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Getting off to a good start

16 Oct 2009

Jacqueline Yallop - Kissing Alice, Laleh Khadivi - The Age of Orphans, Nick Stafford - Armistice, Camillia Noli - The Mother's Tale, Jeannette Walls - Half Broke Horses

Also Published: US novels

Brian Donaldson rounds up the best of the books reaching us from the US this autumn

15 Oct 2009

Dave Eggers - The Wild Things, Eric Schlosser - Command and Control, James Ellroy - Blood's a Rover, Gin Phillips - The Well and the Mine, Ryan David Jahn - Acts of Violence, Attica Locke - Black Water Rising

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It'd be criminal to miss out on these

17 Sep 2009

Stieg Larsson The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets’ Nest The third volume of the bestselling Millenium Trilogy has Lisbeth Salander fighting corruption as she is set to face trial for three murders. Maclehose Press. Ruth Rendell The Monster in the…

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The comedians turn to literature this week

3 Sep 2009

Jack Dee - Thanks for Nothing, Jo Brand - Look Back in Hunger, Dara O’Briain - Tickling the English, Justin Lee Collins - Good Times, Peter Kay - Saturday Night Peter

Also Published - 5 Paperback Biogs

11 Jun 2009

Carrie Fisher - Wishful Drinking A slim but funny and intimate memoir about the Star Wars legend’s mental problems and addictions. Pocket. Simon Gray - Coda A posthumous publication of the prolific playwright’s fourth volume of memories, which…

Also Published - 5 Crime Novels

30 Apr 2009

Walter Mosley - The Long Fall Moving away from Easy Rawlins and the 1950s, Bill Clinton’s favourite writer brings us a modern-day New York PI Leonard McGill. Weidenfeld & Nicolson. Nury Vittachi - The Feng Shui Detective’s Casebook A murder in the…

Also Published - 5 Popular Science Books

5 Feb 2009

David Bainbridge - Teenagers: A Natural History This vet from Cambridge writes about teens as though they were animals (in a nice way), providing biological, anthropological and cultural reasons to explain their behavioural patterns. Portobello.

Also Published - 5 Paperback Novels

22 Jan 2009

Vikas Swarup - Six Suspects A half dozen individuals all have very good reasons for gunning down a corrupt politician’s son. But which of them actually pulled the trigger? Black Swan. Will Ferguson - Hustle Slick comedy about a trio of sharks…

Also Published - 5 Health Books

8 Jan 2009

Bruce Byron - Fat Bloke Slims Actor from The Bill and hubbie of Dr Tanya spills the beans on how he shed the pounds. Penguin. Joe Fournier & Jordan Paramor - Red Carpet Workout Fronted by celebrity sporting trainer Fournier, this is a short-term…

Also Published - 5 Auto-Biographies

27 Nov 2008

Ted Turner - Call Me Ted The media mogul and ex-husband of Jane Fonda talks about family tragedy, CNN, the America’s Cup and his controversial former missus. Sphere. Diahann Carroll - The Legs are the Last to Go Subtitled ‘Ageing, Acting, Marrying…

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5 crime paperbacks

30 Oct 2008

Natasha Cooper - A Poisoned Mind Lee Weeks - The Trafficked Xavier Marie Bonnot - The First Fingerprint David Stone - The Orpheus Deception Gavin Esler - A Scandalous Man

Also Published - 5 Biographies

16 Oct 2008

Susie Boyt - My Judy Garland Life The daughter of Lucien Freud embarks on a journey following in her showbiz idol’s footsteps to discover what her life could teach us about love, loss and fame. Virago. Jonathan Bate - Soul of the Age This one…

Also Published - 5 Humour Books

2 Oct 2008

Benrik Ltd - A Book for People Who Want to Become Stinking Rich But Aren’t Quite Sure How The folk who annually bring us This Diary Will Change Your Life offer tips on overhauling airport security and getting really close to the mega-famous.

