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Family Drama Books
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The Suicide Club
Rhys Thomas
March 2010 Debut of the Month.
My favourite first novel of the month. A raw, compelling slice of teenage angst taken to the limits. It tells of the ‘new boy’ influencing a bunch...
Format: Paperback - Released: 04/03/2010
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Black Rock
Amanda Smyth
March 2010 Debut of the Month.
As colourful as the country of which she writes, Trinidad and Tobago; as lusty as her protagonist, Celia, a girl who cannot see how she attracts men...
Format: Paperback - Released: 11/03/2010
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I Do Not Come to You by Chance
Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani
March 2010 Debut of the Month.
A witty and compelling novel following the story of Kingsley, whose aspirations for pursuing knowledge and education get knocked back by a family tragedy, leading him in...
Format: Paperback - Released: 04/03/2010
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Celebrity Shopper
Carmen Reid
Funny, chaotic, sexy and entertaining. Carmen Reid manages to mix glamour with the daily routine of domesticity to create a truly believable story about balancing your life and sorting out priorities. Another great book from this author and thoroughly enjoyable.
Format: Hardback - Released: 04/03/2010
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The Best of Times
Penny Vincenzi
A split second in time can change so many lives. A car crash sets the
scene for the fantastic new Penny Vincenzi novel with fate changing the
course of the lives of all those involved but is it for the worse or
for...
Format: Paperback - Released: 18/03/2010
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Wishing and Hoping
Mia Dolan
The final part of this brilliant trilogy which has followed Marcie Brooks through the trials and tribulations of her life. Just when all seems to have settled and life is good, her husband is framed for murder and Marcie has...
Format: Paperback - Released: 04/03/2010
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The Solitude of Prime Numbers
Paolo Giordano
A bestseller in Italy this book won the Italian equivalent of the Man Booker Prize and it is easy to see why. Beautiful prose and a haunting story about loss, love, growing up and finding yourself, make for a mesmerising...
Format: Paperback - Released: 18/03/2010
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The Bay at Midnight
Diane Chamberlain
Julie was twelve years old when her 17-year old sister was murdered and although a boy was tried and convicted for the crime, Julie blames herself for the catastrophe. Years later a letter surfaces laying the blame elsewhere and the...
Format: Paperback - Released: 18/12/2009
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This Is Where I Leave You
Jonathan Tropper
When Judd’s dad dies his dying request is that his family sit Shiva
(the Jewish week-long period of mourning). Judd has just found out his
wife has been having an affair and the last place he wants to be is in
the bosom...
Format: Paperback - Released: 21/01/2010
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The Silver Linings Playbook
Matthew Quick
Due to be featured on The TV Book Club on More4 on 28 March 2010.
A funny and heart-breaking novel about a man, Pat, recovering from a mental breakdown that had him incarcerated in a mental institution for 4 years. His...
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/01/2010
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Revenge
Sharon Osbourne
April 2010 Good Housekeeping selection.
Sharon Osbourne’s Extreme remains the bestselling autobiography ever to be written by a woman and now the diva TV star is trying her hand at fiction. Revenge is a Jackie Collins-style blockbuster novel about two...
Format: Hardback - Released: 04/03/2010
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Corrag
Susan Fletcher
April 2010 Good Housekeeping selection.
A sweeping historical drama based around the massacre of the MacDonald clan in 1692 and told from the perspective of a young girl, now imprisoned, accused of being a witch. Rich in historical detail and wonderfully...
Format: Hardback - Released: 04/03/2010
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Recipe for Life
Nicky Pellegrino
March 2010 Editor's Choice.
Nicky Pellegrino has a knack for transporting you in to the Italian countryside, smelling and tasting the air and the food and feeling the sun on your face. Another lovely tale of relationships, friendships and discovering what...
Format: Trade Paperback - Released: 18/03/2010
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Jamaica Inn
Daphne du Maurier
After the death of her mother, Mary Yellan goes to live with her Aunt Patience and Uncle Joss Merlyn at Jamaica Inn on Bodmin Moor. The isolation and wildness of the moor are so intertwined with the plotlines of fear,...
