Sophie Groom, the Buying Manager at Dymocks Booksellers, helps you to choose the latest and greatest books on the market.
My Name is Memory by Ann Brashares
If you loved The Time Traveler’s Wife, you’ll enjoy this romantic tale of two lovers destined to spend their many lives loving and losing each other. Unless, that is, they’re able to rewrite history and change their fate.
Heartbreakingly romantic, this is the first book in a great new series for adults from the author of The Sisterhood Of The Travelling Pants.
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Girl in Translation by Jean Kwok
Moving to New York from Hong Kong, Kimberley and her mother find that speaking no English is the least of their problems.
From their initial home – a freezing flat with broken windows and cockroaches – they rise up to take hold of the American dream armed with nothing more than courage and tenacity. I loved this story of triumph over adversity!
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Beatrice and Virgil by Yann Martel
From the author of worldwide bestseller and Booker Prize-winner The Life Of Pi, comes a strange and beguiling little book featuring a taxidermist and his fictional friends – a donkey and a monkey called Beatrice and Virgil.
Through conversations between these characters, the author explores issues of war, hatred, love and redemption. This is one of those books that you don’t quite understand until you’ve finished – and even then you may find a little puzzling – but it packs a huge emotional punch that will leave every reader remembering it for a long time after they’ve put it down. Highly recommended.
For more information and pricing, go to the Dymocks Website.
Sophie Groom is the Buying Manager at Dymocks Booksellers.
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