Blue Monday

Author: Nicci French
Publication Date: 19 January 2012

Monday: five-year-old Matthew Faraday is abducted. His face is splashed across newspaper front pages. His parents and the police are desperate. Can anyone help find their little boy before it is too late? Psychotherapist Frieda Klein just might know something. One of her patients describes dreams of...

Encore Valentine

Author: Adriana Trigiani
Publication Date: 3 February 2011

As Encore Valentine begins, snow falls like glitter over Tuscany at the wedding of Valentine's grandmother. Meet the Roncalli and Angelini families, artisans of handcrafted shoes in Greenwich Village since 1903. Valentine's dreams are dashed when her grandmother names her brother and nemesis Alfred...

Boy A

Author: Jonathan Trigell
Publication Date: 25 October 2007

This book is the winner of the World Book Day - Books to Talk About Prize 2008. Winner of the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize 2005. Winner of the Waverton Good Read Prize 2005. A is for Apple. A bad apple. Jack has spent most of his life in juvenile institutions, to be released with a new name, new job, n...

The Redeemed

Author: M. R. Hall
Publication Date: 24 November 2011

The body of a dead man is discovered in an overgrown cemetery in Bristol, the sign of the cross gouged into his flesh. At first it seems to coroner Jenny Cooper that all the evidence points to a horrific, if routine, suicide. Then an enigmatic young priest, Father Lucas Starr, arrives on Jenny's doo...

Pigeon English

Author: Stephen Kelman
Publication Date: 5 January 2012

Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2011 Shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award 2011 Eleven-year-old Harrison Opoku, the second best runner in Year 7, races through his new life in England with his personalised trainers - the Adidas stripes drawn on with marker pen - blissfully unaware of th...

Daughters-in-law

Author: Joanna Trollope
Publication Date: 5 January 2012

When you've dedicated your life to your children, what happens when they grow up? Rachel loves being at the centre of her large family. She has devoted herself fiercely to bringing up her three sons, but at their childhood home on the wide, bird-haunted coast of Suffolk, Rachel finds that her contro...

The Man Who Broke into Auschwitz

Author: Denis Avey
Publication Date: 29 September 2011

THE MAN WHO BROKE INTO AUSCHWITZ is the extraordinary true story of a British soldier who marched willingly into Buna-Monowitz, the concentration camp known as Auschwitz III. In the summer of 1944, Denis Avey was being held in a POW labour camp, E715, near Auschwitz III. He had heard of the brutalit...

Mildred Pierce

Author: James M. Cain
Publication Date: 23 June 2011

MILDRED PIERCE is the story of a determined and ambitious woman who, after her feckless husband abandons her, builds a successful business through hard work and sacrifice in order to ensure the future of her pampered and selfish daughter. But she isn't prepared for the intrigues and devastating betr...

127 Hours
Between a Rock and a Hard Place

Author: Aron Ralston
Publication Date: 11 December 2010

On Sunday April 27, 2003, 27-year old Aron Ralston set off for a day's hiking in the Utah canyons. Dressed in a t-shirt and shorts, Ralston, a seasoned climber, figured he'd hike for a few hours and then head off to work. 40 miles from the nearest paved road, he found himself on top of an 800-pound ...

Call the Midwife
A True Story of the East End in the 1950s

Author: Jennifer Worth
Publication Date: 6 March 2008

Jennifer Worth came from a sheltered background when she became a midwife in the Docklands in the 1950s. The conditions in which many women gave birth just half a century ago were horrifying, not only because of their grimly impoverished surroundings, but also because of what they were expected to e...

The Legacy

Author: Katherine Webb
Publication Date: 24 June 2010

Two sisters. One heart-breaking secret. And a past that cannot stay buried.

Farm Boy

Author: Michael Morpurgo
Publication Date: 19990607

The Sequel to War Horse. Set on a farm in rural Devon, Farm Boy is a collection of Grandpa's reminiscences and stories touchingly told to his grandson. Superbly told by a master storyteller and stunningly illustrated by Michael Foreman -- an exquisite book. Joey was the last working horse on the f...

Spider Bones

Author: Kathy Reichs
Publication Date: 7 July 2011

Dr Temperance Brennan spends her life working amongst the decomposed, the mutilated and the skeletal. So the two-days-dead body she is called to examine holds little to surprise her. Until she discovers that the man is John Lowery, an ex-soldier who was apparently killed in Vietnam in 1968. So who i...

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

Author: Hunter S. Thompson
Publication Date: 19931000

This is a quest by journalist Hunter S. Thompson into the heart of the American Dream - undertaking perilous, drug-enhanced confrontations with casino operators, bartenders, police officers with a special interest in the narcotics problem, and other representatives of the silent majority.

What You See Is What You Get
My Autobiography

Author: Alan Sugar
Publication Date: 30 September 2010

From a Hackney council estate to the House of Lords, this is the extraordinary story of one of our greatest entrepreneurs.

The Taker

Author: Alma Katsu
Publication Date: 13 October 2011

This is an immortal love story. Have you ever loved someone so much that you'd do anything for them? When Dr Luke Findley turns up to his hospital shift in the small town of St Andrews, Maine, he's expecting just another evening of minor injuries and domestic disputes. But instead, Lanore McIlvrae w...

A Place of Secrets

Author: Rachel Hore
Publication Date: 2 September 2010

The night before it all begins, Jude has the dream again ...Can dreams be passed down through families? As a child Jude suffered a recurrent nightmare: running through a dark forest, crying for her mother. Now her six-year-old niece, Summer, is having the same dream, and Jude is frightened for her...

