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![]() | There's no better present to give (or receive) than a beautiful hardback. We've made a selection of the crème de la crème this year. You can download a free Opening Extract, an ideal way to ensure the only turkey you give this Christmas is on the dinner table and, what's more, you can buy with a 25% discount on the RRP. |
![]() | Christmas is also a unique time for publishing, not least because of the huge proliferation of obscurely named titles often referred to as 'loo books'. They make perfect stocking fillers, so once you've finished Ho-ho-ho-ing over our Opening Extracts, choose some to stuff in your friends' and family's socks. One of our personal favourites is How to Fossilise Your Hamster. |
![]() | Finally, our Books of the Year. There was so much good fiction in 2007 that even the most dedicated reader quite likely missed a few. So we thought it would be a perfect time to pull together some of Sarah Broadhurst's favourites. So please browse away and make sure you haven't missed any 'must reads' from 2007. |
This Month's Featured 'Crime / Whodunit' Books
The Art of DrowningFrances FyfieldA well-paced and tense novel with intriguing characters. A friendship between two women, poles apart in personality, is the basis for the story and inevitably their differences lead to events taking a sinister turn.
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Dexter in the DarkJeff LindsayThoroughly enjoyable and highly recommended this is the 3rd in this darkly comic serial killer series. Dexter has being abandoned by the dark passenger that has made him who he is. Things get worse when its clear it has been...
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Christine FallsBenjamin BlackVery often when an author changes genre and picks a pseudonym so not to confuse his existing fans, he makes a secret of it and the publishers sell it into the trade as a first novel and only sometimes acknowledges...
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Nature GirlCarl HiaasenThis is slapstick satire where one chaotic situation bounces on to another. Full of wacky characters and improbable scenarios and set in the dangerous world of Florida's 'gator-strewn Everglades, it's just the most ludicrous fun you'll have for a long...
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This Month's Featured 'Literary / Contemporary' Books
The Almost MoonAlice SeboldOctober 2007 Book of the Month.Alice Sebold's second novel is as moving and beautifully written as her first, The Lovely Bones. She takes some very sad and disturbing subject matter and writes about it in a way that...
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Cloth GirlMarilyn Heward MillsOctober 2007 Debut of the Month.Shortlisted for the Costa First Novel award, this is a delight. Set on Africa's Gold Coast in the 1940s during the ten years leading up to Independence, it centres on two very different women,...
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The Good FatherMarion HusbandA thought provoking and moving story exploring the relationships between fathers and their children. Marion Husband creates accessible characters and captivates the reader with her writing style. She keeps getting better with each successive novel.
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What I LovedSiri HustvedtA book you will either love or hate, find long and tedious or be captivated and charmed. It is the story of two families involved in New York's artistic life and reflected upon by a half-blind, elderly Jewish professor who...
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This Month's Featured 'Mystery / Thriller' Books
The WoodsHarlan CobenA great stand alone thriller from Harlan Coben with two plot lines to follow. One is the case that lawyer, Paul Copeland, is prosecuting now and the other the murder investigation he was involved in as a teenager. Thoroughly gripping,...
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The Shakespeare SecretJ L CarrellOkay, this is straight down The Da Vinci Code territory but sans religion. Instead it takes murders echoing Shakespeare's plots as its contemporary adventure, and revelations from his life as its intriguing historical background. It is well-written, compulsive page-turning stuff...
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MeltdownMartin BakerJanuary 2008 Debut of the Month.A slick fast paced financial thriller from a journalist turned novelist. Samuel Spendlove is a brilliant but bored academic lured into the world of high finance by a controlling media mogul in the mood...
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The ReincarnationistM J RoseA complete change from the last novel from this author,The Venus Fix. This book is almost like a gothic horror with it's themes of murder, greed, religion and love. The idea of reincarnation is dealt with in a very...
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A Quiet Belief in AngelsR J ElloryJanuary 2008 Book of the Month. Due to be reviewed on Richard & Judy on Wednesday 30 January 2008.I am championing this author. I think he is very special. His publisher claims he writes crime novels, and there certainly...
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The Patience of the SpiderAndrea CamilleriAndre Camilleri's series about Inspector Montalbano has been adapted for television in Italy, how brilliant it would be if they could do that for British TV, allowing us to see the beautiful Sicilian scenery for ourselves, the gorgeous food that...
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This Month's Featured 'Historical Fiction' Books
Measuring the WorldDaniel KehlmannThe fascinating true story of two German scientists - Alexander von Humboldt and Carl Friedrich Grauss - and their quest to discover facts about the world that we take for granted today. The two eccentrics are completely different characters from...
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The PrincipessaChristie DickasonA sweeping, glorious evocation of Jacobean London and Renaissance Italy incorporating real historical figures alongside fictional creations in a dramatic tale of high politics, rivalry and conspiracy, all that a good historical novel should be.Comparison: Philippa Gregory, Jude...
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The LonerJosephine CoxInterestingly, from this queen of the gritty saga, a genre that normally takes a young girl as its central character, comes a meaty story with a man in the leading role! Comparison: Lesley Pearse, Lyn Andrews, Katie Flynn.
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This Month's Featured 'Horror / Fantasy / SciFi' Books
Friday Night in Beast HouseRichard LaymonThe final nightmare in the Beast House Chronicles - a nightmare in which your worst fears and darkest desires collide ... sadly the author died in 2001 but apparently he had completed this himself before doing so.Comparison: Stephen King,...
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Into a Dark Realm : Darkwar Book 2Raymond E FeistDarkwar Book 2, his new series of The History of Mid Kemian - a must for his fans.Comparison: David Gemmell, Terry Goodkind, Robert Jordan.
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Keeping It RealJustina RobsonA half robot female agent with balls, attitude and an arsenal of weapons in a wonderful, sexy adventure.Similar this month: none.Comparison: Laurell K Hamilton, Richard Morgan, Andy Secombe.
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The WakingT M JenkinsRarely does a sci fi novel with a totally plausible presage of Earth within our children's lifetimes disturb and engage quite in the way that The Waking managed. At the brink of a fuel crisis with the threat of global...
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