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Philip Sington on The Einstein Girl

June - December 2009

Philip is available for library events. For more information, click on continue reading.

'The Einstein Girl' is a gripping and atmospheric historical thriller set in Berlin in 1932, inspired by documents recently discovered about Einstein's family.

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David Szalay on The Innocent

June - December 2009

David is available for library events. For more information, click on continue reading.

David Szalay, winner of the Betty Trask Prize 2008, returns with a searing work of acute realism and bleak beauty set in Communist Russia.

For more information, see:
http://www.rbooks.co.uk/product.aspx?id=0224081578

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Hephzibah Anderson on Chastened

June - December 2009

Hephzibah is available for library events. For more information, click on continue reading.

Chastened is a witty look at twenty-first-century sex as Hephzibah Anderson seeks to resurrect romance during a year long adventure in chastity.

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Elaine di Rollo on A Proper Education for Girls

June - December 2009

Elaine is available for library events.
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'A Proper Education for Girls' is a rollicking story of twin sisters and their fight for freedom, set in 1857.

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William Fotheringham on Fallen Angel

June - December 2009

Claire is available for library events. For more information, click on continue reading.

Fallen Angel is the remarkable biography of the 'most popular Italian sportsman of the twentieth century' by the acclaimed autho of 'Put Me Back on my Bike'

For more information, see:
http://www.rbooks.co.uk/product.aspx?id=0224074474

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Sarah Herman on I Like My Job

London and South East

Sarah is available for library events. For more information, click on continue reading.

I Like My Job is an hilarious graphic novel about office life.

For more information, see:
http://www.rbooks.co.uk/product.aspx?id=022408576X

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Jojo Tulloh on Freshly Picked

June - December 2009

Jojo is available for library events. For more information, click on continue reading.

Freshly Picked is a thing of beauty - gorgeously designed and illustrated and bursting with delicious recipes, it will be irresistible to anyone interested in food.

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Jeremy Whittle on Bad Blood

June - December 2009

Jeremy is available for library events. For more information, click on continue reading.

Shortlisted for William Hill's Sports Book of the Year 2008, Badd Blood is an insiders account of ten years following the Tour de France and the scandal and intrigue that went with it.

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Brian Thompson on The Captain's Table

June - December 2009

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Bella Wallis returns in a scintillating new episode from prizewinning author Brian Thompson

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Benedict Gummer on The Scourging Angel

June - December 2009

Benedict is available for library events and to speak to reading groups about his book. For more information, click on continue reading.

The Scourging Angel is the definitive account of the Black Death in the British Isles.

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Peter Beaumont on The Secret Life of War

June - December 2009

Peter is available for library events and to speak to reading groups about his book. For more information, click on continue reading.

The Secret Life of War is a defining book about the experience of conflict, for those living through it and those reporting it, distilled from a decade and a half on the world's frontlines.

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Patricia Nicol on Sucking Eggs

June - December 2009

Patricia is available for library events and to speak to reading groups about her book. For more information, click on continue reading.

With this clever, solourful, comparative history, Patricia Nicol shows us that, when it comes to being green, resourceful and eco-friendly, our grannies can show us the way!

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Iain Pears on Stone's Fall

June - December 2009

Iain is available for library events and to speak to reading groups about his book. For more information, click on continue reading.

Stone's Fall marks the long-awaited return of one of our great historical thriller writers and rivals his international bestseller 'An Instance of the Fingerpost'.

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Helen Carr on The Verse Revolutionaries

June - December 2009

Helen is available for library events and to speak to reading groups about his book. For more information, click on continue reading.

The Verse Revolutionaries traces the interactions, love affairs and quarrels of the Imagists (a colourful group of poets in London before the First World War).

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Russell Miller on The Adventures of Arthur Conan Doyle

Sept 2009 - March 2010

The Adventures of Arthur Conan Doyle is the definitive biography of an enduringly fascinating figure, told with panache and full of new material unavailable to any previous biographers.http://www.rbooks.co.uk/product.aspx?id=1844139220

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Ian Mortimer on The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England

Sept 2009 - Feb 2010

The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England is an original, entertaining and illuminating guide to a 'completely different world': England in the Middle Ages.
http://www.rbooks.co.uk/product.aspx?id=0224079948

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Michael Holroyd on A Strange Eventful History

Sept 2009 - March 2010

A major literary event from 'one of the greatest biographers of our age'. http://www.rbooks.co.uk/product.aspx?id=0099497182

Michael is available for library events and talks to reading groups.

