Your next good read June 2008

New Titles by popular Authors

Bryce Courtenay Persimmon tree

Clive Cussler Plague ship

Katie Fforde Wedding season

Elizabeth George Careless in red

Reginald Hill Roar of the butterflies

Greg Iles Third degree

Allan Mallinson Warrior

James Patterson Sail

Nora Roberts Tribute

Gerald Seymour Time bomb

Marcia Willett The way we were

David Benioff
City of thieves
The author is a Hollywood screenwriter who wrote the screenplay for “The kite runner”. This is set during the siege of Leningrad when a young boy is set an impossible challenge where death is the penalty for failure.

Karin Fossum
Broken
A departure from the Inspector Sejer crime novels. Here the boundary between fact and fiction is explored as a woman is terrified one night by a strange man entering her bedroom. She is an author and he turns out to be a character desperate to have his story told in one of her books.

Amitav Ghosh
Sea of poppies
An epic saga set just before the opium wars, planned as the first of a trilogy. A slaving ship 'the Ibis' travels across the Indian Ocean with a motley crew of sailors, stowaways and convicts from East and West. The ties between them span continents, races and generations, and their stories are set in varied and exotic locations.

Nick Harkaway
The gone-away world
The author is the son of John le Carre , a fact which is sure to attract attention. The subject of the novel is quite unlike a Cold War spy thriller though, being a fantastical, futuristic novel set after the apocalypse. A professional hero and adventurer battles a fire in the backbone of the world in a story which defies much more explanation.

Susan Hill
Vows of silence
The fourth book in the series of Simon Serallier crime novels. A gunman is terrorising young women in a Cathedral town, but is there a link between the apparently random murders caused by different weapons? An intelligent and complex take on the crime genre.

Peter James
Dead Man’s footsteps
A new thriller in this series set in Brighton, in which Ronnie Wilson seizes the chance to disappear and reinvent himself in another country in the midst of the mayhem following the attack on the Twin Towers in New York. Five years later the discovery of a skeleton hidden in a drain leads to a desperate race to save the life of a young woman.

Simon Montefiore
Sashenka
A new departure for this highly regarded biographer and historian now re-invented as an historical novelist. This is an epic story of romance and revolution in the style of “Dr. Zhivago” featuring a beautiful young aristocrat and her involvement with the communists. Her family’s safety is compromised by a forbidden love affair.

Annie Sanders
Gap year for grown ups
After 20 years of marriage a woman embarks on an adventure to France alone, but soon a catastrophe threatens to spoil her plans.

Brian Thompson
The widow’s secret
Brian Thompson has written two acclaimed memoirs including the Costa Prize winning “Keeping Mum”. This debut novel is the first in a series of Victorian mysteries featuring Bella Wallis - a lady novelist involved in the case of a murdered prostitute.