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25th October 2010
Heartstone
Heartstone is the fifth novel in Sansom’s best-selling ‘Shardlake’ series; Dissolution, Dark Fire, Sovereign and Revelation.
25th October 2010
The Aurora Teagarden Mysteries
Aurora Teagarden; an unlikely character to have avid interest in historical murders.
25th October 2010
An Idiot Abroad
Whether or not Karl is a Gervais creation, which I dearly hope he isn’t, appreciate it for what it is and laugh heartily.
25th October 2010
Judge a Book by its Cover – The Death of Bunny Munro
Meet Bunny Munro, a self-centred, chain-smoking, irresponsible sex addict who “just found this world a hard place to be good in”.
25th October 2010
The Female Eunuch
At its heart The Female Eunuch is a call for freedom from a constricting conformity that still exists.
25th October 2010
The Handmaid’s Tale
This is certainly not an emotionally uplifting read, yet Atwood’s tale will leave you contemplating whether aspects of Gilead already exist in our modern society?
25th October 2010
Mrs Dalloway
In times of bitter rejection or ultimate betrayal, nothing is more satisfying than imagining the punishment you dream to deal your cold-blooded nemesis.
25th October 2010
Jump!
Cooper’s Jump!, pulls to the front of the reader’s mind the likes of Francis Drake and Julian Fellowes, as she creates a world revolving around equine activity and class-climbers.
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25th October 2010
Life of Pi
It has been eight years since Life of Pi was published to international critical acclaim, and won the 2002 Man Booker Prize.
25th October 2010
Hotel Iris
Not one for the fainthearted, Yoko Ogawa explores exploitative sexual politics and power relations in her newest novel Hotel Iris.
25th October 2010
Inheritance of Loss
Kiran Desai’s 2006 award winning novel The Inheritance of Loss
25th October 2010
Bitter In The Mouth
The title of Monique Truong’s Bitter in the Mouth comes from the protagonist’s “auditory-gustatory” synaesthesia, a rare condition that causes Linda Hammerick to literally taste the words she hears.