The Legacy of Eden

"To understand what it meant to be a Hathaway you'd first have to see Aurelia."

For generations, a grand estate house was the crowning glory of over three thousand acres of Iowa farm land and golden corn fields. Named Aurelia, it was a monument to matriarch Lavinia Hathaway's dream to elevate the family name--no matter what relative or stranger she had to destroy in the process. It was a desperation that wrought the downfall of the Hathaways- and the once prosperous farm.

Now the last inhabitant of the decaying old home has died--alone. None of the surviving members of the Hathaway dynasty want anything to do with the house, the land or the memories. Especially Meredith Pincetti. Now living in New York City, for seventeen years Lavinia's youngest grandchild has tried to forget everything about her family and her past. But with the receipt of a pleading letter, Meredith is again thrust into conflict with the legacy which destroyed her family's once-great name.

Back at Aurelia, Meredith must confront the rise and fall of the Hathaway family...and her own part in their mottled history.

One of the most eagerly anticipated debuts of the year.

Contact Claudia Symons
(Claudia.Symons@hqnuk.co.uk) if interested in copies for your reading group.

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Mistress of the Storm & Heart of Stone

Mistress of the Storm and the sequel Heart of Stone by M L Welsh are stories of adventure, magic and friendship. Set in a blustery coastal town and featuring Verity, a feisty girl heroine and her two friends they are perfect for boys and girls aged 9-11. If you would like to receive copies of Mistress of the Storm for your reading group please contact
lbennett@randomhouse.co.uk

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Josephine Hart - Damage & Sin

I have 80 finished copies of Sin and 90 copies of Damage to give away

Before Josephine died her editor asked her to write new introductions for two of her most celebrated books. After she passed away her husband found these and they have been included in the new editions.

'Damaged people are dangerous. They know they can survive.'

Josephine Hart's debut novel, an international bestseller, filmed with Jeremy Irons and Juliette Binoche, is one of the most chilling explorations of physical passion and dark, obsessive love ever written.

'A remarkable first novel of awesome accomplishment and quite startling psychological insight' Ruth Rendell

'Though she wounded me beyond pain, I too inflicted deep hurt. Not born to murder her, still I sought to break her . . . Her name was Elizabeth Ashbridge. And I even envied her that.'

Sin is about a woman possessed by an obsessive envy, a woman who will stop at nothing to get what she wants.

'As in Les Liaisons Dangereuses, innocence and virtue are cruelly and deliberately betrayed, as the reader looks on with mingled shock and fascination . . . a tour de force' New York Times

Josephine Hart (1942-2011) was the bestselling author of Damage, Sin, Oblivion and The Reconstructionist. She was a Director of Haymarket Publishing and founded Gallery Poets before going on to produce a number of West End plays. As well writing novels, she was a `poetry evangelist' and her Josephine Hart Poetry Hour at the British Library inspired two edited poetry books: Catching Life by the Throat and Words that Burn. She was married to Maurice Saatchi and had two sons.

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Night Waking

As the nights draw in curl up with Sarah Moss's critically acclaimed, darkly funny portrait of life with small children.

'Tartly humorous, sad and clever ... a passionately written meditation on motherhood, with all the monotony, desperation and visceral feelings faithfully recorded' Elizabeth Buchan, Sunday Times

'Highly enjoyable... The upbeat conclusion to this blend of middle-class satire, historical fiction and campus novel does not soften Moss's withering take on sexism and her stark view of motherhood' Daily Telegraph

'Moss writes marvellously (and often hilariously) about the clash between career and motherhood. Allison Pearson for intellectuals' Times

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Missing Julia by Catherine Dunne

A powerful and compelling story which explores one of the most difficult decisions we might ever have to make.

One morning in October, William Harris is confronted by the shocking disappearance of the woman he loves.

Julia Seymour has vanished without trace - from his life, from her daughter's and from her own. Her sudden departure seems to be both deliberate and final.

But William is determined to find her. In the days that follow, he tries to piece together what might have driven her away. His search takes him to London, to India - and to Julia's life before he met her.

In the process, William discovers secrets about Julia's past that challenge and disturb his view of all they shared together. Secrets that illuminate the present in ways he could never have expected.

Contact Fergus Edmondson (f.edmondson@macmillan.co.uk) if interested in copies for your reading group.

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The Night Season by Chelsea Cain

A city on flood alert, a killer on the rampage.
 
Heavy rains have burst the banks of the Willamette River; several people have died in the furiously rising waters ... but the latest victim didn't drown: She was killed before she went into the water. Soon, other victims are found, and Police Detective Archie Sheridan realizes that Portland has a new serial killer on its hands.

This is brilliantly atmospheric - set in a flood soaked Portland where the rain won't stop falling, this will appeal to fans of the film Seven.

Contact Fergus Edmondson (f.edmondson@macmillan.co.uk) if you are interested in copies for your reading group

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One Summer by David Baldacci

When thirty-four-year-old ex-war veteran Jack Armstrong is told he has only weeks to live, his first concern is for his beloved wife Lizzie, and their children: baby Jackie, twelve-year-old would-be actor Cory and rebellious teenage daughter Mikki. It seems so cruel that an apparently fatal illness should claim him, a survivor of Afghanistan and Iraq, when he still has so much left to live for.

