Our ‘Start of the Year’ Newsletter
Our ‘Start of the Year’ newsletter can be found here: JanFeb news
Click for Costa Book awards, Valentine’s Day, Charles Dickens, Bedtime Books for Children and lots of other snippets of info!
Our ‘Start of the Year’ newsletter can be found here: JanFeb news
Click for Costa Book awards, Valentine’s Day, Charles Dickens, Bedtime Books for Children and lots of other snippets of info!
by Andrew Miller
£17.99
Shortlisted for the Costa prize, we thought this book was “As compassionate as it is ingenious. Pure confirms Miller as a superlative technician – a master of register, narrative and characterisation.” Set in 1785 one man is commissioned to clear the cemetery of Les Innocents. (Beautifully designed cover too!)
by Nancy Mitford
£8.99
Published a year after Nancy Mitford’s first novel ‘Highland Fling’, ‘Christmas Pudding’ gives a flavour of life for the Bright Young Things of the twenties and thirties, and a taste of what was to come in her later novels. And for a real Mitford fan Penguin have published all her novels in a handsome hardback (£30) or paperback (£18.99). A must for the bookshelf!
by Sophie Ratcliffe
£30
Wodehouse always shied away from the idea of a biography. A quiet, retiring man, he expressed himself through the written word. His letters illuminate his life in new York, his success as a novelist and the unhappy episode in 1940 where he was interned by the Germans and later erroneously accused of broadcasting pro-Nazi propaganda.