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Literary And Contemporary Fiction 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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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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Evening Class
Maeve Binchy
An evening class starts up in the Dublin suburbs, transforming the lives of those who attend in more ways than they can ever have expected. Maeve Binchy takes her characters through the ringer and back and always ends by giving...
Format: Paperback - Released: 29/06/2005
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The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie
Alan Bradley
February 2010 Debut of the Month.
Death in the cucumber patch and a young girl turns detective in a spirited pastiche of the English village murder-mystery with a nod to Agatha Christie and...
Format: Paperback - Released: 04/02/2010
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The Breaking of Eggs
Jim Powell
March 2010 Editor's Choice.
An incredibly moving story of a man whose whole life is turned around as he finds everything he had always believed in crumbling around him. Funny, sad and thoroughly absorbing.
Format: Hardback - Released: 11/03/2010
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Juliet, Naked
Nick Hornby
Featured on The TV Book Club on More4 on 7 February 2010.
As you would expect in a book about relationships revolving around a music obsession Nick Hornby manages to get in his musical references and loves in to the pages...
Format: Paperback - Released: 26/12/2009
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The Dalkey Archive
Flann O'brien
A sort of sequel to O’Brien’s best known book The Third Policeman, following characters from the latter. If you haven’t read him before then The Dalkey Archives gives you a general idea of his style - slightly surreal but...
Format: Paperback - Released: 16/04/2007
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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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Trespass
Rose Tremain
April 2010 Good Housekeeping selection.
Rose Tremain won the Orange Prize for Fiction for The Road Home and returns with Trespass. A captivating thriller, set in southern France, it depicts two sets of siblings confronting the past, with deadly consequences.
Format: Hardback - Released: 04/03/2010
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Solar
Ian McEwan
April 2010 Good Housekeeping selection.
Ian McEwan’s new novel Solar, which sees flawed prize-winning physicist Michael Beard discover a way to combat climate change, while the rest of his life falls apart. Both the author and his books divide opinion, but...
Format: Hardback - Released: 18/03/2010
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Wolf Hall
Hilary Mantel
April 2010 Good Housekeeping selection.
Winner of the Man Booker Prize 2009.
Shortlisted for the Costa Novel Award 2009. Costa Book Awards 2009 Judges' comment: "One of the outstanding books of the year - historical fiction at its...
Format: Paperback - Released: 04/03/2010
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Angel
Elizabeth Taylor, Hilary Mantel
April 2010 Good Housekeeping selection.
On My Bookshelf by Hilary Mantel...
Angel by Elizabeth Taylor is a sparkling, pointed comedy. Angel is a bestselling author who suffers for her art, but writes truly terrible books. It’s an awful warning to writers –...
Format: Paperback - Released: 06/04/2006
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Angels Over Elsinore
Clive James
Shortlisted for the Costa Poetry Award 2009.
Costa Book Awards 2009 Judges' comment: "Beautifully written, intelligent, full of ideas clearly communicated and feelings perfectly encapsulated - these are proper poems with musical structure that are clever, moving and memorable."
Featured on...
Format: Hardback - Released: 07/11/2008
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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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The Catcher In The Rye
J D Salinger
Shortlisted for the 2009 Penguin Orange Readers' Group Book of the Year.
A great teenage classic. Holden Caufield is the ultimate outsider; he is expelled from school, falls out...
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The Long Song
Andrea Levy
February 2010 Book of the Month.
With the recent television adaptation of Levy’s best known novel, Small Island, there has been great...
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Cutting for Stone
Abraham Verghese
Featured on The TV Book Club on More4 on 14 February 2010.
This is a masterly debut novel, visceral in its power, heartbreaking in its tenderness. Transporting the reader from the...
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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 Little Stranger
Sarah Waters
Featured on The TV Book Club on More4 on 17 January 2010.
Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2009.
The latest novel from prize-wining author Sarah Waters is a gothic...
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Sacred Hearts
Sarah Dunant
Featured on The TV Book Club on More4 on 31 January 2010.
Convent life, you’d imagine, is one you choose – a vocation. But this
searing story of the nuns of Santa...
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The Lost Daughter of Happiness
Geling Yan
A great book for a book club read with much to discuss in this tale of a young Chinese girl, Fusang, kidnapped from her homeland and forced in to prostitution...
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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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Maya
Alastair Campbell
March 2010 Good Housekeeping selection.
Former New Labour spin doctor Alastair Campbell’s second novel, Maya, looks atthe world of celebrity. The storyteller is Steve, best friend and confidant to the...
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The Pregnant Widow
Martin Amis
March 2010 Good Housekeeping selection.
Martin Amis and his much anticipated return to novels with The Pregnant Widow. Seven years in the writing, it portrays a group of bright young things...
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The Month Before's Featured Books
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Their Finest Hour and a Half
Lissa Evans
The making of a propaganda film in the 40s – the script ideas, the untrained people involved, the petty jealousies, the atmosphere of ‘making do’ in wartime and the utter...
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The Road
Cormac Mccarthy
Winner of The Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 2007.Once in a while a book comes along that is so powerful, so terrible and so beautiful that you are left...
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Mister Pip
Lloyd Jones
February 2010 Good Housekeeping selection.
On My Bookshelf by Tamsin Greig...
Matilda, a young girl in Papua New Guinea during the civil war in the 1990s is taught in a semi-destroyed school...
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Brooklyn
Colm Toibin
Winner of the Costa Novel Award 2009.
Costa Book Awards 2009 Judges' comment: "A wonderfully-observed story of love and loss."
A great family drama about a young girl moving from Ireland to...
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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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Beauty
Raphael Selbourne
Winner of the Costa First Novel Award 2009.
Costa Book Awards 2009 Judges' comment: "Captures the raw humanity of inner city life with extraordinary authenticity."
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The Museum of Innocence
Orhan Pamuk
February 2010 Good Housekeeping selection.
‘It was the happiest moment of my life, though I didn’t know it.’ So begins this exquisite book by Nobel Prize-winning Pamuk (author of My...
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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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The Inimitable Jeeves
P.G. Wodehouse
A collection of stories about Wodehouse's terrifically funny Jeeves and Wooster. A marvellous introduction if you have never read any and a joyous reminder if it has been some time...
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