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Staff Recommended Reads May 2011

  • The Unlikely Pilgrimage Of Harold Fry

    The Unlikely Pilgrimage Of Harold Fry
    Rachel Joyce

    Paperback · 15 Mar 2012 · €17.35

    When Harold Fry nips out one morning to post a letter, leaving his wife hoovering upstairs, he has no idea that he is about to walk from one end of the country to the other. He has no hiking boots or map, let alone a compass, waterproof or mobile phone. All he knows is that he must keep walking. To save someone else's life.

  • Silver

    Silver
    Andrew Motion

    Paperback · 15 Mar 2012 · €17.35

    July, 1802. In the marshy eastern reaches of the Thames lies the Hispaniola, an inn kept by Jim Hawkins and his son. Young Jim spends his days roaming the mist-shrouded estuaries, running errands for his father and listening to his stories in the taproom. Late one night, a mysterious girl named Natty arrives on the river with a request for Jim.

  • The Chaperone

    The Chaperone
    Laura Moriarty

    Paperback · 26 Apr 2012 · €9.99

    On a summer's day in 1922 Cora Carlisle boards a train from Wichita, Kansas, to New York City, leaving behind a marriage that's not as perfect as it seems and a past that she buried long ago. She is charged with the care of a stunning young girl with a jet-black fringe and eyes wild and wise beyond her fifteen years.

  • Every Contact Leaves a Trace

    Every Contact Leaves a Trace
    Elanor Dymott

    Hardback · 05 Apr 2012 · €17.35

    Alex is in his thirties, a solitary man who has finally found love in the form of his beautiful and vivacious wife, Rachel. When Rachel is brutally murdered one Midsummer Night by the lake in the grounds of their alma mater, Worcester College, Oxford, Alex's life as he knew it vanishes.

  • Maine

    Maine
    Courtney Sullivan

    Paperback · 01 Jan 2012 · €17.35

    What if the person you love the most hurt you more than any other? What if that person was your mother?


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