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The Long Song, by Andrea Levy
Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and longlisted for the Orange Prize, The Long Song is breathtaking, hauntingly beautiful, heartbreaking and unputdownable You do not know me yet. My son Thomas, who is publishing this book, tells me, it is customary at this place in a novel to give the reader a little taste of the story that is held within these pages. As your storyteller, I am to convey that this tale is set in Jamaica during the last turbulent years of slavery and the early years of freedom that followed.
By (author) Maggie O'Farrell
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The Hand That First held Mine, by Maggie O’Farrell
When the sophisticated Innes Kent turns up on her doorstep, Lexie Sinclair realises she cannot wait any longer for her life to begin, and leaves for London. There, at the heart of the 1950s Soho art scene, she carves out a new life. In the present day, Elina and Ted are reeling from the difficult birth of their first child. Elina struggles to reconcile the demands of motherhood with sense of herself as an artist, and Ted is disturbed by memories of his own childhood that don’t tally with his parents’ version of events. As Ted begins to search for answers, an extraordinary portrait of two women is revealed, separated by fifty years, but connected in ways that neither could ever have expected.
By (author) Daisy Goodwin
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My Last Duchess, by Daisy Goodwin
Cora Cash, possibly the wealthiest heiress in 1890s America, has been raised to believe that money will open every door to her. But when her mother whisks Cora to England to secure her an aristocratic match, Cora is dismayed by the welcome she at first receives. The great English houses in which she is entertained are frosty and forbidding, dogged by intrigue above stairs, and gossip below. And it is only when she loses her heart – to a man she barely knows – that Cora realises the game she is playing is one she does not full understand, and that her own future happiness could be the prize.
By (author) Michael David Lukas
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The Oracle of Stamboul, by Michael David Lucas
A magical historical novel about an astonishing eight year old girl in the last days of the Ottoman Empire.
It is 1877, on the shores of the Black Sea, and the omens for the newborn Eleanora Cohen are hardly promising. Not only does her mother die in childbirth, but her village is being attacked by the Tsar’s Royal Cavalry. However, despite this bad beginning, a sour stepmother and a traumatic journey in the hold of a ship, young Eleanora grows into a remarkably clever but very engaging child. And when a heartbreaking tragedy leaves her marooned in Istanbul, where spies and boarded-up harems and sudden death are as much a part of life as delicious spices, Paris fashions and rosewater, it is Eleanora’s extraordinary courage and character which lead her straight to the Sultan’s court, and to her salvation.
By (author) Bernie Mcgill
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The Butterfy Cabinet, by Bernie McGill
An unforgettable story of two women linked by their roles in a tragedy at the end of the Victorian era. When Anna, the young woman she cared for as a child, announces her intention to visit the elderly Maddie, Maddie recognises her last chance to unburden herself of a story that has gnawed at her for sixty years. For Maddie, rather like the butterfly cabinet she keeps safely under lock and key, has for too long guarded a secret: that of the day a four-year-old girl died at the big house where she worked as a nanny. Finally, Maddie knows, Anna is ready to hear what happened. As Maddie’s mind drifts back through the years, so too is revealed the story of Charlotte’s mother, Harriet Ormond. A proud, uncompromising woman, Harriet’s great passion is collecting butterflies and pinning them under glass; motherhood comes no easier to her than her role as mistress of her remote Irish estate. When her daughter dies, her community is quick to judge her, and Harriet will not stoop to defend herself. But her journals reveal a more complex truth.
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- Question 1: On what day is Eleanora Cohen born in The Oracle of Stamboul?
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March 8th, 2011 at 2:47 pm
Wow some really excellent prospective reads in there.. Been dying to get my hands on The Long Song for ages.
March 9th, 2011 at 10:23 am
brilliant selection, read the extract from the Oracle of Stamboul and now I’m hooked
March 14th, 2011 at 9:00 am
Wow looks a great selection. Fingers crossed
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March 14th, 2011 at 9:34 am
lots of great reading
March 14th, 2011 at 12:03 pm
Thank you, nice to see authors I do not know.
March 14th, 2011 at 12:12 pm
What a fantastic selection of books once again from bookhugger!
March 20th, 2011 at 5:54 pm
Would love to make some room on my bookshelves for these.
March 21st, 2011 at 11:06 am
Wow, a fantastic selection of books.
Thank you for the chance to win.
carol