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An exciting venture in conjunction with UK Book Tokens, that lets you enjoy the very
latest and best paperback fiction at half price. Whether you want simply to curl
up at home on your own with the latest Book of the Month, or perhaps start your
own reading group, the Daily Mail Book Club can help you enjoy some of the best
fiction at half price. It couldn’t be easier to join in.
For the first two weeks of every month the Daily Mail / National Book Tokens, will be printing a special voucher in the paper. Simply fill it in and present it in person at your local bookshop to obtain the Book of the Month at half the recommended price. The voucher can now also be downloaded online from the Daily Mail website.
For further information about the Daily Mail Book Club please visit: www.dailymail.co.uk/bookclub
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Recent and forthcoming book of the month titles for 2008:
January
2008 – In
My Father's House by Miranda Seymour (Simon & Schuster)
February 2008 – The Editor's Wife by Clare Chambers (Arrow)
March 2008 – Resistance by Owen Sheers (Faber & Faber)
April
2008 – Engleby
by Sebastian Faulks (Vintage)
May 2008 – Burning Bright by Tracey Chevalier (Harper)
June 2008 – Singled Out by Virginia Nicholson (Penguin)
July
2008 – Ghost
by Robert Harris (Arrow)
August 2008 – Reading in Bed by Sue Gee (Headline Review)
Week commencing 7th July 2008
Wife
in the North (Penguin,
978-0141033433 - R.R.P. £7.99)
Based on her hugely popular blog, the story of Judith O'Reilly's decision to give up her glamorous London life style and make a new life for her family in the North of England.
Week commencing 30th June 2008
Cooke's Elections (Letters from America)
(Book
now deleted, but available as an 'audio book' from 9th October 2008 - BBC AUDIO,
978-1408409534 - R.R.P. £8.99)
BBC North America editor, Justin Webb, introduces five of Alistair Cooke's famous letters from America broadcast during previous election campaigns over the past 60 years.
Week commencing 23rd June 2008
Casanova
(Hodder
& Stoughton, 978-0340922149 - R.R.P. £20)
Benedict Cumberbath reads from Ian Kelly's fascinating biography of the world's most famous lover and libertine.
Week commencing 16th June 2008
The
Pain and the Privilege (Harper
Press, 978-0007219490 - R.R.P. £25)
Ffion Hague reads from her new book, abridged by Penny Leicester, which explores the role of women in David Lloyd George's life.
Week commencing 9th June 2008
The
Black Death (Weidenfeld
& Nicolson, 978-0297844754 - R.R.P. £20)
John Hatcher's account of how the people of a typical English village lived and died in the worst epidemic in history.
Week commencing 2nd June 2008
Clean
(Profile,
978-1846680953 - R.R.P. £12.99)
Katherine Ashenburg's unsanitised history of washing. Read by Tamsin Greig.
Week commencing 26th May 2008
Bearded
Tit (Ebury,
978-0091922696 - R.R.P. £12.99)
Rory McGrath reads from his comic memoir, a story of love and birdwatching.
Week commencing 19th May 2008
Speaking
For Myself (Little
Brown, 978-1408700983 - R.R.P. £18.99)
Cherie Blair tells her own story in her own words.
Week commencing 12th May 2008
Twenty Chickens for a Saddle: the story of an African childhood
(Bloomsbury,
978-074595960 - R.R.P. £14.99)
Anne-Marie Duff reads from Robyn Scott's affectionate memoir of growing up in an eccentric family in Botswana in the 1980's.
Week commencing 5th May 2008
The
Morville Hours (Bloomsbury,
978-0747592587 - R.R.P. £17.99)
Katherine Swift narrates the story of how she created her beautiful garden at Morville.
Week commencing 7th July 2008
The
Night of the Mi'raj (Little,
Brown, 978-0316027496 - R.R.P. £14.99)
By Zoe Ferraris.
Gripping crime novel set in contemporary Saudi Arabia.
Week commencing 23rd & 30th June 2008
Breath
(Picador,
978-0330455718 - R.R.P. £14.99)
Richard Roxburgh reads from Tim Winton's tale of adolescence on the edge, set on the western fringe of Australia.
Week commencing 9th & 16th June 2008
Things
Fall Apart (Penguin
Classics, 978-0141023380 - R.R.P. £7.99)
Chuk Iwuji reads from Chinua Achebe's classic novel.
Week commencing 26th May & 2nd June 2008
Helpless
(Little
Brown, 978-0316027847 - R.R.P. £12.99)
By Barbara Gowdy. Read by Kathryn Akin.
Week commencing 12th & 19th May 2008
The
Behaviour of Moths (Virago,
978-1844084859 - R.R.P. £12.99)
By Poppy Adams. Read by Stephanie Cole.
Week commencing 28th April 2008 & 5th May 2008
The
Secret Scripture (Faber,
978-0571215287 - R.R.P. £16.99)
By Sebastian Barry: Nearing her 100th birthday, Roseanne McNulty faces an uncertain future ar the soon to be closed Roscommon Regional Mental Hospital.
Richard
& Judy Summer Read titles
This
year’s Summer Read starts on Channel 4 on 25th June and the details
of the books and their transmission dates are as follows:
The
Outcast by
Sadie Jones (Vintage) – 25th June
No
Time for Goodbye
by Linwood Barclay (Orion) – 2nd July
East
of the Sun by
Julia Gregson (Orion) – 9th July
Down
River by
John Hart (John Murray) – 16th July
The
Pirate’s Daughter
by Margaret Cezair-Thompson (Headline) – 23rd July
The
Private Lives of Pippa Lee
by Rebecca Miller (Canongate) – 30th July
Addition
by Toni Jordan (Sceptre) – 6th August
The
Resurrectionist
by James Bradley (Faber) – 13th August
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