Lauzc
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Richard & Judy Book Club 2009 ShorlistStart your new year off with a bang with this host of thrilling books! Combining intrigue, murder, mystery and a dash of romance, this fantastic and highly compelling new Richard and Judy Book Club collection is sure to get your heart racing. Explore a mystery in the world of contemporary art and find out that all is not as it seems in Jesse Kellerman's brilliant The Brutal Art, then journey back in time with Kate Summerscale's The Suspicions of Mr Whicher, an engaging exploration of a crime that shocked the whole of England in the 1860s. Become engrossed in Kate Atkinson's When Will There Be Good News?, a riveting crime story following popular private investigator Jackson Brody and delve into The 19th Wife by David Ebershoff where there has been a brutal murder within the polygamist mormon community. Then wind down with The Gargoyle, Andrew Davidson's complex and riveting debut novel and explore a romance that transcends both time and space.
Delve into the lives of Wilson and Ruth Carter, whose daughter Isabelle is immersed in a silence from which she is finding it difficult to emerge. Find out how the family cope with this bewildering crisis in Elizabeth H. Winthrop's deeply engaging December. Then meet two women whose lives are affected by scandal as they enter into illicit affairs. Beatrice Colin's The Luminous Life of Lilly Aphrodite introduces you to Lilly an orphan in decadent Berlin who becomes caught up in an affair with a Russian director - an affair that will cost her everything. Leading a similar scandalised life is Idina Sackville whose thrilling life is documented in the intriguing biography The Bolter by her granddaughter Frances Osborne. Then journey to a war-torn world with Steven Galloway's extremely powerful novel The Cellist of Sarajevo, remembering to stop in a post 9/11 New York City to discover Hans, a man who must rebuild a life for himself, meeting a friend involved with dark activities and ambitions. Joseph O'Neill's remarkable novel Netherland completes this thoroughly engaging set of ten books that have truly earned the Richard and Judy seal of approval!
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annecater
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I was just about to post this too Laura!
I've already read and enjoyed The Gargoyle and The 19th Wife and have The Cellist of Sarajevo on my TBR
I think I'd give all of them a go really but especially like the sound of The Luminous Life of Lilly Aphrodite and December
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Lauzc
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| annecater wrote: | I was just about to post this too Laura!
I've already read and enjoyed The Gargoyle and The 19th Wife and have The Cellist of Sarajevo on my TBR
I think I'd give all of them a go really but especially like the sound of The Luminous Life of Lilly Aphrodite and December |
Great minds think alike. These are ll the ones I am interested in reading too!
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blueflower
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I got an email today about these and had a quick look through. I have read The Gargoyle and would like to read some of the others but really trying hard not to add to my vast book collection at the moment.  But I bet I give in.!
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wonderlake
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I got Kate Summerscale's The Suspicions of Mr Whicher off my BB Secret Santa xxx
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lovely treez
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I highly recommend When Will There Be Good News - Kate Atkinson and also The Gargoyle (ever so quirky..). I've reserved The Suspicions, Lilly Aphrodite and The Cellist of Sarajevo from the library today and hope to borrow 19th Wife from a dear friend.  Looks like a good list although I was disappointed in some of last years R and J Winter Reads, notably Rose of Sebastopol and Then We Came to the End |(was that the title or am I just recalling how I never made it to the end....)
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annecater
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I managed to pick up the Whicher book in a charity shop in Lincoln today for 80p - delighted!
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charlottestar
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The Suspicions of Mr Whicher is excellent! One of my favourite reads from 2008. 
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