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Ben Schott born London 1974. The son of a neurologist and a nurse achieved a double First from Cambridge. Schott's Almanac was first published in 2005 and is now a bestselling reference book published annually. Discover Schott's Almanac
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The Complaints Ian Rankin
August 2010 Book of the Month.
The complaints of the title is the ‘Complaints and Conduct Department’, a section of the police force which investigates the behaviour of other police officers. Rankin’s new... Format: Paperback - Released: 05/08/2010
Last Letter from Your Lover Jojo Moyes
If you are looking for a thoroughly romantic read that will have you grabbing for the tissues with tears of joy and sadness then this is a must read. It’s full of warm and wonderful characters and will keep you... Format: Hardback - Released: 08/07/2010
William's Progress: Another Horror Story Matt Rudd
Following on from Williams Walker’s First Year of Marriage this is another richly comic novel following William’s exploits as he manoeuvres himself over life’s hurdles. Very funny and very real!! Format: Paperback - Released: 08/07/2010
Secrets and Sins Jaishree Misra
A great block buster of a book. Despite her passionate feelings Riva leaves Aman for a more reliable man but fifteen years later fate brings them together again in the glamorous setting of Cannes. Will they risk everything, their families... Format: Paperback - Released: 24/06/2010
Getting Mad, Getting Even Annie Sanders
Full of social comment, this is entertaining, well written fun, a light-hearted read with bite as two girls, running a ‘Domestic Angels’ agency to help busy women, unwittingly end up in the revenge business. Curl up and giggle stuff with... Format: Paperback - Released: 08/07/2010
Scandalous Tilly Bagshawe
July 2010 Book of the Month.
A perfect back read, pure escapism as two women seek revenge on the man who broke their hearts and thought he was above them all. Revenge, power,... Format: Paperback - Released: 24/06/2010
Dizzy Worms: The Last Orders at Harrods Trilogy Michael Holman
This is the final novel in the satirical Kuwisha trilogy. For those new to Michael Holman, if you’re a fan of Alexander McCall Smith then this is likely to be right up your street. Full of the sights and sounds... Format: Paperback - Released: 01/06/2010
Hannah's List Debbie Macomber
Debbie Macomber’s books have such a lovely feel-good factor to them, they may be predictable but reading one is like slipping on an old pair of slippers and snuggling down in your favourite chair – just warm and comfortable and... Format: Paperback - Released: 18/06/2010
Sweet Temptation Lucy Diamond
A wonderfully warm and utterly compelling novel from the author of Hens Reunited. Characterisation is spot on and the writing style slips down a treat, a bit like a glass of decent wine! With more romance between the covers... Format: Paperback - Released: 04/06/2010
Darkest Hour James Holland
In a nutshell this is Sharpe (only it’s Sergeant Jack Tanner) for the Second World War, complete with evil nemesis in the shape of a company Sergeant Major (like Hawskwill). It vividly shows the haphazard nature of the battles leading... Format: Paperback - Released: 27/05/2010
Other People's Secrets Louise Candlish
A book that will sit on your shoulder for sometime after reading it. It concerns grief, reconciliation, infidelity, marriage and family upheavals and eventual honesty all in a beautiful Italian holiday setting. The author used to write entertaining chic-lit, here... Format: Paperback - Released: 08/07/2010
The Sky is Everywhere Jandy Nelson
June 2010 Debut of the Month.
This is a debut novel that once readwill never be forgotten. It's
a vibrant, deeply romantic novel that will bring tears to your eyes but
it will also bring... Format: Paperback - Released: 07/06/2010
A Life Like Other People's Alan Bennett
A 2011 World Book Night selection.
June 2010 Book of the Month.
