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Read our special feature of Rose Tremain, winner of the Orange Prize 2008.

 
News from Readers' Group

Sunday 20 July 2008
 
 

Special discount for reading groups on our rBooks website! Get 30% off and free P&P! Just enter BOOKCLUBJULY08 at the check-out.

Congratulations to Rose Tremain who won the Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction for The Road Home. Listen to Rose Tremain reading from her winning novel.

Random House Group professionals review the Top Ten on the writing community website YouWriteOn.com. Read what they think of May’s Top Ten.

   
Reading Guide Top 5 Books
    This month's top reading guides are:
 
The Road Home
Rose Tremain
A Good and Happy Child
Justin Evans

David Copperfield
Charles Dickens

The Birthday Party
Panos Karnezis
Redemption Falls
Joseph O'Connor
       

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Where the River EndsRead our exclusive interview with Charles Martin, author of Where the River Ends:

"Have plenty of tissues and waterproof mascara to hand this is a great big, beautiful weepie. Wonderfully written, heartbreaking and hopeful. I couldn't put it down."
Carole Matthews

 

 


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Letter from the Editor
 

Dear Reader,

Make the most of your reading groups this summer and discuss one of our great summer reads! And don’t forget our special discount exclusive for reading groups on our rBooks website! Get 30% off and free P&P! Just enter BOOKCLUBJULY08 at the check-out.

The Road Home
"...bravely imaginative, deeply moving, surprising, invigorating and satisfying"
Independent

Lottery
“…so vivid and funny and poignant and joyful…the thinking man’s guide to a happy life.”
Washington Post

Blood River
“It keeps the heart beating and the attention fixed from beginning to end”
Fergal Keane

All We Ever Wanted
“Brown's hip narrative reads like a sharp, contemporary twist on The Corrections.”
Publishers Weekly

Engleby
“Very funny and, at the same time, deeply disturbing…A great read, a great novel”
Daily Mail

Enjoy!

The Random House Readers’ Group Team

 

 

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