Sat, 08 Jan 2011 23:22:44 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/run-romi-run:-a-tale-of-cricket-at-mauji-23-114534.html Unruly, restless and impulsive, all of thirteen years, Romi is the hero of his world. And sharing his great affinity for nadventure and unknown are his three friends:--the rascal Sukhi, the deadpan Sunny and the na ve Golu. There is nnever a dull moment for the four, in school or in the maidan where most of their life is spent battling for their dream- nLifting of the Eagle, annual inter-school cricket cup.nSet in the laidback and idyllic town of Mauji, Run Romi Run is the story of Romi s journey from a spirited reckless ntown boy to a disciplined young man. A poignant tale of loss and triumph, this book is a reminder of the unaffected ndreams of childhood and the lost child in all of us.

Author: TUSHAR RAHEJA  Publisher: INDIK]]> Mon, 20 Dec 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/shades-of-grey-23-114517.html Welcome to Chromatacia, where the societal hierarchy is strictly regulated by one's limited color perception. And Eddie Russet wants to move up. But his plans to leverage his better-than-average red perception and marry into a powerful family are quickly upended. Juggling inviolable rules, sneaky Yellows, and a risky friendship with an intriguing Grey named Jane who shows Eddie that the apparent peace of his world is as much an illusion as color itself, Eddie finds he must reckon with the cruel regime behind this gaily painted facade.

Author: JASPER GRADE  Publisher: HODDER]]> Sun, 19 Dec 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/the-guide-23-114314.html Raju, a corrupt tourist guide, together with his lover, the dancer Rosie, leads a prosperous life before he is thrown into prison. After his release he rests on the steps of an abandoned temple when a peasant passing by mistakes him for a holy man. Slowly, almost reluctantly, he begins to play the part, acting as a spiritual guide to the village community. Raju’s holiness is put to the test when a drought strikes the village, and he is asked to fast for twelve days to summon the rains. Set in Narayan’s fictional town,

Author: R K NARAYAN  Publisher: PENGUIN]]> Wed, 15 Dec 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/shadow-men-23-114313.html A thick mist envelops an isolated house and a cottage atop a hill. Raseel, looking out from the verandah of the house, watches the mist as it covers first the plants, then the trees and finally the house. Suddenly it parts, and three men come into view, furtive, quick. Then they’re gone. Minutes later, Raseel hears the sound of shots. Then there is silence. The reader is pulled into Bijoya Sawian’s tense and dramatic story of the strange death of a dkhar, an outsider, in the beautiful hill town of Shillong in northeastern India. Why was he killed? Who are the killers? Are they known to the housekeeper and driver? As she begins to unravel this mystery, Raseel finds herself caught in a tale of intrigue and violence that mirrors the world of insurgency around her. In lyrical, haunting prose, Bijoya Sawian paints a dark, threatening picture and shows how violence has tainted the very fabric of everyday

Author: BIJOYA SAWIAN  Publisher: PENGUIN - ZUBAAN]]> Wed, 15 Dec 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/jimmy-the-terrorist-23-114309.html In Moazzamabad, UP, too large to be a town and too backward to be a city, a young man stabs a police inspector and is beaten to death. The last words he speaks are, My name is Jimmy the Terrorist. Journalists descend on the town, like shrill birds , and a long-time resident decides to tell a story that none of them will know. Jimmy was once Jamaal, son of Rafiq Ansari of Rasoolpur Mohalla, a Muslim neighbourhood in a Hindu town. And his story goes back a long way: to the time when Moazzamabad was named, after Aurangzeb s son; when Rafiq was seduced by the wealth and refinements of Shabbir Manzil and married Shaista; when the Hanuman temple grew ten storeys high and the head priest was elected mayor; when Shaista died, a mosque was brought down in Ayodhya and Rafiq became a mullah. As Jamaal grows up, watching both his father and his neighbourhood change and curfew reach Moazzamabad, he is changed himself. He becomes Jimmy, one among the countless marginalized trying to find a place in the world, dimly aware that the choices that shape their lives are being made in distant places, where they have no influence. Shortlisted for the Man Asian Prize 2009, this spare, compelling novel, as intimate as it is political, confirms Omair Ahmad s reputation as one of the most distinctive and exciting new voices in Indian fiction.

Author: OMAIR AHMAD  Publisher: HAMISH HAMILTON]]> Wed, 15 Dec 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/stories-of-the-soil-:-classic-punjabi-stories-23-114310.html Waris Shah, I call out to you Rise from your grave Speak out and turn a page Of another book of love . . . —Amrita Pritam Stories of the Soil is a collection of over forty classic Punjabi short stories. Combining a rich oral tradition of kissas with tropes from Western literature, Punjabi short-story writers have developed their own unique way of portraying love, longing, ecstasy and malice. Spanning a century, these stories talk of life in the village and the town. There are haunting tales about Partition like ‘A Matter of Faith’ by Gulzar Singh Sandhu where a horrible tragedy is viewed through the eyes of a child. Along with sensitive accounts of life from across the border in Pakistan are tales by the Dalits who until recently had been rendered voiceless. Amrita Pritam’s ‘The Vault’, a metaphor for a barren womb, explores the identity of a Punjabi woman while stories like Surjit Birdi’s ‘Flies’ reveals the concerns faced by the Punjabi diaspora. Translated and edited by Nirupama Dutt, these carefully selected stories reflect every aspect of life in the land of five rivers.

Author: NIRUPMA DUTT  Publisher: PENGUIN]]> Wed, 15 Dec 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/the-great-unknown-23-114278.html 1950s Calcutta. Seventeen-year-old Shankar walks on to Old Post Office Street to become a clerk in the Calcutta High Court. There he meets the last English barrister, and thus begins their unusual and unforgettable relationship. The Great Unknown is the moving story of the many people Shankar meets in the courtrooms and lawyers chambers of Old Post Office Street some seeking justice, others watching the drama of life unfold. It offers a uniquely personal glimpse into their world of unfulfilled dreams and duplicity, of unexpected tragedy, as well as hope and exhilaration. Here you will meet Marian Stuart, who journeys from Lebanon to India in search of a husband and happiness; the once-rich but now-destitute Englishman James Gould; Helen Grubert, the embittered Anglo-Indian typist, who wins her breach-of-promise case but has a miraculous change of heart; Nicholas Droulas, the betrayed Greek sailor desperate for revenge; Shefali Mitra, the distraught mother fighting to hold on to the daughter she did not give birth to; Chhoka-da, the benevolent babu who takes the young clerk under his wing; and the barrister sahib who profoundly enriches Shankar s life with his own experiences. The Great Unknown (Kato Ajanarey), Sankar s debut novel, first appeared in Desh in 1955. An instant success, it remains immensely popular more than fifty years after its publication. This first-ever English translation captures the simplicity and poignancy of the original.

Author: MANI SHANKAR MUKHERJI, SOMA DAS  Publisher: PENGUIN]]> Wed, 15 Dec 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/family-matters-23-114494.html Nariman Vakeel, a 79-year-old Parsi widower, beset by Parkinson's disease and haunted by memories of the past, lives in a once-elegant apartment with his two middle-aged stepchildren. When his condition worsens he is forced to take up residence with Roxana, his own daughter, her husband, Yezad, and their two young sons.

Author: ROHINTON MISTRY  Publisher: FABER AND FABER]]> Wed, 08 Dec 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/real-simple-meals-made-easy-23-64687.html When it comes to the challenges you face every day, getting dinner on the table is always at the top of the list. Not only do you want the meal to be healthy and taste good, but you want it to be fast and simple to prepare. As straightforward as that sounds, somehow-in the midst of a busy life- the task seems nearly impossible. In Meals Made Easy, the first of a series of Real Simple cookbooks, you will find smart and doable dinnertime solutions for every night of the week, no matter how little time (or few ingredients) you have. Even better, these are dishes the whole family will love- yes, including your children. Featuring more than 75 foolproof recipes, all illustrated with large, lush photos, Meals Made Easy is custom-made for your life, with chapters dedicated to: Dishes that can be prepared and ready in 30 minutes or less Freezer-friendly dinners to make ahead of time and eat whenever Cuisine that calls only for a cutting board-no cooking necessary Meals you can cobble together using the items in your pantry Recipes that require just one pot (and blessedly very little cleanup time) In addition, the book features insightful cooking tips on every page, a chapter on versatile side dishes, and a comprehensive, easy-to-use recipe index. Whether you have only 15 minutes until the kids invade the kitchen or only a hunk of Parmesan and cold pasta in the refrigerator, Meals Made Easy is sure to become your go-to guide for nightly meal planning.

Author: EDITORS OF REAL SIMPLE MAGAZINE  Publisher: HBGAG]]> Tue, 07 Dec 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/my-paper-chase-23-114460.html From a wartime beach in Wales to the gleaming skyscrapers of twenty-first-century Manhattan, the extraordinary career of Fleet Street legend Harold Evans has spanned five decades of tumultuous social, political and creative change. Just how did a working class Lancashire boy, who failed the eleven-plus, rise to a position where he could so effectively give voice to the unheard? Born in the eak years between the wars in the sprawl of Greater Manchester into a thrifty, diligent and loving family, Evans inherited only the privilege of his parents` example. Theirs was a work ethic that led Evans through night school classes, national service and a passionate commitment to regional life, and, finally, to his unassailably successful editorship of one of our greatest newspapers, the Sunday Times. Whether unpicking the murderous chaos of oody Sunday, pursuing a foreign correspondent`s murderers or uncovering the atrocity of Thalidomide, this consummate newsman evokes his contagious passion: for the real story and the truth. 

