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On this Good Housekeeping Books page, which is updated as each new edition of Good Housekeeping comes on sale, readers can access reviews and ‘try before you buy’ extracts for all titles featured in Good Housekeeping for current and past issues - wonderful archive of books well worth reading.
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April 2010
On My Bookshelf - Hilary Mantel
March 2010
On My Bookshelf - Joanna Trollope
February 2010
On My Bookshelf - Tamsin Greig
January 2010
On My Bookshelf - Wendy Holden
Previous Month's Books
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The Double Comfort Safari Club
Alexander McCall Smith
April 2010 Good Housekeeping selection.
The 11th in the No1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series sees sleuth Precious Ramotswe and her assistant Grace Makutsi on the trail of a mystery safari guide who has been named in the will of a generous...
Format: Hardback - Released: 04/03/2010
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Mexican Food Made Simple
Thomasina Miers
April 2010 Good Housekeeping selection.
TV cook and former Masterchef winner Thomasina Miers gives us the mouth-watering Mexican Food Made Simple, a vibrant collection of recipes and insights into Mexican food culture.
Format: Hardback - Released: 04/03/2010
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Revenge
Sharon Osbourne
April 2010 Good Housekeeping selection.
Sharon Osbourne’s Extreme remains the bestselling autobiography ever to be written by a woman and now the diva TV star is trying her hand at fiction. Revenge is a Jackie Collins-style blockbuster novel about two...
Format: Hardback - Released: 04/03/2010
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The Twenty - Year Itch
Linda Kelsey
April 2010 Good Housekeeping selection.
Linda Kelsey’s The Twenty-Year Itch sees uptight doctor Julie facing marital meltdown when her husband suddenly announces he is taking a grown-up gap year – by himself. An entertaining and sometimes moving insight into how challenging...
Format: Paperback - Released: 18/03/2010
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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
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Trespass
Rose Tremain
April 2010 Good Housekeeping selection.
Rose Tremain won the Orange Prize for Fiction for The Road Home and returns with Trespass. A captivating thriller, set in southern France, it depicts two sets of siblings confronting the past, with deadly consequences.
Format: Hardback - Released: 04/03/2010
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Recipe for Life
Nicky Pellegrino
March 2010 Editor's Choice.
Nicky Pellegrino has a knack for transporting you in to the Italian countryside, smelling and tasting the air and the food and feeling the sun on your face. Another lovely tale of relationships, friendships and discovering what...
Format: Trade Paperback - Released: 18/03/2010
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Solar
Ian McEwan
April 2010 Good Housekeeping selection.
Ian McEwan’s new novel Solar, which sees flawed prize-winning physicist Michael Beard discover a way to combat climate change, while the rest of his life falls apart. Both the author and his books divide opinion, but...
Format: Hardback - Released: 18/03/2010
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Top Tips for Life
Kate Reardon
April 2010 Good Housekeeping selection.
Former fashion editor and Times columnist Kate Reardon had a surprise hit with her first book Top Tips For Girls and she follows it up with Top Tips For Life. Useful, entertaining and with a...
Format: Hardback - Released: 04/03/2010
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Wolf Hall
Hilary Mantel
April 2010 Good Housekeeping selection.
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...
Format: Paperback - Released: 04/03/2010
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Angel
Elizabeth Taylor, Hilary Mantel
April 2010 Good Housekeeping selection.
On My Bookshelf by Hilary Mantel...
Angel by Elizabeth Taylor is a sparkling, pointed comedy. Angel is a bestselling author who suffers for her art, but writes truly terrible books. It’s an awful warning to writers –...
Format: Paperback - Released: 06/04/2006
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The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat
Oliver Sacks
April 2010 Good Housekeeping selection.
On My Bookshelf by Hilary Mantel...
In The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat, the famous neurologist Oliver Sacks opened his casebook to show the strangeness of the human condition. No invention could match these...
Format: Paperback - Released: 07/11/1986
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Jane Eyre
Charlotte Bronte
April 2010 Good Housekeeping selection.
On My Bookshelf by Hilary Mantel...
‘I read Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre when I was very young and cared less about the love story than about the secret of the woman in the attic. It’s what a...
