This email is simply brimming with award winning books. From the Lovereading Book of the Decade, through the Orange prize and the Long Lost Booker to a coveted Diamond Dagger for Scottish crime author Val McDermid. Find out more.

Lovereading Book of the Decade

It’s the Golden Envelope moment. In February we enlisted your help to find the Book of the last decade. From a selection of 50 from Editorial Guru Sarah Broadhurst you first created a shortlist of ten and now you have chosen the winner. In the end the result was incredibly close and less than 0.5% of the ‘counted and verified votes’ separated the top two. However in the end the beautiful The Time Traveler’s Wife from Audrey Niffenegger just pipped The Kite Runner from Khaled Hosseini. Audrey Niffenegger – author of the Time Traveler’s Wife said "Thank you to everyone who read the book, and to all who voted. I am flabbergasted; I tend to think of The Time Traveler's Wife as my odd little book that somehow found its readers. It's amazing to me how many readers it has found, and how intensely they care for the book." See all the top 10 books in our special section.

World Cup Fever – beautiful books about the beautiful game

Once the World Cup's under way you'll probably either be glued to the box, or hiding in one. But whether you're a footie fan or you just know someone who is – you'll be surprised how many really brilliant books about football are kicking around this summer. Kick off your summer reading in our special section.

Green Reads – a grow your own planet saving selection

This month’s crop of delicious new guides should sow the seeds of inspiration and get everyone hooked on growing and, best of all, cooking your own produce. May’s not too late to make a start, still plenty of growing time left and these books will leave you in no doubt as to what you can achieve in the garden or on the allotment. Find out more and make a difference today…

Seven of the Best Pre Publication Exclusives
Fate and Fortune: A Hew Cullen Mystery Shirley Mckay The second Hew Cullan mystery finds the young lawyer feeling disillusioned with the law but a move to Edinburgh turns things around when love and murder both cross his path. An appealing new historical crime series with an intriguing lead... £9.74 Save 25%
Secrets She Left Behind Diane Chamberlain One stupid reckless moment leaves a community in tatters and secrets buried for years are gradually being uncovered. Moving back and forth in time and in between characters the story unfolds as we see the effect each small action has... £5.99 Save 25%
The Wings of the Sphinx Andrea Camilleri Montalbano is back in this latest instalment. As enjoyable as ever and with the detective, now aged 56, starting to wonder if he is happy with his lot, or should he be making changes to please others. Detective work, his... £11.24 Save 25%
Return to the Olive Farm Carol Drinkwater Continuing the story of Carol Drinkwater’s beloved Olive Farm. After returning from 18 months travelling around the Mediterranean Carol discovers that her dream of running an organic farm is threatened by nature and by the demands of market forces. Here... £14.24 Save 25%
Miss Mackenzie Anthony Trollope March 2010 Good Housekeeping selection. On My Bookshelf by Joanna Trollope... No writer of his time was better at people than, as my family refer to him, The Real Trollope – Anthony of the small specs and the huge beard. Miss Mackenzie is an... £10.49 Save 25%
Play Dead Harlan Coben This is actually an old novel published years ago that subsequently went out of print. What a treat then for all Harlan Coben fans that Orion have re-published it as it has all the suspense, mystery and intrigue we have... £5.99 Save 25%
The Prince of Mist Carlos Ruiz Zafon June 2010 Good Housekeeping selection. Utterly gripping, this is a deliciously haunting and chilling tale of dark magic and treachery which reaches out across time threatening all who cross its path. A move to a house by the sea is designed to... £7.49 Save 25%

China Miéville – triple Arthur C Clarke winner

Since 1987 the Arthur C Clarke Award has been the most prestigious award for Science Fiction in Britain, presented annually for the best Science Fiction novel of the year and for the first time in its history an author has won it three times. The novel The City & The City part murder mystery part science fiction is a stunning read. Find out more…

Val McDermid Diamond Dagger Award winner

The Crime Writers Awards, called Daggers, are incredibly coveted by the authors as they are judged by their peers rather than literary critics. The Diamond Dagger is the highest award given for a lifetime of work and Val McDermid is this year's worthy recipient.

From her 1st novel, Report for Murder, published in 1987 she has dominated the gritty police procedural genre with many of her books being made into TV dramas. Her latest book, Fever of the Bone, is as electrifying as ever – click here to read this and many other of novels.

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We all love Lavinia!

Finally, one of our favourite books this month is Ursula le Guin's new novel Lavinia. As Ursula writes about heroic figures in many of her novels we asked her who her own hero's were. Find out more about the book and her literary heroes today.. Happy Reading and more book news to come in June.