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FRIDAY, 03 JULY 2009


Editor's Picks


Finger Lickin' Fifteen by Janet Evanovich
 
Finger Lickin' Fifteen by Janet EvanovichFinger Lickin' Fifteen is the 15th adventure in the Stephanie Plum series from the legendary Janet Evanovich and promises to be more side-splittingly funny and outrageous than ever. When Stephanie Plum loses her job as a lingerie buyer from New Jersey she has to take a job as a bounty hunter to make a living.
The book begins with the brutal murder of celebrity chef Stanley Chipotle, who's visiting Trenton to take part in a BBQ cook-off.  Lula, the clerk at the Bail Bonds office, witnesses the murder and the only person she'll talk to about it is Plum's on-off boyfriend, Officer Joe Morelli. A big reward is up for grabs for anyone who can provide the critical information leading to the capture of the killers and Lula wants it! More...

 

Published: 11th June 2009
RRP: £7.99

 

The Dragon Keeper by Robin Hobb
 
The Dragon KeeperGet ready for another journey along the Rain Wild Rivers with Dragon Keeper by Robin Hobb, a standalone novel which returns to the world of the Liveship Traders.

 

Tintaglia, the Blue Dragon, has hatched a batch of healthy dragons and is no longer interested in the underdeveloped Dragons that came from the cocoons of Maulkin's Serpent Tangle. Survival of the fittest is crucial so the Council decide that the pack must be moved to better hunting grounds and some dispensable citizens are gathered to tend to the beasts and escort them upriver. More...

 

Published: 25th June 2009
RRP: £20.00

 

Relentless by Dean Koontz
 
Relentless by Dean KoonzDean Koontz has done it again with his mesmerizing new thriller, Relentless, which looks closely at the fine-line between the best and worst of human nature and the chaos which festers just beneath the surface of society.
 
Writer Cullen "Cubby" Greenwich is a good-humoured and successful family man who's married to the love of his life, Penny, a children's book writer and illustrator and together they have a little six-year-old boy Milo.
 
Cubby is a lucky man and he knows it, he has a great family and his new book is triumph, so when he receives one cutting review he knows he shouldn't let it get to him, even if it is from highly influential critic Shearman Waxx from the nation's number 1 newspaper. Although Cubby decides to simply ignore the poisonous review, when he learns where Waxx is having his lunch, he decides to go and have a look at the man who can destroy people's careers with one fowl swoop of his pen, but this turns out to be an enormous mistake. More...

 

Published: 25th June 2009
RRP: £7.99

 

We Are All Made Of Glue by Marina Lewycka
 
We are all made of glue by Marina Lewycka Marina Lewycka is infamous for finding humour in the strangest of places and her new book “We Are All Made Of Glue” is no different.  The story can only be described as the synthesis of “Holocaust drama and knockabout comedy” and revolves around a very unlikely friendship between Georgie Sinclair and her eccentric Jewish neighbour Naomi Shapiro.

Georgie’s is down on her luck and has recently become single, when her good-for-nothing husband walked out on her. So when she spots her odd old Jewish neighbour, Mrs Shapiro stealing her rubbish, it’s just the distraction she needs and although they don’t bond instantly – Georgie exposes her as a compulsive liar and doesn’t like her filthy house that stinks of cat pee, while Mrs Sharpiro thinks Georgie needs to sort herself out, smarten up and find a new husband -the pair soon form a firm friendship over a spot of bargain hunting. More...

 

Published: 2nd July 2009
RRP: £18.99

 


New Releases


 
On Black Sister's Street
On Black Sister’s Street by Chika Unigwe
 
Published: 2nd July 09
RRP: £12.99

 

 

 

Genesis by Karin Slaughter 
Genesis by Karin Slaughter
 
Published: 2nd July 09
RRP: £18.99

 

Just Five Ingredients 
Just Five Ingredients by Ainsley Harriott
 
Published: 2nd July 09
RRP: £12.99

 

 

 The Unwanted
The Unwanted by Brett Battles
 
Published: 2nd July 09
RRP: £12.99

 

 Adventure: Earth's Most Thrilling Experienes
Adventure: Earth’s Most Thrilling Experiences
 
Published: 2nd July 09
RRP: £16.99

Chastened: No More Sex In The City

 Chastened: No More Sex In The City by Hephzibah Anderson
 
Published: 2nd July 09
RRP: £12.99


 For the kids!


