My Book Recommendation : The Bed I Made

Title: The Bed I Made

Author:Lucie Whitehouse

Paperback: 320 pages

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC (21 Jun 2010)

ISBN-10: 1408809133

ISBN-13: 978-1408809136

Product Dimensions: 19.6 x 12.6 x 2.2 cm

Product Description

I haven’t given up on you and I’m not going to. It’s time to stop playing hard to get now. When Kate meets a dark, enigmatic man in a Soho bar, she doesn’t hesitate long before going home with him. There is something undeniably attractive about Richard – and irresistibly dangerous, too. Now, after eighteen exhilarating but fraught months, Kate knows she has to finish their relationship and hopes that will be the end of it. But it is only just the beginning. Fleeing London for the wintry Isle of Wight, she is determined to ignore the flood of calls and emails from an increasingly insistent Richard. But what began as a nuisance becomes an ever more threatening game of cat and mouse.

About the Author

Lucie Whitehouse was born in Warwickshire in 1975, read Classics at Oxford University and now lives in London. She is author of The House at Midnight.

My Book Recommendation: The Devil’s Acre

Title: The Devil’s Acre

 

Author: Matthew Plampin

Paperback: 432 pages

Publisher: Harper (24 Jun 2010)

Language English

ISBN-10: 0007273975

ISBN-13: 978-0007273973

Product Dimensions: 19.6 x 12.7 x 2.8 cm

Product Description

A novel of intrigue, violence and conflicted loyalties from the author of The Street Philosopher.

What price to take hold of the devil’s right hand?

Spring, 1853. After a triumphant display at the Great Exhibition in London, the legendary American entrepreneur and inventor Colonel Samuel Colt expands his gun-making business into England. He acquires a riverside warehouse in Pimlico and sets about converting it into a pistol works capable of mass producing his patented revolvers on an unprecedented scale – aware that the prospect of war with Russia means huge profits.

The young, ambitious Edward Lowry is hired by Colt to act as his London secretary. Although initially impressed by the Colonel’s dynamic approach to his trade, Edward comes to suspect that the American’s intentions in the Metropolis are not all they appear.

Meanwhile, the secretary becomes romantically involved with Caroline Knox, a headstrong woman from the machine floor – who he discovers is caught up in a plot to steal revolvers from the factory’s stores. Among the workforce Colt has gathered from the seething mass of London’s poor are a gang of desperate Irish immigrants, embittered refugees from the potato famine, who intend to use these stolen six-shooters for a political assassination in the name of revenge. As pistols start to go missing, divided loyalties and hidden agendas make the gun-maker’s factory the setting for a tense story of intrigue, betrayal and murder.

About the Author

Matthew Plampin was born in 1975 and grew up in Essex. He read English and History of Art at the University of Birmingham and then completed a PhD at the Courtauld Institute of Art, London. He now lectures on nineteenth-century art and architecture. Matthew’s debut novel, The Street Philosopher, was selected for Waterstone’s New Voices 2009.

My Book Recommendation: Ellis Island

Title: Ellis Island

Author:  Kate Kerrigan

Paperback: 400 pages

Publisher: Pan (18 Jun 2010)

ISBN-10: 0330507524

ISBN-13: 978-0330507523

Product Dimensions: 19.6 x 12.6 x 2.6 cm 

Product Description

Rural Irish girl Ellie loves living in New York, working as a lady’s maid for a wealthy socialite. She tries to persuade her husband, John, to join her but he is embroiled in his affairs in Ireland, and caught up in the civil war. Nevertheless Ellie is extremely happy and fully embraces her sophisticated new life. When her father dies she must return home, but she intends to sort her affairs quickly and then return to her beloved America.

But once home her sense of duty kicks in and she decides, painfully, that she must stay to look after her mother and resume her marriage. Ellie is suddenly thrown into the simple, rural life she believed she had grown out of…

About the Author

London reared of Irish parents, Kate Kerrigan worked in London before moving to Ireland in 1990. She is a now a full-time writer, and lives in County Mayo with her husband and their small son. Her latest novel, Recipes for a Perfect Marriage, was shortlisted for the RNA Romantic Novel of the Year Award in 2006.