What to read in February - our top 5 choices
From funeral knells to wedding bells, our pick of this month's new books.
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From funeral knells to wedding bells, our pick of this month's new books.
RRP £14.99 (Penguin)
The day before her daughter Debbie’s wedding, Gail has just quit her job (or was let go – whichever) when ex-husband Max shows up on her Baltimore doorstep, with an old cat in a carrier and no wedding suit.
A novella to gladden the heart, peopled by… well, real people. At 83, this Pulitzer Prize-winning author may or may not be the best writer in the world, but one thing is for sure: no one can out-Tyler Tyler.
RRP £16.99 (Profile Books)
Just a year after investigating one suspicious death, Danish art historian Torben Helle is confronted with another, when the body of his mentor, feisty septuagenarian Dame Charlotte Lazerton, is found at the foot of her stairs.
The police write it off as an accident; Torben isn’t so sure. An absolute corker, highly improbable, hugely enjoyable, an ingenious blend of Nordic noir and hygge crime.
RRP £16.99 (Simon & Schuster)
With two little girls, scant savings and another child on the way, how can Ciara Fay leave her controlling bully-baby husband, Ryan? But leave she must, to exchange a hell home for a cramped hotel room and benefits.
A taut, powerful debut novel about motherly love, family, survival, and the kindness of strangers, from this award-winning Irish writer, winning plaudits from the likes of Roddy Doyle.
RRP £18.99 (Little, Brown Book Group)
A high-flier in the ad world until she crashed and burned, Slack swapped her Blackberry for blueberries, traded in PowerPoint presentations for purple sprouting broccoli, and rediscovered joy through growing and cooking vegetables.
This is her account of a healing year of sowing and reaping, complete with recipes. Her tale of personal transformation is inspiring. Visit her website to learn more.
RRP £20 (Swift Press)
Almost 40 years after his seminal courtroom novel Presumed Innocent, and 15 years on from the sequel Innocent, Turow returns to fictional midwestern Kindle County to take up again with retired lawyer and judge Rozat (‘Rusty’) Sabich.
Rusty knows all too well that sometimes justice just isn’t. Now he must demolish the prosecution’s racially biased but seemingly unassailable case against his fiancée’s adopted son, Aaron, who stands charged with the murder of his girlfriend, Mae.
Another forensically plotted, hair-raising read from the brilliant attorney-author, not for nothing known as the ‘father of the legal thriller’.
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