Format: Paperback (b Format) - Released: 29/06/2006
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Loves Me, Loves Me Not
Katie Fforde
A terrific collection of over forty new short stories that is published to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the founding of the Romantic Novelists Association. There is everything in here from gentle romance to sophisticated issue-led tales, historical to vampires....
Format: Paperback - Released: 15/01/2010
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The Long Song
Andrea Levy
February 2010 Book of the Month.
With the recent television adaptation of Levy’s best known novel, Small Island, there has been great anticipation of this new novel and Levy does not disappoint....
Format: Hardback - Released: 04/02/2010
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Take a Chance on Me
Jill Mansell
March 2010 Good Housekeeping selection.
Best-selling author of Rumour Has It, Jill Mansell returns with Take A Chance On Me – a fun, readable romp through the love life of Cleo Quinn, hapless in romance and still haunted by her
Format: Hardback - Released: 18/02/2010
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Before the Earthquake
Maria Allen
March 2010 Good Housekeeping selection.
Fabulous historical page-turner Before The Earthquake, from debut novelist Maria Allen, sees 15-year-old Concetta piecing together her past after an earthquake devastates her rural Italian village and leaves her with no memory.
Format: Paperback - Released: 18/02/2010
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A Mother's Guide to Cheating
Kate Long
March 2010 Good Housekeeping selection.
The Bad Mother’s Handbook was a hit for Kate Long and now she’s back with A Mother’s Guide To Cheating, an intelligent, well-observed and poignant portrayal of a mother and daughter navigating their way through...
Format: Hardback - Released: 18/02/2010
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Maya
Alastair Campbell
March 2010 Good Housekeeping selection.
Former New Labour spin doctor Alastair Campbell’s second novel, Maya, looks atthe world of celebrity. The storyteller is Steve, best friend and confidant to the fictional film starof the title, who finds he’s becoming...
Format: Hardback - Released: 04/02/2010
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How the British Fell in Love with Food
Lewis Esson
March 2010 Good Housekeeping selection.
Top chefs including Rick Stein, Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall and Raymond Blanc contribute to the Guild of Food Writers’ How The British Fell In Love With Food, a wonderful collection of food nostalgia and recipes.
Format: Paperback - Released: 04/02/2010
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The Baby Diaries: Memories, Milestones and Misadventures
Tess Daly
An honest open account of first time parenting with Tess Daly recording her world from the beginnings of her first pregnancy through to becoming a confident mother. It's always interesting to find out how others cope in these situations and...
Format: Hardback - Released: 18/02/2010
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Cleo: How a Small Black Cat Helped Heal a Family
Helen Brown
March 2010 Good Housekeeping selection.
Possibly the next Marley And Me, Cleo, by Helen Brown, is an honest and un-mawkish true story of ordinary people rebuilding their lives after a tragedy, with the help of a kitten. Even non cat-lovers...
Format: Hardback - Released: 18/02/2010
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The Pregnant Widow
Martin Amis
March 2010 Good Housekeeping selection.
Martin Amis and his much anticipated return to novels with The Pregnant Widow. Seven years in the writing, it portrays a group of bright young things spending the summer of 1970 in an Italian castle, grappling...
Format: Hardback - Released: 04/02/2010
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Friends, Lovers and Other Indiscretions
Fiona Neill
March 2010 Good Housekeeping selection.
Slummy Mummy Fiona Neill’s second novel, Friends, Lovers and Other Indiscretions, sees six friendsreunite as they approach 40.
Format: Paperback - Released: 04/02/2010
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The Other Family
Joanna Trollope
March 2010 Good Housekeeping selection.
Joanna Trollope’s new book, The Other Family, tells of the emotional fall-out after the death of a celebrated musician.
Format: Hardback - Released: 18/02/2010
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Miss Mackenzie
Anthony Trollope
March 2010 Good Housekeeping selection.
On My Bookshelf by Joanna Trollope...
No writer of
his time was better at people than, as my family refer to him, The Real
Trollope – Anthony of the small specs and the huge beard. Miss Mackenzie is an...
Format: Paperback - Released: 14/03/2008
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Music and Silence
Rose Tremain
March 2010 Good Housekeeping selection.
On My Bookshelf by Joanna Trollope...
Rose Tremain’s historical novels are big gems. My favourite is Music And Silence. It’s a book you just inhabit as you read.
