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Read the opening extract of the brand new Maeve Binchy book before its publication on 30/09/2010

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Summer Reading

Summer Reading

We have sorted the books into categories based on the type of book you want to read - rather than the classic 'genre' - click on a category to find out more...

Fun and Feel Good
Mysterious and Thrilling
Emotional and Absorbing
People and Places
Action Packed and Exciting
Another Time, Another Place
Books for Teens and Young Adults
The Real World
Summer Listening

Fun and Feel Good
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Last Letter from Your Lover
Jojo Moyes
If you are looking for a thoroughly romantic read that will have you grabbing for the tissues with tears of joy and sadness then this is a must read. It’s full of warm and wonderful characters and will keep you...
Format: Hardback - Released: 08/07/2010
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William's Progress: Another Horror Story
Matt Rudd
Following on from Williams Walker’s First Year of Marriage this is another richly comic novel following William’s exploits as he manoeuvres himself over life’s hurdles. Very funny and very real!!
Format: Paperback - Released: 08/07/2010
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Secrets and Sins
Jaishree Misra
A great block buster of a book. Despite her passionate feelings Riva leaves Aman for a more reliable man but fifteen years later fate brings them together again in the glamorous setting of Cannes. Will they risk everything, their families...
Format: Paperback - Released: 24/06/2010
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Getting Mad, Getting Even
Annie Sanders
Full of social comment, this is entertaining, well written fun, a light-hearted read with bite as two girls, running a ‘Domestic Angels’ agency to help busy women, unwittingly end up in the revenge business. Curl up and giggle stuff with...
Format: Paperback - Released: 08/07/2010
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I Heart Paris
Lindsey Kelk
July 2010 Book of the Month. The third in this engaging series featuring Angela, a Brit in New York with a dream writing job and a rock star boyfriend. He is offered a...
Format: Paperback - Released: 08/07/2010
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Scandalous
Tilly Bagshawe
July 2010 Book of the Month. A perfect back read, pure escapism as two women seek revenge on the man who broke their hearts and thought he was above them all. Revenge, power,...
Format: Paperback - Released: 24/06/2010
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Dizzy Worms: The Last Orders at Harrods Trilogy
Michael Holman
This is the final novel in the satirical Kuwisha trilogy. For those new to Michael Holman, if you’re a fan of Alexander McCall Smith then this is likely to be right up your street. Full of the sights and sounds...
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/06/2010
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Hannah's List
Debbie Macomber
Debbie Macomber’s books have such a lovely feel-good factor to them, they may be predictable but reading one is like slipping on an old pair of slippers and snuggling down in your favourite chair – just warm and comfortable and...
Format: Paperback - Released: 18/06/2010
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Sweet Temptation
Lucy Diamond
A wonderfully warm and utterly compelling novel from the author of Hens Reunited. Characterisation is spot on and the writing style slips down a treat, a bit like a glass of decent wine! With more romance between the covers...
Format: Paperback - Released: 04/06/2010
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The Queen of New Beginnings
Erica James
Warm, witty and wise storytelling with a lovely, feel-good factor and a charming, intriguing plot. When Alice arrives at Cuckoo House to help out a friend by cooking and cleaning for its occupant, an author with writer’s block, he is...
Format: Paperback - Released: 19/08/2010
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Mysterious and Thrilling
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Maps of Hell
Paul Johnston
Another compelling read from the author of The Death List and The Soul Collector. Crime writer Matt Wells is back and in trouble once again, not knowing how or why he has ended up being accused of three...
Format: Paperback - Released: 06/08/2010
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Darkest Hour
James Holland
In a nutshell this is Sharpe (only it’s Sergeant Jack Tanner) for the Second World War, complete with evil nemesis in the shape of a company Sergeant Major (like Hawskwill). It vividly shows the haphazard nature of the battles leading...
Format: Paperback - Released: 27/05/2010
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Slaughter on a Snowy Morn: The Death Penalty Case That Revolutionised Forensic Science
Colin Evans
America, 1916 a man on death row, hours from the Electric chair committed by avaricious private investigators, bent law enforcement agents and cheapjack forensic experts. Charles Stielow was a poor, ill-educated labourer convicted of the murder of his employer and...
