The Neighbour
Lisa Gardner
A riveting book that I found hard to put down. A young mother disappears in a novel that explores how physical and sexual abuse can have a devastating effect on future relationships and how we protect ourselves from past memories....
Format: Paperback - Released: 04/03/2010

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

Relics of the Dead
Ariana Franklin
March 2010 Book of the Month. This is the third in a seriously good medical crime series starring a feisty heroine, anatomist Adelia Aguilar. The first (a must read), Mistress of the...
Format: Paperback - Released: 18/03/2010

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

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

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

Wolf Hall
Hilary Mantel
Longlisted for the prestigious 2010 Orange Prize. 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 best." April...
Format: Paperback - Released: 04/03/2010

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

Tease
Immodesty Blaize
The British Queen of Burlesque, Immodesty Blaize, turns her talents to writing, with great success. With all the racy, raunchy fun you could expect from a novel about a girl who has risen to the top of her game in...
Format: Hardback - Released: 14/05/2009

Playing the Game
Belle de Jour
Featured on The Book Show on Sky Arts on 26 November 2009. Unlike the previous two books by this author this has been marketed as fiction however, the story is about how things may have turned out for Belle and her...
Format: Paperback - Released: 11/06/2009