Thursday 28 July 2011

One Moment One Morning - Sarah Rayner

The 07.44 Train from Brighton to London, Carriages are packed with commuters. One occupies her time observing the people around, when she notices that the man opposite collapses, the train is stopped and an ambulance called.  Then everything changes. A wife, loosing her husband. A friend helping her cope with the lose, whilst also putting up with someone who doesn't deserve the time, and a new friend who helps them both grieve.

Cast Member Confidential -Chris Mitchell

When things in Chris's life started to fall apart, his girlfriend left him, his mum is dying of cancer, he runs away from home.  All the way to Disney Land, the world of magic and a place no one dies.  We follow his story of working for disney for a year, to find out what really goes on behind the scenes of a world so protected.

Thursday 21 July 2011

Dorothy Koomson – Goodnight Beautiful

Nova Kumalisi would do anything for her closest friend, Mal Wacken. She owes him her life. So, when he asked her to be the surrogate mother for him and his wife, in spite of her fears about how it would alter their friendship, Nova agreed. Eight years later, Nova is bringing up their son alone, and she and Mal don't speak. Months into the pregnancy, Mal's wife changed her mind about the surrogacy agreement. Already suspicious of how close Nova and Mal were, Stephanie realised her strained marriage was in serious trouble when she found a text from her husband to Nova, saying, 'Goodnight, Beautiful'. She asked Mal to cut all ties with his closest friend and unborn child. Now, seven-year-old Leo is critically ill and Nova, despite her anger and hurt, wants Mal to have the chance to know his son before it's too late. Will it take a tragedy to remind them how much they mean to each other?

Something Rotten - Jasper Fford

Thursday Next, Head of JurisFiction and ex-SpecOps agent, returns to her native Swindon accompanied by a child of two, a pair of dodos and Hamlet, who is on a fact-finding mission in the real world. Thursday has been despatched to capture escaped Fictioneer Yorrick Kaine but even so, now seems as good a time as any to retrieve her husband Landen from his state of eradication at the hands of the Chronoguard. It's not going to be easy. Thursday's former colleagues at the department of Literary Detectives want her to investigate a spate of cloned Shakespeares, the Goliath Corporation are planning to switch to a new Faith based corporate management system and the Neanderthals feel she might be the Chosen One who will lead them to genetic self-determination. With help from Hamlet, her uncle and time-travelling father, Thursday faces the toughest adventure of her career. Where is the missing President-for-life George Formby? Why is it imperative for the Swindon Mallets to win the World Croquet League final? And why is it so difficult to find reliable childcare?

Tuesday 12 July 2011

Summer of Secrets - Martina Reilly


Hope doesn't like being tied down, she has had several jobs, flits from place to place, and why should she, after a troubled childhood she wants to have fun. But when a well needed holiday takes a tragic twist, she finds herself having to return to her home in Ireland where she has to confront secrets she has been desperate to avoid.

The Help – Kathryn Stockett


Its 1962, in Jackson Mississippi, where black maids raise white children, but are not trusted not to steal the silver. We follow the lives of several black maids and their interactions with their white masters. As each maid plucks up the courage to step over boundaries and cross lines they should never cross, but the result is an extraordinary tale to tell.

Swahili For the Broken Hearted – Peter Moore

Peter Moore after being dumped by the girl next door, decides to travel africa for six months visiting various areas. He decided to only travel overground and see how the mood takes him as he goes, with an end destination in mind. And travelling on his own, it's inevitable that Peter falls in with a motley cast of characters and has myriad misadventures: including coming face to face with a wild hyena with very bad breath, crossing the treacherous Sani Pass, the highest in Africa, narrowly escaping a riot by hiding in a coffin shop, saving oil-covered penguins in South Africa, and acting as an extra in a World War II epic, not to mention dodging 20,000 single woman trying to catch the eye of the king of Swaziland during the annual Reed Dance. Oh yes, and then there was the time when he was kicked out of Robert Mugabe's birthday bash at gunpoint.


The Choice – Susan Lewis

Nikki Grant is only twenty-one when she discovers she's pregnant. Despite her parents' disappointment and anger, she welcomes the news with joy. The baby will complete the happy home she shares with the man she adores, Spencer James. Baby Zac arrives and is perfect in every way. And with Spencer's career taking off they are ready to make the big move to London. And then, on a day like any other, Nikki suddenly finds her life turned upside down by tragedy. As she becomes evermore embroiled in a world she cannot escape, the love between Nikki and her son is put to the kind of test no mother should ever have to face...