Author: EVANS, HAROLD  Publisher: LBUK]]> Tue, 07 Dec 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/life:-heaven-on-earth-expanded-edition-23-64860.html The editors of Life have called upon their considerable experience to honour 100 of the most fascinating, the most splendid, the most unforgettable of all destinations. From the Great Pyramid and the Sphinx to the mysteries of Easter Island and Stonehenge, the editors of Life draw on the world's finest photography to reveal why readers must include these truly special places in their lives' itineraries. Drink in the kaleidoscope that is Australia's Great Barrier Reef and gaze at the majesty of Africa's Mount Kilimanjaro. Sample the sophisticated splendor of the Tuileries Gardens in Paris, as well as the sun baked wonders of the fortress city of the Andes: Machu Picchu. And, of course, the treasures of America are not forgotten, such as the awe-inspiring Grand Canyon and the serene Atlantic beauty of Nantucket Island. This is a volume designed to stimulate and provoke, to suggest and gently lead. It will prove to be a treasured collector's edition.

Author: EDITORS OF LIFE MAGAZINE  Publisher: HBGAG]]> Tue, 07 Dec 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/a-thread-so-thin-23-114435.html While New Bern, Connecticut, lies under a blanket of snow, the Cobbled Court Quilt Shop remains a cozy haven for its owner, Evelyn Dixon, and her friends. Evelyn relishes winter's slower pace - besides, internet sales are hopping, thanks to her son Garrett's efforts.

Author: BOSTWICK, MARIE  Publisher: HBGAG]]> Tue, 07 Dec 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/the-weed-that-strings-the-hangman-s-bag-23-114436.html The story opens with the immortal words 'I was lying dead in the churchyard' (spoken, astonishingly, by Flavia herself) and ends with a funeral watched by the De Luce family on a newly-installed television set. Inbetween, Alan Bradley weaves a hauntingly nightmarish tale that involves Punch & Judy - and in particular Mr Punch's nemesis, the hangman, Jack Ketch - a frighteningly realistic puppet show, and a hitherto unexplored corner of Bishop's Lacey known as Gibbet's Wood. The plot, beginning with the arrival in Bishop's Lacey of a travelling puppet show, features a grisly murder during a performance of Jack and the Beanstalk in the village hall and reaches back to an earlier, even nastier crime centring on an ancient, rotting gibbet that has lain like a shadow over the village for years. For Flavia, undoing the complex knot that ties these strands together will test her precocious powers of deduction to the limit - and provide a shocking insight into some of the darker corners of the adult world.

Author: BRADLEY, ALAN  Publisher: ORPG]]> Tue, 07 Dec 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/let-s-get-it-on-23-114455.html LET'S GET IT ON

Author: DAVIS, DYANNE  Publisher: HBGAG]]> Tue, 07 Dec 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/a-little-bit-wild-23-114454.html Jude Bertrand is not an excellent dancer. Nor does he wear the most fashionable coats. But when Marissa York's brother approaches him, desperate to preserve Marissa's tenuous reputation, Jude does prove heroic enough to offer to marry the girl. In fact, the union should more than make up for his lack of social graces - and his own scandalous past.

Author: DAHL, VICTORIA  Publisher: HBGAG]]> Tue, 07 Dec 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/the-dopefiend-23-114451.html THE DOPEFIEND

Author: COLEMAN, JAQUAVIS  Publisher: HBGAG]]> Tue, 07 Dec 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/rock-chicks-23-114452.html ROCK CHICKS

Author: COOPER, RONNI  Publisher: LBUK]]> Tue, 07 Dec 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/live-long-finish-strong:-the-divine-secret-to-living-healthy-and-happy-beyond-100-23-114453.html In LIVE LONG, FINISH STRONG, Gloria Copeland presents a scripturally sound program to help readers claim the Bible promise of a long and blessed life . . . and a glorious death by "divine appointment." Gloria believes the Bible teaches that God desires for every Christian to live healthily beyond 100. In this book, Gloria reveals that the secret to finding this "Bible-based fountain of youth" is in daily receiving by faith and obedience the life-giving Word of God and allowing it to energize and renew our bodies. Each chapter helps readers discover and implement the principles of this amazing process. Here is an insightful new look at God's divine health plan for His children and a personal invitation by the author to join her in living a long and strong life until God calls us home in victory and triumph.

Author: COPELAND, GLORIA  Publisher: HBGUS]]> Tue, 07 Dec 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/watson-brothers-23-114465.html In My House, My Rules , sweetly sexy and extremely determined Ariel drives tough, rugged cop Sam Watson over the edge. When Ariel's headstrong ways nearly wreck one of Sam's sting operations - ruining her dress in the process - he offers her a ride to his place to clean up. But Ariel seems to have her own agenda, and Sam decides it's time to show the lady that if she wants to play games of seduction, he'll be calling the shots... Bringing Up Baby : Gil Watson's wild night on a business trip two years ago resulted in a daughter he never knew he had. Now that the girl's mother is gone, he wants to do right by his little girl, even if it means a marriage of convenience with the woman who's been raising her. Anabel Truman is totally wrong for him. But the sensations she rouses in Gil feel totally right. Good With His Hands : As best friends, Pete Watson and Cassidy McClannahan have a 'no sex' relationship. 'No sex' equals continuing friendship. 'Ohmygodyes' sex equals big problems. It may be a rigid rule, but it works - until Pete decides he wants to push the line and transform himself into the perfect guy he thinks Cassidy wants

Author: FOSTER, LORI  Publisher: HBGAG]]> Tue, 07 Dec 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/beloved-enemy-23-114461.html Risking her life to transport Royalist fugitives to safety, Virginia Courtney becomes the prisoner of Colonel Alexander Marshall, an honorable soldier who seizes her family's estate, and the two passionate enemies soon find themselves torn between duty and love. Reissue.

Author: FEATHER, JANE  Publisher: HBGAG]]> Tue, 07 Dec 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/seasons-have-changed-23-114462.html Cassandra Price cut her family ties so long ago it's hard to recall life before she left the place she once called home. Living with the man of her dreams was all that really mattered, and it was worth emptying herself of the past. There was just one problem: it was all short-lived. Her best laid plans unraveled before the engine could cool on the 747 that landed her in sunny California. Now, twenty years later, she is summoned to return home for family's sake, and while she thought she'd never consider going back, it couldn't have come at a better time. Cassandra is determined to keep the terms short and use the time to orchestrate the next phase of her life. Blaine Warner is a total package, and every single woman's dream come true. He is in high demand in the small neighborhood where Cassandra has returned. Blaine has to check every woman that throws herself his way; that is, until he lays eyes on Cassandra. He envisions making Cassandra a part of his world, and is doing everything possible to get and keep her attention. Cassandra is standing at an emotional crossroads. She's not sure she's willing to risk her heart again for the love of family or for Blaine. One thing is for certain, though: she has to forever seal the door to a past that could tear her family apart.

Author: FINNEY, RENA A.  Publisher: HBGAG]]> Tue, 07 Dec 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/the-bohemian-girl-23-114443.html 1901. Denton, a writer with a reputation for involving himself in murder cases, is used to getting unconventional mail. But one particular letter gets his attention: a note from a young woman, Mary, saying she's in terrible danger and needs his help. The letter is months old, and was only forwarded to him when the buyer of a painting found it stuck behind the frame. Presumably whatever Mary was frightened of has already happened. So why did she hide the note behind this particular painting, instead of sending it? The search for answers leads Denton into the heart of Bohemian London - the world of artists and their models, a world of brilliance and depravity, of unconventional morals and shifting sexual identities, where the border between genius and madness is hard to discern but easy to cross. And before he has learned the shocking truth, Denton will discover what it's like to be the object of a lethal obsession and endure a terrifying confrontation with his own demons.

Author: CAMERON, KENNETH  Publisher: ORPG]]> Tue, 07 Dec 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/the-second-woman-23-114444.html The third Denton mystery centres on political intrigue, terrorism 1900s-style and the beginnings of the British secret intelligence organization, as London becomes a hotbed of anarchist plotting. Denton is drawn into a complex web of murder and revenge when a mysterious Polish woman is found dead in the house adjoining his - the one occupied by his lover, Janet Stryker - and while the police remain baffled, he begins to suspect she is the victim of some sort of political conspiracy. But involving himself in the life and death of Lydia Alken will prove more dangerous than he could have imagined, as Denton himself falls victim to the fledgling British intelligence service and discovers exactly what the price of freedom really is, while the real story of Lydia Alken's murder provides the biggest shock of all.

Author: CAMERON, KENNETH  Publisher: ORPG]]> Tue, 07 Dec 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/the-second-woman-23-114445.html The third Denton mystery centers on political intrigue, terrorism 1900s-style and the beginnings of the British secret intelligence organization, as London becomes a hotbed of anarchist plotting. Denton is drawn into a complex web of murder andrevenge when a mysterious Polish woman is found dead in the house adjoining his - the one occupied by his lover, Janet Stryker - and while the police remain baffled, he begins to suspect she is the victim of some sort of political conspiracy. But involving himself in the life and death of Lydia Alken will prove more dangerous than he could have imagined, as Denton himself falls victim to the fledgling British intelligence service and discovers exactly what the price of freedom really is, while the real story of Lydia Alken's murder provides the biggest shock of all.

Author: CAMERON, KENNETH  Publisher: ORPG]]> Tue, 07 Dec 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/the-king-of-the-crags-23-114456.html Prince Jehal has murdered, poisioned and betrayed his way to the top. There is a new speaker for the realms, his opposition has been crushed, now he just has to enjoy the fruits of power. And yet ...He feels more for the wife he married for power than perhaps he should and his lover knows it. And out in the realms those loyal to the old regime are still plotting. and there are rumours that the Red Riders, heralds of revolution and doom are on the ride. And still no-one has found the famous white dragon. The dragon that, if it lived, will have long since recovered from the effects of the alchemical liquid fed to the the dragons of the realms to keep them docile, to block their memories of a time when they ruled and the world burned ...Stephen Deas has created an epic world, vivid characters, a plot full of betrayals and the most awesome dragons fantasy has seen.