A moving story of love, second chances and the importance of family from the Number One International Bestseller.

Email Fergus Edmondson (f.edmondson@macmillan.co.uk) if you are interested in copies for your reading group.

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The Phoenix Files: Arrival

Luke is having a rough year. When his parents split up, his mum drags him to Phoenix, a brand-new town in the middle of nowhere. Luke is fairly unimpressed, until he uncovers a plot to wipe out the human race! 100 days remain until the end of the world ... not something Luke thought would ever be HIS problem.

Phoenix Files: Arrival is the first in an action packed new series for ages 9+ and perfect for fans of Joe Craig and Charlie Higson's Young Bond series. Scholastic have 20 copies of

The Phoenix Files to give away. Email Catherine Alport (calport@scholastic.co.uk) if you are interested in copies for your reading group.

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The Report

It is a spring evening in 1943 when the air-raid sirens wail out over the East End of London. From every corner of Bethnal Green, people emerge and set off for the shelter of the tube station. But at the entrance steps, something goes badly wrong, the crowd panics, and 173 people are crushed to death. When an enquiry is called for, it falls to the local magistrate to find out what happened during those few, fatally confused minutes. But as testimony is gathered the picture grows ever murkier. The more questions asked, the more difficult it becomes to disentangle truth from rumour. It is only decades later, when the case is reopened by one of the children who survived, that the facts can finally be brought to light ... This is a book which will have you in passionate conversation for hours!

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Are you part of a reading group which would like to get their hands on free copies of The Report? Email kpike@granta.com and say something about your reading group and include contact details.

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The Dirty Life by Kristin Kimball

Portobello are offering a limited number of copies for reading groups of The Dirty Life by Kristin Kimball, a true story of following your dreams, getting covered in mud, and learning to grow your own happiness.

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Daniel Polansky, proofs available

August 2011

Welcome to Low Town.

Here, the criminal is king. The streets are filled with the screeching of fish hags, the cries of swindled merchants, the inviting murmurs of working girls. Here, people can disappear, and the lacklustre efforts of the guard ensure they are never found.

Warden is an ex-soldier who has seen the worst men have to offer; now a narcotics dealer with a rich, bloody past and a way of inviting danger. You'd struggle to find someone with a soul as dark and troubled as his.

But then a missing child, murdered and horribly mutilated, is discovered in an alley.

And then another.

With a mind as sharp as a blade and an old but powerful friend in the city, he's the only man with a hope of finding the killer.

If the killer doesn't find him first.

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Free copies of Incarceron by Catherine Fisher

Hachette Children's Books have 250 copies of Catherine Fisher's Incerceron to give away. Named as The Times Children's Book of the Year, this dark, powerful and compelling read is not to be missed.

Incarceron - a futuristic prison, sealed from view, where the descendants of the original prisoners live in a dark world torn by rivalry and savagery. It is a terrifying mix of high technology - a living building which pervades the novel as an ever-watchful, ever-vengeful character, and a typical medieval torture chamber - chains, great halls, dungeons. A young prisoner, Finn, has haunting visions of an earlier life, and cannot believe he was born here and has always been here.

In the outer world, Claudia, daughter of the Warden of Incarceron, is trapped in her own form of prison - a futuristic world constructed beautifully to look like a past era, an imminent marriage she dreads. She knows nothing of Incarceron, except that it exists. But there comes a moment when Finn, inside Incarceron, and Claudia, outside, simultaneously find a device - a crystal key, through which they can talk to each other. And so the plan for Finn's escape is born ...

"I loved the book. It's a crazy, cool, dark world ... it's a great story." -- Taylor Lautner, star of the Twilight movies

Please email Sarah Mays with how many copies you would like for your reading group.

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The Breakfast Club by Kate Costelloe

Hachette Children's Books have 250 copies of _The Breakfast Club_ to give away. It's a brand new book for 9+ girls filled with fashion, fun and friendship.

Billie, Lexie, Ella and Natalie are all 14 years old, living in the fashionable and hip Notting Hill Gate. They're as different to each other as all four of Sex and City friends, but that's what makes them such good friends. Lexie's the sporty, practical tomboy, Ella's ever-so-sligthly ditzy, but creative fashionista, with a heart of gold; Nat's the witty, self-depracting hopeless romantic and Billie's the resident musician and Lily Allen in the making. Each of them have their own set of issues - whether it's school, parents or boys... and support is there, every week at their weekly breakfast catch up in their favourite cafe. 

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ORANGE INHERITANCE

10th - 31st March 2011

Six Orange Prize winners (Lionel Shriver, Rose Tremain, Anne Michaels, Ann Patchett, Helen Dunmore and Linda Grant) have selected the classic novel that they would like to pass on to the next generation. Vintage Classics will publish these selected novels with an introduction from the Orange Prize winners in April and would like you, the 'next generation', to review the books and give your feedback for a major press and online campaign. If you are under 21 and would like to receive a free copy of one of the six books* to review for us, please email Indira who can tell you the choices (*subject to availability)

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