Welcome to a leaf-kicking, autumnal October! In October 1941, Anne Rice was born. She went on to pen the blood-sucking classic Interview with the Vampire. But you won’t need to be the immortal dead to sink your teeth into our rich vein of fantastic titles this month. There’s a bumper harvest of great reads for every taste including one of our Booker shortlisted favourites, Harvest by Jim Crace. Read on to find out more...
As ever, we have compiled a list of our heroes this month into one handy burgeoning bookshelf. If you don’t find something you love there, we’ll eat our hats. Special mention goes to MEGA Book of the Month
Wars of the Roses: Stormbird by Conn Iggulden – loved by our Reader Reviewers, this is gripping historical fiction from a master storyteller.
Crime thriller maestro
Linwood Barclay has shown why he’s an international bestseller yet again, with his latest and some argue greatest title to date.
A Tap on the Window – a multi-layered snake’s nest of intrigue and deception in a Hitchcockian pulse-pounder! - will have you missing your stop on the train, ignoring your family for days and staying up way past bedtime. You can find many of his books
here, as well as Linwood’s selection of his own favourite reads. Enjoy!
We love it when authors get it right first time and this month special mention goes to:
An Englishwoman in New York by Anne-Marie Casey – Clever, well observed, laugh-out-loud funny read and loved by our Reader Reviewers.
Sarah Broadhurst said of it:
‘The charm of this book is in all the different relationships, choices about child and work and mutual support. An honest, thoroughly pleasing look at modern life..’
A History Festival with particular focus on historical fiction is being held for the first time in the chocolate-box surroundings of ancient Harrogate. From 25-27 October, the greats of the genre (Kate Mosse, Fay Weldon, Rose Tremain) will be involved in some unique events.
We’re offering the chance to win tickets and mingle with some of the UK’s leading historical literary minds and perhaps get your copy signed. In the meantime, here are a couple of Autumn Books that are bound to
get you in the mood:
The King’s Grave by Philippa Langley and Michael Jones – The real life and death tale of the surprising adventure of a monarch’s grave. A gripping account of a 500 year old mystery.
The Mistletoe Bride & Other Winter Tales by Kate Mosse – Chilling, tense and beautifully crafted short stories from forgotten folklore.
As mentioned above DON’T miss your chance to
win tickets for the Harrogate History Festival! and we are
giving away 3 sets of Mark Forsyth’s
Horologicon and Etymologicon, valued at £25, this is your chance to win these two vocabulary stretching word journeys.
History and Military buffs shouldn’t miss the chance to
win a special guided tour of the new Nelson exhibition at the National Maritime Museum in London.
Crime lovers have a chance to
win tickets to an exclusive event with Michael Connelly and Denise Mina. Also we have
signed copies of the first two books in the Haggard Hawk series from new author Douglas Watkinson as the 3
rd, Scattered Remains, has just been published.
Finally eBook readers would be mad to miss the chance to
win one of three ‘top-of-the-range’ KOBO Aura eReaders that we have been given by the lovely people at KOBO to launch their special category this month.
Tweeting wrinkleys, Bridget and Joan (what do mean you haven’t heard of them? Shame on you) are releasing their
brilliantly wry observations on the nature of old age. From the wipe-clean chairs in the lounge of the “Second Best Exotic Magnolia Retirement Home”, Bridget and Joan will unleash their own brand of irreverent (too much) information on the world on 10 October coinciding with publication of the new Bridget Jones novel from Helen Fielding. We think the parody of it is
the perfect gift book for … just about anybody actually. We love it.
(@bridgetandjoan #bridgetandjoansdiary)
From school assemblies to bus-queues, cafés to hospitals,
National Poetry Day 3 October was a celebration of poetry on the streets of Great Britain. The theme this year is ‘water’ … so whether you splash out on an anthology, wave around a copy of a self-penned sonnet or surf the NPD website, make sure you do something poetic
this month!
Why not visit our own well-versed Poetry Section for inspiration? Two recently published favourites are
You Made Me Late Again by Pam Ayres and
1914: Poetry Remembers by Carol Ann Duffy.
‘Tis the Season … No. Not Christmas, Book Awards
We love this time of year. Some of the greatest prizes in literature are up for grabs and we get to introduce you to some fantastic authors of wonderful books:
Man Booker Prize – Announced 15 October, the Man Booker promotes the finest writing in fiction. Our special category will tell you who is in the running and help you choose your own winner! Why not tell us via Lovereading’s
Facebook or Twitter communities.
Harvest by Jim Crace and
The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton are vying for the win in the Lovereading office.
CWA Daggers – Crime Writing’s most coveted awards, crime fiction fans will love our special section packed with sleuths and murders. Winners are revealed on 24 October.
Guardian First Book Award – The best of the debutantes! The longlist has been announced and you will find them all in our special category.
Burial Rites is our favourite in the office but every one of them is worth a read and we have free opening extracts of each one on the site.
Young Adult fiction is a massive field, rammed with some brilliant writing. If you have teenagers of your own, if you know keen teen/Young Adult (YA in the trade) readers, or if you just fancy a bit of escape with a good YA novel yourself, then our New Gen section is for you! One of our 20 somethings in the office did just that last weekend with
Soulmates by Holly Bourne and absolutely loved it.
Have you noticed the 'GLASSES ICON' dotted about on emails and the website? This indicates that a book has been reviewed by members of our
Lovereading Reader Reviewer Panel. These are book lovers from all over the UK who have asked to join the panel. They’re passionate about books and honest with their appraisal. We are very proud of this horse’s mouth approach and hope that alongside our own editorial expert reviews, it’s a very real help to customers choosing their next read. If you’d like to join our army of reviewers,
click here for more info.
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