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Gulf Weekly Book Club – in association with The Bookcase
BOOK OF THE WEEK with Charlie Richards.
The World’s Worst Children, David Walliams, ISBN 978-0008197032 (Harper Collin’s Children) BD8.400 for Gulf Weekly Book Club members
Author David Walliams offers 10 cautionary tales and a delightfully dreadful cast of characters, illustrated in glorious colour by artistic genius Tony Ross.
Are you ready to meet the world’s worst children? Five beastly boys and five gruesome girls!
It also features a special appearance from fan-favourite Raj!
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The Lake House, Kate Morton, ISBN 978-1447200864 (Pan) BD4.500 for Gulf Weekly Book Club members A MISSING child . . . June 1933, and the Edevane family’s country house, Loeanneth, is polished and gleaming, ready for the muchanticipated Midsummer Eve party. Alice Edevane, 16-years-old and a budding writer, is especially excited. Not only has she worked out the perfect twist for her novel, she’s also fallen helplessly in love with someone she shouldn’t. But by the time midnight strikes and fireworks light up the night skies, the Edevane family will have suffered a loss so great that they leave Loeanneth forever. An abandoned house . . . Seventy years later, after a particularly troubling case, Sadie Sparrow is sent on an enforced break from her job with the Metropolitan Police. She retreats to her beloved grandfather’s cottage in Cornwall but soon finds herself at a loose end. Until one day, Sadie stumbles upon an abandoned house surrounded by overgrown gardens and dense woods, and learns the story of a baby boy who disappeared without a trace.
An unsolved mystery . . .
Meanwhile, in the attic writing room of her elegant Hampstead home, the formidable Alice Edevane, now an elderly lady, leads a life as neatly plotted as the best-selling detective novels she writes. Until a young police detective starts asking questions about her family’s past, seeking to resurrect the complex tangle of secrets Alice has spent her life trying to escape.
MY FAVOURITE READ OF THE WEEK
Golden Lion, Wilbur Smith, ISBN 9780007535743 (Harper) BD4.500 for Gulf Weekly Book Club members
Celebrated author Wilbur Smith takes readers on an incredible journey on the thrashing seas off the coast of Africa in this glorious return to the series that made him who he is: The Courtney series. East African Coast, 1670 - in a time of brave and brutal adventure, one man will journey across land and sea to pursue his greatest enemy. The Golden Bough, captained by Henry ‘Hal’ Courtney, is running south from Ethiopia to Zanzibar. Below deck, both his crew and his lover, the fearless warrior Judith Nazet, sleep. As the moon glints through clouds, Hal sights a ship passing close by.
Although there is an uneasy truce between the warring English and Dutch, Hal scents danger. When the Bough is boarded, the crew must go hand-to-hand to defend their ship and their lives. But soon Hal will face even graver danger, as he discovers his mortal enemy still lives and is hell-bent on revenge.
He must pursue his nemesis across desert savannah, through the seedy underbelly of Zanzibar’s slave markets and shark-infested waters, imperilling his own life at every turn. But it will take more than a slave’s shackles to hold him. A thrilling blend of extraordinary drama and epic storytelling, Golden Lion sees Wilbur Smith return in triumphant form to the adventures of his beloved and bestselling Courtney family.
