Book of the month

Book of the month

Book of the month for September

Published on Thu, 2016-08-25 09:03
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Paul Beatty – Sellout s our book of the month for September. Longlisted for Man Booker Prize 2016. Born in Dickens on the southern outskirts of Los Angeles, the narrator of The Sellout spent his childhood as the subject in his father's racially charged psychological studies. He is told that his father's work will lead to a memoir that will solve their financial woes. But when his father is killed in a drive-by shooting, he discovers there never was a memoir. All that's left is a bill for a drive-through funeral.

British Crime Book of the month – September

Published on Thu, 2016-08-25 09:02
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David Ashton – Mistress of the Just Land: A Jean Brash Mystery 1 is our british crime book of the month for September.

British Crime Book of the month – August

Published on Thu, 2016-08-04 22:44
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Robert Thorogood – A Meditation on Murder is our british crime book of the month for August. Aslan Kennedy has an idyllic life: leader of a spiritual retreat for wealthy holidaymakers on one of the Caribbean's most unspoilt islands, Saint Marie. Until he's murdered, that is. The case seems open and shut: when Aslan was killed he was inside a locked room with only five other people, one of whom has already confessed to the murder.

Book of the month for August

Published on Thu, 2016-08-04 22:30
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Melissa Harrison – At Hawthorn Time is our book of the month for August. Shortlisted for the Costa Novel Award 2015, Longlisted for the Baileys Prize 2016.

Book of the month for July

Published on Fri, 2016-07-01 08:36
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Kate Clanchy – Meeting the English is our book of the month for July. A bright debut novel about dark subjects, by an acclaimed poet and non-fiction and short story writer. 17yr old Struan goes south for the first time, leaving his Scottish town to spend a life-changing summer in London caring for a paralysed literary giant, in response to an advert.

British Crime Book of the month – July

Published on Fri, 2016-07-01 08:35
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William Sutton – Lawless and the Devil of Euston Square is our british crime book of the month for July.

British Crime Book of the month – June

Published on Mon, 2016-06-06 11:24
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Andrea Carter – Death at Whitewater Church is our british crime book of the month for June.

Book of the month for June

Published on Mon, 2016-06-06 10:42
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Viet Tanh Nguyen – The Sympathizer is our book of the month for June. Finalist for the Edgar Award for best First Novel 2016! Winner of the 2016 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction! Winner of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize! The Sympathizer is a Vietnam War novel unlike any other. The narrator, one of the most arresting of recent fiction, is a man of two minds and divided loyalties, a half-French half-Vietnamese communist sleeper agent living in America after the end of the war.

Book of the month for May

Published on Thu, 2016-04-28 22:08
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A. D. Miller – The Faithful Couple is our book of the month for May. California, 1993: Neil Collins and Adam Tayler, two young British men on the cusp of adulthood, meet at a hostel in San Diego. They strike up a friendship that, while platonic, feels as intoxicating as a romance; they travel up the coast together, harmlessly competitive, innocently collusive, wrapped up in each other. On a camping trip to Yosemite they lead each other to behave in ways that, years later, they will desperately regret.

British Crime Book of the month – May

Published on Thu, 2016-04-28 22:07
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David Mark – Dark Winter (DS Aector McAvoy #1) is our british crime book of the month for May. Detective Sergeant Aector McAvoy is a man with a troubled past. His unwavering belief in justice has made him an outsider in the police force he serves. When three seemingly unconnected people are brutally murdered in the weeks before Christmas, the police must work quickly to stop more deaths.It is only McAvoy who can see the connection between the victims. A killer is playing God – and McAvoy must find a way to stop the deadly game.
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