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All you need is Love! Love is the new novel by Pulitzer Prize–winner Toni Morrison, who tells the poignant tale of six women all obsessed with the wealthy owner of a hotel resort. This book is a major addition to the canon of one of the world’s literary masters.

Breakthrough book alert: editors are hailing The Fortress of Solitude as the story that Jonathan Lethem was born to tell. It’s a sweeping novel about two friends living through the last wisps of the twentieth century. His previous book, Motherless Brooklyn, is being made into a film with Edward Norton, so this could be Lethem’s year.

The love between Henry and Clare is complicated, to say the least. Henry has a tendency to disappear spontaneously, due to his gift (or is it a curse?) for time travel. Clever and completely original, The Time Traveler’s Wife, by Audrey Niffenegger, is fast gaining international buzz. No wonder Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston have already bought the movie rights!.

Mount Vesuvius takes centre stage in the new suspense novel by Robert Harris. Pompeii recreates one of the most famous natural disasters of all time. When a young engineer in ancient Rome is
sent to scover why the aqueduct has ceased delivering water,
he soon discovers a more horrendous and impending
catastrophe . . . .

Diana Gabaldon, the bestselling author of the Outlander series, is back with a brand new saga. Lord John and the Private Matter is set in eighteenth-century London, a seething anthill of nobility and rabble peopled by soldiers and spies, whores and dukes. Wait until you find out exactly what Lord John’s private matter really is!

Our Lady of the Forest is the sublime story of a sixteen-year-old runaway who receives a visit from the Virgin Mary. A provocative and emotionally charged story of faith at a contemporary crossroads, this novel is the latest from David Guterson, author of Snow Falling on Cedars.