Author: DEAS, STEPHEN  Publisher: ORPG]]> Tue, 07 Dec 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/the-disappeared-23-114457.html After more than 30 years Anne Greves feels compelled to break her silence about her first lover, and a treacherous pursuit across Cambodia's killing fields. Once she was a motherless girl from taciturn immigrant stock. Defying fierce opposition, she falls in love with Serey, a gentle rebel and exiled musician. She's still only 16 when he leaves her in their Montreal flat to return to Cambodia And, after a decade without word, she abandons everything to search for him in the bars of Phnom Penh, a city traumatized by the Khmer Rouge slaughter. Against all odds the lovers are reunited, and in a political country where tranquil rice paddies harbour the bones of the massacred, Anne pieces together a new life with Serey. But there are wounds that love cannot heal, and some mysteries too dangerous to know. And when Serey disappears again, Anne discovers a story she cannot bear. Haunting, vivid, elegiac, The Disappeared is a tour de force; at once a battle cry and a piercing lamentation, for truth, for love.

Author: ECHLIN, KIM  Publisher: LBUK]]> Tue, 07 Dec 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/secrets-of-the-tudor-court-23-114434.html When young Mary Howard receives the news that she will be leaving her home for the grand court of King Henry VIII, to attend his mistress Anne Boleyn, she is ecstatic. Everything Anne touches seems to turn to gold, and Mary is certain Anne will one day become Queen. But Mary has also seen the King's fickle nature and how easily he discards those who were once close to him...Discovering that she is a pawn in a carefully orchestrated plot devised by her father, the duke of Norfolk, Mary dare not disobey him. Yet despite all of her efforts to please him, she too falls prey to his cold wrath. Not until she becomes betrothed to Harry Fitzroy, the Duke of Richmond and son to King Henry VIII, does Mary finds the love and approval she's been seeking. But just when Mary believes she is finally free of her father, the tides turn. Now Mary must learn to play her part well in a dangerous chess game that could change her life - and the course of history.

Author: BOGDAN, D.L.  Publisher: HBGAG]]> Tue, 07 Dec 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/five-ways-to-kill-a-man-23-114472.html A beautifully crafted, darkly atmospheric crime novel from one of Scotland's most talked-about crime writers

Author: GRAY, ALEX  Publisher: LBUK]]> Tue, 07 Dec 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/house-rules-23-114493.html Jacob Hunt is a teenager: brilliant at maths, wicked sense of humor, extraordinarily organized, hopeless at reading social cues. And Jacob has Asperger s. He is locked in his own world aware of the world outside, and wanting to make a connection. Jacob tries to be like everyone else, but doesn t know how. When his tutor is found dead, all the hallmark behaviors of Jacob s syndrome not looking someone in the eye, odd movements, inappropriate actions start looking a lot like guilt to the police. And Jacob s mother must ask herself the hardest question in the world: is her child capable of murder?

Author: PICOULT, JODI  Publisher: HACHETTE GROUP]]> Tue, 07 Dec 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/p-i-e-c-e-s--23-114466.html P.I.E.C.E.S.

Author: FOURNIER, TAMMY  Publisher: HBGAG]]> Tue, 07 Dec 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/spotlight-23-114467.html A fallen star. A runaway bride. They're about to be pitted against each other by a very powerful man. Madison Miller has everything - beautiful, talented and just a little bit naive; she's the small-town girl who swept to victory on America's hottest talent show to become the nation's sweetheart. She's also head-over-heels in love with the man who's masterminded her career - the head-spinningly powerful, lethally attractive Beau Silverman. But there's trouble in paradise...Jess has bolted from her approaching wedding and a dead-end job in London to chase dreams of being a fashion designer in New York. But she's finding life in the Big Apple tough, until she meets a man who makes her an offer she can't refuse. It means a taste of a life she's never had - glamorous parties, paparazzi, haute couture - but at what price? Sweeping from the hotspots of LA to the coolest bars of New York, SPOTLIGHT cuts a gloriously fun swathe through the world of celebrity and glamour, with a page-turning story at its heart.

Author: FOX, ILANA  Publisher: ORPG]]> Tue, 07 Dec 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/nothing-but-deception-23-114473.html Secrets. Jean-Philippe Durand has had enough of them. First, his mother's deathbed revelation - the one that brought him to England in search of his true father. And now, the secrets kept by the Englishwoman who has become his muse. Philippe wants more than just to paint Beatrice, he wants to show her every pleasure society has denied her...

Author: GRAY, ALLEGRA  Publisher: HBGAG]]> Tue, 07 Dec 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/trouble-down-the-road-23-114475.html TROUBLE DOWN THE ROAD

Author: GRIFFIN, BETTYE  Publisher: HBGAG]]> Tue, 07 Dec 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/if-memory-serves-merch-levy--23-114476.html IF MEMORY SERVES (MERCH/LEVY)

Author: GRIGGS, VANESSA DAVIS]]> Tue, 07 Dec 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/love-me-not-23-114459.html Have you ever loved somone so much that no force on earth could change what you felt? Sasha Freeman thought she found that type of love, only to realize she had been snowed. Sasha lives in a perfect world, where her career, finances and social life are in order. But, something is missing, she is missing love. When she finally rekindles what she thought she had with Montel, it seems her luck has finally changed. Unfortunately, it hasn't, and she finds herself wrapped up in a web of deceit, lies and pain. As her life begins to crumble before her eyes, she wonders if she will find her way back, or be lost forever. Snowed is a tale of good and not so good relationships, and what happens when you let a sometimes misleading heart control everything you sense. To be snowed you have to have put your whole heart into someone else and dispel the insecure and uncertain feelings because you are in love. That Person has you under their spell, and what you think is unconditional love is misguided and misdirected. Snowed is unreciprocated love, that can lead to self-destruction. Will Sasha stay forever snowed and continue to make the same mistakes over and over again, when it comes to relationships or has she finally learned her lesson?

Author: ELLIS, NISHAWNDA  Publisher: HBGAG]]> Tue, 07 Dec 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/wired-for-god--23-114464.html Human religious experiences are remarkably uniform; many can be pharmacologically induced. Recent research into the neurology of religious experience has shown that, when worshipping or praying, a certain part of the brain, apparently dormant during other activities, becomes active. What does all this mean for those of faith and those with none? In this fascinating book barrister Charles Foster takes a survey of the evidence -- from shamans to medieval mystics, to out-of-body experiences and epilepsy, via Jerusalem and middle-class Christianity -- and assesses its significance. Written in short, accessible chapters, this is a fascinating tour of religious and mystical experiences and their relation to human physiology.

Author: FOSTER, CHARLES  Publisher: H&S]]> Tue, 07 Dec 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/first-lord-s-fury-23-114441.html The aging First Lord of Alera has fallen in battle. Yet his people must continue to resist an invading inhuman army. Desperate Alerans even pledge fealty to the Vord Queen to survive, turning the incredible power of Aleran furies back on their own people. And despite all efforts, the Alerans are being ground into dust and pushed to the farthest reaches of their own realm. However, Tavi has returned with vital insights from the Canim Blood Lands. He knows how to counter the Vord and, more importantly, believes human ingenuity can equal fury-born powers. Now events are rushing towards a last stand, where Tavi and the last Aleran legions must formulate a dangerous new strategy, together. For a civilisation is on the brink of extinction

Author: BUTCHER, JIM  Publisher: LBUK]]> Tue, 07 Dec 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/life:-royals-23-114458.html LIFE: ROYALS

Author: EDITORS OF LIFE MAGAZINE  Publisher: HBGAG]]> Tue, 07 Dec 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/spotlight-23-114468.html A fallen star. A runaway bride. They're about to be pitted against each other by a very powerful man. Madison Miller has everything - beautiful, talented and just a little bit naive; she's the small-town girl who swept to victory on America's hottest talent show to become the nation's sweetheart. She's also head-over-heels in love with the man who's masterminded her career - the head-spinningly powerful, lethally attractive Beau Silverman. But there's trouble in paradise...Jess has bolted from her approaching wedding and a dead-end job in London to chase dreams of being a fashion designer in New York. But she's finding life in the Big Apple tough, until she meets a man who makes her an offer she can't refuse. It means a taste of a life she's never had - glamorous parties, paparazzi, haute couture - but at what price? Sweeping from the hotspots of LA to the coolest bars of New York, SPOTLIGHT cuts a gloriously fun swathe through the world of celebrity and glamour, with a page-turning story at its heart.

