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WAITING FOR SUNRISE by William Boyd The bestselling and award-winning author of Restless and Any Human Heart is on top form with this thrilling and twisting new novel. Set in Europe during the First World War, it follows Lysander Rief, a young English actor, in his escape from a passionate but dangerous love affair in Vienna. Back in London, with war stirring, Lysander finds himself in moral and financial debt to British Intelligence and is plunged into the dangerous world of covert operations via the battlefields of France. An  engrossing read from one of today's best storytellers. MORE >

PANDEMONIUM by Lauren Oliver Teenage Lena is growing up in an alternative contemporary America, where love has been declared a disease by the government. In the first novel of the series, Delirium, Lena met and fell in love with Alex, a young Invalid (a person who has refused to take the 'cure') just before she is due to face treatment. Pandemonium continues her story: Lena has escaped from Portland into the Wilds, where Invalids live; she assumes  has been killed. There is an immediacy and pace to the narrative, though note this is the middle in a trilogy, so it ends on a cliffhanger. MORE >

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FICTION THE BOOK OF SUMMERS by Emylia Hall THE WOMAN WHO WENT TO BED FOR A YEAR by Sue Townsend THE LAND OF DECORATION by Grace McLeen VARIOUS PETS ALIVE AND DEAD by Marina Lewycka ABSOLUTION by Patrick Flanery

NON-FICTION HOME MADE by Yvette van Boven BLOOD ON THE ALTAR by Tobias Jones CHILDREN'S SOONCHILD by Russell Hoban OH NO GEORGE by Chris Haughton MORE BOOK REVIEWS >