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Tim Harris on Players

Sept - Dec 2009

The men, women and animals who created the world of sport - a companion piece to the superlative 'Sport: Almost Everything You Ever Wanted to Know'

Tim is available for library events and talks to reading groups.

http://www.rbooks.co.uk/product.aspx?id=0224082779

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Yaba Badoe on True Murder

August 2009 - January 2010

Yaba is available for library events. For more information, click on continue reading.

'True Murder' is an entrancing debut by an accomplished film-maker.

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http://www.rbooks.co.uk/product.aspx?id=0099523329

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Raphael Honigstein on Englischer Fussball

August 2009 - January 2010

Raphael is available for library events. For more information, click on continue reading.

'Englischer Fussball' is a German's-eye view on our national obsession.

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http://www.rbooks.co.uk/product.aspx?id=022408013X

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Nicola Keegan on Swimming

July 2009

Nicola is available for library events. For more information, click on continue reading.

This is a debut not to be missed - Nicola Keegan has a new voice in fiction, with a dark edge reminiscent of Lionel Shriver

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http://www.rbooks.co.uk/product.aspx?id=0701182857

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Karen Armstrong on The Case for God

July 2009

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The Case fir God is an essentuak book for our times, answering bestselling atheists Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens in arguing that faith still has a fundemental role in the modern world.

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http://www.rbooks.co.uk/product.aspx?id=1847920349

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Julia Blackburn on The Three of Us

June - December 2009

Julia is available for library events and to speak to reading groups about her book. For more information, click on continue reading.

A memoir like no other, The Three of Us is a touching and tragic love story about a dysfunctional family.

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Sarah Wise on The Blackest Streets

June - December 2009

Sarah is available for library events and to speak to reading groups about her book. For more information, click on continue reading.

The Blackest Streets is a brilliant exploration of the 'seedy side of Victorian London' from one of our most talented young historians.

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John Campbell on Pistols at Dawn

June - December 2009

Joe is available for library events and to speak to reading groups about his book. For more information, click on continue reading.

A brilliant book about political rivalries through the ages, from the prize-winning biographer and historian.

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Sulaiman Addonia on The Consequences of Love

January - December 2009

Sulaiman is available for library events and to speak to reading groups about his book.

A gifted young storyteller presents an eye-opening, authentic and terrifying tale of illicit love in Saudi Arabia.

For more information see:
http://www.rbooks.co.uk/product.aspx?id=0099521148

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Tom Lee on Greenfly

January - December 2009

Tom is available for library events and to speak to reading groups about his book.

For more information see:
http://www.rbooks.co.uk/product.aspx?id=1846551943

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D.J. Taylor on Ask Alice

January - December 2009

D.J. Taylor is available for library events and to speak to reading groups about his book.

A wonderful novel of concealment and subterfuge, sweeping from Kansas to London, from 1904 to 1936, by the author of Kept - about a woman's rise and fall, the choices she makes, the chances she takes and the secret which will undo her. For more information see: http://www.rbooks.co.uk/product.aspx?id=070118356X

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Sara Stockbridge on Hammer

January - December 2009

Sara is available for library events and to speak to reading groups about her book.

Meet Grace Hammer - matriarch and jewel thief - on the run in Victorian London in this vigorous and stylish debut by actress Sara Stockbridge. For more information see:
http://www.rbooks.co.uk/product.aspx?id=0701182237

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Caroline Moorhead in Dancing to The Precipice

January - December 2009

Caroline is available for library events and to speak to reading groups about her book.


For more information see:
http://www.rbooks.co.uk/product.aspx?id=070117904X

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Author Available

December 2008 - December 2009

Visits can be geared toward the pre-school or the primary age groups, with readings from the book, listening to recordings of some of the more remarkable bird calls, discussion of seasons in the different hemispheres, examination of some seeds of trees, and crafts and activities based on those in the book. For older children, there is a writing workshop combined with nature observation and sketching, discussion of the research involved for "The Big Field : a Child's Year Under the Southern Cross", and more discussion of the Atlantic Rainforest and the organisations working to restore it. There can also be an art and poetry workshop with a discussion of medieval illuminated manuscripts and how they were the inspiration for the pattern of the artwork in the book. Sessions last approximately one half-hour for very young children to one and a half hours for older children.

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Thomas Wright on Oscar's Books

Depends on availability

Thomas Wright is available for library events and to speak to reading groups about his book.


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Kate Colquhoun - Taste

April - September 2009

Kate Colquhoun is an energetic and enthusiastic personality, passionate and hugely well informed about the history of food. Kate is available for library events for audiences of 40 +

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