Format: Paperback - Released: 07/07/2010
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Three Weeks to Say Goodbye
C. J. Box
A cracking thriller that kept me guessing right through to the end. Even when I began to get an idea about what linked everyone together, there were still plenty of unknowns to keep me turning the pages fast. It’s got...
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/05/2010
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The Complaints
Ian Rankin
August 2010 Book of the Month. The complaints of the title is the ‘Complaints and Conduct Department’, a section of the police force which investigates the behaviour of other police officers. Rankin’s new...
Format: Paperback - Released: 05/08/2010
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The Taken
Inger Ash Wolfe
Stars a near to retirement DI Hazel Micallef who cares little for correct procedure. I met her in The Calling and loved her. It’s grisly stuff.
Format: Paperback - Released: 22/07/2010
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Pretty Little Things
Jilliane Hoffman
In short chapters with the story told from the perspective of the main characters, this tense thriller builds at a frantic rate. It illustrates the perils of internet chat rooms and how easily teenagers can get drawn into dangerous situations....
Format: Paperback - Released: 08/07/2010
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Kiss and Die
Lee Weeks
Lee Weeks is one of those authors who is really coming in to her own with her gritty and gripping crime thrillers. This latest see’s a serial killer targeting adulterous businessmen. Edge of chair stuff!
Format: Paperback - Released: 22/07/2010
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The Passage
Justin Cronin
July 2010 Mega Book of the Month. A chilling end of the world as we know it saga, this first volume of a trilogy has all the impact of Stephen King’s THE...
Format: Hardback - Released: 24/06/2010
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Thriller 2: Stories You Just Can't Put Down
International Thriller Writers Inc
A new collection of mystery thrillers from Mira, this time edited by Clive Cussler. A great collection perfect for dipping in to.
Format: Paperback - Released: 21/05/2010
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Cold Earth
Sarah Moss
A group of students go to Greenland in August on an archaeological dig just as a pandemic is sweeping the world. Their mission is to discover why a Viking settlement was suddenly abandoned. They have a month to complete the...
Format: Paperback - Released: 03/06/2010
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Jail Bird
Jessie Keane
More gangland shenanigans, set in London. Lily King has just come out of jail after serving time for the murder of her husband, only she didn’t do it, she was set up, and now she wants justice – her way....
Format: Paperback - Released: 10/06/2010
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Black Friday
Alex Kava
Alex Kava brings all the punch and thrills of her early novels to Black Friday. A chilling plot that see’s well meaning protestors become victims of a terrorist campaign they did not realise they were part of. Maggie O’Dell returns...
Format: Paperback - Released: 18/06/2010
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I Kill
Giorgio Faletti
June 2010 Debut of the Month. This gem of a thriller was originally published in Italian in 2002 where it sold over 3 million copies (stand aside Dan Brown) and with its...
Format: Paperback - Released: 03/06/2010
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Soul Murder
Daniel Blake
June 2010 Debut of the Month. An excellent thriller, a novel of vengeance, betrayal and religious obsession. Primarily it is a hunt for a serial killer who sets his victims on fire. A...
Format: Paperback - Released: 10/06/2010
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Still Midnight
Denise Mina
Just look at the reviews for this author. Her peers love her, the press love her, have you heard of her? Well, it is time you did. She writes about Glasgow low-life, gritty and atmospheric. This concerns a kidnapping that...
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/04/2010
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The Anniversary Man
R.J. Ellory
This man is incapable of writing a mediocre book. All are, without doubt, first class. Here a serial killer in New York is copy-catting past killings. One man, a crime researcher for a newspaper, knows an awful lot about the...
Format: Paperback - Released: 15/04/2010
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Emotional and Absorbing
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Forgotten Child
Kitty Neale
From the author of Lost Angel, a tale of a tough life full of drama and misery.
Format: Paperback - Released: 08/07/2010
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Ties That Bind
Catherine Deveney
July 2010 Debut of the Month. A debut novel exploring the loneliness, secrets and silences that haunt even the most loving of families andhow some bonds, against all odds, can never be broken.
