This Month's Featured 'Crime / Whodunit' Books
The Last Exile E V Seymour July 2008 Debut of the Month. An exciting new author in the mystery thriller market is EV Seymour. This debut novel is action packed page turning stuff. Each chapter wills you on to the next... £5.24 Save 25%
The Cruellest Month Louise Penny An excellent read set in the lovely sleepy Canadian village of Three Pines, as were her previous special books. I get the feeling this is a magical, happy place with a close-knit protective community who cannot understand why it is... £5.24 Save 25%
The Death List Paul Johnston July 2007 Book of the Month. Incredibly gripping and guaranteed to keep you guessing. If you are going to buy a crime book this month buy this!     Paul Johnston explores vengeance and retribution... £5.24 Save 25%
Thriller : Stories to Keep You Up All Night This is the first anthology of thriller short-stories ever written. Highly readable, if not down right spine chilling, this is the ideal book for dipping in and out of.     Edited by James Patterson who is one of the biggest selling novelists... £5.24 Save 25%
This Month's Featured 'Literary / Contemporary' Books
The Shack William P. Young A very well written novel about a father's and a families grief after the murder of their youngest child. When Mack feels God has deserted him he receives a note, seemingly from God, and goes on a journey that helps... £5.99 Save 25%
The Private Lives of Pippa Lee Rebecca Miller Due to be reviewed on Richard & Judy on Wednesday 30 July 2008.   Wise, inspiring and brilliantly compelling, this is an unforgettable debut novel that will pull on the heart strings. There’s a real quality about the writing, which is spare... £5.99 Save 25%
The Camel Bookmobile Masha Hamilton An idealistic American girl is swept up in the passion of taking the written word to the African tribes of Kenya, and joins a mobile library scheme. We are introduced to each important character chapter by chapter. Simple stories unfold,... £5.24 Save 25%
Trespass Valerie Martin Trespass is a beautifully written and complex tale of love, jealousy, transgression, forgiveness, identity, and war. Brendan and Chloe Dale are the epitome of upper middle-class America living a very comfortable life in rural upstate New York. All seems well... £5.24 Save 25%
This Month's Featured 'Relationship Tales' Books
Castle in the Clouds Monica Janssens Enter in to the world of Cloisters, the most famous rehab clinic in the land. Follow the lives of several characters as they all come to terms with the things in their lives that have put them in to rehab... £5.99 Save 25%
Holly Would Dream Karen Quinn An excellent choice for a fun, madcap summer read. Holly is constantly wishing he life was like that of an old fashioned Hollywood movie star and it isn’t far off that until one day when everything in her life suddenly... £5.24 Save 25%
Love and Other Infidelities Helen Townsend The story of Martin and Susan’s marriage and the friends and relations around them. Each character has their own voice which gives the reader a great perspective on how different people have such different views on the same situation. A... £5.24 Save 25%
Drop Dead Beautiful Jackie Collins The Queen of Glitz comes up trumps – she brings Lucky Santangelo back with a fistful of problems, both emotional and lethal. Jackie Collins no longer produces just glitz-filled glamour of old but has dished up a tale with real... £5.24 Save 25%
The Birds and the Bees Milly Johnson A warm, tender tale of love and betrayal from an author with a lovely touch and the ability to produce the unexpected, always with a twist of humour. I love her.Comparison: Jill Mansell, Carole Matthews, £5.24 Save 25%
The Mother and Daughter Diaries Clare Shaw Written in alternating chapters, a mother and teenage daughter go through the anxiety and fear of anorexia while being helped by an interesting therapist. It is a very poignant portrait of the illness, of a mother-daughter relationship and a life’s... £5.24 Save 25%
This Month's Featured 'Mystery / Thriller' Books
Season of the Witch Natasha Mostert A creepy tale of passion, seduction and mind-reading. The known phenomenon of ‘remote viewing’ – a psychic talent allowing the perpetrator to ‘see’ things that are far separate from them, forms the basis of the story. Gabriel, our hero, uses... £5.24 Save 25%
White Corridor Christopher Fowler Bryant and May, like Holmes and Watson or Poirot and Hastings, are both compelling characters in their own right, but together they form one of fiction’s most pleasing duos. All Fowler’s books are intelligent and well-written but in Bryant and... £5.24 Save 25%