Format: Paperback - Released: 03/07/2008
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The Swan Thieves
Elizabeth Kostova
February 2010 Good Housekeeping selection.
From the author of the brilliantly atmospheric The Historian, comes this mesmerising psychological mystery that revolves around the conflicting powers of art. Psychiatrist Andrew Marlowe is faced with the case of his life when renowned...
Format: Hardback - Released: 28/01/2010
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The Middle Place
Kelly Corrigan
February 2010 Good Housekeeping selection.
There are key things that put unusually sharp focus on our lives and bring into vivid perspective why we love the people we do. Kelly Corrigan’s awareness of a ‘middle place’ – the time when you...
Format: Paperback - Released: 21/01/2010
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The Museum of Innocence
Orhan Pamuk
February 2010 Good Housekeeping selection.
‘It was the happiest moment of my life, though I didn’t know it.’ So begins this exquisite book by Nobel Prize-winning Pamuk (author of My Name is Red), and a love affair that can only...
Format: Hardback - Released: 24/12/2009
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Committed: A Sceptic Makes Peace with Marriage
Elizabeth Gilbert
February 2010 Good Housekeeping selection.
If you were one of the women joining in the collective ‘awww’ at the end of Elizabeth Gilbert’s bestselling Eat, Pray, Love, your energy was well spent. It paid off and here is the sequel...
Format: Paperback - Released: 04/01/2010
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A Book of Silence
Sara Maitland
February 2010 Good Housekeeping selection.
On My Bookshelf by Tamsin Greig...
My husband gave me this book recently and I tried not to take it as a hint. Part investigation, part autobiography, it explores the writer’s journey into the study and experience...
Format: Paperback - Released: 03/08/2009
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Mister Pip
Lloyd Jones
February 2010 Good Housekeeping selection.
On My Bookshelf by Tamsin Greig...
Matilda, a young girl in Papua New Guinea during the civil war in the 1990s is taught in a semi-destroyed school by the only white man on the island. Popeye, as...
Format: Paperback - Released: 20/03/2008
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The Lacuna
Barbara Kingsolver
January 2010 Good Housekeeping selection.
Barbara Kingsolver’s first novel in almost 10 years (she is the author of Prodigal Summer and the captivating The Poisonwood Bible) is an achingly complex story that digs deep into our sense of place...
Format: Hardback - Released: 05/11/2009
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Beauty Bible Beauty Steals
Josephine Fairley, Sarah Stacey
January 2010 Good Housekeeping selection.
This book, say its doyenne authors Stacey and Fairley, is a personal beauty-counter consultant to accompany you as you shop for effective, budget glamour. All the products (from head to toe, scrubs to balms, luscious lips...
Format: Paperback - Released: 12/11/2009
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A Fair Maiden: A Dark Novel of Suspense
Joyce Carol Oates
January 2010 Good Housekeeping selection.
The interplay between Marcus Kidder and Katya Spivak is powered by dubious intention from the moment of their first encounter. He is a 68-year-old member of the established rich in refined Bayhead Harbor; she is 16,...
Format: Hardback - Released: 07/01/2010
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Anna Karenina
Leo Tolstoy
January 2010 Good Housekeeping selection.
On My Bookshelf by Wendy Holden...
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy is the best in its class – I am a novelist, but for my money the writers of the19th century set the bar for the whole...
Format: Paperback - Released: 30/01/2003
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French Provincial Cooking
Elizabeth David, Juliet Renny
January 2010 Good Housekeeping selection.
On My Bookshelf by Wendy Holden...
I’m not much of a cook, but French Provincial Cooking by Elizabeth David (Penguin) makes me feel that I could be one. The food in it is so delicious-sounding and there’s...
Format: Paperback - Released: 30/04/1998
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A Woman of Substance - 30th Anniversary Edition
Barbara Taylor Bradford
January 2010 Good Housekeeping selection.
On My Bookshelf by Wendy Holden...
My third choice, A Woman Of Substance by Barbara Taylor Bradford (HarperCollins), is, I
believe, the greatest achievement in modern women’s commercial fiction writing to date. The heroine (as almost everyone knows)...
Format: Paperback - Released: 03/09/2009
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Kitchen Essays
Agnes Jekyll
December 2009 Good Housekeeping selection.
