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The Long Song - Andrea Levy

The Long Song
Andrea Levy

Format: Hardback - Released: 04/02/2010
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February 2010 Book of the Month. With the recent television adaptation of Levy’s best known novel, Small Island, there has been great anticipation of this new novel and Levy does not disappoint....

The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie - Alan Bradley

The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie
Alan Bradley

Format: Paperback - Released: 04/02/2010
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February 2010 Debut of the Month. Death in the cucumber patch and a young girl turns detective in a spirited pastiche of the English village murder-mystery with a nod to Agatha Christie and...

Under This Unbroken Sky - Shandi Mitchell

Under This Unbroken Sky
Shandi Mitchell

Format: Paperback - Released: 18/02/2010
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February 2010 Debut of the Month. If I had a star choice for the month this would be it. It is a devastating, powerful tale of poverty, endurance, jealousy, hardship and sadness, set...

The Catcher In The Rye - J D Salinger

The Catcher In The Rye
J D Salinger

Format: Paperback - Released: 04/08/1994
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Shortlisted for the 2009 Penguin Orange Readers' Group Book of the Year. A great teenage classic. Holden Caufield is the ultimate outsider; he is expelled from school, falls out with his friends and finally suffers a nervous breakdown. The...

The Family Man - Elinor Lipman

The Family Man
Elinor Lipman

Format: Paperback - Released: 04/02/2010
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A gentle story of complicated relationships, very American – language, characters, life-style, every aspect – and very entertaining. With a light touch, amusing and witty dialogue amongst largely intelligent people, it’s certainly one of her best. Comparison: Elizabeth Berg,...

The Lost Daughter of Happiness - Geling Yan

The Lost Daughter of Happiness
Geling Yan

Format: Paperback - Released: 04/02/2010
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A great book for a book club read with much to discuss in this tale of a young Chinese girl, Fusang, kidnapped from her homeland and forced in to prostitution in San Francisco. Her beauty and understated charm lead to...

The Little Stranger - Sarah Waters

The Little Stranger
Sarah Waters

Format: Paperback - Released: 05/01/2010
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Featured on The TV Book Club on More4 on 17 January 2010. Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2009. The latest novel from prize-wining author Sarah Waters is a gothic ghost story, set in a run-down country house just after...

Sacred Hearts - Sarah Dunant

Sacred Hearts
Sarah Dunant

Format: Paperback - Released: 01/01/2010
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Featured on The TV Book Club on More4 on 31 January 2010. Convent life, you’d imagine, is one you choose – a vocation. But this searing story of the nuns of Santa Caterina in 16th-century Italy reveals how enforced convent entry was common...

Juliet, Naked - Nick Hornby

Juliet, Naked
Nick Hornby

Format: Paperback - Released: 26/12/2009
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Featured on The TV Book Club on More4 on 7 February 2010. As you would expect in a book about relationships revolving around a music obsession Nick Hornby manages to get in his musical references and loves in to the pages...

Cutting for Stone - Abraham Verghese

Cutting for Stone
Abraham Verghese

Format: Paperback - Released: 26/12/2009
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Due to be featured on The TV Book Club on More4 on 14 February 2010. This is a masterly debut novel, visceral in its power, heartbreaking in its tenderness. Transporting the reader from the 1940s to the present, from a convent...

Brixton Beach - Roma Tearne

Brixton Beach
Roma Tearne

Format: Paperback - Released: 07/01/2010
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Due to be featured on The TV Book Club on More4 on 28 February 2010. Beginning with the July 2005 London bombings this fascinating and enthralling novel draws you in from the start. In the midst of the panic unravelling in...

The Silver Linings Playbook - Matthew Quick

The Silver Linings Playbook
Matthew Quick

Format: Paperback - Released: 01/01/2010
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Due to be featured on The TV Book Club on More4 on 28 March 2010. A funny and heart-breaking novel about a man, Pat, recovering from a mental breakdown that had him incarcerated in a mental institution for 4 years. His...

Maya - Alastair Campbell

Maya
Alastair Campbell

Format: Hardback - Released: 04/02/2010
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March 2010 Good Housekeeping selection. Former New Labour spin doctor Alastair Campbell’s second novel, Maya, looks atthe world of celebrity. The storyteller is Steve, best friend and confidant to the fictional film starof the title, who finds he’s becoming...

The Pregnant Widow - Martin Amis

The Pregnant Widow
Martin Amis

Format: Hardback - Released: 04/02/2010
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March 2010 Good Housekeeping selection. Martin Amis and his much anticipated return to novels with The Pregnant Widow. Seven years in the writing, it portrays a group of bright young things spending the summer of 1970 in an Italian castle, grappling...