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Author's Book Recommendation – The Boy With The Topknot

Title: The Boy with the Topknot: A Memoir of Love, Secrets and Lies in Wolverhampton
Author:  Sathnam Sanghera
Paperback: 336 pages
Publisher: Penguin (30 April 2009)
Language English
ISBN-10: 0141028599
ISBN-13: 978-0141028590
Product Dimensions: 19.6 x 13 x 2.2 cm
Product Description
"It's 1979, I'm three years old, and like all breakfast times during my youth it begins with Mum combing my hair, a [...:]

The Washington Post

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The Queen Mum's the word
In his book, "The Queen Mother: The Official Biography," William Shawcross writes that life as Queen Mum is based on "obligation, discretion, and restraint."





The Case for Books

Robert Darnton's "The Case for Books" distills years of musing — as a historian, university professor and librarian — on the history and future of [...:]

The Telegraph

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The Secret History of Georgian London by Dan Cruickshank: review

Christopher Howse is caught up in the vast Georgian enterprise of illicit sex, rummaging in The Secret History of Georgian London by Dan Cruickshank
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The Making of Modern Britain: From Queen Victoria to VE Day by Andrew Marr: review

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http://www.literaryguild.com/bestsell... The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown  HardcoverSuave symbologist Robert Langdon tackles his greatest challenge in this exhilarating follow-up to The Da Vinci Code. Alex Cross's Trial by James Patterson HardcoverIn 1906, Alex Cross' great-uncle Abraham teams up with a white lawyer investigating a terrifying spate of lynchings. The Last Song by Nicholas Sparks  HardcoverAfter her parents' divorce, Ronnie spends [...:]...

Author's Daily Book Recommendation – The Brass Verdict

Title: The Brass Verdict
Author:  Michael Connelly
Paperback: 608 pages
Publisher: Orion (10 Jun 2009)
Language English
ISBN-10: 1409102033
ISBN-13: 978-1409102038
Product Dimensions: 18.8 x 13 x 4.2 cm
Product Description
Defence lawyer Mickey Haller has had some problems but now he's put all that behind him and is ready to resume his career. Then another lawyer, Vincent, dies, and Haller gets an unexpected [...:]

Literary Blog of the Week – Hot Cross Mum Blog

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Hot Cross Mum: reflections on life in the domestic fast lane
'I have always thought that there is no more fruitful source of family discontent than a housewife's badly-cooked dinners and untidy ways'. (Mrs Beeton's Book of Household Management, 1861)
Ode to the kitchen table
Kitchen table, kitchen table,
How do you remain so stable?
Through it all, the spills, [...:]

Author's Book Recommendation – Rose of Sebastopol

Title: The Rose Of Sebastopol
Author:  Katharine McMahon
Paperback: 416 pages
Publisher: Phoenix; Reprint edition (27 Dec 2007)
Language English
ISBN-10: 0753823748
ISBN-13: 978-0753823743
Product Dimensions: 19.6 x 12.8 x 2.8 cm
Product Description
Russia, 1854: the Crimean War grinds on, and as the bitter winter draws near, the battlefield hospitals fill with dying men. In defiance of Florence Nightingale, Rosa Barr – young, [...:]

Author's Book Recommendation – The Glass Room

Title: The Glass Room
Author:  Simon Mawer
Hardcover: 406 pages
Publisher: Little, Brown; First Edition edition (15 Jan 2009)
Language English
ISBN-10: 1408700778
ISBN-13: 978-1408700778
Product Dimensions: 21.6 x 14 x 4 cm
Product Description
Cool. Balanced. Modern. The precisions of science, the wild variance of lust, the catharsis of confession and the fear of failure – these are things that happen in the [...:]