First published in Untold Stories,
Alan Bennett’s previous collection of autobiographical pieces is now
available in this handsome small format edition. Sparingly told,... Format: Paperback - Released: 29/04/2010
How the Girl Guides Won the War Janie Hampton
Giving a resume of the Girl Guide movement, the book concentrates on the period of 1939-1945 looking at how the Girl Guides were involved in the war effort. And how involved they were; running messages for MI5, working for the... Format: Hardback - Released: 05/08/2010
Maps of Hell Paul Johnston
Another compelling read from the author of The Death List and The Soul Collector. Crime writer Matt Wells is back and in trouble once again, not knowing how or why he has ended up being accused of three... Format: Paperback - Released: 06/08/2010
Slaughter on a Snowy Morn: The Death Penalty Case That Revolutionised Forensic Science Colin Evans
Shortlisted for the CWA Gold Dagger for Non-Fiction 2011.
America, 1916 a man on death row, hours from the Electric chair committed by avaricious private investigators, bent law enforcement agents and cheapjack forensic experts. Charles Stielow was a poor, ill-educated labourer... Format: Paperback - Released: 01/07/2010
The Queen of New Beginnings Erica James
Warm, witty and wise storytelling with a lovely, feel-good factor and a charming, intriguing plot. When Alice arrives at Cuckoo House to help out a friend by cooking and cleaning for its occupant, an author with writer’s block, he is... Format: Paperback - Released: 19/08/2010
The Taken Inger Ash Wolfe
Stars a near to retirement DI Hazel Micallef who cares little for correct procedure. I met her in The Calling and loved her. It’s grisly stuff. Format: Paperback - Released: 22/07/2010
Pretty Little Things Jilliane Hoffman
In short chapters with the story told from the perspective of the main characters, this tense thriller builds at a frantic rate. It illustrates the perils of internet chat rooms and how easily teenagers can get drawn into dangerous situations.... Format: Paperback - Released: 08/07/2010
Kiss and Die Lee Weeks
Lee Weeks is one of those authors who is really coming in to her own with her gritty and gripping crime thrillers. This latest see’s a serial killer targeting adulterous businessmen. Edge of chair stuff! Format: Paperback - Released: 22/07/2010
Cold Earth Sarah Moss
A group of students go to Greenland in August on an archaeological dig just as a pandemic is sweeping the world. Their mission is to discover why a Viking settlement was suddenly abandoned. They have a month to complete the... Format: Paperback - Released: 03/06/2010
Jail Bird Jessie Keane
More gangland shenanigans, set in London. Lily King has just come out of jail after serving time for the murder of her husband, only she didn’t do it, she was set up, and now she wants justice – her way.... Format: Paperback - Released: 27/05/2010
Black Friday Alex Kava
Alex Kava brings all the punch and thrills of her early novels to Black Friday. A chilling plot that see’s well meaning protestors become victims of a terrorist campaign they did not realise they were part of. Maggie O’Dell returns... Format: Paperback - Released: 18/06/2010
I Kill Giorgio Faletti
June 2010 Debut of the Month.
This gem of a thriller was originally published in Italian in 2002 where it sold over 3 million copies (stand aside Dan Brown) and with its... Format: Paperback - Released: 03/06/2010
Soul Murder Daniel Blake
June 2010 Debut of the Month.
An excellent thriller, a novel of vengeance, betrayal and religious obsession. Primarily it is a hunt for a serial killer who sets his victims on fire. A... Format: Paperback - Released: 10/06/2010
Still Midnight Denise Mina
Just look at the reviews for this author. Her peers love her, the press love her, have you heard of her? Well, it is time you did. She writes about Glasgow low-life, gritty and atmospheric. This concerns a kidnapping that... Format: Paperback - Released: 01/04/2010
Pretty Bad Things C.J. Skuse
March 2010 'new gen' Book of the Month title.
Although not the target audience for this debut novel, Pretty Bad Things arrived on my desk at about the time the Catcher in... Format: Paperback - Released: 19/12/2009
Ties That Bind Catherine Deveney
July 2010 Debut of the Month.
A debut novel exploring the loneliness, secrets and silences that haunt even the most loving of families andhow some bonds, against all odds, can never be broken. Format: Paperback - Released: 01/07/2010
Bad Day in Blackrock Kevin Power
July 2010 Debut of the Month.
