Read and review
We want to hear your thoughts on some of the brand new books coming out over the next few months and have organised advance copies of selected titles for Waterstones Cardholders to read and review.
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Read and review Shakespeare: Staging the World
Publishing 2nd April
The playhouse and the role of playwright were relatively new phenomena during Shakespeare's time, yet his audience spanned from royalty to the common man...Shakespeare: Staging the World will show what these audiences were finding out about the world through the eyes of the playwright
. - Dora Thornton
Read and review Hey, Presto! by Nadia Shireen
Publishing 5th July
Presto is a very talented magician, so when he and his friend Monty join a funfair and start a magic show things look good for our duo. But fame goes to Monty's head, and soon Presto loses his friend and his show! Will true friendship prevail? And will there be a touch of magic in the air?
Read and review The Light Between Oceans by Kathryn Harrison
Publishing 26th April
Would you accept a chance for happiness even if it wasn't yours to have? This is a story about a lighthouse keeper and his wife, who live on a lonely island with just seagulls, stars and buffeting winds for company. It's about a tiny baby and a dead man in a boat that drifts ashore one April morning, and the apparently harmless decision made that day.
Read and review The Last Summer by Judith Kinghorn
Publishing 26th April
Clarissa is almost seventeen when the spell of her childhood is broken. It is 1914, the beginning of a blissful, golden summer - and the end of an era. Deyning Park is in its heyday, the large country house filled with the laughter and excitement of privileged youth preparing for a weekend party. When Clarissa meets Tom Cuthbert, home from university and staying with his mother, the housekeeper, she is dazzled.
Read and review Jasmine Nights by Julia Gregson
Publishing 26th April
The author of the bestselling, award-winning East of the Sun returns with a sweeping new novel about a young singer recruited to work for the British Secret Service at the height of World War II.
Read and review Stonemouth by Iain Banks
Publishing 5th April
Stewart Gilmour is back in Stonemouth. After five years in exile his presence is required at the funeral of patriarch Joe Murston, and even though the last time Stu saw the Murstons he was running for his life, staying away might be even more dangerous than turning up.
Read and review Enchantments by Kathryn Harrison
Publishing 29th March.
From one of the most admired literary voices of our time, a magical, riveting story of doomed love, set at the fall of Russia's last Tsar. St. Petersburg, 1917: as the New Year dawns, a diver pulls the murdered body of Rasputin, the Mad Monk, from the icy waters of the Neva River.
Read and review Secrets of the Tides by Hannah Richell
Publishing 12th April
Every family has its secrets. Some are small, like telling a white lie or snooping through a private drawer. Others are more serious, like infidelity and betrayal. And some secrets are so terrible they must be hidden away in a deep, dark place, for if they ever came to light, they would surely tear a family apart'. The Tides are a family full of secrets.
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