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/07/2010
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Bad Day in Blackrock
Kevin Power
July 2010 Debut of the Month. This is not a who-dunit but a why and how. It concerns the death of a teenager outside a Dublin night club. What makes this special is...
Format: Paperback - Released: 08/07/2010
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Other People's Secrets
Louise Candlish
A book that will sit on your shoulder for sometime after reading it. It concerns grief, reconciliation, infidelity, marriage and family upheavals and eventual honesty all in a beautiful Italian holiday setting. The author used to write entertaining chic-lit, here...
Format: Paperback - Released: 08/07/2010
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Unravelling
Lindsay Stanberry-Flynn
Unravelling is a wonderful escapist read that will take you on a rollercoaster of emotions as you become totally embroiled in the passionate relationship between Gerald and Vanessa. But all is not quite as it seems and they part but...
Format: Paperback - Released: 22/04/2010
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The Kindest Thing
Cath Staincliffe
A stunning novel that looks in to the controversial topic of assisted suicide. When a woman helps her husband to die she finds herself in the dock for murder. This raises so many questions and poses the story from all...
Format: Paperback - Released: 27/05/2010
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Chowringhee
Sankar
A classic in India this has now been translated in to English and is a thoroughly absorbing novel set in a hotel in Calcutta. Following the everyday lives of those who enter the hotel, the staff are like a family...
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/06/2010
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Heading Home
Katie Flynn
Another thoroughly enjoyable saga from one of the best in this genre. A real page turner.
Format: Paperback - Released: 24/06/2010
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The Angel's Game
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
May 2010 Book of the Month. The Shadow of the Wind is one of those rare books that continues to deeply affect you long after it is read. This second masterpiece is...
Format: Paperback - Released: 29/04/2010
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Invisible
Paul Auster
A coming-of-age story in four interlocking parts by three different narrators, a tale of sex and obsession. September 2010 Guest Editor Belle de Jour on Paul Auster... Auster is a bit of a Marmite – he puts himself fearlessly into everything...
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/07/2010
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People and Places
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How the Girl Guides Won the War
Janie Hampton
Giving a resume of the Girl Guide movement, the book concentrates on the period of 1939-1945 looking at how the Girl Guides were involved in the war effort. And how involved they were; running messages for MI5, working for the...
Format: Hardback - Released: 05/08/2010
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Kevin McCloud's Grand Tour of Europe
Kevin McCloud
A Modern Grand Tour, following the footsteps of all the young British Aristocrats who descended on Europe in their thousands in the 17th & 18th Centuries. As well as seeking out the architectural and archaeological treasures McCloud also makes time...
Format: Paperback - Released: 22/07/2010
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Domestic Soldiers: Six Womens' Lives in the Second World War
Jennifer Purcell
The WWII domestic front is a period of history that always draws me back, the personal records so compelling, forever putting that question “What would you have done?” Coped like some, despaired like others, made and mended with the best...
Format: Paperback - Released: 26/08/2010
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The Letter in the Bottle
Karen Liebreich
A sad and most unusual story stemming from a bottle Karen Liebreich found washed up on the shore. It had come from France and contained a letter from a mother grieving over the death of her son. This sets the...
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/07/2010
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A Rift in Time: Travels of My Ottoman Uncle
Raja Shehadeh
Researching his family history, Raja Shehadeh discovered a great uncle, who like himself, was a writer and who through journalism, like Shehadeh had battled to change the plight of the Palestinian people. Shehadeh’s uncle lived at a time that we...
Format: Paperback - Released: 05/08/2010
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Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother: The Official Biography
William Shawcross
This is a great record of an extraordinary and long life which spanned the twentieth century. The author was given unrestricted access to the Queen Mother's papers, including many of her letters, and has put them to good use in...
Format: Paperback - Released: 02/07/2010
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Where Was I?!
Terry Wogan
Anyone missing their daily dose of Sir Terry will be a very happy recipient of this book packed with many of Terry’s musings and observations. Funny, observant, sometimes irreverent and pure Terry Wogan.
Format: Paperback - Released: 22/07/2010
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Halfway to Hollywood: Diaries 1980 to 1988
Michael Palin
July 2010 Book of the Month. The second volume of Michael Palin’s diaries following his time through the 80’s when the pythons split up and Michael found himself entering a time of successful acting with...