This is not a who-dunit but a why and how. It concerns the death of a teenager outside a Dublin night club. What makes this special is... Format: Paperback - Released: 08/07/2010
I Heart Paris Lindsey Kelk
Shortlisted for the RNA Romantic Comedy of the Year 2011.
July 2010 Book of the Month.
The third in this engaging series featuring Angela, a Brit in New York with a dream writing... Format: Paperback - Released: 08/07/2010
Unravelling Lindsay Stanberry-Flynn
Unravelling is a wonderful escapist read that will take you on a rollercoaster of emotions as you become totally embroiled in the passionate relationship between Gerald and Vanessa. But all is not quite as it seems and they part but... Format: Paperback - Released: 22/04/2010
The Kindest Thing Cath Staincliffe
A stunning novel that looks in to the controversial topic of assisted suicide. When a woman helps her husband to die she finds herself in the dock for murder. This raises so many questions and poses the story from all... Format: Paperback - Released: 27/05/2010
Chowringhee Sankar
A classic in India this has now been translated in to English and is a thoroughly absorbing novel set in a hotel in Calcutta. Following the everyday lives of those who enter the hotel, the staff are like a family... Format: Paperback - Released: 01/06/2010
Heading Home Katie Flynn
Another thoroughly enjoyable saga from one of the best in this genre. A real page turner. Format: Paperback - Released: 24/06/2010
Invisible Paul Auster
A coming-of-age story in four interlocking parts by three different narrators, a tale of sex and obsession.
September 2010 Guest Editor Belle de Jour on Paul Auster...
Auster is a bit of a Marmite – he puts himself fearlessly into everything... Format: Paperback - Released: 24/06/2010
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo: Unabridged Audiobook Stieg Larsson
This is an unabridged audiobook title.
Winner of the Galaxy Crime Thriller of the Year 2009.
A forty year old mystery all mixed up with family feuds, fraud and corruption this is the first of a trilogy. There... Format: CD-Audio - Released: 01/05/2009
Domestic Soldiers: Six Womens' Lives in the Second World War Jennifer Purcell
The WWII domestic front is a period of history that always draws me back, the personal records so compelling, forever putting that question “What would you have done?” Coped like some, despaired like others, made and mended with the best... Format: Paperback - Released: 26/08/2010
The Lost Symbol Dan Brown
The new bestseller from The Da Vinci Code author is about Freemasonry,
with the same mix of obscure history and fast-paced action we have come
to expect. I think these are perfect aeroplane reads, they engross you
quickly and keep you distracted... Format: Paperback - Released: 22/07/2010
The Letter in the Bottle Karen Liebreich
A sad and most unusual story stemming from a bottle Karen Liebreich found washed up on the shore. It had come from France and contained a letter from a mother grieving over the death of her son. This sets the... Format: Paperback - Released: 01/07/2010
A Rift in Time: Travels of My Ottoman Uncle Raja Shehadeh
Researching his family history, Raja Shehadeh discovered a great uncle, who like himself, was a writer and who through journalism, like Shehadeh had battled to change the plight of the Palestinian people. Shehadeh’s uncle lived at a time that we... Format: Paperback - Released: 05/08/2010
Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother: The Official Biography William Shawcross
This is a great record of an extraordinary and long life which spanned the twentieth century. The author was given unrestricted access to the Queen Mother's papers, including many of her letters, and has put them to good use in... Format: Paperback - Released: 02/07/2010
Where Was I?! Terry Wogan
Anyone missing their daily dose of Sir Terry will be a very happy recipient of this book packed with many of Terry’s musings and observations. Funny, observant, sometimes irreverent and pure Terry Wogan. Format: Paperback - Released: 22/07/2010
Halfway to Hollywood: Diaries 1980 to 1988 Michael Palin
July 2010 Book of the Month.
