Current Popular Titles
The Girl Who Kicked The Hornets' Nest - Stieg Larrson
Final book in the Popular crime trilogy
The Very Thought of You - Rosie Alison
Life at Ashton Park as seen through the eyes of a young evacuee living there durning WWII. A haunting story of love and longing.
Major Pettigrew's Last Stand - Helen Simonson
A funny and intelligent novel, whose characters stay with you long afterthe last page.
A Gate at the Stairs - Lorrie Moore
When she takes a job as a part-time nanny to a couple who seem at once mysterious and glamorous, Tassie is drawn into the life of their newly-adopted child and increasingly complicated household.
As the year unfolds, love leads her to new and formative experiences - but it is then that the past and the future burst forth in dramatic and shocking ways.
The Guernsey Literary and Potatoe Peel Pie Society - Mary Ann Schaffer and Annie Barrows
A witty and spirited novel that sheds light on life in Guernsey during the Nazi occupation.
Last Night in Twisted River - John Irving
A 12 year-old boy and his father live as fugitives following a tragic accident
Elegance of the Hedgehog - Muriel Barbery
The story of a singular concierge and the 12 year old who lives in her building, who plans to commit suicide on her 13th birthday.
Prizewinners
Wolf Hall - Hilary Mantel
The 2009 Booker Prize winner's wonderful portrait of Tudor England through the eyes of Thomas Cromwell.
Olive Kitteridge - ElizabethStrout
Each chapter is a short story that pieces together Olive's life. This 2009 Pullitzer Prize winner is a beautiful and compelling read.
The Lacuna - -Barbara Kingsolver
2010 Orahnge prize winner. Born in the US and reared in Mexico, Harrison Shepherd is a liability to his social-climbing flapper mother, Salome. Making himself useful in the household of the famed Mexican artists Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo, and exiled Bolshevik leader Lev Trotsky, young Shepherd inadvertently casts his lot with art and revolution.
Brooklyn - Colm Toibin
2009 Costa Prizewinner. In the early 1950's a young girl leaves Ireland for a new life in New York.
Bookworms Top Ten Jan- June 2010 - Adults
The Children's Book - A S Byatt
Girl With The Dragon Tattoo - Stieg Larrson
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society - Mary Ann Schaffer
The Girl Who Played With Fire - Steg Larrson
The Girl Who Kicked The Honet's Nest - Stieg Larrson
The Elegance of the Hedgehog - Muriel Barbery
A Gate at the Stairs - Lorrie Moore
Wasted Vigil - Nadeen Aslam
Burnt Shadows - Kamila Shamsie
Three Ways to Capsize a Boat - Chris Stewart
Bookworms Top Ten Jan - June 2010 - Children
Egyptian Chronicles: Spitting Cobra - Gill Harvey
The Crowfield Curse - Pat Walsh
Diary of a Wimpy Kid - Jeff Kinney
Percy Jackson and the Lightening Thief - Rick Riordan
Henderson Boys: Secret Army - Robert Muchamore
Calm Down Boris - Sam Lloyd
Halo - Zizou Corder
Wolven - Di Toft
The Knife of Never Letting Go - Patrick Ness
How to Train Your Dragon - Cressida Cowell
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