Flip through the latest issue of Gulf Weekly.
BOOK OF THE WEEK with Linda Jennings. Wars of the Roses: Bloodline: Book 3 (The Wars of the Roses), Conn Iggulden, ISBN 978-0718196424 (Penguin) BD4.500 for Gulf Weekly Book Club members
Winter 1461 – Richard Duke of York is dead, his ambitions in ruins. King Henry VI is still held prisoner. His Lancastrian queen rides south with an army of victorious northerners, accompanied by painted warriors from the Scottish Highlands. With the death of York, Margaret and her army seem unstoppable.
Yet, in killing the father, Margaret has unleashed the sons. Edward of March, now Duke of York, proclaims himself England’s rightful king. Factions form and tear apart as snow falls.
Through blood and treason, through broken men and vengeful women, brother shall confront brother, king shall face king.
Two men can always claim a crown. Only one can keep it.
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The Turning Point, Freya North, ISBN 978-0007462308 (Harper) BD4.500 for Gulf Weekly Book Club members
Two single parents, Frankie and Scott, meet unexpectedly. Their homes are far apart – Frankie lives with her children on the North Norfolk coast, Scott in the mountains of British Columbia. Yet, though thousands of miles divide them, a million little things connect them. A spark ignites, a recognition so strong that it dares them to take a risk.
For two families, life is about to change. But no-one could have anticipated how.
My favourite read of the week
The Night Manager, John Le Carre, ISBN 978-0241247525 (Penguin) BD5 for Gulf Weekly Book Club members
At the start of it all, Jonathan Pine is merely the night manager at a luxury hotel. But when a single attempt to pass on information to the British authorities – about an international businessman at the hotel with suspicious dealings – backfires terribly, and people close to Pine begin to die, he commits himself to a battle against powerful forces he cannot begin to imagine.
In a chilling tale of corrupt intelligence agencies, billion-dollar price tags and the truth of the brutal arms trade, John Le Carré creates a claustrophobic world in which no one can be trusted.
