![]() | The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest by Stieg Larsson
Buy new: £7.97 / Used from: £12.99 The Millenium Trilogy continues... a must for Larsson fans.
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![]() | Home by Marilynne Robinson
Buy new: £3.99 / Used from: £2.48 A return to Gilead, with events now told from a different perspective. Interesting,sad.
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![]() | The Solitude of Prime Numbers by Paolo Giordano
Buy new: £7.59 / Used from: £5.77 Popular Italian dissection of love and wholeness, using maths as a metaphor.
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![]() | The Einstein Girl by Philip Sington
Buy new: £8.94 / Used from: £2.96 Tempting thriller/love story about a dark family secret, set in Berlin as the Nazis close in on power.
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![]() | The Angel's Game by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Buy new: £8.54 / Used from: £4.49 Somewhat disappointing follow-up to 'The Shadow of the Wind'. Similar themes and setting, but with an even creakier plot.
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![]() | One Day by David Nicholls
Buy new: £6.46 / Used from: £5.95 Enjoyable easy read that visits its two main characters once a year on the same day. Perceptive and funny, if not hugely insightful.
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![]() | The Luminous Life of Lilly Aphrodite by Beatrice Colin
Buy new: £4.76 / Used from: £0.28 Wonderful period, colourful story, but over-lush writing. Still worth it, though, in spite of the fashionable but pointless illustrations.
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![]() | The Gargoyle by Andrew Davidson
Buy new: £4.82 / Used from: £0.01 Somewhat over-written mish-mash of genres and themes, with some startlingly good sections.
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![]() | The Secret Scripture by Sebastian Barry
Buy new: £3.99 / Used from: £0.01 Irish novels are usually described as 'lyrical' and with reason. This one is better than most, but don't expect concision or grit.
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![]() | The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters
Buy new: £8.46 / Used from: £7.48 Interesting story about a haunted house that plays with the literary device of the 'unreliable narrator'.
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![]() | Company of Liars by Karen Maitland
Buy new: £4.73 / Used from: £0.01 Ripping medieval murder mystery, well researched.
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![]() | The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown
Buy new: £8.55 / Used from: £7.24 Great things are expected (commercially speaking) of this long-awaited thriller. Meeting those expectations will be a tall order.
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![]() | Notwithstanding: Stories from an English Village by Louis De Bernieres
Buy new: £9.06 / Used from: £7.19 LDB turns his gaze on the English. After some recent misfires, his fans will be hoping this marks a return to form.
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![]() | Her Fearful Symmetry by Audrey Niffenegger
Buy new: £8.49 / Used from: £8.24 From the author of 'The Time Traveler's Wife' a supernatural tale about a pair of twins, set in London.
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![]() | Juliet, Naked by Nick Hornby
Buy new: £9.49 / Used from: £9.98 The latest Hornby should provide some feel-good entertainment for the autumn.
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![]() | The Host by Stephenie Meyer
Buy new: £3.82 / Used from: £0.74 Meyer's first departure from the vampire sub-genre. Less romantic, a little more scary if you can take it seriously.
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![]() | Tea Time for the Traditionally Built: The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency 10 by Alexander McCall Smith
Buy new: £8.43 / Used from: £3.96 The BBC adaptation was big on affection for the characters (what did you expect?), but lacked the magic and wit of the humorous originals.
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![]() | Child 44 by Tom Rob Smith
Buy new: £3.99 / Used from: £0.01 Decent Stalin-era thriller based on a real serial killer case. The writing is better than in most thrillers, which is a bonus.
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![]() | When Will There be Good News? by Kate Atkinson
Buy new: £3.99 / Used from: £0.01 The odd mix of gritty crime and flights of fancy make Atkinson's recent novels distinctive, but not very satisfying.
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![]() | Sunnyside by Glen David Gold
Buy new: £11.58 / Used from: £2.65 Historical romp about Charlie Chaplin, World War I and Hollywood's infancy.
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![]() | City of Thieves by David Benioff
Buy new: £4.30 / Used from: £0.56 Much-praised wartime thriller set in Leningrad.
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![]() | The 19th Wife by David Ebershoff
Buy new: £4.80 / Used from: £0.01 Another thriller with an interesting and original angle, that really would have benefitted from cutting.
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![]() | The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga
Buy new: £3.84 / Used from: £0.13 Thoroughly unconvincing confession of a supposedly uneducated Indian, who kills his boss. Has its moments, but otherwise basically a pose. Still, plenty have fallen for it.
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![]() | 2666 by Roberto Bolano
Buy new: £11.97 / Used from: £5.97 Long, patchy and sometimes dull tome that does not live up to the hype. For readers who crave substance there are bettrer books out there, but you may have to look beyond Richard & Judy!
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![]() | A Most Wanted Man by John le Carré
Buy new: £3.99 / Used from: £0.01 Le Carré takes on the modern day terrorists in this update of the old school spying game.
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