The second volume of Michael Palin’s diaries following his time through the 80’s when the pythons split up and Michael found himself entering a time of successful... Format: Paperback - Released: 08/07/2010
Anglomania: A European Love Affair Ian Buruma
Ian Buruma’s first class examination of Continental views of the English and their legal and political systems shows just how much love and loathing have come seething across the Channel over the centuries. Combining his own multi-cultural family history with... Format: Paperback - Released: 01/06/2010
Four Ducks on a Pond Nicholas the Cat, Annabel Carothers
This charming story, in fact it’s a hidden delight as this book has just been recently discovered after 50 years of neglect in a drawer. The story is told by Nicholas the cat, as he chronicles a year in the... Format: Paperback - Released: 19/05/2010
Jungle Soldier Brian Moynahan
An account of one of the forgotten heroes of the Second World War. Freddy Chapman fought the Japanese in Malaya for over three and half years, avoiding capture and causing havoc for the Japanese army. This book does justice to... Format: Paperback - Released: 27/05/2010
For Better For Worse Damian Horner, Siobhan Horner
You’ll find two accounts of this French canal journey indicated by different type, one from Mr Horner and one from his wife Siobhan. Doing what so many people would like to do they give up the day job, taking off... Format: Paperback - Released: 10/06/2010
Or is That Just Me? Richard Hammond
More anecdotes and tales from the Top Gear presenter. Hammond writes in an easy humorous style much like his television persona so all Top Gear fans will find this an entertaining read. Format: Paperback - Released: 27/05/2010
Swiss Watching: Inside Europe's Landlocked Island Diccon Bewes
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July 2010 Travel Book of the Month.
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Banks, Cuckoo Clocks, Cheese and Chocolate just about sums up most people’s knowledge of Switzerland, but read Diccon Bewes' entertaining view of the country and you’ll... Format: Paperback - Released: 10/06/2010
Lockdown Sean Black
The first book in a new thriller series featuring action hero Ryan Lock, ex-soldier now security chief, here hired to protect the head of a high-tech bio-lab using animals for experiments … and then human guinea pigs It’s ace –... Format: Paperback - Released: 24/06/2010
The She-Devil in the Mirror Horacio Castellanos Moya
This is very special. It’s a dizzy, chatty monologue from a girl friend of a prominent San Salvadorean murdered society wife who gives us her take on the case, the politics, the economic and sexual chaos of a post-civil war... Format: Paperback - Released: 28/05/2010
Three Weeks to Say Goodbye C. J. Box
A cracking thriller that kept me guessing right through to the end. Even when I began to get an idea about what linked everyone together, there were still plenty of unknowns to keep me turning the pages fast. It’s got... Format: Paperback - Released: 01/05/2010
The Fourth Assassin Matt Rees
The fourth in the Omar Yussef series, Israeli’s historian-cum-sleuth who here comes to New York, ill equipped for so cold a winter, to give a lecture to the UN on conditions of refugee camps in Israel. His son is in... Format: Paperback - Released: 01/07/2010
Saints and Sinners Paul Cuddihy
This is a book to totally absorb you, following the fortunes of three main characters who find themselves caught up in the underworld of Victorian Glasgow as well as their own love triangle. This is a thriller, a family drama... Format: Paperback - Released: 24/06/2010
The Silent Man Alex Berenson
John Wells, whom we first met in The Faithful Spy, stumbled upon an Arab plot to steal nuclear bombs from Russia and set them off in America. Wells must put aside a personal vendetta and save the day. Fast... Format: Paperback - Released: 24/06/2010
Moscow Sting Alex Dryden
You have to believe the detail, if not the plot is authentic here for the author, using a pseudonym, worked in intelligence specialising in Russian matters. This, and his previous, Red and Black, deal with the threat of Russia... Format: Paperback - Released: 10/06/2010
Ice Hunt James Rollins
We’ve been fans of James Rollins for quite some time now and his latest thriller is another fantastic, action packed adventure. He really knows how to build the tension and action scenes will leave you breathless. A really good read. Format: Paperback - Released: 24/06/2010
War Damage Elizabeth Wilson
A great murder mystery set in the aftermath of the Second World War. Great characters who are opinionated, loud and liberated. A thriller with a bit of a difference and thoroughly enjoyable. Format: Paperback - Released: 04/02/2010
Play Dead Harlan Coben
June 2010 Book of the Month.
