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15 Dec 2010
Author Luke Barclay travelled from the Antarctic to Atacama Desert for Good Loo Hunting
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30 Nov 2009
Respected writer renowned for his travel tales passes away.
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This month's 'featured books'
eBooks
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The Inheritance
Robin Hobb
A collection of novellas and stories from one of the most critically acclaimed authors in the fantasy genre, Robin Hobb. Including work written under her pseudonym, Megan Lindholm. Bingtown heiresses rub shoulders in this wonderful collection with vampires and alien...
Format: Paperback - Released: 30/04/2012
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Bring Up the Bodies
Hilary Mantel
May 2012 MEGA Book of the Month.
With her dazzling, utterly absorbing style of writing Bring Up the Bodies focuses on the downfall and destruction of the charismatic Anne Boleyn. This is the...
Format: Hardback - Released: 10/05/2012
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Why be Happy When You Could be Normal?
Jeanette Winterson
In 1985 Jeanette Winterson's first novel, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit , was published. It was Jeanette's version of the story of a terraced house in Accrington, an adopted child, and the thwarted giantess Mrs Winterson. It was a...
Format: Paperback - Released: 12/04/2012
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The Chaperone
Laura Moriarty
May 2012 Book of the Month.
I am reminded of the 20s musical number "Anything Goes" here, for in "The Chaperone" it certainly does. This is 20s New York, the girl being chaperoned...
Format: Paperback - Released: 26/04/2012
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This month's 'featured books'
Books of the Month
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Now You See Me
S. J. Bolton
May 2012 Book of the Month.
S.J. Bolton, known to her friends as Sharon, has become established as one of England's foremost crime writers. She is right up there with Martina Cole...
Format: Paperback - Released: 26/04/2012
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Unrest
Michelle Harrison
May 2012 New Gen Book of the Month.
Best-selling author Michelle Harrison blurs the lines between being dead and alive in this brilliant, spine-tingling story of the powers of the undead. Elliott escapes...
Format: Paperback - Released: 26/04/2012
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The Bicycle Book
Bella Bathurst
May 2012 Travel Book of the Month.
A brilliant, charming, engaging look at the sometimes weird world of the bicycle and bicyclist. The people who ride them (including over water), the people who...
Format: Paperback - Released: 26/04/2012
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This month's 'featured books'
Debuts of the Month
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The Hollow Man
Oliver Harris
A Maxim Jakubowski Great Male Crime Sleuth.
Not just another London cop with a troubled morality, Belsey whose patch is the unlikely one of affluent Hampstead, is a man very much on the skids: dishonest as they come, crooked to...
Format: Paperback - Released: 03/05/2012
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What Dies in Summer
Tom Wright
May 2012 Debut of the Month.
An interesting, challenging and, at times, graphically violent debut exploring coming of age and the loss of innocence. If you have read and liked The Virgin...
Format: Paperback - Released: 03/05/2012
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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
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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
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This month's 'featured books'
The School of Life
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How to Worry Less About Money
John Armstrong, School of Life
John Armstrong looks at our relationship with money, for most of us it’s too little, for a few it’s too much – but how much is enough, how do we relate to money, the spending and saving of it, can...
Format: Paperback - Released: 10/05/2012
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How to Stay Sane
Philippa Perry, School of Life
Mental health is every bit as important as physical health and Philippa Perry explains the brain, how we organise our minds and the ways we can improve our mental agility and creativity but also help to deal with stress and...
Format: Paperback - Released: 10/05/2012
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How to Think More About Sex
Alain de Botton, School of Life
The title may seem strange in our sex obsessed age but Alain de Botton is arguing that we don’t think too much about sex, we’re merely thinking about it in the wrong way. The author offers insights and ways to...
Format: Paperback - Released: 10/05/2012
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How to Find Fulfilling Work
Roman Krznaric, School of Life
How to know what you want to do, how to set about achieving your goal and how to sort out your need for certainty or money or is freedom of choice , with all the risks that involves, the most...
Format: Paperback - Released: 10/05/2012
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This month's 'featured books'
Author of the Month
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15 Seconds
Andrew Gross
May 2012 Book of the Month.
If you love fast-paced, topical thrillers that you simply can't put down, then Andrew Gross and especially 15 Seconds is a great place to go. Pulled over...
Format: Paperback - Released: 26/04/2012
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Killing Hour
Andrew Gross
The jaw-dropping unputdownable new novel from the guy who co-authored five No. 1 James Patterson bestsellers including Judge and Jury and Lifeguard. Now a bestselling novelist in his own right with hit thrillers The Blue Zone and...
Format: Paperback - Released: 14/04/2011
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Reckless
Andrew Gross
Hauck has left law enforcement for a job with a big-time private security firm. But he quickly learns that life in the private sector can be every bit as dangerous as wearing a badge - if not more so...
Format: Paperback - Released: 04/03/2010
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Don't Look Twice
Andrew Gross
A revenge killing. A dead public attorney. And a family caught in the cross-fire. For local detective Ty Hauck, life is good. A waterfront house, a new girlfriend and, after uncovering a Wall Street scandal, he's even a local hero....
Format: Paperback - Released: 28/05/2009
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