Format: Paperback - Released: 08/07/2010
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Seized! A Sea Captain's Adventures Battling Pirates and Recovering Stolen Ships in the World's Most Troubled Waters
Max Hardberger
We have a dangerously romantic view of pirates and crime on the high seas but as Max Hardberger reveals in Seized, modern day piracy and crime is lethal. He contends with a world of gangs, crooked officials, rebels and con...
Format: Paperback - Released: 17/06/2010
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Swiss Watching: Inside Europe's Landlocked Island
Diccon Bewes
July 2010 Travel Book of the Month. Banks, Cuckoo Clocks, Cheese and Chocolate just about sums up most people’s knowledge of Switzerland, but read Diccon Bewes entertaining view of the country and you’ll...
Format: Paperback - Released: 10/06/2010
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Anglomania: A European Love Affair
Ian Buruma
Ian Buruma’s first class examination of Continental views of the English and their legal and political systems shows just how much love and loathing have come seething across the Channel over the centuries. Combining his own multi-cultural family history with...
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/06/2010
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Four Ducks on a Pond
Nicholas the Cat, Annabel Carothers
This charming story, in fact it’s a hidden delight as this book has just been recently discovered after 50 years of neglect in a drawer. The story is told by Nicholas the cat, as he chronicles a year in the...
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/06/2010
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Jungle Soldier
Brian Moynahan
An account of one of the forgotten heroes of the Second World War. Freddy Chapman fought the Japanese in Malaya for over three and half years, avoiding capture and causing havoc for the Japanese army. This book does justice to...
Format: Paperback - Released: 27/05/2010
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For Better For Worse
Damian Horner, Siobhan Horner
You’ll find two accounts of this French canal journey indicated by different type, one from Mr Horner and one from his wife Siobhan. Doing what so many people would like to do they give up the day job, taking off...
Format: Paperback - Released: 10/06/2010
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A Life Like Other People's
Alan Bennett
June 2010 Book of the Month. First published in Untold Stories, Alan Bennett’s previous collection of autobiographical pieces is now available in this handsome small format edition. Sparingly told, it’s the story of his parents...
Format: Paperback - Released: 29/04/2010
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Or is That Just Me?
Richard Hammond
More anecdotes and tales from the Top Gear presenter. Hammond writes in an easy humorous style much like his television persona so all Top Gear fans will find this an entertaining read.
Format: Paperback - Released: 27/05/2010
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Action Packed and Exciting
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Lockdown
Sean Black
The first book in a new thriller series featuring action hero Ryan Lock, ex-soldier now security chief, here hired to protect the head of a high-tech bio-lab using animals for experiments … and then human guinea pigs It’s ace –...
Format: Paperback - Released: 24/06/2010
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The Lost Symbol
Dan Brown
The new bestseller from The Da Vinci Code author is about Freemasonry, with the same mix of obscure history and fast-paced action we have come to expect. I think these are perfect aeroplane reads, they engross you quickly and keep you distracted...
Format: Paperback - Released: 22/07/2010
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The She-Devil in the Mirror
Horacio Castellanos Moya
This is very special. It’s a dizzy, chatty monologue from a girl friend of a prominent San Salvadorean murdered society wife who gives us her take on the case, the politics, the economic and sexual chaos of a post-civil war...
Format: Paperback - Released: 28/05/2010
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The Fourth Assassin
Matt Rees
The fourth in the Omar Yussef series, Israeli’s historian-cum-sleuth who here comes to New York, ill equipped for so cold a winter, to give a lecture to the UN on conditions of refugee camps in Israel. His son is in...
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/07/2010
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Saints and Sinners
Paul Cuddihy
This is a book to totally absorb you, following the fortunes of three main characters who find themselves caught up in the underworld of Victorian Glasgow as well as their own love triangle. This is a thriller, a family drama...
Format: Paperback - Released: 24/06/2010
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The Silent Man
Alex Berenson
John Wells, whom we first met in The Faithful Spy, stumbled upon an Arab plot to steal nuclear bombs from Russia and set them off in America. Wells must put aside a personal vendetta and save the day. Fast...