This is actually an old novel published years ago that subsequently went out of print. What a treat then for all Harlan Coben fans that Orion have... Format: Paperback - Released: 24/06/2010
The Angel's Game Carlos Ruiz Zafon
May 2010 Book of the Month.
The Shadow of the Wind is one of those rare books that continues to deeply affect you long after it is read. This second masterpiece is... Format: Paperback - Released: 29/04/2010
Cemetery Dance Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child
The next in the Agent Pendergast series and another excellent suspense-filled thriller.Cults, voodoo and magic and murder all intertwine to create a gut-wrenching, chilling novel. These novels all stand alone, without the need to know the characters in... Format: Paperback - Released: 25/03/2010
The Anniversary Man R.J. Ellory
This man is incapable of writing a mediocre book. All are, without doubt, first class. Here a serial killer in New York is copy-catting past killings. One man, a crime researcher for a newspaper, knows an awful lot about the... Format: Paperback - Released: 15/04/2010
No and Me Delphine de Vigan
Shortlisted for the prestigious Sheffield Children's Book Award 2011
Deeply moving, this is the touching story of two teenagers from very different backgrounds whose friendship raises huge questions about what concepts of home and family really mean. Lou is bright and... Format: Paperback - Released: 02/08/2010
The King's Daughter Christie Dickason
Very much for the Philippa Gregory market this is a great historical novel set in the court of James I following the plight of his daughter Elizabeth as she fights to marry the man of her choosing. Politics, intrigue... Format: Paperback - Released: 13/05/2010
The Lady in the Tower: The Fall of Anne Boleyn Alison Weir
Alison Weir brings history to life yet again in this study of the last
few days of Anne Boleyn's life. This reads as well as any fictional
conspiracy theory novel with Weir delving in to historical documents to
figure out if Henry plotted... Format: Paperback - Released: 03/06/2010
Turbulence Giles Foden
Successfully blending one man’s fictional story with real life events and related by a flawed and anxious young scientist, this is a complex and gripping tale of weather and war as the right conditions for D-Day is sought. It’s not... Format: Paperback - Released: 30/06/2007
Lustrum Robert Harris
Shortlisted for the inaugural Walter Scott Prize for historical fiction 2010.
Rome 63 BC, power struggles, political machinations, physical intimidation, bribery, assassination and more in an exceptional historical thriller, superbly written. There is no hint of comparison between then and now... Format: Paperback - Released: 01/09/2005
Making Shore Sara Allerton
Making Shore is a hugely accomplished debut novel from a small Scottish publisher. It's beautifully written with incredibly well-drawn characters who you really care about andyou can even hear and smell thesights andsounds of wartime Atlantic. You feel the desperation... Format: Paperback - Released: 26/05/2010
Hush, Hush Becca Fitzpatrick
June 2010 Book of the Month.
A gripping romance tinged with a strange and dark side as forces from long, long ago. Nora never meant to get into a deep romance and she... Format: Paperback - Released: 27/05/2010
Hue and Cry : A Hew Cullan Mystery Shirley Mckay
For fans of Ellis Peters and C J Sansom we think we have found a new historical detective to follow, Hew Cullan a newly qualified 16th century lawyer. The opening chapters of Hue and Cry were shortlisted for... Format: Paperback - Released: 22/04/2010
The Swan Thieves Elizabeth Kostova
Another beautifully written and well researched novel. A psychiatrist tries to solve the mystery behind a successful artist , seemingly, having a moment of madness and attacking a painting in a national art gallery. An engrossing read. Format: Paperback - Released: 24/06/2010
Mistress of Rome Kate Quinn
Adventure, passion, betrayal, secrets, blood and violence, this is a hell of a read. ‘Spartacus for Girls’ about a Jewish slave girl and a Roman Gladiator, it is terrific stuff. I haven’t been this excited about a first novel since... Format: Paperback - Released: 10/06/2010
Rich and Mad William Nicholson
April 2010 'new gen' Book of the Month title.
