Blood Knots Of Fathers Fishing And Friendship
Blood Knots is the best book about fishing you will ever read. It’s also about so much more than fishing. Luke Jennings takes us along lost and secretive waterways deep...
Tinkers - WINNER OF THE 2010 PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION
Inheritance - What would you do if you suddenly inherited a fortune? This is an entertaining and poignant story of betrayal and redemption.
Footprints In Paris - Unique book about the Left Bank and five generations of a family - all of whom left their footprints in the same narrow streets, and all of whom found refuge and rejuvenation in Paris.
Father's Day... is just around the corner. Here are some sure-fire winners for Dad to read: Blood Knots by Luke Jennings - the best book about fishing you'll ever read.
Brisbane by Matthew Condon - a very personal investigation of this city's history.
The Glass Room by Simon Mawer - one of our favourite novels of the last twelve months.
Black Diamond by Martin Walker - another Bruno Courreges investigation set in the buccolic Perigord region of France.
Passage The
Cronin Justin
Amy Harper Bellafonte is six years old and her mother thinks she's the most important person in the whole world. She is. Anthony Carter doesn't think he could ever be in a worse place than Death Row. He's wrong. FBI agent Brad Wolgast thinks something beyond imagination is coming. It is. THE PASSAGE.
Oracle
French Jackie
Nikko lives in a small farming village in Greece near the stronghold of Mycenae in 1200 BC. When his sister Thetis is born, Nikko rescues her from the hillside where she has been abandoned, setting off an unforeseen chain of events.
Thetis survives the trauma of her birth but is rendered mute until the age of five, when the gift of speech is given to her; but she can only tell the truth, which soon proves to be a double-edged sword. When the villagers try to double-cross the king′s tribute gatherers, Nikko and Thetis are sent to the Mycenean court to be trained as entertainers for the king. There they meet Euridice, a horse dancer from the North, and forge an enduring friendship.When Thetis′ prophecy of disaster comes true, and Mycenae is hit by an earthquake, she disappears. Nikko and Euridice flee in search of her.Nikko eventually finds Thetis in Delphi, where she is now installed as Oracle, set to fulfil her destiny. But danger still lurks in the shape of the new Mycaenean king, who wants her back at court to foretell his future ...
Ages 10-14
Celebrate Room to Read's 10th birthday by coming along to the launch of their new picture book Zak the Yak at our Barracks store