Deliciously entertaining and founded on solid hosting skills (Jekyll, who was sister-in-law to the gardening grand dame Gertrude, invited Browning and Ruskin to her first dinner party), Kitchen Essays makes a perfect present for those who...
Format: Paperback - Released: 20/10/2008
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The Gourmet
Muriel Barbery
December 2009 Good Housekeeping selection.
Perfect for soupcons of literary pleasure in between the celebrations, this tiny novel follows the tantalising quest of Pierre Arthens, food critic terrible. As he lies on his deathbed on Rue de Grenelle, he desperately tries...
Format: Hardback - Released: 01/09/2009
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Life Class: The Selected Memoirs of Diana Athill
Diana Athill
November 2009 Good Housekeeping selection.
Santa may not welcome this hefty four-books-in-one-volume on your wish-list, but that’s what he is paid for. And he will be spreading the joy. Diana Athill is quite simply one of our most captivating and truth-seeking...
Format: Hardback - Released: 02/11/2009
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The Ivington Diaries
Monty Don
November 2009 Good Housekeeping selection.
The seasons in Monty Don’s hands are equally blessed. Capturing15 years of creative gardening at his farmhouse home in Ivington (in Herefordshire), Monty makes milky winter-sun pruning just as pleasurable as the heady thrills of summer...
Format: Hardback - Released: 05/10/2009
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Celebrate: The Art of the Special Occasion
Lucia Van der Post
November 2009 Good Housekeeping selection.
When it comes to partying, Christmas planning, christenings, even the occasional fete champêtre (posh picnic), we should ‘resist the temptation to think too much about the stress and try to think more about the joy’, says...
Format: Hardback - Released: 05/11/2009
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Small Wars
Sadie Jones
October 2009 Good Housekeeping selection.
Clara grew up in a house made ‘for Christmases and summers’. Her future husband Hal is fromdistinguished military stock. In the heat and brutality of the Cyprus Emergency, the young couple’s pure love for...
Format: Hardback - Released: 27/08/2009
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Remarkable Creatures
Tracy Chevalier
Featured on The Book Show on Sky Arts on 5 November 2009.
October 2009 Good Housekeeping selection.
In this story of female friendship and fortitude, Tracy Chevalier shows her skill for working history’s lost individuals into far-reaching fiction. Author of the critically...
Format: Hardback - Released: 24/08/2009
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The Stepmothers' Support Group
Sam Baker
October 2009 Good Housekeeping selection.
Former Cosmopolitan editor Sam Baker has first-hand experience of the very tricky businessof stepmother-hood. Now in her 40s, she became a stepmother, ‘the most loathed of fairy-tale baddies’, at just 26. In this feisty female-support...
Format: Hardback - Released: 20/08/2009
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Noah's Compass
Anne Tyler
October 2009 Good Housekeeping selection.
Liam is 60, recently redundant, twice married, now single, and about to move into a sterile apartment with just his rocking chair and wry world-view. But a bang on the head and memory loss lead him...
Format: Hardback - Released: 06/08/2009
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A Room of One's Own
Virginia Woolf
October 2009 Good Housekeeping selection.
On My Bookshelf by Philippa Gregory...
This was recommended to me when I was 23. I remember taking it on a camping holiday and reading it while blowing up the airbed with a foot pump! Woolf says...
Format: Paperback - Released: 28/02/2002
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The Longest Journey
E.M. Forster, Gilbert Adair
October 2009 Good Housekeeping selection.
On My Bookshelf by Philippa Gregory...
Forster has a terrific eye for the difficulties encountered by the lower middle class in Edwardian society. It’s set in my grandfather’s England, on the chalk plains of Wiltshire. The story...
Format: Paperback - Released: 27/07/2006
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The Princess and the Goblin
George MacDonald, Arthur Hughes
October 2009 Good Housekeeping selection.
On My Bookshelf by Philippa Gregory...
I find a lot of children’s books too drab and realistic – they should have a bit of magic. I read this book when I was six and had to spend...
Format: Paperback - Released: 25/07/1996
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The Ghost Lover
Gillian Greenwood
September 2009 Good Housekeeping selection.
Josie Price is a cool and isolated narrator of life, who has spent much of her emotional energy on the Haddeley family. Following the death of Alice Haddeley, whom Josie loved almost as a daughter, Josie...