Also Published - 5 Celebrity Memoirs

18 Sep 2008

Roger Moore - My Word is My Bond Seems like it’s 007 memoir season as Alan Partridge’s favourite Bond suavely knocks out his story, an all-true tale of a childhood in WW2 London and hanging out with the stars in Tinseltown. Michael O’Mara. Julie…

Also published - 5 History paperbacks

4 Sep 2008

Germaine Greer - Shakespeare's Wife, Lucy Worsley - Cavalier, TJ English - The Havana Mob, Richard Fortey - The Secret Life of the Natural History Museum, John Man - The Terracotta Army

Also Published - 5 Football Books

21 Aug 2008

Lou Macari - Football: My Life The former Celtic and West Ham manager tells of a controversial and tragic life in and out of the game. Bantam. Giles Smith - We Need to Talk About Kevin Keegan Subtitled ‘A Bumper Book of Football Writing’, this…

Also Published - 5 Crime Thrillers

14 Aug 2008

Nick Stone - King of Swords The follow-up to the award-winning Mr Clarinet is a dark and gory tale set in Miami featuring black magic and dodgy cops. Penguin. Steven Hague - Justice For All If you loved Dexter, you’ll go a bundle on this, seemingly…

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7 Aug 2008

Mark Steel - What’s Going On? The comedian relives his midlife crisis, focusing on his disillusionment with his political convictions, without losing his comic touch. Simon and Schuster. Dirk Bogarde & John Coldstream - Ever, Dirk After the success…

Also Published - 5 Debut Novels

3 Jul 2008

Shona MacLean - The Redemption of Alexander Seaton Historical crime set in 1620s Banff in which a disgraced minister seeks to clear his name when a body is found in his house. Quercus. Harry Sidebottom - Warrior of Rome: Fire in the East The first…

Also Published - 5 Crime Thrillers

19 Jun 2008

Terence Strong - President Down Former intelligence officer Phil Mason is called on to hunt down al-Qaeda cells in the UK. Simon & Schuster. Daniel Silva - Moscow Rules Gabriel Allon returns to Russia to find the country awash with oil wealth, while…

Also Published - 5 Auto-biographies

5 Jun 2008

Andy Murray - Hitting Back The Dunblane lad may still be a slip of a boy but those memoirs start coming out earlier every year. Here’s the story of his life with Wimbledon fast approaching and another media frenzy brewing. Century. Russell Watson…

Also Published - 5 Father's Day Books

22 May 2008

Andrew Clover - Dad Rules Subtitled ‘What I Learned from My Girls’, this book based on the columns from this actor and stand-up is all about being in touch with your feminine side when it comes to fatherhood. Fig Tree. Sarah Brown & Gil McNeil…

Also Published - 5 Travel Books

8 May 2008

Daniel Kalder - Strange Telescopes Following up his Lost Cosmonaut, this intrepid Fifer goes on the hunt for some more offbeat individuals in the former Soviet Union. Faber. Susanna Clark - A House in Fez Subtitled ‘Building a Life in the Ancient…

Also Published - 5 Sports Paperbacks

24 Apr 2008

Barry Davies - Interesting, Very Interesting Over 40 years of broadcast commentating are recalled here by a man who reached the peaks when he went on Big Train to cover the World Stare Out Championships. Headline. Eddie Jordan – An Independent Man…

5 Debut Novels

10 Apr 2008

Héddi Kaddour - Waltenberg A bumper espionage thriller between World War I and the Berlin Wall’s collapse featuring a German author, an American singer and a French journalist. Harvill Secker. Jane Kotapish - Salvage Narrated by a woman who has…

5 Paperback Autobiogs

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27 Mar 2008

David Coulthard - It Is What It Is From rural Scotland to a multi-millionaire lifestyle in Monte Carlo all thanks to the flashy world of Formula 1 motor racing. Orion. Mark Barrowcliffe - The Elfish Gene A memoir of a nerdish youth in the 1970s…

Also Published - 5 Crime Novels

13 Mar 2008

Colin Bateman - Ghost Town A bestselling writer visits the scene of his wife’s murder ten years previously to get some ideas for his latest novel, but turns up more than he bargained for. Headline. Mo Hayder - Ritual DI Jack Caffery is back with a…