Author: FOX, ILANA  Publisher: ORPG]]> Tue, 07 Dec 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/halfway-to-the-grave-23-114470.html Half-vampire Catherine Crawfield is going after the undead with a vengeance, hoping that one of those deadbeats is her father - the guy responsible for ruining her mother's life. But when she's captured by Bones, a bounty hunter and a vampire, she finds herself forced into an unholy partnership. In exchange for his help in finding her father, and still astonished she hasn't ended up as his dinner, Cat agrees to train with the sexy night stalker until her battle reflexes are as sharp as his fangs. But that's not all Bones has to show her - Cat's starting to believe maybe vampires aren't all evil after all, especially ones as cute as Bones. She's half-convinced that being half-dead doesn't have to be all bad. But before she can enjoy her newfound status as confident kick-ass demon hunter Cat finds herself, and Bones, hotly pursued by a band of killers. She's is going to have to pick a side - and fast ...'Halfway to the Grave has breathless action, a roller-coaster plot, flashes of dark humour, and a love story that will leave you screaming for more. I devoured it in a single sitting and I can't wait for the sequel!' Ilona Andrews, New York Times Bestseller

Author: FROST, JEANIENE  Publisher: ORPG]]> Tue, 07 Dec 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/chanakya-s-chant-23-114419.html The year is 340 BC. A hunted, haunted Brahmin youth vows revenge for the gruesome murder of his beloved father. Cold, calculating, cruel and armed with a complete absence of accepted morals, he becomes the most powerful political strategist in Bharat and succeeds in uniting a ragged country against the invasion of the army of that demigod, Alexander the Great. Pitting the weak edges of both forces against each other, he pulls off a wicked and astonishing victory and succeeds in installing Chandragupta on the throne of the mighty Mauryan empire. History knows him as the brilliant strategist Chanakya. Satisfied—and a little bored—by his success as a kingmaker, through the simple summoning of his gifted mind, he recedes into the shadows to write his Arthashastra, the ‘science of wealth’. But history, which exults in repeating itself, revives Chanakya two and a half millennia later, in the avatar of Gangasagar Mishra, a Brahmin teacher in smalltown India who becomes puppeteer to a host of ambitious individuals—including a certain slumchild who grows up into a beautiful and powerful woman. Modern India happens to be just as riven as ancient Bharat by class hatred, corruption and divisive politics and this landscape is Gangasagar’s feasting ground. Can this wily pandit—who preys on greed, venality and sexual deviance—bring about another miracle of a united India? Will Chanakya’s chant work again? Ashwin Sanghi, the bestselling author of The Rozabal Line, brings you yet another historical spinechiller.

Author: ASHWIN SANGHI  Publisher: WESTLAND]]> Tue, 07 Dec 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/the-weed-that-strings-the-hangman-s-bag-23-114437.html The story opens with the immortal words 'I was lying dead in the churchyard' (spoken, astonishingly, by Flavia herself) and ends with a funeral watched by the De Luce family on a newly-installed television set. Inbetween, Alan Bradley weaves a hauntingly nightmarish tale that involves Punch & Judy - and in particular Mr Punch's nemesis, the hangman, Jack Ketch - a frighteningly realistic puppet show, and a hitherto unexplored corner of Bishop's Lacey known as Gibbet's Wood. The plot, beginning with the arrival in Bishop's Lacey of a travelling puppet show, features a grisly murder during a performance of Jack and the Beanstalk in the village hall and reaches back to an earlier, even nastier crime centring on an ancient, rotting gibbet that has lain like a shadow over the village for years. For Flavia, undoing the complex knot that ties these strands together will test her precocious powers of deduction to the limit - and provide a shocking insight into some of the darker corners of the adult world.

Author: BRADLEY, ALAN  Publisher: ORPG]]> Tue, 07 Dec 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/cruisin-on-desperation-23-114471.html In this sidesplitting send-up of church life, a hilarious cast of God-fearing, husband-hungry parishioners embark on a mission that's sure to give new meaning to the term man hunter... The members of the Oh-Lawd-Why-Am-I-Still-Single church group have gathered to complain about the slim pickings in their little town of Pelzer, South Carolina. They're determined to revamp their man-chasing tactics. And newcomer Birdie Tweet, the only Caucasian member of the group, may offer just the opportunity they're looking for... At forty-two and nearly six feet tall, Birdie's love life has been as unpromising as the other women's until a recent phone call from a man she met two years before. Honey-colored and debonair, Lyon Lipps is an irresistible Afro-Latino hunk. Unbeknownst to Birdie, he's also a con artist who has seduced women of all ages, races, shapes, and sizes. Now he's found Jesus and wants to reconnect with good Sister Tweet. But when Birdie passes around Lyon's photo, which is actually his mug shot, several in the group recognize him. Even their sorriest wallflower, Sister Petunia, has been blessed--and cursed--with his attentions. With each tale, Birdie's hopes for romance die, and her anger is resurrected... The ladies devise a way to get payback from Lyon Lipps while improving their chances of meeting men at the same time. They're going cruising aboard the aptly named ship, Desperation of the Seas. And they're planning to trick Lyon into sailing along with them by making him the lucky "winner" of a free ticket. Soon, they're sailing the high seas, riding a wave of bickering, betrayal, and unholy behavior, with plenty of laughs--and a few genuine revelations--along the way...

Author: G'ORGE-WALKER, PAT  Publisher: HBGAG]]> Tue, 07 Dec 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/unbroken-23-114442.html Beverley Callard has been loved by millions of viewers for the last twenty years in her role as feisty Rovers Return landlady Liz McDonald on Coronation Street. But behind the scenes her rollercoaster life has been even more colourful than her character's.She has suffered from crippling depression, been divorced three times, and has had to start from scratch following infidelity and bankruptcy. But every time she's been knocked down, Beverley has struggled through and steadfastly rebuilt her life. And it is that determination to cope with whatever life throws at her that has made Beverley's story one of inspiration to women everywhere. She's now ready to tell it for the first time.From growing up in Leeds, coping with family tragedy, and marrying for the first time just after her seventeenth birthday, Beverley's childhood was at times tough. But she was always surrounded by the love and laughter of her family. Beverley talks candidly about the devastating impact of her three broken marriages and describes the happiness she has now found with her wonderful partner Jon. In this intimate and moving autobiography Beverley reveals a life of extraordinary highs -- the wonderful times she's had wearing the shortest skirts on the Street - and devastating lows - including the she suffered last year.Heartfelt, funny and shockingly honest, Unbroken is the gripping story of a truly remarkable woman.

Author: CALLARD, BEVERLEY  Publisher: H&S]]> Tue, 07 Dec 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/love-hunt-23-114463.html announcement of a grand Treasure Hunt sets the Lodes Valley ladies' hearts aflutter. The cash is only part of the appeal--a win could solve several romantic dilemmas. Pixie Guinness sees the quest as a route back to her wayward husband; teenage daydreamer Faith hopes to snare her true love, Rory; and new arrival Liv--well, Liv just wants distraction from the boredom of country life. But it is unhappily married Trudy who finds the trail of clues leads her in quite a different direction, and one closer and closer to temptation. Is she chasing a rainbow or just chasing her own tail? As the hunt reaches its climax, the competitors find they are fighting for the highest prize of all--their own happy ending.

Author: FIONA, WALKER,  Publisher: H&S]]> Tue, 07 Dec 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/memory-chalet-the-23-114338.html “It might be thought the height of poor taste to ascribe good fortune to a healthy man with a young family struck down at the age of sixty by an incurable degenerative disorder from which he must shortly die. But there is more than one sort of luck. To fall prey to a motor neuron disease is surely to have offended the Gods at some point, and there is nothing more to be said. But if you must suffer thus, better to have a well-stocked head…” –Tony Judt The Memory Chalet is a memoir unlike any you have ever read before. Each essay charts some experience or remembrance of the past through the sieve of Tony Judt’s prodigious mind. His youthful love of a particular London bus route evolves into a reflection on public civility and interwar urban planning. Memories of the 1968 student riots of Paris meander through the divergent sex politics of Europe, before concluding that his generation ‘was a revolutionary generation, but missed the revolution.’ A series of roadtrips across America lead not just to an appreciation of American history, but to an eventual acquisition of citizenship. Foods and trains and long-lost smells all compete for Judt’s attention; but for us, he has forged his reflections into an elegant arc of analysis. All as simply and beautifully arranged as a Swiss chalet—a reassuring refuge deep in the mountains of memory.

Author: Judt, Tony  Publisher: William Heinemann]]> Mon, 06 Dec 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/wedding-girl-the-23-114350.html At eighteen, in that first golden Oxford summer, Milly\'s best friends were Rupert and his American lover Allan. When Rupert suggested that she and Allan should get married, just so that Allan could stay in the country, it all seemed just a bit of fun -- and to make it seem real she dressed up in cheap wedding finery and posed on the steps of the registry office for photographs. Ten years later, Milly is a very different person. Engaged to Simon -- who is wealthy, serious, and believes her to be perfect - she is facing the biggest and most elaborate wedding imaginable. Her dreadful secret is locked away so securely she has almost persuaded herself that it doesn\'t exist -- until, with only four days to go, her past catches up with her.

Author: Wickham, Madeleine  Publisher: Black Swan]]> Mon, 06 Dec 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/other-family-the-23-114340.html Chrissie always believed that Richie loved her, had loved her for all the twenty-three years they’d been together, loved their three daughters and their house in Highgate and their happy, lively existence. But if she really was the love of his life, why had he never given her the one thing that would have made her life perfect? The ring she wore was not a wedding ring, and it did not bring her the security of marriage. That belonged, still, to Margaret, back in Newcastle where Richie had started off as a musician, before he became famous. Margaret and her son Scott never saw Richie, and had never met the three girls. They were his other family, not mentioned but always in Chrissie’s mind, an obstacle to her complete happiness. And then, suddenly and shockingly, Richie is no longer there, and Chrissie and the girls have to learn to manage without him. The presence of the other family becomes, all at once, impossible to ignore – not least because they are involved in Richie’s will. Old resentments, and feelings of abandonment and loss, have to jostle with the practicalities of money and property...

Author: Trollope, Joanna  Publisher: Black Swan]]> Mon, 06 Dec 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/you-against-me-23-114353.html If someone hurts your sister and you’re any kind of man, you seek revenge, right? If your brother’s been accused of a terrible crime and you’re the main witness, then you banish all doubt and defend him. Isn’t that what families do? When Mikey’s sister claims a boy assaulted her at a party, his world of work and girls begins to fall apart. When Ellie’s brother is charged with the crime, but says he didn’t do it, her world of revision, exams and fitting in at a new school begins to unravel. When Mikey and Ellie meet, two worlds collide. Brave and unflinching, this is a novel of extraordinary skilfulness and almost unbearable tension. It’s a book about loyalty and the choices that

Author: Downham, Jenny]]> Mon, 06 Dec 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/ten-novels-and-their-authors-23-114345.html Maugham’s studies of the lives and masterpieces of ten great novelists are outstanding examples of literary criticism at its finest. Afforded here are some of the formulae of greatness in the genre, as well as the flaws and heresies which enfeeble it. Written by a master of fiction, "Ten Novels and Their Authors" is a unique and invaluable guide.

