The Secret Scripture
Sebastian Barry
A 2013 World Book Night selection. A powerful and moving novel bringing the worlds of Ireland's past and present together. Great characterisation and a thought provoking story. Winner of the Independent Booksellers’ Book Prize 2009 (Adult category). Winner of the Costa Book of...
Format: Paperback - Released: 29/01/2009

Why be Happy When You Could be Normal?
Jeanette Winterson
A 2013 World Book Night selection. Shortlisted for the Specsavers National Book Awards 'UK Author of the Year' 2012. A companion to Oranges are Not the Only Fruit, allowing Jeanette Winterson to explore the truth (often far worse than the fictionalised...
Format: Paperback - Released: 12/04/2012

The Knife of Never Letting Go
Patrick Ness
A 2013 World Book Night selection. The electrifying and unflinching young adult 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....
Format: Paperback - Released: 14/10/2008

Me Before You
Jojo Moyes
A 2013 World Book Night selection. Shortlisted for the Specsavers National Book Awards 'Popular Fiction of the Year' 2012. A gifted, high achiever walks out of his flat one morning and gets hit by a taxi. We pick up on him a...
Format: Paperback - Released: 05/01/2012

The Reader
Bernhard Schlink
A 2013 World Book Night selection. One of my favourite books of 1998, the sort that, on completion, leaves you stunned and really does stay with you for – well, in my case – years as it was 10 years ago...
Format: Paperback - Released: 28/02/1998

The Island
Victoria Hislop
A 2013 World Book Night selection. Winner of Newcomer of the Year at the Galaxy British Book Awards 2007.Something a bit different, a bit special. A well-researched family history which takes the present day characters back to Crete and the...
Format: Paperback (b Format) - Released: 10/04/2006

Noughts and Crosses
Malorie Blackman
A 2013 World Book Night selection. Michael Rosen on a compelling favourite: "A book that dared to go where no one thought you could with young audiences because it raises tough stuff to do with race." It takes a brave author such...
Format: Paperback - Released: 08/08/2006

Little Face
Sophie Hannah
A 2013 World Book Night selection. One of Emily Barr's favourite books. A thriller to make the hairs on the back of your neck stand up. A compulsive read that once started you can’t and won’t put down. Make sure you...
Format: Paperback - Released: 24/08/2006

Girl with a Pearl Earring
Tracy Chevalier
A 2013 World Book Night selection. Centring on Vermeer’s household in the 1660s in Delft, this speculative historical novel tells of his relationship with a servant girl, Griet, who became his assistant and the model for the painting of the title....
Format: Paperback - Released: 03/07/2006

The White Queen
Philippa Gregory
A 2013 World Book Night selection. This is a must for any of you who devour their historical fiction. Focusing on one of the most scandalous and intriguing times in British history The White Queen centres around Elizabeth Woodville, the mother...
Format: Paperback - Released: 15/04/2010

Treasure Island
Robert Louis Stevenson, Eoin Colfer
A 2013 World Book Night selection. The quintessential adventure story that first established pirates in the popular imagination, Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island is edited with an introduction by John Seelye in Penguin Classics . When a mysterious sailor dies in...
Format: Paperback - Released: 25/05/2000

Last Night Another Soldier
Andy McNab
A 2013 World Book Night selection. The last three months have been tough and it shows. Their kit is in a bad way. They are in a bad way. Young men with tans, scruffy beards, peeling noses and lips burnt raw...
Format: Paperback - Released: 04/03/2010

Damage
Josephine Hart
A 2013 World Book Night selection. Damaged people are dangerous. They know they can survive.' Damage, Josephine Hart's debut novel, an international bestseller, filmed with Jeremy Irons and Juliette Binoche, now takes its proper place as a Virago Modern Classic. Here...
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/12/2011

A Little History of the World
E. H. Gombrich
A 2013 World Book Night selection. In forty concise chapters, Gombrich tells the story of man from the stone age to the atomic bomb. In between emerges a colourful picture of wars and conquests, grand works of art, and the spread...
Format: Paperback - Released: 19/08/2008

The Eyre Affair
Jasper Fforde
A 2013 World Book Night selection. There is another 1985, somewhere in the could-have-been, where the Crimean war still rages, dodos are regenerated in home-cloning kits and everyone is deeply disappointed by the ending of 'Jane Eyre'. In this world there...
Format: Paperback - Released: 19/07/2001

Casino Royale James Bond 007
Ian Fleming
A 2013 World Book Night selection. 'Surround yourself with human beings, my dear James. They are easier to fight for than principles.'
Format: Paperback - Released: 06/09/2012

Judge Dredd: the Dark Judges
John Wagner, Alan Grant
A 2013 World Book Night selection. An all-time-classic in a small paperback format. Judge Dredd's ultimate nemesis has arrived. His name is Judge Death, and in his eyes, all life is a crime! the super-fiend from Deadworld proves to be an...
Format: Paperback - Released: 13/09/2012

The No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency
Alexander McCall Smith
A 2013 World Book Night selection. This charming, light-hearted, wise tale hit the literary world in 2001 and became a word-of-mouth bestseller. If you are new to the series you really should start here to get the full background. After that...
Format: Paperback - Released: 05/06/2003

The Road Home
Rose Tremain
A 2013 World Book Night selection. Winner of the Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction 2008. Rose Tremain is one of those authors that has never quite got the attention she deserves but with The Road Home hopefully she will finally be recognised...
Format: Paperback - Released: 12/06/2008

Red Dust Road
Jackie Kay
A 2013 World Book Night selection. Shortlisted for the Galaxy Biography of the Year Award 2011. Featured on The Book Show on Sky Arts on 17 March 2011. This charmingly written autobiography - about a young girl with a Nigerian father adopted by...
Format: Paperback - Released: 04/03/2011