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The 2008 Book club
The Richard and Judy 2008 Book club
A Thousand Splendid Suns - Khaled Hosseini
'The novel offers extraordinarily harrowing insights into the lives of Afghan women over the past three decades .... If he cut his teeth by writing about his countrymen, it is the plight of Afghanistan's women that has brought him to realise his full powers as a novelist' The Times
Random Acts of Heroic Love - Danny Scheinmann
Can love outwit death? A heartbreaking epic story of two lives sustained by the memory of love.
The Rose of Sebastopol - Katharine McMahon
Russia, 1854: the Crimean War grinds on, and as the bitter winter draws near, the battlefield hospitals fill with dying men. In defiance of Florence Nightingale, Rosa Barr - young, headstrong and beautiful - travels to Balaklava, determined to save as many of the wounded as she can.
A Quiet Belief in Angels - R.J. Ellory
'Once again R.J. Ellory shows off his special talents... This isn't your standard shock and bore serial killer novel. It's an impassioned story of a man's life told in Ellory's distinctive voice, and it confirms his place in the top flight of crime writing.' Susanna Yager, Sunday Telegraph
Notes from an Exhibition - Patrick Gale
The new novel from the bestselling Patrick Gale. Renowned Canadian artist Rachel Kelly -- now of Penzance -- has buried her past and married a gentle and loving Cornish man. Her life has been a sacrifice to both her extraordinary art and her debilitating manic depression.
Then We Came to the End - Joshua Ferris
They spend their days - and too many of their nights - at work. Away from friends and family, they share a stretch of stained carpet with a group of strangers they call colleagues.
The Visible World - Mark Slouka
`Exquisitely written... Slouka's rapturous intensity more than justifies comparisons with Ondaatje and Berger.' Boyd Tonkin, Independent.
Mister Pip - Lloyd Jones
You cannot pretend to read a book. Your eyes will give you away. So will your breathing. A person entranced by a book simply forgets to breathe. The house can catch alight and a reader deep in a book will not look up until the wallpaper is in flames.' Bougainville. 1991. A small village on a lush tropical island in the South Pacific.
Blood River: A Journey to Africa's Broken Heart - Tim Butcher
'From his adventure he has plundered a wealth of terrific stories, and survived to recite a rosary of unstinting horror'. The Daily Telegraph.
The Welsh Girl - Peter Ho Davies
In 1944, a German Jewish refugee is sent to Wales to interview Rudolf Hess; in Snowdonia, a seventeen-year-old girl, the daughter of a fiercely nationalistic shepherd, dreams of the bright lights of an English city; and in a nearby POW camp, a German soldier struggles to reconcile his surrender with his sense of honour.