Author: Maugham, W Somerset  Publisher: Vintage Classics]]> Mon, 06 Dec 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/the-sunset-club-23-114265.html Meet the members of the Sunset Club: Pandit Preetam Sharma, Nawab Barkatullah Baig and Sardar Boota Singh. Friends for over forty years, they are now in their eighties. And every evening, at the sunset hour, they sit together on a bench in Lodhi Gardens to exchange news and views on the events of the day, talking about everything from love, lust, sex and scandal to religion and politics. As he follows a year in the lives of the three men from January 26 2009 to January 26 2010 Khushwant Singh brings his characters vibrantly to life, with his piquant portrayals of their fantasies and foibles, his unerring ear for dialogue and his genius for capturing the flavour and texture of everyday life in their households. Interwoven with this compelling human story is another chronicle of a year in the life of India, as the country goes through the cycle of seasons, the tumult of general elections, violence, natural disasters and corruption in high places. In turn ribald and lyrical, poignant and profound, The Sunset Club is a deeply moving exploration of friendship, sexuality, old age and infirmity; a joyous celebration of nature; an insightful portrait of India s paradoxes and complexities. A masterpiece from one of India s most-loved storytellers, The Sunset Club will have you in tears and laughter, and grip you from the first page to the last

Author: KUSHWANT SINGH  Publisher: VIKING]]> Wed, 01 Dec 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/children-of-a-better-god-23-114266.html ‘Anyone who took one look at Shweta could guess that she was suffering from some serious physical or mental disability. What future did the Shwetas of this world have? Shobha would raise her hands heavenwards and say “Surely the same Creator who brought them to the earth will look after them? I believe they are children of God, hopefully a better God than the one who looks after us.’ When Anupurba comes back to India from the United States, reluctantly leaving behind a satisfying job as an art teacher, she does so with a sense of apprehension at this displacement from her comfortable, suburban American life. She never imagines that returning to India would turn out to be a profoundly transformational and life-changing decision. A chance meeting with an old college friend introduces her to Asha Jyoti, a school for children suffering from cerebral palsy. Overcoming her initial trepidation, she agrees to volunteer as a temporary art teacher. Anupurba teaches the children how to draw and paint but it is the children who teach her the real lessons—about suffering and survival, joyous friendship, love and laughter. Children of a Better God is a deeply touching, tenderly written story about the agonizing challenges faced by children who have to live with lifelong disability, and the ways in which these very special children can powerfully enrich our lives with their grit, positive spirit and sheer courage.

Author: Susmita Bagchi, Bikram K. Das  Publisher: PENGUIN]]> Wed, 01 Dec 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/rear-entrance-23-114302.html Six months in dreary and cold Brussels and no headway with her handsome colleague Luc has convinced systems analyst Seetha, brought up in steamy Madras, that she must move on. The British Government s immigration laws allow writers and artists to be granted a visa even if they have no job, so Seetha decides that she is a writer and her first creative assignment is her visa application form. Harish, escaping the slums of India, has slogged hard in Belgium for the last fourteen years, and finally has saved enough to fulfil a lifelong dream: watch a cricket match at Lords in London. Amit seems to have everything except his strict father s approval, which he may win if he finds a way to launder the $2 million his father moved out of India during the restrictive years of Nehruvian socialism . To Ratnesh, who hates the Indian caste system, and as a Dalit, plans to seek asylum in the UK, all s fair in love, war, and getting a visa. Even using the na ve Harish for his own ends. And across the desk from them all, holding their fate in his hands, is British visa officer Doug Evans who himself does not know what is going to happen at the end of the two days in which these characters lives, dreams and visa applications cross paths.

Author: DAVID BARUN KUMAR THOMAS  Publisher: HACHETTE INDIA]]> Wed, 01 Dec 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/such-a-long-journey-23-114272.html Such a Long Journey is set in Bombay against the backdrop of war in the Indian subcontinent and the birth of Bangladesh, telling the story of the peculiar way in which the conflict impinges on the lives of Gustad Noble, an ordinary man, and his family. Such a Long Journey is a brilliant first novel by one of the most remarkable writers to have emerged from the Indian literary tradition in many years. It was shortlisted for the 1991 Booker Prize, and won the 1992 Commonwealth Writers Prize.

Author: ROHINTON MISTRY  Publisher: FABER]]> Wed, 01 Dec 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/crowded-rooms-:-stories-23-114288.html There are weekends when all you have is your stamp collection. For some it is their stamp book, for some their CD collection, for others, their pets. For Maya it was her lamps. Two bored young men on a rainy evening shoot at Maya s lamps one by one even as her neighbours upstairs spray paint It s All Your Fault on a giant hoarding and take the entire city on a collective guilt trip. In TV is Good an angry television comes looking for revenge against its couchpotato master who dared turn it off. And in An Office Story a pernicious office memo takes on a life of its own, growing into a hefty carton and travelling abroad with its evil message. In the nine stories in Crowded Rooms, Prem Nath etches urban existence in fine detail a world of towering high-rises, claustrophobic rooms, haunted highways and impersonal office cabins. And even as his characters deal with the boredom and displacement of modern life, they find new ways of engaging with the world they live in some real, some dream-like but always fresh.

Author: PREM NATH  Publisher: PENGUIN]]> Wed, 01 Dec 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/the-hopeless-life-of-charlie-summers-23-114298.html Hector Chetwode-Talbot, Eck to his friends, has left the army after a rather nasty moment in Colombia. From a privileged background, he is slightly at a loss as to what to do next, when he is approached by an old army pal, Bilbo Mountwilliam. Bilbo runs an investment fund company and business is booming. Bilbo persuades Eck to join the company as a greeter , for a person with Eck s list of contacts is an easy route to a rich seam of moneyed clients. All Eck has to do is supply the contacts with entertainment and large G&Ts and then the fund managers will do the rest. Soon Eck is able to buy himself a luxury sports car and decadent flat in the city. All that is missing in his life is a woman. It is on a golfing trip to France with his friend Henry Newark that Eck first meets Charlie Summers, a fly-by-night entrepreneur who is hiding out in France after a misunderstanding with Her Majesty s Customs and Revenue . Charlie s latest scheme is to import Japanese dog food into the UK. Henry casually mentions that Charlie should look us up if he is ever in Gloucestershire. Not only does Charlie Summers look Henry up, he arrives with his suitcase, intent on staying with the Newarks and relaunching his dog food business in their area. But with the financial crash looming, Eck begins to ask himself if they are so very different...

Author: PAUL TORDAY  Publisher: ORION]]> Wed, 01 Dec 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/once-upon-a-time-in-scandinavistan-23-114301.html Public Intelligence Officer Barsk reported several deaths due to charring of body parts and possible foul play involving cannibalism, at the Tandoori Moose restaurant, off Friendship Chowk. One BC (bad character) absconding. Suspect is a deviant girl, blonde, around twenty, no particular distinguishing marks except that she was last seen wearing a cook s uniform. Officer requested backup, forensic team. A memo has been sent to all concerned parties A crime novel set in a somewhat futuristic Europe after it has been colonized by India its industries bought over by Asian capitalists; its administration, by popular referendum, entrusted to the IAS; its food infused with the flavours of curry. The book follows the life of a middle-aged, down-and-out Public Intelligence Officer, Borsk, who on a night-shift apprehending bad characters and deviant girls stumbles into a restaurant where the tandoori speciality of the day is a well done, forty-something, Indian male. An ingeniously stylized dystopian crime novel set in the grunge and filth of a Europe colonized by file-pushing Indian babus and bad Bollywood films, Once Upon a Time in Scandinavistan is a novel that will both thrill and appal the reader with its luridly detailed landscapes and its unrelentingly dark humour. A film in Swedish is also on the cards.

Author: ZAC O YEAH  Publisher: HACHETTE INDIA]]> Wed, 01 Dec 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/the-finkler-question-man-booker-prize-winner--23-97625.html Julian Treslove, a professionally unspectacular former BBC radio producer, and Sam Finkler, a popular Jewish philosopher, writer and television personality, are old school friends. Despite a prickly relationship and very different lives, they’ve never quite lost touch with each other – or with their former teacher, Libor Sevick, a Czech always more concerned with the wider world than with exam results. Now, both Libor and Finkler are recently widowed, and with Treslove, his chequered and unsuccessful record with women rendering him an honorary third widower, they dine at Libor’s grand, central London apartment. It’s a sweetly painful evening of reminiscence in which all three remove themselves to a time before they had loved and lost; a time before they had fathered children, before the devastation of separations, before they had prized anything greatly enough to fear the loss of it. Better, perhaps, to go through life without knowing happiness at all because that way you have less to mourn. Treslove finds he has tears enough for the unbearable sadness of both his friends’ losses. And it’s that very evening, at exactly 11:30 pm, as Treslove, walking home, hesitates a moment outside the window of the oldest violin dealer in the country, that he is attacked. And after this, his whole sense of who and what he is will slowly and ineluctably change. The Finkler Question is a scorching story of friendship and loss, exclusion and belonging, and of the wisdom and humanity of maturity. Funny, furious, unflinching, this extraordinary novel shows one of our finest writers at his brilliant best

Author: Howard Jacobson  Publisher: Bloomsbury]]> Wed, 01 Dec 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/the-avenue-of-kings-23-114262.html A Sikh boy is set aflame in the chaotic aftermath of Indira Gandhi’s assassination; a house party rages in Calcutta while the country mourns the fading dream of Rajiv Gandhi; a young Muslim boy contemplates answering the call of militant fundamentalism in the wake of the demolition of the Babri Masjid. But somewhere in the debris of recent history lies a resolute hope. Through this journeys Brandy Ray, wanderer, cynic, journalist-and incurable romantic. As ‘New India’ delights and disappoints in turn, Brandy grapples with his own life-his deeply passionate and tumultuous relationship with the lovely yet slipping-away Suya, his conflicts with his father, the joy of travels with friends and the trauma of them losing their way. In these three edgy, touching novellas-The Avenue of Kings, The Cradle of Innocents and The Well of Three Wishes-that form interlinked narratives, Sudeep Chakravarti takes the reader on a rollercoaster ride, a journey of aspiration, longing, betrayal… and the sheer joy of being alive. Imbued with wry wit and keen insight, The Avenue of Kings, the long-awaited sequel to Tin Fish, is a brilliant portrait of a country dealing with change.

