 | Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
Buy new: £8.99 / Used from: £11.07 Mantel's somewhat liesurely winner set in a believable Tudor England. Very good once you get into it.
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 | Lustrum by Robert Harris
Buy new: £9.46 / Used from: £10.63 Where was I? Ah yes, The Prologue... Sadly Lurkio does not feature in this thrillerish romp through Ancient Rome. A must if you enjoyed 'Imperium'.
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 | The Einstein Girl by Philip Sington
Buy new: £8.94 / Used from: £2.00 Ingenious, evocative and deeply mysterious story about a very special patient at the dawn of the Nazi era. Outstanding.
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 | The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters
Buy new: £8.46 / Used from: £6.95 Waters turns to the supernatural in this story set in the aftermath of the Second World War.
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 | Her Fearful Symmetry by Audrey Niffenegger
Buy new: £8.49 / Used from: £8.06 The supernatural also rears its ghostly head in this long-awaited follow-up.
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 | The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown
Buy new: £9.00 / Used from: £7.50 Brown is back with a rather a formula yarn about Freemasonry and magic. One for his fie-hard fans only.
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 | The Help by Kathryn Stockett
Buy new: £7.25 / Used from: £7.27 Domestic servants in the American South during the early 1960s. Poignant tale of civil rights and prejudice.
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 | My Shit Life So Far by Frankie Boyle
Buy new: £9.48 / Used from: £9.00 Rude but enjoyable memoire by this ascerbic Scottish comedian.
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 | The Angel's Game by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Buy new: £8.54 / Used from: £6.46 Gothic melodrama brought off (just) by approachable, unassuming style.
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 | The Children's Book by A.S. Byatt
Buy new: £9.48 / Used from: £9.00 A long, but impressively involving family saga set in the early decades of the 20th century.
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 | A Most Wanted Man by John le Carré
Buy new: £3.99 / Used from: £0.01 Le Carré turns a weary - perhaps cynical - eye on the war on terror in what is something of a return to form.
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 | One Day by David Nicholls
Buy new: £6.46 / Used from: £5.90 Much praised humorous novel about growing up and changing.
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 | Love and Summer by William Trevor
Buy new: £11.36 / Used from: £15.00 A tale of reckless love from the veteran Irish writer.
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 | The Solitude of Prime Numbers by Paolo Giordano
Buy new: £7.59 / Used from: £5.77 Italian bestseller about love and numbers.
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 | The Crimson Rooms by Katharine McMahon
Buy new: £8.84 / Used from: £4.05 From the author of 'The Rose of Sevastopol', a turbulent interwar tale that flirts with melodrama, but does not quite embrace it, thank goodness.
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 | The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest by Stieg Larsson
Buy new: £8.99 / Used from: £8.99 Enjoyable and grittily convincing thriller from Sweden. As always Larsson packs a serious social message.
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 | City of Thieves by David Benioff
Buy new: £4.30 / Used from: £0.91 Epic tale of war and survival in wartime Russia.
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 | The Host by Stephenie Meyer
Buy new: £3.82 / Used from: £1.50 Meyer lurches off into sci-fi territory, albeit of the spooky haunted variety. Some fans may be puzzled.
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 | D-Day: The Battle for Normandy by Antony Beevor
Buy new: £12.49 / Used from: £10.00 The big modern history book of the summer.
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 | Me Cheeta: The Autobiography by James Lever
Buy new: £4.70 / Used from: £1.59 This whacky tale of animal movie stars definitely has its moments.
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 | The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
Buy new: £3.95 / Used from: £2.29 First in the now famous Millenium trilogy by this sadly deceased Swedish journalist and campaigner.
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 | Blood Line by Mark Billingham
Buy new: £8.47 / Used from: £5.98 Good beach reading whodunnit from this promising new crime writer.
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 | Daughters of Shame by Jasvinder Sanghera
Buy new: £3.84 / Used from: £1.05 Gripping and angry story about the plight of wmen in Pakistan.
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 | Rumour Has it by Jill Mansell
Buy new: £3.99 / Used from: £0.01 'Funny and heartwarming' is this author's trademark . This latest will delight her fans.
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 | The Death of Bunny Munro by Nick Cave
Buy new: £8.49 / Used from: £6.99 Interesting cross-genre tale about a mysoginistic salesman.
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