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Richard and Judy Summer Read 2008
Richard and Judy are back again with a selection of titles ranging from historical fiction to fast-paced thrillers to keep us reading over the Summer months. All titles are available through your local library.
Linwood Barclay - No time for goodbye
What could be worse than losing your entire family in a single night ? 25 years later Cynthia Archer is about to find out, in this psychological thriller of secrets,lies and obsessive love.
James Bradley - The Resurrectionist
London 1826.Gabriel Swift arrives to study with Edwin Poll, the greatest of the city's anatomists. It is his chance to find advancement by making a name for himself. But instead he finds himself drawn to his master's nemesis. Lucan, the most powerful of the city's resurrectionists and ruler of its trade in stolen bodies.
Margaret Cezair-Thompson - The Pirate's Daughter
Spanning 30 years of Jamaican history , The Pirate's Daughter is a tale of passion and recklessness, of two generations of women and their battle for love and survival, and of a nation struggling to rise to the challenge of hard-won independence.
julia Gregson - East of the sun
Autumn 1928. Rose and Victoria are on their way to India, each with a new life in mind. Viva, their chaperone, is in search of the India of her childhood,ghosts from the past and freedom, But the hopes and secrets they carry can do little to prepare them for what lies ahead in India.
John Hart - Down river
Adam has been trying to wipe out the memory of his family's rejection. When his best friend summons him back to North Carolina, he has no choice but to return. Adam has just been acquitted of murder, and no-one trusts him. And when people start turning up dead, Adam is the prime suspect. He alone can clear his name.
Sadie Jones - The Outcast
1957, and Lewis Aldridge is travelling back to his home in the South of England. He is straight out of jail and 19 years old. His return will trigger the implosion not just of his family, but of a whole community.
Toni Jordan - Addition
Grace Lisa Vandenburg has obsessive-compulsive disorder. She counts everything, because numbers hold the world together. Seamus Joseph O'Reilly thinks she might be better off without the counting. Funny, headstrong and contrary, Grace isn't a victim, but she's not well either. And now she's about to fall in love.
Rebecca Miller - The private lives of Pippa Lee
At 50, Pippa Lee seems just fine. The devoted wife of a man 30 years her senior, the mother of successful twins and an adored friend and neighbour, she seems to glow with feminine serenity. But when her husband decides they should move into a retirement home, Pippa finds her personna unravelling in alarming ways .
Quick Reads
Quick reads are written by bestselling authors and celebrities like Ricky Tomlinson, Kerry Katona, Maeve Binchy and Andy McNab. They are compulsively readable,short, fast-paced paperbacks.They're ideal if you want a short fast read, if you want to get back into the reading habit or if you're just discovering the pleasure of reading. Large print and audio versions are also available through your local library.
Quick reads - first collection 2006
Patrick Augustus - Don't make me laugh
Maeve Binchy - Star Sullivan
John Bird - How to change your life in 7 steps
Richard Branson - Screw it, let's do it
Rowan Coleman - Woman walks into a bar
Mick Dennis - The Team
Tom Holt - Someone like me
Conn Iggulden - Blackwater
Matthew Reilly - Hell Island
Ruth Rendell - The thief
Joanna Trollope - The book boy
Minette Walters - Chickenfeed
Quick Reads - second collection 2006
Lynne Barrett-Lee - Secrets
Hunter Davies - I love football
John Francome - Winner takes all
Tom Holland - The poison in the blood
Katherine john - The corpse's tale
Damien Lewis - Desert claw
Val McDermid - Cleanskin
Andy McNab - The grey man
Courettia Newland - the dying wish
Mike Phillips - The name you once gave me
Gareth Roberts - I am a Dalek
Danny Wallace - Danny Wallace and the centre of the universe
Quick Reads - third collection 2007
Allen Carr - Burning ambition
Terrance Dicks - Made of steel
Adele Geras - Lily
Kerry Katona - Survive the worst and aim for the best
Maureen Lee - A dream come true
The Sun book of short stories
John Simpson - Twenty tales from the war zone
Ricky Tomlinson - Reading my arse
Orange Broadband Prize For Fiction 2008
The Orange Prize was launched in 1996.It is the UK's largest annual literary award for a single novel by a woman.The aim of the prize is not only to celebrate novels of excellence, originality and accessibility but also to promote women writers to as wide a range of male and female readers as possible.
This year's longlist has just been announced and features first novel writers and some more established authors.You can view all the titles on the longlist at www.orangeprize.co.uk