Format: Paperback - Released: 24/06/2010
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Moscow Sting
Alex Dryden
You have to believe the detail, if not the plot is authentic here for the author, using a pseudonym, worked in intelligence specialising in Russian matters. This, and his previous, Red and Black, deal with the threat of Russia...
Format: Paperback - Released: 10/06/2010
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Ice Hunt
James Rollins
We’ve been fans of James Rollins for quite some time now and his latest thriller is another fantastic, action packed adventure. He really knows how to build the tension and action scenes will leave you breathless. A really good read.
Format: Paperback - Released: 24/06/2010
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War Damage
Elizabeth Wilson
A great murder mystery set in the aftermath of the Second World War. Great characters who are opinionated, loud and liberated. A thriller with a bit of a difference and thoroughly enjoyable.
Format: Paperback - Released: 04/02/2010
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Play Dead
Harlan Coben
June 2010 Book of the Month. 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...
Format: Paperback - Released: 24/06/2010
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Cemetery Dance
Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child
The next in the Agent Pendergast series and another excellent suspense-filled thriller.Cults, voodoo and magic and murder all intertwine to create a gut-wrenching, chilling novel. These novels all stand alone, without the need to know the characters in...
Format: Paperback - Released: 25/03/2010
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Another Time, Another Place
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The King's Daughter
Christie Dickason
Very much for the Philippa Gregory market this is a great historical novel set in the court of James I following the plight of his daughter Elizabeth as she fights to marry the man of her choosing. Politics, intrigue...
Format: Paperback - Released: 13/05/2010
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The Lady in the Tower: The Fall of Anne Boleyn
Alison Weir
Alison Weir brings history to life yet again in this study of the last few days of Anne Boleyn's life. This reads as well as any fictional conspiracy theory novel with Weir delving in to historical documents to figure out if Henry plotted...
Format: Paperback - Released: 03/06/2010
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Turbulence
Giles Foden
Successfully blending one man’s fictional story with real life events and related by a flawed and anxious young scientist, this is a complex and gripping tale of weather and war as the right conditions for D-Day is sought. It’s not...
Format: Paperback - Released: 30/06/2007
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Lustrum
Robert Harris
Shortlisted for the inaugural Walter Scott Prize for historical fiction 2010. Rome 63 BC, power struggles, political machinations, physical intimidation, bribery, assassination and more in an exceptional historical thriller, superbly written. There is no hint of comparison between then and now...
Format: Paperback - Released: 08/07/2010
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Making Shore
Sara Allerton
Making Shore is a hugely accomplished debut novel from a small Scottish publisher. It's beautifully written with incredibly well-drawn characters who you really care about andyou can even hear and smell thesights andsounds of wartime Atlantic. You feel the desperation...
Format: Paperback - Released: 26/05/2010
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Hue and Cry: A Hew Cullen Mystery
Shirley Mckay
For fans of Ellis Peters and C J Sansom we think we have found a new historical detective to follow, Hew Cullan a newly qualified 16th century lawyer. The opening chapters of Hue and Cry were shortlisted for...
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/05/2010
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The Swan Thieves
Elizabeth Kostova
Another beautifully written and well researched novel. A psychiatrist tries to solve the mystery behind a successful artist , seemingly, having a moment of madness and attacking a painting in a national art gallery. An engrossing read.
Format: Paperback - Released: 24/06/2010
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Mistress of Rome
Kate Quinn
Adventure, passion, betrayal, secrets, blood and violence, this is a hell of a read. ‘Spartacus for Girls’ about a Jewish slave girl and a Roman Gladiator, it is terrific stuff. I haven’t been this excited about a first novel since...
Format: Paperback - Released: 10/06/2010
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The House of Special Purpose
John Boyne
May 2010 Book of the Month. Featured on The Book Show on Sky Arts on 22 April 2010. The structure here is interesting. It begins in London in 1981 with Georgy and his wife...
Format: Paperback - Released: 15/04/2010
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Books for Teens and Young Adults
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No and Me
Delphine de Vigan
Deeply moving, this is the touching story of two teenagers from very different backgrounds whose friendship raises huge questions about what concepts of home and family really mean. Lou is bright and successful at school but her home is unhappy...