Promise Not To Tell Jennifer Mcmahon Haunting, arresting and truly unforgettable this is a story that will strike terror in your mind but it will also deliver the unexpected time and time again as the story unfolds. Cleverly linking a recent murder with one that happened... £5.24 Save 25%
Sweetheart Chelsea Cain   July 2008 Book of the Month.   Chelsea Cain is back with the follow up to her brilliant first novel Heartsick. Psychotic serial killer Gretchen Lowell and the cop she captured, tortured and set... £9.74 Save 25%
The Sonnet Lover Carol Goodman This has all the hallmarks of being a major success and it would come as no surprise were it to be made into a film. Written in a deftly assured manner it brings together passion and love, fantasy and legend - just who... £5.24 Save 25%
Bleedout Joan Brady A spellbinding psychological thriller set in a small American town in Illinois. This is very special indeed. It concerns the relationship between a 15-year old committed murderer, David Marion, and his lawyer, Hugh Freyl. After 15 years in jail, Freyl... £5.24 Save 25%
This Month's Featured 'Historical Fiction' Books
East of the Sun Julia Gregson Reviewed on Richard & Judy on Wednesday 9 July 2008.     This is an utterly captivating story of three young British women in search of freedom and love in 1920s India, but it also provides a wonderful insight into a now vanished... £5.99 Save 25%
The Outcast Sadie Jones Reviewed on Richard & Judy on Wednesday 25 June 2008. Shortlisted for the Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction 2008.An incredibly moving story about a damaged son returning home from prison determined to make a better life for himself. However,... £5.99 Save 25%
The Pirate's Daughter Margaret Cezair-thompson   Due to be reviewed on Richard & Judy on Wednesday 23 July 2008.   An adventure-cum-love story well balanced between narrative, description and comment with an intriguing tale bound round the history of Jamaica. It is about the illegitimate daughter of Errol... £5.99 Save 25%
Dancing with Eva Alan Judd A reconstruction of the final days of Hitler’s life in the bunker and of his relationship with Eva Braun, seen through the eyes of two fictional characters, her secretary and a bunker guard, who meet sixty years later and piece... £5.24 Save 25%
This Month's Featured 'Family Drama' Books
Ursula's Story Sandra Howard The story begins on the morning of Ursula’s ex-husband William’s new marriage with his three children excited that their father is marrying a Cabinet Minister and the Prime Minister will be among the guests. She, however, is bombarded by the... £5.24 Save 25%
My Vintage Summer Jane Elmor   June 2008 Debut of the Month.   Alternating in time between teenage ambition and married boredom, our narrator tells each tale in real-time, building tension and compulsion as she goes. You badly need to know what... £5.24 Save 25%
The Forgotten Garden Kate Morton The second novel from the author of the highly absorbing The House at Riverton, the viewers’ favourite of the Richard and Judy titles of last summer. This is even better. Not quite as sad and covering over 100 years,... £5.99 Save 25%
Ferney James Long April 2008 Book of the Month. I fell in love with this book when it was first published in 1997. It did moderately well but not as well as it should. I... £5.99 Save 25%
This Month's Featured 'Romance / Sagas' Books
It's a Kind of Magic Carole Matthews Emma is getting fed up with boyfriend Leo and when he turns up at her birthday dinner, late, drunk and completely embarrassing her that is the final straw. She wishes she could wave a magic wand and turn him in... £5.24 Save 25%
Twenty Wishes Debbie Macomber Debbie Macomber is getting better and better. In Twenty Wishes she brings in characters from her previous novel Wednesday’s at Four which gives a nice continuity to the books. Ann Marie has recently been widowed and joins a support group... £5.24 Save 25%
An Offer You Can't Refuse Jill Mansell Another funny, romantic novel from Jill Mansell to keep you company on the beach this summer. When Lola is offered £10,000 to break up with her boyfriend by his mum she has no intention of taking her up on the... £5.24 Save 25%
The Lost Duke of Wyndham Julia Quinn Julia Quinn is back with a new book and new characters in another regency romance. These are light and fun books with plenty of romance and a great book for an early summer read. Pure escapism, humorous and romantic. £5.24 Save 25%