Author: SUDEEP CHAKRAVORTY  Publisher: HARPER COLLINS]]> Tue, 30 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/southern-lights-23-99321.html Assistant D.A. Alexa Hamilton has just been handed the kind of case that makes careers: the trial of accused serial killer Luke Quentin. Sifting through mountains of forensic evidence, Alexa relentlessly builds her case and prepares for a high-stakes trial . . . until threatening letters throw her private life into turmoil. The letters are addressed to Alexa's beautiful 17-year-old daughter, Savannah, who Alexa has raised alone since her painful divorce years before. Alexa is certain that Quentin is behind the letters – and that they are too dangerous to ignore. Suddenly Alexa must make the toughest choice of all – and send her daughter back to the very place that Alexa swore she would never return: to her ex-husband's world of southern tradition, long memories, and the antebellum charm of Charleston. While Alexa's trial builds to a climax in New York, her daughter is settling into southern life, discovering a part of her family history she's never known. As a family's wounds are exposed and the healing begins, Alexa and Savannah, after a season in different worlds, will come together again – strengthened by the trials they have faced, changed by the mysteries they have unraveled, armed with miracles that are uniquely their own.

Author: Steel, Danielle  Publisher: Random House]]> Tue, 30 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/sleeping-arrangements-23-99322.html Chloe needs a holiday. She’s sick of making wedding dresses and her partner Philip has trouble at work. Her wealthy friend Gerard has offered the loan of his luxury villa in Spain - perfect. Hugh is not a happy man. His immaculate wife Amanda seems more interested in the granite for the new kitchen than in him, and he works so hard to pay for it all, he barely has time for his family. But his old schoolfriend Gerard has lent them a luxury villa in Spain - perfect. Both families arrive at the villa and get a shock: Gerard has double-booked. An uneasy week of sharing begins, and tensions soon mount in the soaring heat. But there’s also a secret history between the families - and as tempers fray, an old passion begins to resurface...

Author: Wickham, Madeleine  Publisher: Random House]]> Tue, 30 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/legacy-23-99324.html A tale of love, courage and family, interweaving the lives of two extraordinary women – a writer working in the heart of modern academia, and a daring young Sioux on an unforgettable journey in the eighteenth century. Someday is Brigitte Nicholson’s watchword. Someday she and the man she loves, Ted, will clarify their relationship. Someday she’ll have children. Someday she’ll finish writing her book. Someday she’ll stop playing it so safe... Then something happens that changes Brigitte’s life completely. Struggling to plot a new course, Brigitte agrees to help her mother on a genealogy project – and makes a discovery that reaches back to the French aristocracy. How did Brigitte’s ancestor, Wachiwi, a Dakota Sioux, travel from the Great Plains to the French court of Marie Antoinette? How did she come to marry into Brigitte’s family? Brigitte decides to travel to South Dakota and Paris to follow the path of this exceptional young woman who lived so long ago. And as she begins to solve the puzzle of Wachiwi’s journey, her quiet life becomes an adventure of its own. A chance meeting and a new opportunity put Brigitte back at the heart of her own story. And with family legacy coming to life around her, someday is no longer in the future. Instead, someday is now.

Author: Steel, Danielle  Publisher: Random House]]> Tue, 30 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/poppy-s-war-23-99342.html August 1939: Thirteen-year-old Poppy Brown is evacuated to a village in Dorset. Tired and frightened, she arrives with nothing but her gas mask and a change of clothes to her name. Billeted at a grand country house, Poppy is received with cold indifference above stairs and gets little better treatment from the servants. Lonely and missing the family she left behind in London, Poppy is devastated when she hears that they have been killed in the Blitz. Circumstances soon force Poppy to move to the suburbs and into the company of strangers once more. Earning a meagre income as a hospital cleaner, as the war continues to rage, Poppy longs to do her duty. And as soon as she is able to, she starts her training as a nurse. While the man she loves is fighting in the skies above Europe, Poppy battles to survive the day-to-day hardships and dangers of wartime, wondering if she’ll ever see him again…

Author: Baxter, Lily  Publisher: Random House]]> Tue, 30 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/the-dreamer        -23-114016.html Shashi: an actor, wealthy, famous, and letting go … of his career, his marriage, his mind, and now himself. Lisha: creator of Stoneman, her own private fantasy world within a comic book. Fragile and alone, except for her mother. In 1986, in Stonewall, Lancashire, Lisha doesn’t know she’s about to die. She doesn’t know that in the darkness outside, three boys are circling her house with minds full of hate. And she doesn’t know that, seventeen years into the future, a drunken actor lies unconscious in a London bedsit, fighting to save her life. A mind-bending portrait of post-traumatic breakdown, and a timely critique of our celebrity and success-based culture, The Dreamer is most of all a love story that unites Shashi and Lisha not only across time and space, but across death itself.

Author: Balasubramanyam, Rajeev  Publisher: HARPER COLLINS]]> Tue, 16 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/just-look-at-me-now-23-113808.html Life is fabulous for Tia Carpenter. She has it all, money, looks, a great job as the beauty expert at stylish "Platinum "magazine, and, at last, the attention of her unrequited high school love, Josh Banks. But Tia has a secret--back at school she was Barbara Baker, overweight, crooked teeth, frizzy hair, and no fashion sense. Cosmetic dentistry, major weight loss, and a complete makeover later, Tia has successfully erased her past life as Big Barb, tub of lard, until the day Juliet Gold, the bane of her teenage existence, arrives to work at the magazine. Juliet always got everything she ever wanted, and now she wants both Tia's job and Josh. Tia will have to use every makeover trick she's ever learned to stop Juliet from uncovering her past and stealing her man.

Author: DIXON, NELL  Publisher: HACHETTE]]> Sun, 14 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/vintage-magic-23-113809.html Spirited silk, crafty crepe, lively lace, tricky taffetas and enchanting empire lines...How powerful is the perfect dress? Her love life in tatters, Rose Taylor decides its time to run away from London and open a vintage dress shop near her sister in Bath. If anyone is able to fully appreciate the life-enhancing power of finding and wearing that one very special dress, it's Rose, but it seems the tea dresses, ball-gowns and lace in Viva Las Vintage! really do have a life of their own...As she uncovers the secret of the shop's magical powers, Rose realises that she can be transformed into a bewitching goddess, one with not only the power to get back the man she lost but to reach out and grab the life she's always wanted. Dressing to impress is about to take on a whole new meaning...

Author: MORRIS, SALLY ANNE  Publisher: HACHETTE]]> Sun, 14 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/sacred-treason-export-airside-ireland--23-113810.html A brilliant and enthralling debut historical thriller in the vein of C.J. Sansom. London, December 1563. England is a troubled nation. Catholic plots against the young Queen Elizabeth spring up all over the country. At his house in the parish of St Bride, the herald William Harvey -- known to everyone as Clarenceux - receives a book from his friend and fellow Catholic, Henry Machyn. But Machyn is in fear of his life, claiming that the book is deadly...What secret can it hold? And then Clarenceux is visited by the State in the form of Francis Walsingham and his ruthless enforcers, who will stop at nothing to gain possession of it. If Clarenceux and his family are to survive the terror of Walsingham, and to plead with the queen's Secretary of State Sir William Cecil for their lives, Clarenceux must solve the clues contained in the book to unlock its dangerous secrets before it's too late. And when he does, he realises that it's not only his life and the lives of those most dear to him that are at stake...

Author: FORRESTER, JAMES  Publisher: HACHETTE]]> Sun, 14 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/lights-out-in-wonderland-23-113825.html Gabriel Brockwell, aesthete, poet, philosopher, disaffected twenty-something decadent, is thinking terminal. His philosophical enquiries, the abstractions he indulges, and how these relate to a life lived, all point in the same direction. His destination is Wonderland. The nature and style of the journey is all that's to be decided. Taking in London, Tokyo, Berlin and the Galapagos Islands, Lights Out In Wonderland documents Gabriel Brockwell's remarkable global odyssey. Committed to the pursuit of pleasure and in search of the Bacchanal to obliterate all previous parties, Gabriel's adventure takes in a spell in rehab, a near-death experience with fugu ovaries, a sexual encounter with an octopus, and finally an orgiastic feast in the bowels of Berlin's majestic Tempelhof Airport. Along the way we see a character disintegrate and re-shape before our eyes. Lights Out In Wonderland carries you through its many corridors of delight and horror on the back of Gabriel's voice, which is at once skeptical, idealistic, broken and optimistic. An allegorical banquet and a sly commentary on these End Times and the march towards insensate banality, DBC Pierre's third novel completes a loose trilogy of fictions, each of which stands alone as a joyful expression of the human spirit.