Format: Paperback - Released: 06/03/2003
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The Poisonwood Bible
Barbara Kingsolver
A fascinating story told from the perspective of a mother and her four daughters who have been taken to the Congo, by the father of the family, on a mission to bring God to the people there. Politics, religion, feminism….it’s...
Format: Paperback - Released: 10/01/2000
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There’s nothing like a really involving family drama and romance to take you away from your own life. And Lovereading covers the whole range, as you would expect. You can watch the lives of glamorous dynasties with dark secrets in the totally involving novels from Barbara Taylor Bradford… Empathise with women juggling careers and families in Allison Pearson’s bestsellers… Enjoy the light touch of Charlotte Bingham and the passion of Jojo Moyes…
Relax into the warm, wise stories of Elizabeth Buchan and Adriana Trigiani…Share the intelligent insights of Kate Atkinson, Joanna Harris and Maggie O’Farrell… Get new slants on universal problems from Erica James and Elizabeth Noble… Dive into huge-scale family adventures with Nicholas Evans and Sidney Sheldon…
Then there are Sally Beauman’s sexily exciting stories, Anita Shreve’s emotional tales, Alice Hoffman’s magical fables, Meera Syal’s witty accounts of multi-cultural Britain… And we’re only touching the tip of the iceberg! All our Family Drama novels are available to order online at discounted prices.
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Brixton Beach
Roma Tearne
Featured on The TV Book Club on More4 on 28 February 2010.
Beginning with the July 2005 London bombings this fascinating and enthralling novel draws you in from the start. In...
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The Perfect Mother
Margaret Leroy
February 2010 Book of the Month.
A compelling read tackling one of those subjects that is difficult to comprehend – how a mother...
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The Wilding
Maria McCann
February 2010 Book of the Month.
Set just after the English Civil war this historical family drama is rich in historical detail. McCann...
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Silk
Rupert James
February 2010 Debut of the Month.
To ‘take silk’, the term used for a barrister who wants to become a QC, and silk,...
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Barefoot Over Stones
Liz Lyons
February 2010 Debut of the Month.
I don’t know what it is about the Irish girls but when they write they certainly have...
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The Family Man
Elinor Lipman
A gentle story of complicated relationships, very American – language, characters, life-style, every aspect – and very entertaining. With a light touch, amusing and witty dialogue amongst largely intelligent people,...
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Before the Earthquake
Maria Allen
March 2010 Good Housekeeping selection.
Fabulous historical page-turner Before The Earthquake, from debut novelist Maria Allen, sees 15-year-old Concetta piecing together her past after an earthquake devastates her rural Italian village...
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The Other Family
Joanna Trollope
March 2010 Good Housekeeping selection.
Joanna Trollope’s new book, The Other Family, tells of the emotional fall-out after the death of a celebrated musician.
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The Lace Reader
Brunonia Barry
February 2010 Debut of the Month.
With any novel set in Salem, Massachusetts, you sort of know it is going to be haunted...
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The Month Before's Featured Books
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A Penny a Day
Lilian Harry
Lilian Harry is one of those lovely authors whose fans may argue about whether her April Groves books are better than her Burracombe ones. Well, now you have a book...
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Finding Home
Roisin Mcauley
The background to this satisfying tale is the troubles in Ireland and the film industry. They give added depth and colour to the characters who all seek happiness of one...
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The Celebrity Mother
Deborah Wright
Issue-led fiction where a failing celeb decides to adopt an Indian child to help raise her profile. The problem is the child is ten years old, an age easily affected...
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The More You Ignore Me
Jo Brand
Yes, this is the renowned comedian but her background includes psychiatric nursing and she has clearly called upon her knowledge and experience in that field to produce this tale of...
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The Art of Losing
Rebecca Connell
January 2010 Debut of the Month.
A startling story of betrayal and grief, of love and infidelity that has a quite unexpected ending....
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Through Black Spruce
Joseph Boyden
A powerful and complex story. Contrasting the bleak Canadian wilderness with the bright lights of the city as a family tries not to fall apart but to find it's way....
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