Full of the myriad and criss-crossing emotions of adolescent love, this is a warm-hearted and finely observed view of two teenagers’ experience. Sixth-formers Maddy... Format: Paperback - Released: 05/04/2009
The House of Special Purpose John Boyne
May 2010 Book of the Month.
Featured on The Book Show on Sky Arts on 22 April 2010.
The structure here is interesting. It begins in London in 1981 with Georgy and his wife... Format: Paperback - Released: 15/04/2010
Beautiful Creatures Kami Garcia, Margaret Stohl
February 2010 'new gen' Debut of the Month title.
A teen romance with a twist of danger and the supernatural told with a sure touch that makes it a headlong read from start... Format: Paperback - Released: 04/02/2010
Fortune Megan Cole
High gloss, high tension in this story of a lifestyle of unlimited wealth. Three girls from very different backgrounds each receive a mysterious invitation to the fiftieth birthday party of Brad Masters, multimillionaire record executive. While Madison and Simonetta think... Format: Paperback - Released: 08/07/2010
Losing It Keith Gray
The Julia Eccleshare comment:
Top teenage authors tell a range of touching and thought provoking
stories about both the real and the much-fantasised about moment of
first sexual experiences. Funny, sad, crude, lyrical, Anne Fine,
Patrick Ness, Bali Rai, Melvin Burgess, Jenny Valentine... Format: Paperback - Released: 08/07/2010
Airhead: Being Nikki Meg Cabot
Step right into the celebrity life of teenage supermodel Nikki.
Apparently the golden girl of the catwalk Nikki looks like an absolute
airhead but that’s just the surface. Underneath there’s nerdy Emmerson
Watts who somehow got trapped in the wrong body and is... Format: Paperback - Released: 11/07/2009
Vintage Maxine Linnell
Teenagers Holly and Marilyn both hate Fridays and want a way out of the
dullness of their lives. But, what neither expects is that a sudden
accident sends them into each other’s lives. Adjusting isn’t easy;
Marilyn lives in 1962 and Holly in... Format: Paperback - Released: 01/05/2010
Numbers 2: The Chaos Rachel Ward
June 2010 Book of the Month.
A gripping thriller set in a not too distant future tells of Adam’s secret and his dreaded power – he can tell the date of people’s death.... Format: Paperback - Released: 07/06/2010
The Last Summer of the Death Warriors Francisco X. Stork
June 2010 Debut of the Month.
Totally unsentimental this is nonetheless an exceptionally moving story that is full of insight and written with a rare tenderness. Two boys in desperate situations come together... Format: Hardback - Released: 07/06/2010
Double Trouble Another Year in the (not So) Simple Life of Rachel Riley Joanna Nadin
Genuinely laugh-out-loud funny from the first page, this double helping of Joanna Nadin’s brilliant funny and immensely engaging protagonist Rachel Riley featuring The Meaning of Life and My (not so) simple Life, will be devoured by teenagers and adults in... Format: Paperback - Released: 26/12/2009
Black Ops: Jungle Kill Jim Eldridge
A terrific new series for teen boys who want something that bridges the gap from Anthony Horowitz and Charlie Higson to authors such as Chris Ryan and Andy McNab. This, the first in the series is a high-octane, adrenalin-fuelled combat... Format: Paperback - Released: 04/06/2010
Revolver Marcus Sedgwick
May 2010 'new gen' Book of the Month title.
Shortlisted for the CILIP Carnegie Medal 2010.
Shortlisted for the Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize 2009.A tense, psychological drama set in the snowy... Format: Paperback - Released: 23/04/2010
The Island Sarah Singleton
April 2010 'new gen' Book of the Month title.
Put simply this is The Beach for teens. Three friends are on the start of their gap year in India but when one... Format: Paperback - Released: 01/04/2010
The Summer I Turned Pretty Jenny Han
One girl, two boys…How can Isabel, Belly to the boys, choose as she
grows up with them through one glorious summer holiday after another?