Author: DBC PIERRE]]> Sun, 14 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/fame-:-a-novel-in-nine-stories-23-113826.html In the first of Fame’s nine stories, the technician Ebling whose high point of the week is the Wiener Schnitzel on the office canteen menu, at last succumbs to the blandishments of the mobile phone and through an error is assigned the number of the actor Ralf Tanner. Soon he is taking Tanner’s calls, making his decisions and talking to his girlfriends without any responsibility – with disastrous consequences. Other characters in Fame are the writers Leo Richter and the mortally ill Rosalie; we also see numerous staff of the mobile phone business, and even a thinly veiled version of a famous feelgood writer in his Rio Penthouse, with a gun in his mouth as he contemplates his valueless oeuvre, a title of which appears irritatingly in each chapter to console or infuriate. The main theme of the novel is switching identity amidst the effects of modern changing technology and the confusing game of deception played between reality and fiction. The characters fear obscurity, they dream of recognition and of being the inspiration for famous stories...

Author: DANIEL KEHLMANN]]> Sun, 14 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/litanies-of-ducth-battery-23-113829.html ‘Our delta, called Dutch Battery, was young. Its soil not hardened yet . . . History was the most important commodity our delta imported.’ Born in Dutch Battery, one of the many islands that speckle Kochi waters, Edwina Theresa Irene Maria Anne Margarita Jessica is heir to the keepsakes and stories brought by the sea and winds. Entwined with her life are those of other ‘bridgeless’ islanders, disconnected from the mainland every night with the departure of the last ferry boat: Jessica’s great-grandfather Louis, who stole the calculus of shipbuilding from his master and settled in Dutch Battery to start its first boatyard; her uncle Edwin, who learned the art of making biryani from his father, who, in turn, learned it from a carpet-seller from Shiraz; Santiague, who was as passionate about staging the nearly extinct operatic drama, chavittunatakam, as he was about his evening toddy; the smallpox vaccinator, Saradamma, whose very shadow made the islanders scoot for cover; and Comrade Ramachandra Shenoy, last in a long line of proselytizers like the Carmelite, Dominican and Jesuit missionaries, who succeeded in starting a unit of the Communist Party in Dutch Battery. As Jessica dispassionately watches the victories, failures and redemptions of the other islanders, she finds herself caught in a relentless swirl of events. Set against a fantastical social landscape, and told with exquisite humour, Litanies of Dutch Battery is a deeply political novel that is also the story of a newly independent India.

Author: RAJESH RAJAMOHAN]]> Sun, 14 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/the-house-with-five-courtyards-23-113832.html ‘He was leaving behind the house which he no longer cared for but still felt in his blood. He’ll surely return but will the house then be as it is now? Will the people whose presence makes the house with five courtyards a veritable mohalla still be there?’ For a sprawling edifice with five courtyards, it was a flourishing house. The brothers who resided in the various quarters lived harmoniously under the supervision of a mother, Badi Amma, who was considered the head of the house after the death of her husband. Every guest, be it a distant relative or a fond friend, found refuge in the house; Sankranti and Eid were celebrated with equal aplomb; musical soirees were held every other evening; children flitted about neither caring where they ate or slept in the house, nor differentiating between their uncles, aunts and their parents. However, when the eldest brother, a successful lawyer, gives up his practice to take part in the Independence struggle, his otherwise affluent household falls apart around him. Badi Amma, who had held her sons and their families together, also loses control as the family struggles to make ends meet. When her grandsons from her eldest son leave the house to make a life for themselves in the cities, the collapse of her perfect world is complete. A saga spun over three generations, The House with Five Courtyards traces the breakdown of a joint family in Benaras. Govind Mishra’s award-winning novel is a sharp illustration of a society veering away from the traditions and ideals of the past towards a more materialistic present.

Author: GOVIND MISHRA]]> Sun, 14 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/the-one-above-:-what-if-god-was-your-neighbour-23-113836.html Nothing is more important than being happy and this is true irrespective of how successful you are or how much you possess. The One Above tells you how to infuse passion and energy into everyday activities—at work and at home—by understanding and accepting the meaning of ‘happiness’ and ‘suffering’. The book presents practical ways of being happy by dispelling common beliefs about unhappiness and pain, and provides insights into the real causes of suffering. This book explains how a happy, natural state paves the way for everything you desire in life—with, of course, a little help from ‘the one above’. As the author, Sirshree, observes, ‘There is no way to happiness; happiness itself is the way.’

Author: SIRSHEE]]> Sun, 14 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/puppet-on-the-fast-trak-23-113799.html "This definitely was not the place for good people to survive. Forget good people, this was not the place for anyone to survive." Everything was clear to me now and I could see it all. Eklavya had realised this, years back, and therefore had shifted his focus on only making money, and nothing else. Personally, he surely was a perfect blend of compassion and prudence but now was outraged by the sudden image assassination of his boss. There was anger running through the veins of the ones who worked genuinely hard. Time had come to take charge than to succumb to the games of the corporate goons. This was the challenge, and this challenge was pushing them to prove a point. Enough was enough, and now it was time to pay back.

Author: ILIKA RANJAN  Publisher: FROG BOOKS]]> Fri, 12 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/animal-farm-23-1159.html Mr Jones of Manor Farm is so lazy that one day he forgets to feed his livestock. The ensuing rebellion under the leadership of the pigs Napoleon and Wellington leads to the animals taking over the farm. Vowing to eliminate the terrible inequities of the farmyard. But as time passes, the ideals of the rebellion are corrupted, then forgotten.

Author: Orwell, George  Publisher: PENGUIN]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/valhalla-rising-dirk-pitt-23-1162.html Sabotage, conspiracy and piracy above and below the waves finds Dirk Pitt plunged into his most dangerous adventure yet. When the luxury cruise liner Emerald Dolphin becomes a raging inferno and sinks mysteriously, it is lucky that NUMA special projects director Dirk Pitt is on hand to rescue the passengers and investigate the tragedy.

Author: Cussler, Clive  Publisher: PENGUIN]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/live-bait-23-1163.html When elderly Morey Gilbert is found, lying dead in the grass by his wife, Lily, it's a tragedy, but it shouldn't have been a shock old people die. But when she finds a bullet hole in his skull, the blood washed away by heavy rain, sadness turns to fear. It looks like an execution ... Soon a whole city is fearful as new victims are found, killed with the same cold precision. All elderly. All apparently blameless. Detectives Magozzi and Rolseth, race to uncover a connection and their best hope of doing so may be Grace McBride, beautiful, damaged survivor of an earlier killing spree. And the answers, it seems, are buried in a terrible past. Filled with the same crackling dialogue, pace and rich, vivid characters as the author's debut Want to Play?, PJ Tracy's Live Bait is an electrifying thriller that explores the chilling extremes of evil and retribution.

Author: Tracy, P J  Publisher: PENGUIN]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/girls-of-riyadh-23-1164.html The girls of Riyadh are young, attractive and living by Saudi Arabia's strict cultural traditions. Inbetween sneaking out behind their parents' backs, dating, watching American TV and having fun, they're still trying to be good little Muslim girls. That is, pleasing their families. But can you be a twentyfirst century girl and a Saudi girl?

Author: Alsanea, Rajaa  Publisher: PENGUIN]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/siddhartha-23-1166.html A young Brahmin searches for ultimate reality after meeting with the Buddha. His quest takes him from a life of decadence to asceticism, from the illusory joys of sensual love with a beautiful courtesan, and of wealth and fame, to the painful struggles with his son and the ultimate wisdom of renunciation.

Author: Hesse, Hermann  Publisher: PENG MOD CLASSICS]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/things-i-want-my-daughters-to-know-23-1167.html Barbara must say a final farewell to her four daughters. But how can she find the words? And how can she leave them when they each have so much growing up to do? Barbara's answer is to write each daughter a letter, finally expressing the hopes, fears, dreams and secrets she couldn't always voice.

Author: Noble, Elizabeth  Publisher: PENGUIN]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/paus-on-the-road-popular-penguins-23-1174.html Jack Kerouac's On the Road rocked the establishment with its seminal, streamofconsciousness portrayal of 1950s underground America. Amidst a whirlwind of sex, drugs and jazz, writer Sal Paradise and his hero 'the holy conman with the shining mind', Dean Moriarty traverse the country in search of life and experience. Wild and exuberant, this lifechanging novel defined the Beat generation and inspired countless others.

Author: Kerouac, Jack  Publisher: PENGUIN]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/paus-one-flew-over-the-cuckoo-s-nest-p-23-1175.html PAUS One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest P

Author: Kesey, Ken  Publisher: PENGUIN]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/my-family-other-animals-23-1177.html When the unconventional Durrell family can no longer endure the damp, gray English climate, they do what any sensible family would do sell their house and relocate to the sunny Greek isle of Corfu. My Family and Other Animals was intended to embrace the natural history of the island but ended up as a delightful account of Durrell's family's experiences, from the many eccentric hangerson to the ceaseless procession of puppies, toads, scorpions, geckoes, ladybugs, glowworms, octopuses, bats, and butterflies into their home.

Author: Durrell, Gerald  Publisher: PENGUIN]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/tell-me-something-23-1182.html Elizabeth has wanted two things her entire life to keep her happy and fulfilled an Italian husband and lots of rosycheeked bambini. The first is ticked off now she's bagged dark and sexy Roberto, the second is proving harder to achieve. But when Roberto loses his job and decides to leave London for Italy and the family business, Elizabeth hopes the change in lifestyle might help her relax and boost her chances of conceiving. Except, no matter how much ice cream she eats in the sundrenched piazza, it's impossible to relax when her wily motherinlaw (the original black widow) seems hellbent on destroying her marriage. The language barrier is tricky, as is Roberto's beautiful, significant ex who practically lives next door. Is Elizabeth's desire for a baby enough to hold her marriage together or is it ripping it apart? And why is she suddenly craving the company of a gorgeous, blond American stranger? Her filthy, flirty thoughts about him are totally inappropriate. Yet undeniably temperatures are rising ... and it's nothing to do with the Mediterranean sun.