Format: Paperback - Released: 02/08/2010
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Fortune
Megan Cole
High gloss, high tension in this story of a lifestyle of unlimited wealth. Three girls from very different backgrounds each receive a mysterious invitation to the fiftieth birthday party of Brad Masters, multimillionaire record executive. While Madison and Simonetta think...
Format: Paperback - Released: 08/07/2010
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Losing It
Keith Gray
The Julia Eccleshare comment: Top teenage authors tell a range of touching and thought provoking stories about both the real and the much-fantasised about moment of first sexual experiences. Funny, sad, crude, lyrical, Anne Fine, Patrick Ness, Bali Rai, Melvin Burgess, Jenny Valentine...
Format: Paperback - Released: 08/07/2010
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Airhead: Being Nikki
Meg Cabot
Step right into the celebrity life of teenage supermodel Nikki. Apparently the golden girl of the catwalk Nikki looks like an absolute airhead but that’s just the surface. Underneath there’s nerdy Emmerson Watts who somehow got trapped in the wrong body and is...
Format: Paperback - Released: 04/06/2010
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Vintage
Maxine Linnell
Teenagers Holly and Marilyn both hate Fridays and want a way out of the dullness of their lives. But, what neither expects is that a sudden accident sends them into each other’s lives. Adjusting isn’t easy; Marilyn lives in 1962 and Holly in...
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Numbers 2: The Chaos
Rachel Ward
June 2010 Book of the Month. A gripping thriller set in a not too distant future tells of Adam’s secret and his dreaded power – he can tell the date of people’s death....
Format: Paperback - Released: 07/06/2010
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The Last Summer of the Death Warriors
Francisco X. Stork
June 2010 Debut of the Month. Totally unsentimental this is nonetheless an exceptionally moving story that is full of insight and written with a rare tenderness. Two boys in desperate situations come together...
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Double Trouble Another Year in the (not So) Simple Life of Rachel Riley
Joanna Nadin
Genuinely laugh-out-loud funny from the first page, this double helping of Joanna Nadin’s brilliant funny and immensely engaging protagonist Rachel Riley featuring The Meaning of Life and My (not so) simple Life, will be devoured by teenagers and adults in...
Format: Paperback - Released: 03/06/2010
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Black Ops: Jungle Kill
Jim Eldridge
A terrific new series for teen boys who want something that bridges the gap from Anthony Horowitz and Charlie Higson to authors such as Chris Ryan and Andy McNab. This, the first in the series is a high-octane, adrenalin-fuelled combat...
Format: Paperback - Released: 04/06/2010
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The Sky is Everywhere
Jandy Nelson
June 2010 Debut of the Month. This is a debut novel that once readwill never be forgotten. It's a vibrant, deeply romantic novel that will bring tears to your eyes but it will also bring...
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Revolver
Marcus Sedgwick
May 2010 'new gen' Book of the Month title. Shortlisted for the CILIP Carnegie Medal 2010. Shortlisted for the Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize 2009.A tense, psychological drama set in the snowy...
Format: Paperback - Released: 22/04/2010
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And Another Thing ... Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Part Six of Three
Eoin Colfer
June 2010 Book of the Month. Eoin Colfer takes up the Douglas Adams mantle and writes the next instalment in the Hitchhiker's saga. As an author who writes his own weird and wonderful stories he...
Format: Paperback - Released: 27/05/2010
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Rich and Mad
William Nicholson
April 2010 'new gen' Book of the Month title. Full of the myriad and criss-crossing emotions of adolescent love, this is a warm-hearted and finely observed view of two teenagers’ experience. Sixth-formers Maddy...
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The Island
Sarah Singleton
April 2010 'new gen' Book of the Month title. Put simply this is The Beach for teens. Three friends are on the start of their gap year in India but when one...
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Pretty Bad Things
C.J. Skuse
March 2010 'new gen' Book of the Month title. Although not the target audience for this debut novel, Pretty Bad Things arrived on my desk at about the time the Catcher in...