Blueeyedboy

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Author: Joanne Harris
Publication Date: 31 March 2011

'Once there was a widow with three sons, and their names were Black, Brown and Blue. Black was the eldest; moody and aggressive. Brown was the middle child; timid and dull. But Blue was his mother's favourite. And he was a murderer.' Blueeyed boy is the brilliant new novel from Joanne Harris: a dark...

The Snowman

Author: Jo Nesbo
Publication Date: 19 August 2010

The night the first snow falls a young boy wakes to find his mother gone. He walks through the silent house, but finds only wet footprints on the stairs. In the garden looms a solitary figure: a snowman bathed in cold moonlight, its black eyes glaring up at the bedroom windows. Round its neck is his...

Nine Dragons

Author: Michael Connelly
Publication Date: 30 August 2010

Harry Bosch's latest case sees him alone, without backup - and this time it's personal.

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
and Two Other Stories

Author: F.Scott Fitzgerald
Publication Date: 1 January 2009

An anthology of stories, including "The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button", "Bernice Bobs Her Hair" and "A Diamond As Big As The Ritz".

The Sandalwood Tree

Author: Elle Newmark
Publication Date: 4 August 2011

It is 1947, and Evie and Martin Mitchell have just arrived in the Indian village of Masoorla with their five-year-old son. But cracks soon appear in their marriage as Evie struggles to adapt to her new life, and Martin fails to bury unbearable wartime memories. When Evie finds a collection of letter...

One Day

Author: David Nicholls
Publication Date: 4 February 2010

'A wonderful, wonderful book: wise, funny, perceptive, compassionate and often unbearably sad. The best British social novel since Jonathan Coe's What a Carve Up!' The Times

A Tiny Bit Marvellous

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Author: Dawn French
Publication Date: 8 January 2011

Mo is about to hit the big 50, and some uncomfortable truths are becoming quite apparent. Dora is about to hit the big 18 ...and about to hit anyone who annoys her, especially her precocious younger brother Peter who has a chronic Oscar Wilde fixation. Then there's Dad ...who's just, well, dad.

Chocolat

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Author: Joanne Harris
Publication Date: 28 January 2001

When an exotic stranger, Vianne Rocher, arrives in the French village of Lansquenet and opens a chocolate boutique directly opposite the church, Father Reynaud identifies her as a serious danger to his flock. War is declared as the priest denounces the newcomer's wares as instruments of murder.

The Resurrectionist

Author: James Bradley
Publication Date: 19 June 2008

Leaving behind his father's failures, Gabriel Swift arrives to study with Edwin Poll, the greatest of the city's anatomists. It is his chance to find advancement by making a name for himself. But instead he finds himself drawn to his master's nemesis, Lucan, the most powerful of the city's resurrect...

Blood Harvest

Author: S. J. Bolton
Publication Date: 28 April 2011

Now You See Her...Gillian is haunted by the disappearance of her little girl two years ago. A devastating fire burned down their home, but she remains convinced her daughter survived. Now You Don't...Ten-year-old Tom lives by the town's neglected churchyard. Is he the only one who sees the strange, ...

Moab is My Washpot

Author: Stephen Fry
Publication Date: 5 August 2004

Moab is My Washpot is in turns funny, shocking, tender, delicious, sad, lyrical, bruisingly frank and addictively readable. Stephen Fry's bestselling memoir tells how, sent to a boarding school 200 miles from home at the age of seven, he survived beatings, misery, love, ecstasy, carnal violation, ex...

Death of a Maid

Author: M.C. Beaton
Publication Date: 01 Jan 2008

Mrs. Gillespie is famous around the northwest of Sutherland for being the best charwoman ever. Of course, if anyone has any social pretensions one does not say charwoman, one talks about my maid. Hamish Macbeth wins Mrs. Gillespie's services in a church raffle but spends most of the day trying to av...

Only Time Will Tell

Author: Jeffrey Archer
Publication Date: 15 September 2011

"The Clifton Chronicles" is Jeffrey Archer's most ambitious work in four decades as an international bestselling author. The epic tale of Harry Clifton's life begins in 1919, in the backstreets of Bristol. His father was a war hero, but it will be twenty-one tumultuous years before Harry discovers t...

The Blackhouse

Author: Peter May
Publication Date: 1 September 2011

Detective Fin MacLeod must investigate a murder on his home island of Lewis. But, further to this mystery, his past demons await him.

The Love Verb

Author: Jane Green
Publication Date: 3 March 2011

This is a life-affirming story, filed with laughter, love and hope...When photographer Callie has life-changing news, she - and her whole family - learn that love is not just about word. It is about deeds. After all, love means being there, through everything. "Everyone in Callie's family is busy; h...

Flaubert's Parrot

Author: Julian Barnes
Publication Date: 8 November 1985

Spins out a multiple mystery of obsession and betrayal (both scholarly and romantic). This book creates an exuberant enquiry into the ways in which art mirrors life and then turns around to shape it.

New Beginnings

Author: Fern Britton
Publication Date: 7 July 2011

A warm, witty and wise debut about the ups and downs of life as a TV presenter Christie Lynch's life is about to change -- for ever. A journalist and single mother of two, she can't believe her luck when she is spotted by a talent agent during an appearance on daytime TV show, Tart Talk. Soon the...

The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid

Author: Bill Bryson
Publication Date: 2 June 2007

Some say that the first hint that Bill Bryson was not of Planet Earth came when his mother sent him to school in lime-green Capri pants. Others think it all started with his discovery, at the age of six, of a woollen jersey of rare fineness. In this memoir, he explores the ordinary kid he once was, ...