 
Top 10 Bestselling Children's Books
 
  1. Breaking Dawn - Stephenie Meyer
  2. Eclipse - Stephenie Meyer
  3. New Moon - Stephenie Meyer
  4. Are These My Basoomas I see Before Me? - Louise Rennison
  5. Prom Nights From Hell - Meg Cabot, Stephenie Meyer
  6. Twilight - Stephenie Meyer
  7. The Boy In The Striped Pyjamas - John Boyne
  8. Miles To Go - Miley Cyrus
  9. Hunted - Kirstin Cast
  10. Untamed - P.C. Cast ; Kristin Cast
Prom Nights From Hell by Meg Cabot and Stephenie Meyer

 

 
Prom Nights From HellProm Nights from Hell is an extremely entertaining collection of 5 paranormal prom stories by popular authors Meg Cabot, Kim Harrison, Michele Jaffe, Lauren Myracle and Stephenie Meyer. Every author tells a unique story about a prom night gone bad, some even include vampires, angels, the grim reaper and demons - It makes usual teen prom-night troubles, like spots, or stepping on your dates feet look like a doddle! Great fun, great read!

 

 
Published: 25th June 09


Books In The Media


Take a look at these books which tie in with current TV programmes, popular films and news stories.
 

 Michael Jackson The Magic and The Madness

 

Michael Jackson: The Magic and the Madness by J. Randy Taraborrelli
 
Published: 4th June 04
RRP: £8.99

 Rob Da Bank's A-Z Of festivals

 

Rob Da Bank's A-Z Of Festivals by Rob Da Bank
 
Published: 1st May 09
RRP: £9.99

Cristiano Ronaldo: The £80 Million Man - Tom Oldfield 

 

Christiano Ronaldo: The £80 Million Man by Tom Oldfield
 
Published: 3rd August 09
RRP: £7.99

 y Sister's Keeper

 

My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult
 
Published: 11th June 09
RRP: £7.99

More News...


Leviathan, Or The Whale by Philip Hoare

 

 

Published: 02.07.09
 
Samuel Johnson Prize For Non-Fiction 2009Philip Hoare has been crowned the winner of the Samuel Johnson Prize For Non-Fiction 2009 and won the £20,000 prize for his book “Leviathan, or The Whale’, a classic study of all things whales, which was inspired by his childhood love of Moby-Dick.
 
Authors on a mission for statutory school libraries
  
Published: 02.07.09
 
A group of high profile authors, along with teachers, publishers and librarians are lobbying the government for statutory school libraries. The likes of Francesca Simon who writes Horrid Henry books, former children’s laureate Michael Rosen and Carnegie medal winners Mal Peet and Beverley Naidoo are taking their petition straight to 10 Downing Street, stating that literacy levels need to be improved and that it is unfair that prisoners have the statutory right to a library, but school children do not.
Precious Ramotswe has written a cookbook
 
Published: 02.07.09
 
Detective Agency heroine Precious Ramotswe is publishing a cookbook later this year, which will be a great alternative to all the diet cookbooks out there. Precious is a Botswanan women who was created by Alexander McCall 10 years ago and is the star of 10 of his books. One common theme that runs through these books is that Precious likes her food – everything from traditional Botswanan stew to fruitcakes. So, when BBC journalist Stuart Brown was working for a charity in Botswana he came up with the idea to write this cookbook using a collection of recipes he gathered along the way.

Mma Ramotswe's Cookbook will be published by November, with a foreword by McCall Smith.
 
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