Format: Hardback - Released: 06/08/2009
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The Cassandra Chronicles
Ariel Leve
September 2009 Good Housekeeping selection.
This was never intended to be a feel-good book but in a perverse way it proves itself a great mood-shifter and lifter. Darkly humorous Ariel Leve lays out her daily insecurities like a patchwork quilt...
Format: Hardback - Released: 03/08/2009
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Sacred Hearts
Sarah Dunant
September 2009 Good Housekeeping selection.
Convent life, you’d imagine, is one you choose – a vocation. But this searing story of the nuns of Santa Caterina in 16th-century Italy reveals how enforced convent entry was common for noble women who couldn’t...
Format: Hardback - Released: 25/06/2009
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Family Album
Penelope Lively
September 2009 Good Housekeeping selection.
Shortlisted for the Costa Novel Award 2009.
Costa Book Awards 2009 Judges' comment: "An acutely-studied and skilful dissection of middle-class family life."
Such a cosy thing: comfortable middle-class family life. But in the large, well-worn domain...
Format: Hardback - Released: 06/08/2009
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Life at the Extremes
Frances Ashcroft
September 2009 Good Housekeeping selection.
On My Bookshelf by Penny Smith...
Life At The Extremes: The Science Of Survival by Dr Frances Ashcroft is full of derring-do and really mad scientists trying to prove what they think they know. You know QI...
Format: Paperback - Released: 02/07/2001
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Pride and Prejudice
Jane Austen
September 2009 Good Housekeeping selection.
On My Bookshelf by Penny Smith...
This wasn’t a set text for us at school, but I read it anyway and it got me into the classics big time. I had such vivid pictures of all...
Format: Paperback - Released: 05/09/1995
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Winnie-the-Pooh
A.A. Milne, E.H. Shepard
September 2009 Good Housekeeping selection.
On My Bookshelf by Penny Smith...
Winnie The Pooh by AA Milne is brilliant because people are often like the animals – one of my brothers was like Eeyore, quite gloomy; I was like Rabbit, always tidying...
Format: Paperback - Released: 06/05/2004
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The Little Stranger
Sarah Waters
Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2009.
July 2009 Good Housekeeping selection.
With her usual masterly powers for evoking atmosphere, Sarah Waters treats us to this utterly unnerving ghost story. When Dr Faraday is called to the once-glorious, now decaying, Hundreds Hall...
Format: Hardback - Released: 28/05/2009
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The Great Lover
Jill Dawson
Reviewed on Richard & Judy on Wednesday 10 June 2009.
February 2009 Good Housekeeping selection.
Dripping with deliciously sensual allusions to beekeeping, this is an elegantly entwined story of self-discovery and wild, poetic love. When 90-year-old Nellie Golightly receives a letter from...
Format: Paperback - Released: 30/04/2009
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Mr Toppit
Charles Elton
Reviewed on Richard & Judy on Wednesday 3 June 2009.
Featured on The Book Show on Sky Arts on 26 February 2009.
February 2009 Good Housekeeping selection.
If this book becomes a film – not unlikely given its author’s credentials as a...
Format: Paperback - Released: 30/04/2009
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The Wilderness
Samantha Harvey
March 2009 Good Housekeeping selection.
Shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction 2009
With an extraordinary portrayal of how the mind reconfigures when Alzheimer’s takes hold, this novel is about a man called Jake and the loosening of his grip on the...
Format: Paperback - Released: 05/02/2009
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The Angel's Game
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
June 2009 Book of the Month.
October 2009 Good Housekeeping selection.
Fans of The Shadow of the Wind will be pleased to find that the Cemetery of the Forgotten Books reappears in Zafon’s...
Format: Hardback - Released: 01/06/2009
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The Best of Times
Penny Vincenzi
July 2009 Good Housekeeping selection.
The challenge of a shocking opener, as former GH columnist Penny Vincenzi says, is living up to the drama. Her fourteenth novel begins with a major crash on the M4 – in an instant, plans are...
Format: Hardback - Released: 14/05/2009
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Never Let Me Go
Kazuo Ishiguro
July 2009 Good Housekeeping selection.
On my bookshelf by Emilia Fox...
I identified with this book because it’s set in a boarding school and reminded me of my own happy childhood and the friendships I made when I was at Bryanston School...
Format: Paperback (b Format) - Released: 02/03/2006
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