Also Published - 5 Unit Shifters

28 Feb 2008

Jeffrey Archer - A Prisoner of Birth He just can’t get free of that prison cell, can he? Belmarsh is the setting for a revenge drama where an innocent man has been sent down at HM’s pleasure. Macmillan. Louis de Bernières - A Partisan’s Daughter A…

Also Published - 5 Paperback debut novels

14 Feb 2008

Priya Basil - Ishq and Mushq A generational novel about a Sikh mother whose secret past corrodes her life with tragic consequences for all. Black Swan. Catherine Hanrahan - Lost Girls and Love Hotels By day Margaret is training to be an air…

Also Published - 5 Unit Shifters

17 Jan 2008

Cathy Kelly - Lessons in Heartbreak Izzie has broken her own rules about having affairs with married men while her ageing aunt has just discovered her husband’s infidelity. HarperCollins. Monty Don - Around the World in 80 Gardens The presenter…

Also Published - 5 Diet Books

4 Jan 2008

Theresa Cheung - The Lemon Juice Diet It’s the big ingredient in the Hollywood slimmer’s scran these days, replacing the various recent dieting fads of coconut, pineapple and cabbage soup. Vermillion. Marisa Peer - You Can Be Thin This one is aimed…

Also Published - 5 US Crime Dramas

29 Nov 2007

Otto Penzler (ed) Dead Man’s Hand A collection of newly written poker-based tales from crime writers such as Jeffrey Deaver, Michael Connelly and Walter Mosley. Quercus. James Lee Burke The Tin Roof Blowdown A cache of stolen diamonds has floated…

Also Published - 5 Humour Books

15 Nov 2007

• Ibrahim Amin The Monster Hunter’s Handbook Subtitled ‘The Ultimate Guide to Saving Mankind from Vampires, Zombies, Hellhounds and Other Mythical Beasts’ this includes a Top Trumps on the weapons which might come in handy should you encounter said…

Also Published - 5 Unit Shifters

18 Oct 2007

• Jackie Collins Drop Dead Beautiful A psycho on the internet stalks Lucky Santangelo after she opens a flashy hotel complex in Las Vegas. Simon & Schuster. • Patricia Cornwell Book of the Dead Kay Scarpetta opens a private forensic pathology…

Also Published - 5 Travel Paperbacks

6 Sep 2007

• Robert Carver - Paradise with Serpents The author follows in the footsteps of his great uncle as he finds adventure and intrigue in the lost world of Paraguay. Perennial. • Felipe Fernandez-Armesto - Pathfinders This one is a 'history of…

Also Published - 5 Food Books

9 Aug 2007

Sid Owen - Life on a Plate Ricky from EastEnders shows off yet another of his many talents with this tome, subtitled ‘The Journey of an Unexpected Chef’. I’ll say. Century. John Dickie! - Delizia The author of Cosa Nostra brings us a book which…

5 Paperback Biographies

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1 Aug 2007

The wife of Howard gives her side to the story of their bizarre life on the run. Ebury. Graham McCann Spike & Co This is the story of how Spike Milligan, Eric Sykes, Ray Galton and Alan Simpson launched a golden age of British comedy. Hodder & Stoughton.

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18 Jun 2007

Anonymous - Touch Wood Subtitled ‘Confessions of an Accidental Porn Director’, our secret hero goes from being the son of a vicar to a pioneer of the flesh industry. Sphere. Wendy Salisbury - The Toyboy Diaries The introduction says it all: ‘This…

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21 May 2007

Terry Jones Barbarians You might have seen this on telly last year as the former Python charts the progress of the rough lot who had a tough battle or two with the Romans. BBC/Ebury. James D Tabor The Jesus Dynasty A controversial interpretation of…

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7 May 2007

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5 Biographies

26 Mar 2007

Steven Bach Leni The life and times of Leni Riefenstahl, the controversial filmmaker who maintained right up til her death four years ago, that the footage she filmed of Hitler and his like didn’t mean that she was a Nazi herself. Oh contraire, reckons…

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5 SHORT STORY PAPERBACKS

12 Mar 2007

Margaret Atwood The Tent A bunch of updated fables and myths accompanied by the author’s own black and white drawings. Bloomsbury.