Our mid-month email update is full of news of Pre-Publication exclusives, book festivals and book awards.
We are also launching a new KOBO eReading section where you have the chance to win a top of the range Kobo eReader!... What are you waiting for?
We may have lost all the Summer Sun and heat but with autumn arriving so do a rash of new books for the (don’t say it too loud) Christmas season. We have a selection of our favourites on the shelf below all with Free Opening Extracts ahead of publication.
But whatever you do don’t miss
Stormbird, a fast-paced historical thriller and the first in a new series about the Wars of the Roses, from
Conn Iggulden.
We loved it and so did our Reader Review Panel – one said 'Take a step back in time to the time of King Henry VI & Margaret of Anjou – an outstanding book...10/10 simply wonderful.' Even if you don’t normally read this genre of book
we urge you to give this one a try.
We just can’t resist the urge to give stuff away and this month there’s some very cool stuff up for grabs (if we do say so ourselves!):
Sea it AND Read it! – Nelson, Navy and Nation - The book that spawned a great exhibition at the National Maritime Museum. We have
4 private tour tickets to give away.
You land an Island! – We have
3 copies of the fascinating
Island: How Islands Transform the World by J. Edward Chamberlin
up for grabs.
Feeling Groove-E - eBooks of the Month
As always we are proud to bring you the widest range of formats of eBooks in one place. Here’s what’s hot this month:
Lust for Life: Irvine Welsh and the Trainspotting Phenomenon by John Neil Munro - How an unknown Scottish writer managed to write one of the most influential novels of the 20th Century.
Jack of Spies by David Downing. A fast-paced, highly enjoyable classic action adventure novel set just before the outbreak of WW1. First in a new series and perfect for fans of Wilbur Smith or Frederick Forsyth.
The shortlist was announced by Robert Macfarlane, Chair of judges, on 10 September 2013. He comments:
‘Global in its reach, this exceptional shortlist demonstrates the vitality and range of the contemporary novel at its finest.’ Visit our Man Booker category and pick your favourite. Our favourites are Harvest by Jim Crace and the Testament of Mary by Colm Tóibín. – the winner will be announced 15 October.
Do you remember our sagacious suggestions in May that you indulge in attaining
How to Sound Clever for Father’s Day? Well we now have the very aptly named sequel,
How to Sound Really Clever by Hubert Van Den Bergh, with even more words to make you sound significantly more cerebrally dexterous.
A perfect gift for the man (or woman) who likes the sound of their own voice!
Bestselling author Alexander McCall Smith, historian Alistair Moffat, Susan Mansfield and artist Andrew Crummy knocked their sizeable heads together and came up with the
Great Tapestry of Scotland a woven history of Scotland from the last Ice Age to Dolly the Sheep … and this is the book about how they did it:
The Great Tapestry of Scotland - 55,000 sewing hours, 49,000 metres of yarn, 140 panels … thousands of fascinated readers.
This is a must-have gift for every Scot this autumn. Find out more information on the project at
www.scotlandstapestry.com
Known to millions of fans for her characterful and vividly real novels, set in rural Ireland, Maeve Binchy was also a leading journalist for the Irish Times.
Maeve’s Times is a new book celebrating her best journalistic forays – a chance for fans to read something different from an author whose death last year was mourned by many. It is a witty, incisive and fascinating collection and
a fitting tribute to a great author.
You know we champion all forms of eReading.
And we are still the
only place you can download the widest range of eBook formats. The new and chic range of
Kobo eReaders were launched very recently and to celebrate we are featuring
a selection of the very best hand-picked e-titles to help you stay up to date and reading great stories!
And as a special launch competition we have 3 top of the range KOBO Aura eReaders as prizes…
Below are this Month’s selections
History is Our Story! – Read, Learn … love it!
Calling all history lovers… have you had a look at our History category? Full of a selection of great history books covering a wide range of periods. Why not visit the category for centuries worth of inspirational, educational reading.
And if you love History don’t miss the inaugural
Harrogate History Festival from 25 to 27 October 2013, at the Old Swan Hotel, Harrogate. Join award-winning novelists Fay Weldon CBE, Rose Tremain CBE and Kate Mosse OBE and panels including the inside story behind the search for Richard III’s remains, exploring battlefields of past glories and gore, and giants of the genre dissecting Ancient Rome. And, we have an exclusive competition to WIN FREE TICKETS.
Find out more.
It’s one of our most popular categories. We match authors you love with others you may not yet have read.
One more thing that pops up in the Autumn is the invite back to a new year of your Reading Group – and we can definitely make your life so much easier as we have a whole category, updated each month, with books we think will make perfect selections. This month a particular favourite is
Norwegian by Night by Derek B. Miller. Our Editorial Guru Sarah Broadhurst said of it
‘This, as a good chase thriller, is thrilling but add a conscience and some fascinating personal history to the main character and suddenly you have something very special.’ Visit the special category to see more selections.
Rick Stein didn’t follow the usual route to becoming a top Chef, but with a defunct nightclub on his hands he reopened it as a restaurant, his first foothold in Padstow.
Good fortune followed when he was spotted in a Keith Floyd TV programme where he had a slot as guest chef – the rest, they say, is history.
Under a Mackerel Sky is a fascinating memoir of a much-loved chef and restaurateur.
Have you Heard about the Word?
Word and languages are possibly the greatest invention of the Human species so this month we’re celebrating it even more than usual with two unique books:
The Horologican: A Day’s Jaunt Through the Lost Words of the English Language by Mark Forsyth – A dawn to dusk reintroduction to the playful inventiveness of our complex language. Mark is the author of
The Etymologican, one of the top books of 2012.
The Novel Cure is a brilliantly inventive literary cure for common ailments. From a blocked nose to loneliness, from pessimism to paranoia this provides the perfect literary tonic. It’s a perfect book to dip into and is written with passion, authority and wit.
‘Water’ Way to Celebrate
From school assemblies to bus-queues, cafés to hospitals, National Poetry Day on 3 October is a celebration of poetry on the streets of Great Britain. Taking inspiration from Coleridge’s Rhyme of The Ancient Mariner, the theme this year is ‘water’. There’s way too much going on to tell you about here: guerrilla poetry-smuggling, underwater poetry-writing, festivals ... Whether a fan or a poem-surfing newbie,
visit the website to find out more!
And that is September at Lovereading. We’ll be back next month with more great suggestions, offers, information and much more! Happy Reading
P.S. Finally, for all fans of the TV series Homeland we have a real treat, a prequel novel called Carrie’s Run by bestselling author Andrew Kaplan. Set three years before the TV series started it is an edge-of-your-seat adventure taking you into the back story of Abu Nazir and Carrie Mathison, the brilliant bipolar CIA operative.
How to Sound Really Clever
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