St Helens Star - Books - Reviews, New Releases

Girls Aloud – Dreams That Glitter: Our Story

10:20am Monday 11th May 2009

DREAMS that Glitter takes fans through the whirlwind journey of the nation’s favourite girl band, Girls Aloud.

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Connelly, Michael - The Brass Verdict

11:08am Wednesday 28th January 2009

TOP crime writer Michael Connelly unites one of his best loved characters; seasoned, rough around the edges cop, Detective Harry Bosch, with the relatively new Mickey Haller, the lawyer first introduced to us in the Richard and Judy bestseller The Lincoln Lawyer.

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Waters, Sarah - Affinity

8:19pm Saturday 3rd January 2009

SARAH Waters – famous for her groundbreaking and controversial novels Tipping The Velvet and Fingersmith – has created another Victorian tale with Affinity.

Murakami, Huraki - What I Talk About When I Talk About Running

3:54pm Tuesday 30th December 2008

A LOVELY, brief, swift memoir from the author of The Wind-Up Bird Chronicles and Norwegian Wood.

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Patterson, James - 7th Heaven

11:03pm Monday 14th July 2008

MUCH in the way that Father Christmas has elves to help out in the run up to Christmas, so I imagine James Patterson sits in a huge crime thriller storytelling factory bashing out novel after novel to satisfy the global demand.

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Clarkson, Jeremy - Don't Stop Me Now

5:22pm Saturday 12th July 2008

JEREMY Clarkson knows there's more to life than cars.

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Mosse, Kate - Sepulchre

4:39pm Saturday 12th July 2008

THE year is 1891 – young Léonie Vernier and her brother arrive in southwest France to stay with their aunt, whose mountain estate, the Domain, is famous in the region.

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Morgan, Judith and Neil - Dr Seuss and Mr Geisel

3:53pm Thursday 22nd May 2008

A NEW generation of children is being seduced by the eccentric Dr Seuss with the new film, Horton Hears A Who!

Ramsay, Gordon - Healthy Appetite

1:50pm Wednesday 21st May 2008

YOU are what you eat and everyone wants to be healthy and look their best.

Hosseini, Khaled - A Thousand Splendid Suns

11:48am Monday 28th January 2008

A THOUSAND Splendid Suns is the second literary offering from Khaled Hosseini, author of the bestselling novel The Kite Runner.