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Where the Ocean Meets the Sky 
Solo into the Unknown

Author : Crispin Latymer 

Published: 2009

Synopsis extract: Solo transatlantic sail

Synopsis 3 words


19 Oct '13  

19 Oct '13

non-fiction

Merivel: A Man of His Time 

Author : Rose Tremain 

Published: 2012

Synopsis extract: Follow up to Restoration (which I had forgotten reading and enjoying) picks up Merivel's mature life

Synopsis 16 words


18 Sep '13  

18 Sep '13

fiction

The Detective's Daughter 

Author : Lesley Thomson 

Published: 2013

Synopsis extract: Investigation of a murder picked up by the daughter of the detective who originally investigated 20 years ago whoo turns out coincidentally to know or get involved with the protagionists

Synopsis 29 words


01 Sep '13  

1 Sep '13

fiction

Bring Up The Bodies 

Author : Hilary Mantel 

Published: 2011

Synopsis extract: Thomas Cromwell's continuing rise and rise in the court of Henry 8th

Synopsis 12 words


31 Aug '13  

31 Aug '13

fiction

The Complete Sherlock Holmes 

Author : Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 

No summary or synopsis available


15 Aug '13

15 Aug '13

fiction

The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry 

Author : Rachel Joyce 

Synopsis extract: Harold, aged about 65, recently retired, walks out of house in Kingsbridge Devon to post a letter to an old colleague dying of cancer in Berwick upon Tweed and carries on walking to visit her in person leaving wife Maud at home

Synopsis 41 words


14 Aug '13  

14 Aug '13

fiction

The Woman Who Walked Into The Sea 

Author : Mark Douglas-Home 

Synopsis extract: Thriller/murder mystery set in scotland spanning a generation

Synopsis 9 words


08 Jul '13

8 Jul '13

fiction

Flight Behaviour 

Author : Barbara Kingsolver 

Published: 2000

Synopsis extract: A modern fable of the effects of changes and relationships

Synopsis 10 words


24 May '13  

24 May '13

fiction

Company of Liars 

Author : Karen Maitland 

Synopsis extract: A walk in company through 14th Century England during the plague

Synopsis 11 words


23 May '13  

23 May '13

fiction

Cranford 

Author : Elizabeth Gaskell 

No summary or synopsis available


18 May '13  

18 May '13

fiction

The Girl Who Kicked The Hornets Nest 

Author : Stieg Larsson 

Synopsis extract: lisbeth back in action

Synopsis 4 words


17 May '13  

17 May '13

fiction

Our Kind of Traitor 

Author : John le Carre 

Synopsis extract: Russian criminal oligarch defects to British Intelligence to escape being overthrown. ...

Synopsis 27 words


30 Apr '13  

30 Apr '13

fiction

Roseanna 
Martin Beck Book 1

Authors : Maj Sjowall , Per Wahloo 

Published: 1962

Synopsis extract: Swedish police procedural investigation of murder

Synopsis 6 words


05 Apr '13  

5 Apr '13

fiction

Human Traces 

Author : Sebastian Faulks 

Published: 2005

No summary or synopsis available


10 Mar '13  

10 Mar '13

fiction

Why Are We The Good Guys? 

Author : David Cromwell 

Published: 2012

Synopsis extract: First half is analysis of media bias and propoganda focusing on war, climate and economics. ...

Synopsis 27 words


08 Mar '13  

8 Mar '13

non-fiction

The Girl Who Played with Fire 

Author : Stig Larsson 

Published: 2006

Synopsis extract: Lisabeth Salander and Mikael Bloomkist are back in this time we learn that the villian is her father and Mikael ends up saving her life.

Synopsis 25 words


24 Feb '13  

24 Feb '13

fiction

The Song of Achilles 

Author : Madeline Miller 

Synopsis extract: Patrolclus' story from boyhood to death on the plains of Troy at the hands of Hector

Synopsis 16 words


17 Feb '13

17 Feb '13

fiction

The Hundred Year Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared 

Author : Jonas Jonasson 

Synopsis extract: What the title says and then who he finds a trunk of money and drawing on his experience of having been places and met most significant world leaders in 20th century manages to make a new gang of friends and best the violent crooks who own the ...

Synopsis 58 words


12 Jan '13  

12 Jan '13

fiction

The Last Englishman 
The double life of Arthur Ransome

Author : Roland Chambers 

Published: 2009

Synopsis extract: Biography of A.Ransome covering the time before he became a writer, while he experienced the russian revolution and its aftermath

Synopsis 21 words


04 Jan '13  

4 Jan '13

non-fiction

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo 

Author : Stieg Larsson 

Published: 2005

Synopsis extract: Introducing Lisbeth and Bloomkist

Synopsis 4 words


15 Dec '12

15 Dec '12

fiction

Kind of Cruel 

Author : Sophie Hannah 

Synopsis extract: Stupid people in a stupid story

Synopsis 6 words


14 Dec '12  

14 Dec '12

fiction

Shieldwall 

Author : Justin Hill 

Synopsis extract: 11th century history from 1000ish to 1020ish told through eyes of Wolfnucuth who becomes adviser to Edmund Ironside

Synopsis 18 words


06 Dec '12  

6 Dec '12

fiction

Wolf Hall 

Author : Hilary Mantel 

Published: 2009

Synopsis extract: The rise and rise of Thomas Cromwell adviser to Henry 8th (and great grandad of the later Cromwell Lord Protector)

Synopsis 20 words


24 Nov '12  

24 Nov '12

fiction

Chavs 

Author : Owen Jones 

Published: 2010

Synopsis extract: The demonisation of the working class since 1978 and its social ill effects for all

Synopsis 14 words


10 Nov '12  

10 Nov '12

non-fiction

The Great Night 

Author : Chris Aidan 

Published: 2011

Synopsis extract: A dream of midsummer night in San Fransisco while the faeries come out to play

Synopsis 15 words


03 Oct '12  

3 Oct '12

fiction