Your next good read October 2008
New Titles by popular Authors
Cecilia Ahern The gift
David Baldacci Divine justice
Maeve Binchy Heart and soul
Barbara Taylor Bradford Being Elizabeth
Martina Cole The business
Jackie Collins Married lovers
Michael Connelly Brass verdict
Bernard Cornwell Azincourt
Alexander McCall Smith Comfort of Saturdays
Robert B Parker Rough weather
Alan Titchmarsh Folly
Stella Rimington Dead line
R J Ellory
Simple act of violence
A former “Richard and Judy” author with another gritty US detective novel. Elections are underway in Washington but Miller and his partner are trying to track down a serial killer by cross referencing all the crime details. One thing soon strikes them – none of the victims officially exist.
Julian Fellowes
Past imperfect
A wealthy man on his deathbed has one final goal, to discover whether he has an heir to inherit his millions. Although his marriage produced no children he had plenty of liaisons before that, and asks an old friend to check his list of former lovers in the hope of satisfying this final wish. Fellowes wrote the screenplay to “Gosford Park” and the novel “Snobs”.
Susan Hill
The beacon
Four children were raised in a remote farmhouse. May was the dutiful daughter who stayed behind to care for their aging parents and Frank was the one who got away. His name is never mentioned at home until the publication of a “misery memoir” highlights childhood sufferings. But were they real or imagined?
Elizabeth Jane
Howard Love all
In the late 1960s a mixed group of people come together to establish an arts festival in the West Country. Their intertwining relationships are explored in a gentle and moving story which should prove just as enjoyable as those in the Cazalet series.
Fiona McIntosh
Royal exile
The first in a new trilogy of fantasy novels. The tyrant Loethar is determined to overthrow the neighbouring kingdom of Penraven and to take for himself the magical powers of coercion possessed by the Valisars.
Irene Nemirovsky
All our worldly goods
This posthumously published novel reads like a prequel to “Suite Francaise” but also stands alone as complete novel. The setting is rural France in the brief interlude between the two World Wars, as families and young lovers become involved in a bitter feud.
Anita Shreve
Testimony
A sex scandal at a New England boarding school is about to break and the evidence has been recorded on videotape. The consequences of one impulsive action prove life changing and trigger a sequence of events which affect everyone connected to the school. Sometimes the best intentions can have the worst results.
Ali Smith
First person and other stories
Moving and funny short stories about the why and how of storytelling. Full of ideas and different ways of looking at things to really make the reader think. In one, a middle aged woman conducts a conversation with her 14 year old self, and in another a supermarket shopper finds a child in her trolley.
John Updike
Widows of EastwickThirty years after leaving town and being both married and widowed the three witches are drawn back to Eastwick. There are still memories of their mischief making amongst locals and not everyone welcomes them home.