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Beautiful Creatures
Kami Garcia, Margaret Stohl
February 2010 'new gen' Debut of the Month title. A teen romance with a twist of danger and the supernatural told with a sure touch that makes it a headlong read from start...
Format: Paperback - Released: 04/02/2010
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The Summer I Turned Pretty
Jenny Han
One girl, two boys…How can Isabel, Belly to the boys, choose as she grows up with them through one glorious summer holiday after another? Belly has always yearned for the inaccessible, cool Conrad. But what does he feel for her? And what about...
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Sisters Red
Jackson Pearce
The violence of the werewolf is everywhere in this powerful story of two sisters’ fight to stop the death of other girls. Scarlett and Rosie are only young when they are savagely attacked by a werewolf, an encounter that leaves them scarred physically...
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The Adoration of Jenna Fox
Mary E. Pearson
A brilliant, haunting thriller which probes chilling psychological depths. Jenna has one year missing from her life: she’s moved from sixteen to seventeen in a coma. As she gradually comes back to life, her father calls her recovery a miracle and tells her...
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Big and Clever
Dan Tunstall
This is a modern, gritty and thrilling morality tale about belonging and about loyalty. It brilliant captures teen life as it really exists in so many places up and down the country. With a spine-tingling intensity it reveals just what life is like...
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/05/2009
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What I Saw and How I Lied
Judy Blundell
Winner of the prestigious American National Book Award Utterly gripping and beautifully told, this is a stunning rite of passage novel, set just after WW2, full of powerful and conflicting emotions, which captures the dramatic shift from child to adult in pinpoint sharp, painful...
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Hush, Hush
Becca Fitzpatrick
June 2010 Book of the Month. A gripping romance tinged with a strange and dark side as forces from long, long ago. Nora never meant to get into a deep romance and she...
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The Prince of Mist
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Featured on The Book Show on Sky Arts on 30 May 2010. 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...
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The Real World
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A Home of Their Own: 150 Years of Battersea Dogs and Cats Home
Garry Jenkins
A happy 150th birthday to Battersea and to celebrate, Garry Jenkins has written this welcome history outlining the development of the home from those early days as the Home for Lost and Starving Dogs in a Holloway side street. There...
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Je t'aime a La Folie
Michael Wright
It’s not all paradise at La Folie, Michael Wright’s new home in France and that’s why I so enjoyed his first book, C’est la Folie. Almost alarmed at his own daring in giving up everything for a home in...
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Sew Your Own: Man Finds Happiness and Meaning of Life - Making Clothes
John-Paul Flintoff
I think I’ve read most of these eco-living guides but this is the first one to advocate making clothes and getting handy with the crochet needle – all credit to Mr Flintoff for pushing the genre in a new direction!...
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The Plot: A Biography of an English Acre
Madeleine Bunting
By concentrating on such a fragmentary piece of England Madeleine Bunting is able to tell us so much about the layer cake of history, the hundreds of lives passed in working this small patch but above all it is her...
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The Book of Lost Books: An Incomplete History of All the Great Books You'll Never Read
Stuart Kelly
One can’t – and doesn’t want to read everything but there’s reassurance in knowing that somewhere every book is stashed away and can be accessed but Kelly overturns that theory with his revelation of the huge amount of books that...
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Three Lions Versus the World: England's World Cup Stories from the Men Who Were There
Mark Pougatch
A book to certainly get you geared up for the World Cup. Players past and present recount the highs and lows of playing for England in the biggest football championship on the planet. England may have only won the World...
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Down Among the Dead Men: A Year in the Life of a Mortuary Technician
Michelle Williams
For most of us, a visit to the Mortuary will be on a gurney, in no fit state to learn about how our society deals with bodies involved in suspicious deaths. Thanks to Ms Williams then for showing us what...
Format: Paperback - Released: 24/06/2010
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The Greatest Show on Earth - The Evidence for Evolution
Richard Dawkins
Richard Dawkins is loved and loathed in equal measure for his views on evolution against creationist views but this book really is a serious discussion and look at the theory of evolution and ultimately about the amazing world that we...