Author: Parks, Adele  Publisher: PENGUIN]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/paus-beach-the-popular-penguins-23-1183.html PAUS Beach, The Popular Penguins

Author: Garland, Alex  Publisher: PENGUIN]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/memory-keeper-s-daughter-23-1192.html Dr. David Henry is forced by a blizzard to deliver his own twins. His son is perfectly healthy, but his daughter has Down's syndrome. Rationalizing it as a need to protect his wife, he asks his nurse to take the baby away to an institution. Instead, the nurse disappears into another city to raise the child herself. Kim Edwards s stunning family drama evokes the spirit of Sue Miller and Alice Sebold, articulating every mother s silent fear what would happen if you lost your child and she grew up without you? In 1964, when a blizzard forces Dr. David Henry to deliver his own twins, he immediately recognizes that one of them has Down Syndrome and makes a splitsecond decision that will haunt all their lives forever. He asks his nurse to take the baby away to an institution and to keep her birth a secret. Instead, she disappears into another city to raise the child as her own. Compulsively readable and deeply moving, The Memory Keeper s Daughter is an astonishing tale of redemptive love. BACKCOVER Edwards is a born novelist. . . . Rich with psychological detail and the nuances of human connection. Chicago Tribune Unfolds from an absolutely gripping premise, drawing you deeply and irrevocably into the entangled lives of two families and the devastating secret that shaped them both. I loved this riveting story. Sue Monk Kidd Anyone would be struck by the extraordinary power and sympathy of The Memory Keeper s Daughter. The Washington Post Kim Edwards has written a novel so mesmerizing that I devoured it. . . . The Memory Keeper s Daughter has it all. Sena Jeter Naslund Kim Edwards has created a tale of regret and redemption, of honest emotion, of characters haunted by their past. This is simply a beautiful book. Jodi Picoult

Author: Edwards, Kim  Publisher: PENGUIN]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/memory-keeper-s-daughter-the-23-1194.html The night Dr David Henry delivers his wife's twins is a night that will haunt five lives for ever. For though David's son is a healthy boy, his daughter has Down's syndrome. And, in a shocking act of betrayal whose consequences only time will reveal, he tells his wife their daughter died while secretly entrusting her care to a nurse.

Author: Edwards, Kim  Publisher: PENGUIN]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/nineteen-eightyfour-23-1197.html Winston Smith works for the Ministry of Truth in London, chief city of Airstrip One. Big Brother stares out from every poster, the Thought Police uncover every act of betrayal. When Winston finds love with Julia, he discovers that life does not have to be dull and deadening, and awakens to new possibilities.

Author: Orwell, George  Publisher: PENGUIN]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/favourite-tales-snow-white-the-seven-23-1409.html Ladybird Favourite Tales' are the timeless, treasured stories that generations of children have grown up with and loved. These easytoread retellings, enhanced by exciting, richly colourful illustrations, faithfully capture all the magic of the original stories.

Publisher: LADYBIRD]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/atlantis-found-dirk-pitt-23-43807.html September 1858 An Antartic whaler stumbles upon an aged wreck, its grisly frozen crew guarding crates of odd antiquities including a beautifully carved obsidian skull. March 2001 A team of anthropologists gaze in awe at a well of strange inscriptions, moments before a blast seals them deep within the Colorado rock. April 2001 A research ship in the Antartic is set upon and nearly sunk by an impossibility a Nazi submarine thought to have been destroyed 56 years ago. Dirk Pitt knows that somehow these incidents are connected, and his investigations soon land him in the midst of an ancient mystery with very modern consequences, racing to save not only his own life but the future of the world itself.

Author: Cussler, Clive  Publisher: PENGUIN]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/arctic-drift-dirk-pitt-23-43811.html A potential breakthrough discovery to reverse global warming…a series of unexplained sudden deaths in British Colombia…a rash of international incidents between the United States and one of its closest allies that threatens to erupt into an actual shooting war...NUMA director Dirk Pitt and his children, Dirk. Jr. and Summer, have reason to believe there’s a connection here somewhere, but they also know they have very little time to find it before events escalate out of control. Their only real clue might just be a mysterious silvery mineral traced to a longago expedition to find the fabled Northwest Passage. But no one survived from that doomed mission; captain and crew perished to a man – and if Pitt and his colleague Al Giordino aren’t careful, the very same fate may await them. Filled with the breathtaking suspense and audacious imagination that have become his hallmarks, this is a tour de force, further proof that when it comes to adventure writing, nobody beats Clive Cussler.

Author: Cussler, Clive  Publisher: MICHAEL JOSEPH]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/medusa-a-novel-from-the-numa-files-23-43813.html In the Micronesian Islands, a topsecret, US governmentsponsored undersea lab conducting vital biomedical research on a rare jellyfish known as the Blue Medusa suddenly disappears. At the same time, off Bermuda, a bathysphere is attacked by an underwater vehicle. Stranded half a mile below the surface, its passengers are left to die. Only Kurt Austin's heroic measures can now save them from a watery grave. Austin, suspecting a connection between the two mysterious events, puts the NUMA team on the case. He has no idea what he has just got them all into a hideous series of medical experiments . . . an extraordinarily ambitious Chinese criminal organization . . . a secret new virus that threatens to set off a worldwide pandemic. Austin and NUMA have been in tight spots before, but this time it's not just their own skins they're trying to save it's the lives of millions.

Author: Cussler, Clive  Publisher: MICHAEL JOSEPH]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/mixture-of-frailties-23-108552.html Part of Salterton trilogy, this third volume begins with the funeral of Louisa Bridgetower, the Salterton matron. The substantial income from her estate is to be used to send an unmarried young woman to Europe to pursue an education in the arts. But, her executors select Monica Gall, an almost entirely unschooled singer.

Author: Davies, Robertson  Publisher: PENG MOD CLASSICS]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/hotel-du-lac-23-48784.html Into the rarefied atmosphere of the Hotel du Lac timidly walks Edith Hope, romantic novelist and holder of modest dreams. Edith has been exiled from home. She has refused to sacrifice her ideals and remains stubbornly single. But among the pampered women and minor nobility Edith finds Mr Neville, and her chance to escape from spinsterhood.

Author: Brookner, Anita  Publisher: PENGUIN]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/angelina-ballerina-funfax-23-99738.html This funfax features lots of activities for Angelina Ballerina fans, including stickers, a pullout poster and puzzles. An interactive My Pages section provides plenty of space to record personal details and stick in pictures of friends.

Publisher: DORLING KINDERSLEY]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/angle-of-repose-23-99739.html Tells the story of Lyman Ward, a retired professor of history and author of books about the Western frontier, who returns to his ancestral home in the Sierra Nevada. Wheelchairbound with a crippling bone disease, Ward embarks on a search to rediscover his grandmother, who made her own journey to Grass Valley nearly a 100 years earlier.

Author: Stegner, Wallace  Publisher: PENGUIN CLASSICS]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/another-bad-day-at-the-office--23-99740.html Work brings its fair share of agony. If it isn't a difficult colleague, it's an unscrupulous competitor, or long hours and stressful deadlines. This work talks about officerelated anxieties, showing how willingness to consider the other person's perspective and honesty about ourselves can show the way forward in apparently intractable situations.

Author: Bullmore, Jeremy  Publisher: PENGUIN]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/abducted-23-99741.html In 1999, at the tender age of ten, Charlene Lunnon and Lisa Hoodless were snatched as they walked to school. Over the next week, they were held captive, tortured, raped and almost killed. News of the girls' disappearance dominated the headlines, and the entire country held its breath, praying for their safe return as a massive police hunt failed to turn up any clues. But then a miracle happened. The girls were found alive, their abductor was arrested and the case was closed. But there was to be no such closure for Charlene and Lisa. Over the coming years, their friendship was strained to breaking point, as they struggled to reconcile themselves to their painful memories and to each other. Abducted is their astonishing firsthand, insider account of how it feels to be kidnapped, how they survived their horrific ordeal and how they have found the strength to move on and rebuild their lives.

Author: Lunnon, Charlene & Hoodless, Lisa  Publisher: PENGUIN]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/31-songs-23-106073.html Here, Nick Hornby writes about 31 songs most of them loved, some of them once loved, all of them significant to him. He begins with Teenage Fanclub's Your Love is the Place that I Come From and ends with Patti Smith's Pissing in a River, encompassing varied singers along the way, such as Van Morrison and Nelly Furtado, and songs as different as Thunder Road and Puff the Magic Dragon (reggae style). He discusses, among other things, guitar solos, singers whose teeth whistle and the sort of music you hear in the Body Shop.

Author: Hornby, Nick  Publisher: VIKING]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/31-dream-street-23-106074.html Leah and Toby have lived across the street from one another for years without meeting. When fate finally lets her in, Leah finds that Toby needs her as much as she is surprised to realize she might need him. Sometimes life needs a helping hand and with a sprinkle of romance, Toby and Leah's dreams show the glimmer of a chance of coming true.

Author: Jewell, Lisa  Publisher: PENGUIN]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100 http://www.bookvook.com/book/details/how-to-break-your-own-heart-23-106075.html 'Do you always sleep in separate beds?' A question from her outspoken friend Kiki shocks Amelia Bradlow into taking stock of her 'perfect' life. She might have the adoring husband, the flat in Mayfair and the weekend cottage, but what about the things that really matter?

Author: Alderson, Maggie  Publisher: PENGUIN]]> Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:30:00 +0100