Staff Recommended Reads March 2011

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  Just Kids
  Patti Smith

  Paperback · 04 Jan 2011 · €12.00

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  Winner of the 2010 Non-Fiction National Book Award Patti Smith's evocative, honest and moving coming-of-age story of her extraordinary relationship with the artist Robert Mapplethorpe

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  Heresy
  S J Parris

  Paperback · 03 Mar 2011 · €10.00

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  A vivid and gripping historical thriller set in Elizabethan England introducing Giordano Bruno, philosopher, scientist and spy for all fans of C.J.Sansom and The Name of the Rose.

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  Ape House
  Sara Gruen

  Paperback · 17 Feb 2011 · €17.35

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  From the bestselling author of Water for Elephants comes another immensely engaging novel ... Sam, Bonzi, Lola, Mbongo, Jelani, and Makena are no ordinary apes. These bonobos, like others of their species, are capable of reason and carrying on deep relationships--but unlike most bonobos, they also know American Sign Language.

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  The Summer Without Men
  Siri Hustvedt

  Hardback · 03 Mar 2011 · €20.00

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  An exhilarating tragicomedy about the war of the sexes and what makes women tick by the internationally bestselling author Siri Hustvedt.

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  Moonlight Mile
  Dennis Lehane

  Paperback · 04 Nov 2010 · €17.35

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  Dennis Lehane's first book for Little, Brown heralds the return of much-loved characters Patrick Kenzie and Angie Gennaro

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  The Tiger's Wife
  Tea Obreht

  Paperback · 03 Mar 2011 · €17.35

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  'Tea Obreht is the most thrilling literary discovery in years' Colum McCann (and she's only 24!)

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  Savage Lands
  Clare Clark

  Paperback · 03 Mar 2011 · €10.00

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  It is 1704 and, in the swamps of Louisiana, France is clinging on to its new colony with less than two hundred men. Into this hostile land comes Elisabeth Savaret, one of twenty-three women sent from Paris to marry men they have never met.

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  The Afterparty
  Leo Benedictus

  Paperback · 03 Mar 2011 · €17.35

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  A story of an April night that never happened. A night that changes everything for nerdy Michael, a Fleet Street worker ant, when he agrees to take his boss' invitation to an A-list party at a London club. Inside, reclusive movie star Hugo Marks is announcing his re-entrance to society.