Book of the month

Book of the month

British Crime Book of the month – March

Published on Wed, 2014-03-05 13:24
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James Oswald – The Hangman's Song  (Inspector McLean #3) is our book of the month for March. The body of a man is founding hanging in an empty house. To the Edinburgh police force this appears to be a simple suicide case. Days later another body is found. The body is hanging from an identical rope and the noose has been tied using the same knot.Then a third body is found. As McLean digs deeper he descends into a world where the lines of reality are blurred and that the most irrational answers become the only explanations.

Book of the month – March

Published on Wed, 2014-03-05 13:18
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Lea Carpenter – Eleven Days is our book of the month for March. Eleven Days is, at its heart, the story of a mother and a son.It begins in May 2011: Sara's son Jason has been missing for nine days in the aftermath of a special operations forces mission. Out of devotion to him, Sara has made herself knowledgeable about things military, but she knows nothing more about her son's disappearance than the press corps camped out in her driveway.

British Crime Book of the month – February

Published on Sat, 2014-02-08 12:06
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Suzette A. Hill – A Little Murder is our British Crime book of the month for February.   London, early 1950s. Marcia Beasley of St John's Wood is discovered dead in her home, naked and covered with a coal scuttle… A host of colourful and comic characters leap from the pages in their hurry to identify the murderer, unravel the mystery of Marcia's life, and discover the importance of all that coal.

Book of the month – February

Published on Sat, 2014-02-08 12:06
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Karen Campbell – This is Where I Am is our book of the month for February. A tender and eye-opening novel about loss and survival, and an unlikely friendship between a Glaswegian widow and a Somali asylum seeker.

Book of the month – January

Published on Wed, 2014-01-01 15:01
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G. Willow Wilson – Alif the Unseen is our book of the month for January. Alif the Unseen is a stunning and propulsive debut novel in which a young Arab hacker is caught up in an adventure for the ages…

British Crime Book of the month – January

Published on Wed, 2014-01-01 14:50
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Sian Busby – A Commonplace Killing is our British Crime book of the month for January. A murder story set in London in 1946, which gradually peels away the veneer of stoicism and respectibility to reveal the dark truths at the heart of post-war austerity Britain.

British Crime Book of the month – December

Published on Sun, 2013-12-01 00:02
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Emily Winslow – The Whole World is our British Crime book of the month for December.   Polly and Liv are American students at Cambridge University. Both strangers to their new home, both survivors of past mistakes, they quickly become friends and find a common interest in Nick, a handsome, charming and seemingly guileless graduate student. But a betrayal, followed by Nick's inexplicable disappearance, brings long-buried histories to the surface.

Book of the month – December

Published on Sun, 2013-12-01 00:02
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Charles Todd – The Walnut Tree is our book of the month for November. The critically acclaimed creator of the Inspector Ian Rutledge and battlefield nurse Bess Crawford mystery series, Charles Todd now offers readers a bittersweet love story and romantic mystery that unfolds at Christmas during the dangerous opening days of World War I. The Walnut Tree is an unforgettable story of a woman who puts herself in the line of fire for the sake of wounded soldiers and falls deeply in love with a man who may be forbidden to her. 

British Crime Book of the month – November

Published on Fri, 2013-11-01 17:12
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Robert Ryan – Dead Man's Land is our British Crime book of the month for November. Deep in the trenches of Flanders Fields, men are dying in their thousands every day. So one more death shouldn't be a surprise. But then a body turns up with bizarre injuries…

Book of the month – November

Published on Fri, 2013-11-01 17:09
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Anton Disclafani – Yonahlossee Riding Camp For Girls  is our book of the month for November. Thea Atwell is fifteen years old in 1930, when, following a scandal for which she has been held responsible, she is 'exiled' from her wealthy and isolated Florida family to a debutante boarding school in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina…
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