"Every so often a novel-reader's novel comes along, an enthralling, entertaining story wedded to simple, supple prose, both informed by tremendous imagination. Summer is the perfect time for such books, and this year readers can enjoy the gift of Justin Cronin's The Passage. Read fifteen pages and you will find yourself captivated; read thirty and you will find yourself taken prisoner and reading late into the night. It has the vividness that only epic works of fantasy and imagination can achieve. What else can I say? This: read this book and the ordinary world disappears." - Stephen King
Read a sample chapter HERE
Pub Date: 01 June, 2010
My Name is Memory is the first in a trilogy. My Name is Memory is the first in a series in which Daniel, able to recall his past lives, attempts to convince Lucy that she is the woman he has loved through the ages.
Ann Brashares is the author of the young adult novels The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, The Second Summer of the Sisterhood, Girls in Pants, and Forever in Blue. This is her first novel for adults.
Pub Date: 29 June, 2010
The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet is an epic novel set in 1799 in which young Jacob de Zoet, a clerk in the Dutch East Indies Company, arrives at a Japanese outpost to earn his fortune and sail back to his love, but instead falls for the daughter of a samurai.
David Mtchell, is also author to the book Cloud Atlas and Black Swan Green
Pub Date: 01, June 2010
On the eve of her ninth birthday, unassuming Rose Edelstein, a girl at the periphery of schoolyard games and her distracted parents’ attention, bites into her mother’s homemade lemon-chocolate cake and discovers she has a magical gift: she can taste her mother’s emotions in the cake. She discovers this gift to her horror, for her mother—her cheerful, good-with-crafts, can-do mother—tastes of despair and desperation. Suddenly, and for the rest of her life, food becomes a peril and a threat to Rose.
The curse her gift has bestowed is the secret knowledge all families keep hidden—her mother’s life outside the home, her father’s detachment, her brother’s clash with the world. Yet as Rose grows up she learns to harness her gift and becomes aware that there are secrets even her taste buds cannot discern.
5. A Little Book of Language - David Crystal
Pub Date: 01, June 2010
With a language disappearing every two weeks and neologisms springing up almost daily, an understanding of the origins and currency of language has never seemed more relevant. In this charming volume, a narrative history written explicitly for a young audience, expert linguist David Crystal proves why the story of language deserves retelling.
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