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In case anyone want to read a synopsis. ann Glos

Hi Ann sorry I've not been in touch, i'll have to bow out this time I'm afraid I've been going a bit mad on Ebay trying to get the books from last months suggestions so I've still got those to read yet! I currently have 7 books sat in my bedroom waiting to be read. I have only just started The Memory Keeper's daughter! If there is one book i could suggest it would be the book i have just read by Maureen Lee called Stepping Stones it is the first book she ever wrote and it is really good Alaina

Awwwwwww Maz got in there first - I was gonna choose Harry Potter too! I will definitely be reading it - Is anyone going to queue for it at midnight? I thought there have been lots of good choices this month and many I would like to read... therefore just one from me: The First Casualty by Ben Elton A gut-wrenching historical drama set in Flanders 1917 during the third battle of Ypres. Douglas Kingsley is sent to investigate the murder of a British Officer..... as the gap between legally-sanctioned and illegal murder becomes even more blurred Kingsly quickly learns that the first casualty when war comes is truth. Sorry am late with this! Kaz :o))

Apologies for the late entry - had visitors! Dawn Two Little Girls In Blue - Mary Higgins Clark When The Frawleys return home from a night out, their 3 year old twins are gone. The police found the babysitter unconscious and a ransom note for $8million. Steve's global investment company puts up the ransom money but only 1 twin is recovered with a note saying that the other child was inadvertently killed. However at the girl's memorial service, her twin tells her mother that Kathy is communicating with her and wants to come home. The Hard Way - Lee Child Jack Reacher faces a case so disturbing that the truth eludes him. He has to sweat the details and work the clues. Then what started on a busy New York Street explodes 3000 miles away in the English countryside. Reacher is striding alone, armed and dangerous.

No problem at all Dawn, didn't want you to miss out that's all. Ann Glos

Just Dawn, Kaz and Alaina to make suggestions, I have PM'd them all but not heard anything back yet. Ann Glos

especially for Ann :-)) Black Swan Green by David Mitchell It's a dank January in the Worcestershire village of Black Swan Green and thirteen-year-old Jason Taylor -- covert stammerer and reluctant poet -- anticipates a stultifying year in the deadest village on Earth. But Jason hasn't reckoned with a junta of bullies, simmering family discord, the Falklands War, an exotic Belgian emigre, a threatened gypsy invasion and the caprices of those mysterious entities known as girls. BLACK SWAN GREEN charts thirteen months in the black hole between childhood and adolescence, set against the sunset of an agrarian England still overshadowed by the Cold War. Wry, painful, funny and vibrant with the stuff of life, it is David Mitchell's subtlest and most captivating achievement to date. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by JK Rowling (as I'm sure most of us will be reading it anyway this month!!) Harry has been burdened with a dark, dangerous and seemingly impossible task: that of locating and destroying Voldemort's remaining Horcruxes. Never has Harry felt so alone, or faced a future so full of shadows. But Harry must somehow find within himself the strength to complete the task he has been given. He must leave the warmth, safety and companionship of The Burrow and follow without fear or hesitation the inexorable path laid out for him. In this final, seventh installment of the Harry Potter series, J.K. Rowling unveils in spectactular fashion the answers to the many questions that have been so eagerly awaited. The spellbinding, richly woven narrative, which plunges, twists and turns at a breathtaking pace, confirms the author as a mistress of storytelling, whose books will be read, reread and read again. Maz. XX

Are there any more? We vote tomorrow, don't we?? Dee x

nudge up for latecomers! Ann Glos

Lorraine is not joining us this time either. Ann glos

Jill, I have it here in the bookcase, hubby read it ages ago and I have always said one day I will read it Dee xx

Had a message from Daisy to say she wont be joining us for the next 2 months. Ann Glos

TOR Why not choose one off the pile waiting to be read, you may be lucky and get it chosen, then that will be one less on the pile. Ann Glos

Sorry Ann - haven't managed to read last months. Will try harder this month but no suggestions (unless you want to know about the pile I have waiting to be read?) T.O.R. x

Dee, I read it a few years ago and have just bought it in paperback and as a hardback for my mother. Would suggest its worth a read even if it does not get picked :))) I lived not too far from Salisbury,so was interested to have a read about the area as Stonehenge always fasinated me. xx Jill

Falls the Shadow - Sharon Penman (follow up to Here be Dragons) Simon de Montfort - aristocratic champion of the people, French-born crusader for English rights - blazed across the troubled 13th century to become one of the first true popular heroes of England. He also claimed the heart of the King's sister, Nell, who loved this extraordinary man throughout their stormy, passionate marriage. From the council chambers to the battlefields of Henry III's England and Llewelyn's divided Wales, amid courtiers, politicians and noblemen, Simon alone spoke his mind. And even for the greatest warrior in Europe, the favourite of the King, that was a dangerous thing..... The Sound of Laughter - Peter Kay Peter Kay's unerring gift for observing the absurdities and eccentricities of family life has earned himself a widespread, everyman appeal. These vivid observations coupled with a kind of nostalgia that never fails to grab his audience's shared understanding, have earned him comparisons with Alan Bennett and Ronnie Barker. In his award winning TV series' he creates worlds populated by degenerate, bitter, useless, endearing and always recognisable characters which have attracted a huge and loyal following. In many ways he's an old fashioned kind of comedian and the scope and enormity of his fanbase reflects this. He doesn't tell jokes about politics or sex, but rather rejoices in the far funnier areas of life: elderly relatives and answering machines, dads dancing badly at weddings, garlic bread and cheesecake, your mum's HRT...His autobiography is full of this kind of humour and nostalgia, beginning with Kay's first ever driving lesson, taking him back through his Bolton childhood, the numerous jobs he held after school and leading up until the time he passed his driving test and found fame.

Jill, I have just seen the size of Sarum, that could keep me occupied for a night or two ;-)))

My suggestions for July are: - Birmingham Blitz. Anne Murray. Genie Watkins, a Birmingham kid, dreams of having a proper happy family like her Italian friend Teresa. But it's Aug 1939. Genie hasn't reckoned with the outbreak of war, her already rocky family being split up and the strange liberating effect it has on her Mother... 5th Horseman..... James Patterson. A young Mother is recuperating in a top San Francisco hospital when suddenly she is gasping for breath. The call button fails to bring help in time. How and Why did this happen.

Several here I fancy already Dee xx

The Terminal Man by Sir Alfred Mehran The extraordinary true story of the charming eccentric Sir Alfred Mehran who has spent the last 15 years living on a bench in Terminal 1 at Charles de Gaulle Airport, Paris and dining on MacDonalds every day - the strangest case in immigration history! Knights of the Cross by Tom Harper As the First Crusaders are stuck in an interminable siege of Turk-held Antioch, Demetrios Askiates, a Greek assigned as scribe to the Byzantine emperor's representative, must once again play detective. The discovery of a Norman knight with his throat slit and bearing unusual markings on his corpse threatens the shaky alliance among the varied European armies of the First Crusade. Amid battles and political intrigues, Demetrios desperately pursues the few clues he has, even as the late Norman knight's companions, who may have joined him in promoting a new heretical sect, also turn up dead.