Belly has always yearned for the inaccessible, cool Conrad. But what
does he feel for her? And what about... Format: Paperback - Released: 03/06/2010
Sisters Red Jackson Pearce
The violence of the werewolf is everywhere in this powerful story of
two sisters’ fight to stop the death of other girls. Scarlett and Rosie
are only young when they are savagely attacked by a werewolf, an
encounter that leaves them scarred physically... Format: Paperback - Released: 03/06/2010
The Adoration of Jenna Fox Mary E. Pearson
A brilliant, haunting thriller which probes chilling psychological
depths. Jenna has one year missing from her life: she’s moved from
sixteen to seventeen in a coma. As she gradually comes back to life,
her father calls her recovery a miracle and tells her... Format: Paperback - Released: 05/04/2010
Big and Clever Dan Tunstall
This is a modern, gritty and thrilling morality tale about belonging
and about loyalty. It brilliant captures teen life as it really exists
in so many places up and down the country. With a spine-tingling
intensity it reveals just what life is like... Format: Paperback - Released: 01/05/2009
What I Saw and How I Lied Judy Blundell
Winner of the prestigious American National Book Award
Utterly
gripping and beautifully told, this is a stunning rite of passage
novel, set just after WW2, full of powerful and conflicting emotions,
which captures the dramatic shift from child to adult in pinpoint
sharp, painful... Format: Paperback - Released: 07/06/2010
The Prince of Mist Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Featured on The Book Show on Sky Arts on 30 May 2010.
June 2010 Good Housekeeping selection.
Utterly gripping, this is a deliciously haunting and chilling tale of dark magic and treachery which reaches out across time threatening all who cross its... Format: Hardback - Released: 27/05/2010
A Home of Their Own: 150 Years of Battersea Dogs and Cats Home Garry Jenkins
A happy 150th birthday to Battersea and to celebrate, Garry Jenkins has written this welcome history outlining the development of the home from those early days as the Home for Lost and Starving Dogs in a Holloway side street. There... Format: Hardback - Released: 24/06/2010
Je t'aime a La Folie Michael Wright
It’s not all paradise at La Folie, Michael Wright’s new home in France and that’s why I so enjoyed his first book, C’est la Folie. Almost alarmed at his own daring in giving up everything for a home in... Format: Hardback - Released: 22/07/2010
The Plot: A Biography of an English Acre Madeleine Bunting
By concentrating on such a fragmentary piece of England Madeleine Bunting is able to tell us so much about the layer cake of history, the hundreds of lives passed in working this small patch but above all it is her... Format: Paperback - Released: 01/07/2010
The Greatest Show on Earth - The Evidence for Evolution Richard Dawkins
Richard Dawkins is loved and loathed in equal measure for his views on evolution against creationist views but this book really is a serious discussion and look at the theory of evolution and ultimately about the amazing world that we... Format: Paperback - Released: 29/04/2010
The Woods: Unabridged Audiobook Harlan Coben
This is an unabridged audiobook title.
A great stand alone thriller from Harlan Coben with two plot lines to follow. One is the case that lawyer, Paul Copeland, is prosecuting now and the other the murder investigation he was... Format: CD-Audio - Released: 01/02/2008
Handle with Care: Unabridged Audiobook Jodi Picoult
This is an unabridged audiobook title.
Another thought provoking read from Jodi Picoult. Family bonds and friendships are tested as a mother fights to protect her family although what start out as best intentions can sometimes have the opposite... Format: CD-Audio - Released: 01/05/2009
Life of Pi: Unabridged Audiobook Yann Martel
This is an unabridged audiobook title.
Pi’s family is moving their zoo when the boat sinks and 16-year old
Pi is left afloat in a lifeboat with four animals that includes a
tiger. Up to that point the book... Format: CD-Audio - Released: 01/06/2004
The Complaints: Unabridged Audiobook Ian Rankin
This is an unabridged audiobook title.
