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BOOK OF THE WEEK with Charlie Richards. The Solomon Curse: Fargo Adventures #7, Clive Cussler, ISBN 978-1405919036 (Penguin) BD4.500 for Gulf Weekly Book Club members
In the clear blue waters of the Solomon Islands the ruins of an ancient city have lain undisturbed for hundreds of years - until now.
Legend - even recent history - tells of a terrible fate befalling anyone foolish enough to venture near. Visitors do not return alive.
But when treasure-hunting team Remi and Sam Fargo dive to investigate the city, they find more than ancient monuments and lost artefacts because someone is using the legends to hide their own dark and grisly secret. And, the closer Remi and Sam get to discovering the truth, the closer they come to being the curse’s next victims.
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Luckiest Girl Alive, Jessica Knoll, ISBN 978-1447286219 (Pan) BD4.500 for Gulf Weekly Book Club members
Her perfect life is a perfect lie. Ani FaNelli is the woman who has it all - the glamorous job, the designer wardrobe, the handsome and rich fiancé. But behind her sharp edges and meticulously crafted facade lies the darkest of pasts.
When a documentary producer invites Ani to tell her side of the chilling and violent incident that took place when she was a teenager at the prestigious Bradley School, she hopes it will be an opportunity to prove how far she’s turned her life around since then. She’ll even let the production company film her lavish wedding, the final step in her transformation.
But as the wedding and filming converge, Ani’s past threatens to come back and haunt her. And, as her immaculate veneer starts to crack, she is forced to question whether breaking her silence will destroy all that she has worked for - or, will it at long last, set Ani free?
Luckiest Girl Alive by Jessica Knoll is an audacious, page-turning debut thriller that will appeal to fans of Gillian Flynn, Paula Hawkins and Jodi Picoult.
My favourite read of the week
Polly’s Angels, Katie Flynn, ISBN 978-1784755638 (Arrow) BD3.900 for Gulf Weekly Book Club members
Polly’s guardian angel has to work overtime when her large family is forced to move from the countryside they love into central Liverpool. Money is desperately short and with her mother working and her father sick, Polly is easily led astray by a new pal, the handsome, idly Sunny Anderson.
But soon war looms, and Sunny joins the Navy to train as a signaller. After the horrors of the May blitz, Polly too decides she wants to help her country and goes into the WRNS. She hears that an old pal, Tad Donoghue from the Dublin slums, is now in the Royal Air Force. Tad hopes to be reunited with his Polly, but she is in love with Sunny ... isn’t she?