Format: Paperback - Released: 29/04/2010
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Summer Listening
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The Woods: Unabridged Audiobook
Harlan Coben
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Format: CD-Audio - Released: 01/02/2008
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Handle with Care: Unabridged Audiobook
Jodi Picoult
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Life of Pi: Unabridged Audiobook
Yann Martel
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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo: Unabridged Audiobook
Stieg Larsson
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The Da Vinci Code: Unabridged Audiobook
Dan Brown
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The Queen of New Beginnings: Unabridged Audiobook
Erica James
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The Complaints: Unabridged Audiobook
Ian Rankin
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Return to the Olive Farm: Unabridged Audiobook
Carol Drinkwater
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Complicit: Unabridged Audiobook
Nicci French
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Must You Go: My Life with Harold Pinter: Unabridged Audiobook
Antonia Fraser
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The Collaborator: Unabridged Audiobook
Gerald Seymour
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One Day: Unabridged Audiobook
David Nicholls
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Wolf Hall: Unabridged Audiobook
Hilary Mantel
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Engleby: Unabridged Audiobook
Sebastian Faulks
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Dead Like You: Unabridged Audiobook
Peter James
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July and August are often times for holidays and as a consequence Sarah Broadhurst has pulled together a short list of books by a mix of authors, some that aren't the household names of your typical summer reading bookshop promotion but she believes are well worth reading.

 

And others, more well known and equally perfect for that summer break whether on the beach or in the mountains or just curling up in the evenings at home.

Harlan Coben 
Elizabeth Wilson 
Alex Dryden 
Paul Cuddihy 
Nicola Cornick 
Kate Quinn 
Elizabeth Kostova 
Shirley McKay 
Sebastian Faulks 
Hilary Mantel 
David Nicholls 
Stieg Larsson 
Carlos Ruiz Zafon 
Katie Flynn 
Sankar 
Cath Staincliffe 
Maeve Binchy 
Debbie Macomber 
Lucy Diamond 
Jaishree Misra 
Michael Holman 
Giorgio Faletti 
Daniel Blake 
Simon Acland 
Sarah Moss 
Ian Buruma 
Max Hardberger 
Brian Moynahan 
Michelle Williams 
Diccon Bewes 
Mark Pougatch 
Richard Dawkins 
Alan Bennett 
James Rollins 
Alex Berenson 
Denise Mina 
John Boyne 
R.J. Ellory 
Paul Johnston 
Ian Rankin 
Diane Chamberlain 
Anne O'Brien 
Richard Hammond 
Janie Hampton 
Jackson Pearce 
Jenny Han 
Dan Tunstall 
Mary E. Pearson 
Sara Allerton 
Christie Dickason 
Veronica Henry 
Michael Palin 
Tilly Bagshawe 
Lindsey Kelk 
Justin Cronin 
Kevin Power 
Catherine Deveney 
Mia James 
Louise Candlish 
Terry Wogan 
Robert Harris 
William Shawcross 
Lee Weeks 
Jaishree Misra 
Cath Staincliffe 
Jilliane Hoffman 
Matt Rees 
Matt Rudd 
Inger Ash Wolfe 
Kitty Neale 
Paul Auster 
Sean Black 
James Holland 
C. J. Box 
Erica James 
Annie Sanders 
Giles Foden 
Horacio Castellanos Moya 
Michael Wright 
Madeleine Bunting 
Colin Evans 
Kevin McCloud 
Raja Shehadeh 
John-Paul Flintoff 
Andrea Gillies 
Karen Liebreich 
Jennifer Purcell 
Stuart Kelly 
Jojo Moyes 
Dan Brown 
Yann Martel 
Jodi Picoult 
Ruth Rendell 
Alison Weir 
Richard Mabey 
Garry Jenkins 
Sarah Singleton 
Jandy Nelson 
William Nicholson 
Judy Blundell 
Keith Gray 
Marcus Sedgwick 
Maggie Stiefvater 
Maxine Linnell 
Jim Eldridge 
Jackson Pearce 
Becca Fitzpatrick 
Joanna Nadin 
Delphine de Vigan 
Meg Cabot 
C.J. Skuse 
Rachel Ward 
Megan Cole 
Eoin Colfer 
Francisco X. Stork 

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