an interlude in Mao's China, it portrays a city in collision with itself. With a...
Gods and Beasts Denise Mina
March 2013 Book of the Month.
The recent winner of the Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award with The...
Life After Life Kate Atkinson
Shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2013.
What if you had the chance to live your life again and again, until you finally got it right? During a snowstorm in...
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