Welcome to the mid-month update of everything that is new and exciting in the world of books from the Lovereading team who are lucky enough to eat, drink and sleep books! Read on for a pre-publication bookshelf bursting with amazing reads, and the chance to win a £50 book voucher at the bottom of the email. And why not get your Dad a book for Father's Day? (15 June BTW) we have some of our favourite choices in a special category.
June Pre-Publication exclusives …
By which we mean books that you can explore before they are published, not books to read on the way to the pub … although ... come to think of it … anyway, at home, in the pub, on the train, wherever. Here's what's brand new NEXT month but please don't miss
A Perfect Heritage by Penny Vincenzi. A family. A firm. A lifetime of secrets. The irresistible and long-awaited new novel from one of the UK's best-loved authors – and it doesn't disappoint!
Bestselling 1980s parody republished
And a book we recommend, that had us chuckling around the office, is
Wild Wood by Jan Needle where you can take a romp through your childhood memories and observe the villains of
Wild Wood and Mr Toad, Ratty and Mole from
The Wind in the Willows with new eyes.
Wild Wood is as funny, as relevant and as pleasurable in 2014 as it was on first publication in 1981.
E's Good! - eBooks of the Month
… And for the digitally minded out there, we've got a huge hard-drive of downloadable delights and in most formats too. These are our favourites this month.
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 The Abduction
by Jonathan Holt
Kidnapping, murder, duplicity and skullduggery abound in one of the most thrilling crime tales we've read for a long time. |
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Maxim-ise your Holiday Reading - Maxim's May selections
Summer is coming and if you're looking for holiday reading recommendations, crime connoisseur
Maxim Jabukowski has a suitcase full. All the world is here. There are dark doings in New Orleans, a post-apocalyptic New York, a mind-bending tale in a sleepy English village and adventures in Cuba, Mexico and Peking. If that doesn't prompt you to visit your travel agent, what will?
Click here to find a book to take with you!
And while we are on the subject of crime you really should find out more about the recent CrimeFest 2014 Goldsboro Last Laugh Award winner, Derek B. Miller's
Norwegian by Night, which has just been announced at this year's event.
Great Scot(s)! Scottish History as You've Never Seen it Before
What if history could be made accessible, thrilling, visually stunning and totally immersive? ... Actually, it is!
Robert the Bruce: King of Scots by James Robertson is a brilliant new collaboration between one of Scotland's greatest authors and illustrator Jill Calder. Bold illustrations complimenting the big set-pieces in the Bruce story, as well as other lesser-known histor
ical details, offer a fresh perspective on a vital part of Scottish history.
And with the Scottish independence referendum looming any history buff needs to read about Scotland's first battle for independence in
Bannockburn: Scotland's Greatest Battle for Independence by Angus Konstam. Published to celebrate the 700th anniversary of the battle, it draws on the latest scholarship and archaeological evidence to provide a fast-paced, highly readable story.
If You Like You'll Love...
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Like Katie Fforde?...
You'll Love Fern BrittonA Seaside AffairA community theatre is threatened by a national coffee chain. It really is the most enormous fun. |
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Like Ian McEwan?...
You'll Love Ellen FeldmanThe Unwitting A relationship tale with a difference. Original, clever.
Set during the Cold War, atmospheric and subtle. |
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A new literary prize for Nature & Travel Writing about Britain
Just announced is the winner of a brand new award for nature and travel writing called the Thwaites Wainwright Prize which has been won by the fascinating
The Green Road into the Trees by Hugh Thomson. He tells of his journey on the Icknield Way from Dorset to Norfolk which not only covers hundreds of miles but also thousands of years.
Find out more in our Book Awards category.
A kookily brilliant double Top 10 book
If you are looking for an
oddball, escapist feel good read then look no further than The Girl Who Saved the King of Sweden by Jonas Jonasson which claims a double prize of being in the UK bestselling Top 10 and the Lovereading 'most downloaded Opening Extract' Top 10.
As mischievous as Jonasson's first novel,
The Hundred-year-old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared, spotted with actual people and real events, it is a joy to read and it comes v highly recommended.
Are you in a Reading Group?
Reading groups need books that will get them talking and this compelling and at times heart-breaking contemporary Young Adult (YA) drama
Writing in the Sand from debut author Helen Brandom certainly does that.
Tackling topical subjects, it is a subtle, insightful and utterly absorbing read. It's the story of Amy who has two choices. Does she tell the truth about the abandoned baby, or keep quiet and live a lie, forever?
Why not read the Opening Extract today and find out more.
An insectoid debut like no other
Forgive the pun but the debut novel
The Bees by Laline Paull has got our book experts and reader review panel members 'buzzing'.
'Brilliantly gripping, unputdownable' 'A clever and insightful story' 'Engrossing and highly original, a brilliant idea' Luckily, you don't have to follow a complicated dance to find out more – just
click here.
Renee and Flo ride again
Dawn O'Porter's 'cringingly honest account of teenage friendship in the 90s' in her debut,
Paper Aeroplanes, garnered some pretty high praise.
Goose, the follow on, set a year and a half later is the novel that explores whether it's possible to keep hold of it. Teens and YA's will really relate to it but anyone who grew up in the nineties will revel in the nostalgia.
And that, as they say, is that. At least until next month, when we'll be back with more great ideas to inspire your next book choice. Happy Reading!
P.S. If it's a funny book you're after then you can do no better than the winner of the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction 2014 which is Edward St Aubyn's hilarious and biting satire of literary awards
Lost for Words.
P.P.S. Tell us what #lovereading means to you and you could win a £50 Lovereading book voucher! Simply 'Like' our Literary Fiction Facebook Page and comment telling us what #lovereading means to you. All the entries will be popped into a virtual hat and a winner will be chosen at random and announced on 2 June 2014. Good luck.
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