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Recommended Reads

Every month our Booksellers pick their favourite recent titles and review them.

Many of their choices have gone on to become bestsellers as well as great selections for Book Clubs.


February 2012

  • The Woman In Black

    The Woman In Black
    Susan Hill

    Paperback · 19 Jan 2012 · €9.00
    Our Price: €7.99

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    Proud and solitary, Eel Marsh House surveys the windswept reaches of the salt marshes beyond Nine Lives Causeway. Arthur Kipps, a junior solicitor, is summoned to attend the funeral Mrs Alice Drablow, the house's sole inhabitant, unaware of the tragic secrets which lie hidden behind the shuttered windows.

  • Winter Palace (A Novel of the Young Catherine the Great)

    Winter Palace (A Novel of the Young Catherine the Great)
    Eva Stachniak

    Paperback · 19 Jan 2012 · €17.35
    Our Price: €14.99

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    When Vavara, a young orphaned Polish girl, is brought to serve at Empress Elizabeth's glittering, dangerous court in St Petersburg, she is schooled by the Chancellor himself in skills from lock-picking to love-making, learning above all else to stay silent - and listen. Soon, she is Elizabeth's 'tongue' - her secret eyes and ears.

  • The Buddha in the Attic

    The Buddha in the Attic
    Julie Otsuka

    Hardback · 26 Jan 2012 · €17.35
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    Traces the women's extraordinary lives, from their arduous journey by boat, where they exchange photographs of their husbands, imagining uncertain futures in an unknown land; to their arrival in San Francisco and their tremulous first nights as new wives; to the deracinating arrival of war.

  • Unbroken

    Unbroken
    Laura Hillenbrand

    Paperback · 02 Feb 2012 · €12.00
    Our Price: €9.99

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    From the author of the bestselling and much-loved 'Seabiscuit', an extraordinary true story of courage and survival.

  • We Had it So Good

    We Had it So Good
    Linda Grant

    Paperback · 12 Jan 2012 · €10.00
    Our Price: €8.99

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    * Linda Grant's 'best novel yet' (FT)- the thoughtful and engaging story of a London family from the late sixties to the present, out now in paperback

 

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