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This month's 'featured books'
The School of Life
How to Find Fulfilling Work Roman Krznaric, School of Life
How to know what you want to do, how to set about achieving your goal and how to sort out your need for certainty or money or is freedom of choice , with all the risks that involves, the most... Format: Paperback - Released: 10/05/2012
How to Worry Less About Money John Armstrong, School of Life
John Armstrong looks at our relationship with money, for most of us it’s too little, for a few it’s too much – but how much is enough, how do we relate to money, the spending and saving of it, can... Format: Paperback - Released: 10/05/2012
How to Stay Sane Philippa Perry, School of Life
Mental health is every bit as important as physical health and Philippa Perry explains the brain, how we organise our minds and the ways we can improve our mental agility and creativity but also help to deal with stress and... Format: Paperback - Released: 10/05/2012
How to Change the World John-Paul Flintoff, School of Life
On our own, can we make a difference? Of all six books, this was the one I was drawn to most, the examples of change, one person at a time, are inspiring and thought-provoking. John-Paul Flintoff also looks at the... Format: Paperback - Released: 10/05/2012
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Books of the Month
I Left My Tent in San Francisco Emma Kennedy
May 2012 Travel Book of the Month.
Startlingly honest and ridiculously funny, I Left My Tent in San Francisco is the miraculous story of how the hapless pair made it back alive to... Format: Paperback - Released: 26/04/2012
Virgin to Veteran : How To Get Cooking With Confidence Sam Stern
May 2012 Food and Drink Book of the Month.
With five cook books to his name, and he hasn't left University yet, Sam Stern is a cooking sensation. And with his compatriots in... Format: Hardback - Released: 10/05/2012
Bring Up the Bodies Hilary Mantel
May 2012 MEGA Book of the Month.
With her dazzling, utterly absorbing style of writing Bring Up the Bodies focuses on the downfall and destruction of the charismatic Anne Boleyn. This is the... Format: Hardback - Released: 10/05/2012
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Author of the Month
15 Seconds Andrew Gross
May 2012 Book of the Month.
If you love fast-paced, topical thrillers that you simply can't put down, then Andrew Gross and especially 15 Seconds is a great place to go. Pulled over... Format: Paperback - Released: 26/04/2012
Killing Hour Andrew Gross
The jaw-dropping unputdownable new novel from the guy who co-authored five No. 1 James Patterson bestsellers including Judge and Jury and Lifeguard. Now a bestselling novelist in his own right with hit thrillers The Blue Zone and... Format: Paperback - Released: 14/04/2011
Reckless Andrew Gross
Hauck has left law enforcement for a job with a big-time private security firm. But he quickly learns that life in the private sector can be every bit as dangerous as wearing a badge - if not more so... Format: Paperback - Released: 04/03/2010
Don't Look Twice Andrew Gross
A revenge killing. A dead public attorney. And a family caught in the cross-fire. For local detective Ty Hauck, life is good. A waterfront house, a new girlfriend and, after uncovering a Wall Street scandal, he's even a local hero.... Format: Paperback - Released: 28/05/2009
This month's 'featured books'
eBooks
That Summer at Hill Farm Miranda France
Farmer Hayes loves the land - but hates farming. His neglected wife Isabel adores her three children, but is temperamentally unsuited to life as a wife and mother. The Smith sisters have not spoken to one another for forty years,... Format: Paperback - Released: 03/05/2012
Nobody Lives For Ever John Gardner
In Nobody Lives Forever, the fifth in Gardner's bestselling series, Fleming's superspy is at the top of his game.
James Bond series:1. Licence Renewed2. For Special Services3. Icebreaker4. Role of Honour5. Format: Paperback - Released: 10/05/2012
Hellfire James Holland
An impenetrable Axis spy circuit could be compromising any hope the Allies have of stemming the Nazi tide. Jack Tanner, recovering from wounds in a Cairo hospital, is astonished to receive a battlefield commission which will propel him into a... Format: Paperback - Released: 10/05/2012
The Midnight Palace Carlos Ruiz Zafon
From the author of The Shadow of the Wind, the haunting story of a secret society and a labyrinthine railway station with a dark past. Written with a teenage audience in mind but enjoyable by all. Format: Paperback - Released: 26/04/2012
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Debuts of the Month
The Light Between Oceans M. L. Stedman
May 2012 MEGA Debut of the Month.
What a brilliant and memorable debut. Superb characters, heart-rending plot and, set on an island 100 miles from Australia, a uniquely beautiful setting. After the horrors... Format: Hardback - Released: 26/04/2012
The Hypnotist Lars Kepler
When a whole family is murdered in Stockholm, Inspector Joona Linna is brought in to investigate the murky case and soon uncovers an unsettling connection to disgraced hypnotist and medic Erik Maria Bark. With uber-villains in the Thomas Harris mould... Format: Paperback - Released: 12/04/2012
The Summer of Secrets Alison Lucy
An ill-fated marriage leads to a disastrous honeymoon but years later the repercussions of the holiday see three young women seeking a potentially dangerous truth. Great escapist summertime reading. Perfect for fans of Veronica Henry and Tasmina Perry. Format: Paperback - Released: 17/05/2012
All That I Am Anna Funder
May 2012 Debut of the Month.
An historical 'flash-back' novel based on the life of the author's friend. It recounts the challenges faced by German emigres living abroad during the rise of Hitler... Format: Paperback - Released: 10/05/2012
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