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  • The Time Traveler's Wife

    Audrey Niffenegger

    The Time Traveler's Wife
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  • Breaking Dawn (Twilight Saga)

    Stephenie Meyer

    Breaking Dawn (Twilight Saga)
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  • Rick Stein's Far Eastern Odyssey

    Rick Stein

    Rick Stein's Far Eastern Odyssey
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  • The Girl Who Played with Fire

    Stieg Larsson

    The Girl Who Played with Fire
    Stieg Larsson gleaned a remarkable degree of success before his too-early death in 2004. He had delivered to his publisher three remarkable crime novels; the initial book in his ‘Millennium’ sequence, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, had enjoyed an unprecedented success in his native Sweden before the translation took the UK by storm. Larsson had made a considerable mark as a crusading journalist, with a speciality in tackling political extremist groups. But he offered assistance to many people and groups who he felt were vulnerable – something of a modern hero, in fact.

    One of Larsson's key achievements as a writer was to create an innovative kind of heroine for the crime novel. His unconventional sleuth, the highly intelligent computer hacker Lisbeth Salander, is a confrontational young woman, whose Goth accoutrements sometimes alienate those around her (except the individuals she opts to have sexual relations with – strictly, that is, according to the rules she lays down). In the second book in the Millennium sequence, The Girl Who Played with Fire (as in its its predecessor), Lisbeth's closest ally is the older journalist Mikael Blomqvist, even though she has abruptly ended her emotional relationship with him. Lisbeth has left all she knows behinds her and has begun a relationship with a gauche young lover. But after a grim revenge run-in with a man who has abused her, she becomes a suspect in three murders, and is the subject of a nationwide search. Blomqvist, however, is convinced of her innocence (he has just been responsible for a blistering report on the sex trafficking industry in Sweden), and is determined to help her – whether she wants his help or not.

    As with Larsson’s earlier book, this is highly compelling fare, with tautly orchestrated suspense; it's often grisly and uncompromising (not a problem for many readers), and the massive text may be longer than is good for it, but Larsson admirers won't begrudge the late author a word,and will be impatient for the third (and, regrettably, concluding) book in the sequence. --Barry Forshaw

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  • The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

    Stieg Larsson

    The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
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  • The Lost Symbol

    Dan Brown

    The Lost Symbol
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  • Eclipse (Twilight Saga)

    Stephenie Meyer

    Eclipse (Twilight Saga)
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  • Economy Gastronomy: Eat Better and Spend Less

    Allegra McEvedy, Paul Merrett

    Economy Gastronomy: Eat Better and Spend Less
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  • New Moon (Twilight Saga)

    Stephenie Meyer

    New Moon (Twilight Saga)
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  • Twilight (Twilight Saga)

    Stephenie Meyer

    Twilight (Twilight Saga)
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  • Bad Science

    Ben Goldacre

    Bad Science
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  • One Day

    David Nicholls

    One Day
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  • The White Queen

    Philippa Gregory

    The White Queen
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  • The Host

    Stephenie Meyer

    The Host
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  • New Moon: Red Edged Special Edition (Twilight Saga)

    Stephenie Meyer

    New Moon: Red Edged Special Edition (Twilight Saga)
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  • Eclipse: Red Edged Special Edition (Twilight Saga)

    Stephenie Meyer

    Eclipse: Red Edged Special Edition (Twilight Saga)
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  • The Book Thief

    Markus Zusak

    The Book Thief
    The Book Thief by Marcus Zusak was the best-selling debut literary novel of the year 2007, selling over 400,000 copies. The author is a prize-winning writer of children's books, and this, his first novel for adults, proved to be a triumphant success. The book is extraordinary on many levels: moving, yet restrained, angry yet balanced -- and written with the kind of elegance found all too rarely in fiction these days. The book's narrator is nothing less than Death itself, regaling us with a remarkable tale of book burnings, treachery and theft. The book never forgets the primary purpose of compelling the reader's attention, yet which nevertheless is able to impart a cogent message about the importance of words, particularly in those societies which regard the word as dangerous (the book is set during the Nazi regime, but this message is all too relevant in many places in the world today).

    Nine-year-old Liesel lives with her foster family on Himmel Street during the dark days of the Third Reich. Her Communist parents have been transported to a concentration camp, and during the funeral for her brother, she manages to steal a macabre book: it is, in fact, a gravediggers’ instruction manual. This is the first of many books which will pass through her hands as the carnage of the Second World War begins to hungrily claim lives. Both Liesel and her fellow inhabitants of Himmel Street will find themselves changed by both words on the printed page and the horrendous events happening around them.

    Despite its grim narrator, The Book Thief is, in fact, a life-affirming book, celebrating the power of words and their ability to provide sustenance to the soul. Interestingly, the Second World War setting of the novel does not limit its relevance: in the 20th century, totalitarian censorship throughout the world is as keen as ever at suppressing books (notably in countries where the suppression of human beings is also par for the course) and that other assault on words represented by the increasing dumbing-down of Western society as cheap celebrity replaces the appeal of books for many people, ensures that the message of Marcus Zusak’s book could not be more timely. It is, in fact, required reading -- or should be in any civilised country. --Barry Forshaw

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  • Twilight: Red Edged Special Edition

    Stephenie Meyer

    Twilight: Red Edged Special Edition
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  • My Sister's Keeper

    Jodi Picoult

    My Sister's Keeper
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  • Dead Until Dark: A True Blood Novel

    Charlaine Harris

    Dead Until Dark: A True Blood Novel
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