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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 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
Please Don't Stop the Music Jane Lovering
Winner of the RNA Romantic Novel of the Year Award 2012 and the RNA Romantic Comedy Novel Award 2012.
Sarah Broadhurst's comment...
'“My congratulations to Jane Lovering for winning the Romantic Novel of the Year with Please Don’t Stop the Music (Choc... Format: Paperback - Released: 01/02/2011
The Kingdom of Childhood Rebecca Coleman
What might have been a clichéd story of a frustrated middle aged mother and a teenage schoolboy is cleverly sidestepped in this excellent debut. Instead we have dark disturbing story, driven by illicit passion and a past secret that quickly... Format: Paperback - Released: 04/05/2012
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
The Summer of Secrets Alison Lucy
An ill-fated marriage leads to a disastrous honeymoon but years later the repercussions of the holiday see three young women seeking a potentially dangerous truth. Great escapist summertime reading. Perfect for fans of Veronica Henry and Tasmina Perry. Format: Paperback - Released: 17/05/2012
Summer Daydreams Carole Matthews
What if you had always dreamed of something more ...? Nell McNamara has a happy life: her boyfriend Olly adores her, their four-year-old daughter Petal is the centre of their world and Nell has a steady job in the local... Format: Paperback - Released: 24/05/2012
White Wedding Milly Johnson
It's the day they've always dreamed about. But will it turn out to be a nightmare ...? Bel is in the midst of planning her perfect wedding when disaster strikes and everything she thought she knew is turned on its... Format: Paperback - Released: 26/04/2012
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 Saturday Supper Club Amy Bratley
Wanted: four amateur cooks to compete in a supper club contest Rules: four strangers, four weeks, four houses, four dinner parties You might win: a cash prize You might lose: your heart Eve had her world torn apart three years... Format: Paperback - 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
The Perfect Location Kate Forster
Rose Nightingale is an Australian actress still recovering from a bad marriage. Sapphira De Mont is the world's most beautiful movie star, but hides a secret addiction and a broken heart. Calypso Gable is a young star on the rise... Format: Paperback - Released: 10/05/2012
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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...
Labels H.C. Carlton
Passion, fashion and ambition all crash along together in this highly readable, rollicking bonk-buster made all the more authentic as the author worked in Paris sketching the fashion shows in...
Briefs Encountered Julian Clary
Whoever said the afterlife would be easy...Noel Coward is the toast of twenties society...a brilliant playwright, composer and entertainer whose witty songs and pithy lines don't quite tell the full...
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 Marriage Plot Jeffrey Eugenides
Ten years on from his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel Eugenides delivers a witty, well written and wholehearted coming of age story. Set in the early 80s and described by The Times...
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 Runaway Actress Victoria Connelly
Beautiful, rich, famous -- and seriously stressed, actress Connie Gordon is ready for a change. Deciding to accept an invitation from her fan club in Scotland, Connie kisses goodbye to...
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...
Amber Scott is Starting Over Ruth Saberton
April 2012 Book of the Month.
This funny, entertaining easy read is perfect escapism for any working girl with dreams of giving up...
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...
Signs of Life Anna Raverat
April 2012 Debut of the Month.
This edgy, seductive, tense and sinister debut, perfect for reading groups, will have you, like us, engrossed;...
An Invisible Sign of My Own Aimee Bender
When Mona Gray is ten her father contracts a mysterious illness. His gradual withdrawal from everyday life marks a similar change in Mona, who removes herself from anything - or...
Run Rabbit Run Kate Johnson
Romance and action are breathlessly combined in the latest, wisecracking Sophie Green adventure from Kate Johnson, author of one of our favourites from last year Untied Kingdom. Ex-spy Sophie...
The Cookbook Collector Allegra Goodman
At the turn of the last century, two sisters are following very different paths. Twenty-eight-year-old Emily is a CEO of an internet start-up; twenty-three-year-old Jess is a grad student in...
The Month Before's Featured Books
Highland Storms Christina Courtenay
Winner of the RNA Historical Romantic Novel Award 2012.
November 2011 Book of the Month.
Although following on from the excellent Trade Winds,...
What Women Want Fanny Blake
April 2011 Book of the Month.
If you like your romantic reads glazed and candy coated then What Women Want isn’t the book...
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 Man Who Forgot His Wife John O'farrell
March 2012 Book of the Month.
Featured on The Book Show on Sky Arts on 8 March 2012.
John O’Farrell’s novels are consistently funny,...
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...
Putting Alice Back Together Carol Marinelli
Alice has a secret. A
secret so big she can’t tell anyone…but how do you keep a secret like
that when everything is starting to fall apart? And once it’s...
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.
My Daughter, My Mother Annie Murray
In 1984 two young mothers meet at a toddler group in Birmingham. As their friendship grows, they share with each other the difficulties and secrets in their lives: Joanne, a...
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...
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...
One Night Only Sue Welfare
Fame and fortune can't hide the secrets of her past! When fading soap star, Helen Redford, goes back to her old home town to make a TV show about her...
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...
The Proof of Love Catherine Hall
The Lake District of 1976 and a highly conservative tightly knit
farming community are the back drop for this beautifully written slow
burning novel. Catherine Hall’s writing has been compared...
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...
How to be a Woman Caitlin Moran
Winner of the Galaxy Book of the Year Award 2011.
There's never been a better time to be a woman: we have the vote and the Pill, and we haven't been...
Summer of Love Katie Fforde
Winner of the RNA Contemporary Romantic Novel Award 2012.
Who knows what might happen in a summer of love? Sian Bishop has left the hustle and bustle of the city behind...
This is Your Life John O'farrell
Just as bogus doctors are occasionally discovered in hospitals, Jimmy Conway has become a bogus celebrity; winning an award for something he never did, being photographed in Hello! in someone...
Trackman Catriona Child
March 2012 Debut of the Month.
Everyone has a significant track of music that can really effect them and change their mood or...
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.
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