This Month's Featured 'Horror / Fantasy / SciFi' Books
Black Ships Jo Graham July 2008 Debut of the Month.   This is a slightly difficult one to categorise as it seems to encompass several genres, part historical fiction, part supernatural, part romance this is a novel of... £5.99 Save 25%
Spellbound Margit Sandemo This is the first in the Legend of the Ice People series. Margit Sandemo has sold over 39 million copies of her books across Scandinavia and Eastern Europe and is now printed in English for the first time. This seems... £5.25 Save 25%
Blood Bound Patricia Briggs The second of the Mercedes Thompson series follows our heroine as she gets herself mixed up in mysteries and murder. Owing Stephan, the vampire, a favour means she finds herself caught up in a dangerous world but she is a... £5.24 Save 25%
Heart-Shaped Box Joe Hill A pacy and frightening story of revenge from beyond the grave. Ozzie-like rock star Jude, buys a ghost over the internet, and a heap of trouble along with it. What starts as a quirky haunting quickly grows into a terrifying... £5.24 Save 25%
This Month's Featured 'The Real World' Books
Match Wits with the Kids Jonathan Green A fun and enjoyable way to catch up on your learning, relive your schooldays and gen up on the topics kids are learning. Packed full of fun facts and tests for all the family, it’s a great way to hone... £6.74 Save 25%
Wogan's Twelve Terry Wogan After writing two highly successful autobiographies Terry is back to take us through a year in his life including radio, TV, charity events and the wonderful Eurovision Song Contest. Full of great anecdotes and experiences this is a warm and... £5.24 Save 25%
Keep Smiling Charlotte Church She may only be 21 but as she was "discovered" at the age of 11 she's had several years to pack in some fascinating and funny experiences. If you want a light fun, read then Charlotte does have an interesting... £5.99 Save 25%
Coconut Chaos Diana Souhami Escape to the remote island of Pitcairn and let the author weave a story of life there now and life when the first settlers from The Bounty landed there over 200 years ago. Rich in description, you can imagine yourself... £6.74 Save 25%
This Month's Featured ''new gen' - Great Fiction for Teens and Young Adults' Books
The Meaning Of Life Joanna Nadin Laugh out loud funny from the first page, The Meaning of Life, will be devoured by teenagers and adults in equal measure just as the Diaries of Adrian Mole hit the spot for a different generation. A spot-on teenage voice... £4.49 Save 25%
Love Struck Rachael Wing A story for teenagers by a teenager. Love Stuck is a thoroughly modern romance by the author of Star-crossed, her debut novel that was published to huge acclaim in 2007. Love-struck is a brilliant summer read for it touches... £4.49 Save 25%
Cathy's Key Jordan Weisman, Sean Stewart A brilliantly unique, action-packed and interactive novel for teens. It comes complete with evidence pack, providing that all important help to you the reader, alongside the linked online activity at www.cathyskey.co.uk to help solve the homicide investigation that Cathy, the protagonist... £9.74 Save 25%
Generation Dead Daniel Waters A deeply compelling, sparklingly original supernatural romance about discrimination, prejudice, the power of love and of life and death. A brilliant debut and yet the quality of the writing, both sharp and quirky and the original plot line makes it hard to believe... £5.24 Save 25%
Blood Ties Sophie Mckenzie Terrifically paced, this thriller links two teenagers who must work fast to unravel the past and discover the dangerous secret that unites them. Theo and Rachel have a lot at stake as they foil the plot of a group of extremists and get... £5.24 Save 25%
Eclipse Stephenie Meyer This is one of the newly popular vampire romances that are flooding over from America. It is the third in a series and one of the best. It is aimed mainly at a teenage reader but if you want a... £5.24 Save 25%
Waves Sharon Dogar This is an incredibly thought-provoking, lyrically written debut, which astounded me time after time with each new page. Sharon has cleverly intertwined two strands to the novel, past and present, into what I can best describe as unputdownable and original. The characters are superbly... £5.24 Save 25%
Before I Die Jenny Downham Winner of the Branford Boase Award 2008 for debut novel. This is a haunting yet truly amazing read but don't read it too young. Definitely not for someone less than 14 years old. If you knew you were going to... £5.24 Save 25%