Sugarcoated by Catherine Forde

When fifteen year old Cloddy’s witnesses a crime outside her dad’s shop, she’s certain it’s the work of a gang and keeps quiet, afraid for her life. Suddenly a gorgeous hunk called Stefan turns up and is unbelievably interested in her. He leaves no time to think about what she saw and sweeps her off [...]

Doctor Who: The Many Hands by Dale Smith

The Nor’ Loch is being filled in. If you ask the soldiers there, they’ll tell you it’s a stinking cesspool that the city can do without. But that doesn’t explain why the workers won’t go near the place without an armed guard, nor why they whisper stories about the loch giving up its dead, about [...]

The Garden of Rama by Arthur C Clarke and Gentry Lee

Published: 1991
Summary (taken from blurb):
In the year 2130 a mysterious spaceship, Rama, arrived in the solar system. It was huge - big enough to contain a city and a sea - and empty, apparently abandoned. By the time Rama departed for its next, unknown, destination many wonders had been uncovered, but few mysteries solved. Only [...]

La Vagabonde by Colette

Date of Publication: 1910
Number of Pages: 239
Synopsis (from back cover): Largely autobiographical, La Vagabonde recalls Colette’s own years spent touring Paris music halls, taking the reader backstage and into the demimonde of Renée Néré, and aging dancer, mime, and failed writer. Around this extraordinary heroine Colette spins the first of her masterpieces, a novel that [...]

Welcome to Your Brain by Sandra Aamodt & Sam Wang

Written with a light touch, but using hard science, Welcome to your Brain will answer all the questions you’ve ever had about how that amazing three pounds in your skull works - and how you can help it work better. Written by two top neuroscientists, they dispel all the myths (such as we only ever [...]

Vampire Apocalypse: A World Torn Asunder by Derek Gunn

The first few chapters of this book throw you straight into this world - a war in the Middle East wipes out it’s oil supply, and events have escalated from there. Power, especially from nuclear stations, has become the most valuable thing, and cites and towns look after only themselves.
Into this confused world steps the [...]

Emotional Geology by Linda Gillard

Rose Leonard is on the run from her life.
Taking refuge in a remote island community, she cocoons herself in work, silence and solitude in a house by the sea. But she is haunted by her past, by memories and desires she’d hoped were long dead. Rose must decide whether she has chosen a new life [...]

The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

Published: 1890
Summary (taken from blurb):
Dorian is a good-natured young man until he discovers the power of his own exceptional beauty. As he gradually sinks deep into a frivolous, glamourous world of selfish luxury, he apparently remains physically unchanged by the stresses of his corrupt lifestyle and untouched by age. But up in his attic, hidden [...]

Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood

Published: 2003
Summary (taken from blurb):
Pigs might not fly but they are strangely altered. So, for that matter, are wolves and racoons. A man, once called Jimmy, now calls himself Snowman and lives in a tree, wrapped in old bed sheets. The voice of Oryx, the woman he loved, teasingly haunts him. And the green-eyed Children [...]

Confessions of an ugly stepsister

Title of book: Confessions of an ugly Stepsister
Name of author: Gregory Maguire
Hardcover: 352 pages
Publisher: Headline Review (3 April 200
ISBN-10: 755341678
ISBN-13: 8-0755341672
Synopsis:
We have all heard the story of Cinderella, the beautiful child cast out to slave amongst the ashes. But what of her stepsisters, the homely pair exiled into ignominy by the fame of their lovely sibling? [...]