A thriller that's hard to resist

3:02pm Monday 10th November 2008

THIS month's book group selection is Resistance by Abergavenny-born author, Owen Sheers IT is 1944, the D-Day landings have failed and while large swathes of Britain are occupied, London is still resisting the invading forces.

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Faith and hope in a quest for redemption

2:04pm Thursday 2nd October 2008

ANY young child losing his mother in the early 21st century can expect support and sympathy, counselling and his mother’s memory treasured.

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It all adds up to a great read

1:34pm Thursday 4th September 2008

THIS month’s Book Group selection is a prize-winning first novel from Australia, Addition by Toni Jordan.

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The story of one man's quest to get home

1:44pm Thursday 7th August 2008

THIS month’s Book Group selection is the winner of the 2008 Orange Prize for Fiction, The Road Home by Rose Tremain.

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Keen eye for the everyday

1:32pm Friday 4th July 2008

TO coincide with the Ledbury Poetry Festival, this month’s book group selection is Two Cures for Love: Selected Poems 1979-2006 by Wendy Cope.

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Gr8 way 2 bring poetry 2 life

1:15pm Thursday 26th June 2008

TEXTING may not seem to have much to do with poetry, especially if your experience of poetry is limited to learning verse by rote at school.

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Second novel packs a powerful punch

1:50pm Thursday 5th June 2008

THIS month’s selection is Khaled Hosseini’s A Thousand Splendid Suns, the second novel from the author of the best-selling The Kite Runner, and like its predecessor, a book that doesn’t relinquish its grip on the reader until the last page is turned.

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Myerson mystery a million miles from conventional

1:10pm Thursday 8th May 2008

THOUGH the title suggests a traditional thriller and it does open with a brutal murder in the car park of a Suffolk seaside town, Something Might Happen is a million miles from a conventional murder mystery......

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Bitttersweet victory

1:53pm Thursday 3rd April 2008

IN 1941, Irène Némirovsky and her husband fled Paris for the small village of Issy-l'Eveque to join the two daughters they had sent there two years earlier.

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A Spot of Bother follows a Curious Incident

1:22pm Thursday 6th March 2008

George Hall is 57, happily enjoying his retirement building a studio in the garden where he will paint. But then, as he stands in a fitting room in Allders in Croydon, trying on a suit to wear to Bob Green's funeral, he discovers a lesion on his hip and immediately fears the worst.

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