Rankin has moved on to a new protagonist in the form of Malcolm Fox and
has set him up in a department which bodes well for what we are sure
will be terrific,... Format: CD-Audio - Released: 01/10/2009
Return to the Olive Farm: Unabridged Audiobook Carol Drinkwater
This is an unabridged audiobook title.
Continuing the story of Carol Drinkwater’s beloved Olive Farm. After
returning from 18 months travelling around the Mediterranean Carol
discovers that her dream of running an organic farm is threatened by
nature and by... Format: CD-Audio - Released: 20/05/2010
Complicit: Unabridged Audiobook Nicci French
This is an unabridged audiobook title.
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... Format: CD-Audio - Released: 01/05/2010
Must You Go? My Life with Harold Pinter Antonia Fraser
This is an unabridged audiobook title.
Antonia Fraser’s memoir of the love story between herself and Harold Pinter, who spent 33 years together, having found each other somewhat later in life. Since 1968 Fraser has kept diaries and uses... Format: CD-Audio - Released: 01/05/2010
The Collaborator: Unabridged Audiobook Gerald Seymour
This is an unabridged audiobook title.
A classic novel by a superb writer using all his skills of storytelling and characterisation to plunge us into the heart of the Mafia world in Naples. It is both thrilling... Format: CD-Audio - Released: 01/03/2010
Wolf Hall: Unabridged Audiobook Hilary Mantel
This is an unabridged audiobook title.
Winner of the inaugural Walter Scott Prize for historical fiction 2010.
Winner of the Man Booker Prize 2009.
The subject of Henry VIII will always provide a rich source of historical, political and scandalous fodder... Format: CD-Audio - Released: 01/11/2009
Engleby: Unabridged Audiobook Sebastian Faulks
This is an unabridged audiobook title.
This is a brilliant book: disturbing, amusing, thought-provoking,
playful, real, unreal. All the usual Faulks intelligence and enjoyment
of language is here.
Yet Engleby is different from his other books. This time,
you... Format: CD-Audio - Released: 01/12/2007
One Day: Unabridged Audiobook David Nicholls
Winner of the Galaxy Book of the Year 2010.
Now a film starring Anne Hathaway as Emma and Jim Sturgess as Dexter.
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Two people meet on the last day of university and... Format: CD-Audio - Released: 01/09/2009
Dead Like You: Unabridged Audiobook Peter James
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This is the 6th Roy Grace thriller. Grace finds himself investigating crimes that bear similar characteristics to some unsolved crime over ten years earlier. With the opening up of these old... Format: CD-Audio - Released: 10/06/2010
The Da Vinci Code: Unabridged Audiobook Dan Brown
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Fun, fast and very gripping. You know the story, and if you haven't read it by now then you really should.
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that you... Format: CD-Audio - Released: 01/04/2008
The Queen of New Beginnings: Unabridged Audiobook Erica James
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Fans of Erica James will notice she has stepped up a league with
this one. It’s faster, lighter and more amusing than her norm and it’s
very good. It concerns two people each... Format: CD-Audio - Released: 01/05/2010
July and August are often times for holidays and as a consequence Sarah Broadhurst has pulled together a short list of books by a mix of authors, some that aren't the household names of your typical summer reading bookshop promotion but she believes are well worth reading.
And others, more well known and equally perfect for that summer break whether on the beach or in the mountains or just curling up in the evenings at home.
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Whether you're wanting to gain inspiration for your next holiday or longer trip away, learn more about a potential destination, want to follow in the footsteps of a much loved ficitonal character or just want to read a book that is set or gains its inspiration from a city or country somewhere in the world, then you must take a look at Reading on Location. It's a country by country guide to books set in or about some of the most popular places. From the quintessential English city of Bath, featured in Jane Austen's Persuasion, to the colourful South India of Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things and the Afghanistan of Khaled Hosseini's The Kite Runner, the authors of Reading on Location recommend some of the most evocative titles to read in key destinations across the world.
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