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Guest Editor - Susan Fletcher
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Our Guest Editor slot gives you a chance to discover a new author and find out more about the books and authors who have influenced them in their writing.
Guest Editor's Featured Books
Guest Editor's Chosen Authors
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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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Oystercatchers
Susan Fletcher
From the winner of the 2004 Whitbread First novel award comes a beautifully written novel about love, about trust, loss and loneliness with a profound darkness at its core. The story unfolds at the bedside of a girl in a...
Format: Paperback - Released: 04/02/2008
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Eve Green
Susan Fletcher
Reviewed on Richard and Judy on 6th July 2005 and voted most enjoyable book by viewers.This was, in my mind, the surprise winner of the Whitbread First Novel award. I had got my money on Susanna Clarke’s Jonathan...
Format: Paperback - Released: 03/01/2005
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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 English Patient
Michael Ondaatje
A modern classic, this story of four damaged people is beautiful, harrowing and moving. As the lives of these people interconnect a poetically told tale unravels the stories of each individual. A haunting and satisfying read.
March 2010 Guest Editor
Format: Paperback - Released: 02/08/2004
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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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By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept
Elizabeth Smart
Told in prose poetry this short novel is based on the long standing affair between George Barker and Smart. If you are looking to go on an emotional rollercoaster then pick this up and have a read but be prepared...
Format: Paperback - Released: 19/11/1992
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Death of a Naturalist
Seamus Heaney
First published in 1966 this is the debut offering from Seamus Heaney which went on to win numerous awards. The talent was there to see from the start. Simple and observant these are a joy to read.
March 2010 Guest Editor...
Format: Paperback - Released: 06/04/2006
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Susan Fletcher
our Guest Editor for March
Susan Fletcher was born in 1979 in Birmingham. She studied Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia and lives in Stratford-upon-Avon. Her first novel, Eve Green won the Whitbread First Novel Award, the Betty Trask Prize and Author's Club Best First Novel Award. Her second novel Oystercatchers was published in 2007 to great acclaim and her latest novel, Corrag, is out now.
Susan Fletcher on...
Jamaica Inn
For all its melodrama, cliches and romance, I will always have a secret love of this book. I was in my early teens when I found it, and felt utterly transported from my bedroom in the Midlands to the rainy wilderness of Bodmin Moor. Click here to read more…
The English Patient
Ondaatje's novel is, for me, closer to poetry and than prose. Despite it's war setting and tragic consequences, I remember it for being incredibly tender. Its characters are all damaged, lonesome and tired - and they move through beautiful places that the book almost hurts. Click here to read more…
The Poisonwood Bible
Kingsolver's novel follows the fortunes of the Price family - a fanatical Baptist preacher from Georgia, his wife and their four daughters - as they go to the Belgian Congo in the late 1950s, as missionaries. Click here to read more…
By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept
I'll never be able to say that I enjoyed this novel. But no other book has had such force to it, or stayed in mind for so long afterwards. It is a slim book - a novella, really - but it is packed with all the passion, fear and anguish that Smart felt during her long affair with the married poet George Barker. Click here to read more…
Death of a Naturalist
I've always loved poetry - and this the volume that started off that love. I was introduced to Heaney at school, studying the title poem from this collection in class. That might have put most people off him, but I loved the poem - and went on to buy this book. Click here to read more…
Women Who Run with the Wolves
This non-fiction book amazed me. It amazes me still, with each reading. Viewed as feminist writing, self-help, or spiritual guidance (or all these things) it is, effectively, a book which celebrates and encourages living instinctively - about nurturing the 'wildish' part of us, as well as our 'everyday' selves. Click here to read more… |
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