With Anne Brown of Rosetta Books
THE LOVELY BONES ALICE SEBOLD When fourteen year old Susie Salmon is brutally attacked and murdered by her neighbour, she enters her version of heaven which happens to look very similar to her school playground, complete with other kids to talk to and guidance counsellors to help newcomers. However Susie is lost as she sees the after effects of her death, and can only watch as her family is slowly torn apart by grief, secrets and lies. Alice Sebold’s debut novel follows the life, death and afterlife of a girl and the journey of self-discovery she is forced to take, tenderly drawing on the issues of grief, loss and redemption. You will not be able to put this book down, and even when you do it will stay with you forever. Read the book before you see the movie.
THE SWAN THIEVES ELIZABETH KOSTOVA The Swan Thieves is a story about obsession: the obsessions we have with other people and with art, and how the two sometimes go hand in hand. It is also a book about love in many forms – first love, unexpected love and the love of a lifetime. Psychiatrist Andrew Marlowe has a perfectly ordered life,
full of devotion to his work and his hobby painting. This order is destroyed when renowned painter Robert Oliver attacks a canvas in the National Gallery and becomes his patient. Desperate to understand the secret that torments this genius, Marlowe embarks on a journey that leads him into the lives of the women closest to Oliver and a tragedy at the heart of French Impressionism.
Following on from her successful novel, The Historian, Elizabeth Kostova has created another masterful story.
THE TOMORROW BOOK JACKIE FRENCH & SUE DEGENARRO (Illustrator) The Tomorrow Book is an attractive and timely picture book about a young prince determined to find practical solutions to a number of environmental issues facing his kingdom. With hope and optimism he shows the nation’s children how simple and positive changes can be achieved. Some examples show readers how to collect and reuse water at home, grow vegetables and use fuel and transport alternatives.
All the illustrations are cleverly created from recycled materials such as the packaging from tea bags, flour packets, match-boxes and old letters, and the book is produced from recycled paper.
A lively and humorous story for young readers with an environmental conscience.
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