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Welcome to our Book Club! If you are looking for inspiration for your next reading group meeting — you've come to the right place.
Every month we'll suggest a book which we think makes for a great book club read and offer up a few questions to kick-start discussion. Plus, order over 5 copies of any of our Book Club reads and you'll get a 20% discount and free p&p!
Each month we'll also invite you to ask the featured author any questions about the book, and send us your reviews. We'll post all your comments (there's a freebie in it for the star review!) together with the author Q&A the following month.
If you're part of any reading group, don't worry – we'd still love you to share your views with us and the other A&B readers, and if you think you might want to start your own group check out our Tips for Starting a Book Club.
First Fruits by Penelope Evans
Kate Carr is the luckiest girl in the world. Everyone at school envies her because her father is such a charmer, the most mesmerising minister in Edinburgh. She is his first fruit, his only child, his offering. He is training her up in his image, to have "it" - his special power, the ability to manipulate people. And Kate, an impressionable adolescent, practices the skills he taught her on her equally impressionable friends. But haunted by the loss of her mother and a murky past, Kate's begins to see things in a different light... but how can she change her ways and discover the truth whilst under the scrutiny of her father?
Both a psychological thriller and mystery, this is a dark and gripping read about parental love and control, adolescence and the power of manipulation.
Order 5 or more copies for your bookclub and submit promo code BCFF20 in your shopping basket and get 20% off.
Coffin Trail, The by Martin Edwards
A riveting mystery set in a close-knit Lake District town which sees the reopening of a cold-case. When historican Daniel Kind moves into Tarn Cottage he didn't expect the previous owner, Barrie, to have been a...
Q. What drew you to base your series on ‘cold cases’?
A. I\'m fascinated by the way the past impacts upon the present, in so many ways. I think this is true for individuals, but also for society generally. I found the idea of a historian\'s work as a form of detection very appealing, and I wanted to counterpoint that with Hannah\'s delving into old mysteries. And, parallel to the cold cases, runs Hannah\'s relationships with Ben Kind, in the past, and now Daniel, his son.
January Musician`s Daughter,The - by Rupert Holmes
1940, San Francisco. Ray Sherwood, a jazz saxophonist, arrives in town with the Jack Donovan Orchestra and plenty of bad memories. When he is propositioned by two beautiful women on his very first day, he feels his luck could be changing...until one ...
December Muddy Boots & Silk Stockings - by Julia Stoneham
For ten volunteer Land Girls assigned to a Devonshire farm, the increasing momentum of war in Europe transcends the tensions of their traditionally estranged backgrounds and drives them together to support each other in matters of love and family. T...
November Third Strike - by Zoë Sharp
Bodyguard and ex-Special Forces soldier Charlie Fox is recovering from gun shot wounds but itching to impress her boss and get back to work. What she didn't expect was to be drawn into a dangerous case of a personal nature. When she hears her eminent...
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