1. Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen (Algonquin)
2. The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls (Scribner)
3. Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See (Random House Trade)
4. A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini (Riverhead Trade).
5. The Memory Keeper’s Daughter by Kim Edwards (Penguin Books)
6. TIE: Eat, Pray, Love by [...]

Synopsis
Abandoning their families and reputations, the lovers fled to Europe and exile. Mamah’s actions branded her an unnatural mother and society relished her persecution. For the rest of her life Mamah paid an extraordinary price for moving outside society’s rules, in a time that was unforgiving of a woman’s quest for fulfilment and personal happiness. [...]

Synopsis
Mr Ali decides to open a marriage bureau that will cater for a wide range of Indian clients from all walks of life and, encouraged by the indomitable Mrs Ali, he has the good sense to appoint a local girl, Aruna, as his very able assistant.
Under Mr Ali’s and Aruna’s imaginative care the marriage bureau [...]

As previously advised, the Richard and Judy show is relocating from Channel 4 to a new UKTV channel called Watch next month.  Luckily for us, they are taking the ever popular book club with them and what’s even more good news, they are expanding it!
As book addicts, we think this is great news, and so [...]

From October the Daily Mail Book Club will be merged with a new strand within the Richard & Judy show to promote new debut authors – Executive producer of Cactus TV, the people behind Richard & Judy’s Book Club, commented:
“Over the past 5 years within our summer read strand we have been successful in launching [...]

This is a fantastic list.  I currently own 40 of these excellent titles.  Enjoy!
1998

3.5.98 Birdsong – Sebastian Faulks
7.6.98 Beloved – Toni Morrison
5.7.98 Fatherland – Robert Harris
2.8.98 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin – Louis de Bernières
6.9.98 Wild Swans – Jung Chang
4.10.98 Angela’s Ashes – Frank McCourt
1.11.98 [...]

The lovely people at Orion books sent me the following email:
To celebrate the publication of Ian Rankin’s new novel, Doors Open, we’re giving 5 lucky people the chance to win a set of Ian Rankin’s Inspector Rebus novels – that’s 17 books in total. All the books have been redesigned with brand new covers that [...]

Amazon makes Beedle commitment

Amazon.co.uk has followed its US parent’s lead by committing to supply the Harry Potter spin-off The Tales of Beedle the Bard on the day of publication, as it did previously with the Harry Potter book series.
Amazon will deliver both the standard edition and Amazon’s exclusive Collector’s Edition on its official publication [...]

Wow this is really quite impressive, and quite a difference between this long awaited sequel and Stephenie Meyer’s long awaited sequel (Breaking Dawn).  Details and comparisons are below.
Christopher Paolini’s fantasy novel Brisingr has become the fastest selling children’s book in the UK this year, racking up over 45,000 sales in its first day of release, [...]

Well as reported earlier, Richard and Judy are switching channels from Channel 4 to a UKTV channel, but the latest is, that they are switching as from October! This from the Guardian, read on…
Three debut novelists will be hoping for a major sales boost after they were picked for a new series of Richard [...]