Book Club,

March Book Club

Monday 1st March 2010

This month's reads were: Finding Monsieur Right Lady Chatterley's Lover The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society The Museum of Innocence Finding Monsieur Right by Muriel Zagha SheerLuxe Rating: 5 Stars Synopsis: This is a tale of two cities, two girls and a life-altering swap. Daisy's just landed the perfect job spending a year in Paris...

February Book Club

Monday 1st February 2010

This month's reads were: The Dating Detox Shade of Grey The Book of Tomorrow Fair Maiden The Dating Detox by Gemma Burgess SheerLuxe Rating: 5 Stars Synopsis: After her sixth successive failed relationship, romantically-challenged 20-something Sass decides she's had enough and so The Dating Detox is born. No men, no break-ups, no problem. The result? Her...

January Book Club

Friday 1st January 2010

This month's reads were: Redeeming Features Adrian Mole: The Prostrate Years A Streetcar Named Desire The White Queen Redeeming Features by Nicky Haslam SheerLuxe Rating: 5 Stars Synopsis: Nicky Haslam has found himself at the centre of the most interesting circles wherever he is - at parties, opening nights, royal weddings. In London in the late...

December Book Club

Tuesday 1st December 2009

This month's reads were: Her Fearful Symmetry Hedge Fund Wives Vile Bodies The Year of the Flood Her Fearful Symmetry by Audrey Niffeneger SheerLuxe Rating: 3 Stars Synopsis: Julia and Valentina Poole are normal American teenagers - normal, at least, for identical 'mirror' twins who have no interest in college or jobs or possibly anything outside...

November Book Club

Sunday 1st November 2009

This month's reads were: Guilty Pleasures The Mistress of Nothing Confessions of a City Girl Picture Perfect Guilty Pleasures by Tasmina Perry SheerLuxe Rating: 5 stars Synopsis: Saul Milford, owner of one of England's oldest and most prestigious luxury goods companies is dead, but who will inherit his estate? For years Saul's niece Cassandra, editor-in-chief of Rive,...

October Book Club

Thursday 1st October 2009

This month's reads were: Luxury The Great Gatsby The Luminous Life of Lily Aphrodite Sacred Hearts The Piano Teacher Luxury by Jessica Ruston SheerLuxe Rating: 5 stars Synopsis: Sexy, smart New Yorker Logan Barnes knew how to get what he wanted. But you can't have it all without picking up enemies along the...

September Book Club

Tuesday 1st September 2009

This month's reads were: Twenties Girl Bete de Jour American Wife Portrait of a Lady One Day Twenties Girl by Sophie Kinsella SheerLuxe Rating: 5 stars Synopsis: When Lara, a girl with an already overactive imagination, is visited by the ghost of her great aunt Sadie, she is persuaded to fulfil one last request – to track...

August Book Club

Saturday 1st August 2009

This month's reads were: Unsticky A Case of Exploding Mangoes In the Kitchen Starting Over The Savage Detectives Unsticky by Sarra Manning SheerLuxe Rating: 5 stars Synopsis: Stuck in a grind where everyone's ahead apart from her, twenty-something Grace is partied out, disillusioned, and massively in debt. So when older, sexy and above all, wealthy art-dealer Vaughn appears,...

July Book Club

Wednesday 1st July 2009

This month's reads were: Girl in a Blue Dress A Quiet Belief in Angels Ask Alice Vision in White Girl in a Blue Dress by Gaynor Arnold SheerLuxe Rating: 5 stars Synopsis: After being snubbed an invitation to the funeral of her husband of twenty years, Alfred Gibson, Dorothea discovers that his will favours his children and...

June Book Club

Saturday 6th June 2009

This month's reads were: The Lace Reader The Solitude of Prime Numbers Then We Came to the End Thanks for the Memories The Lace Reader by Brunonia Barry SheerLuxe Rating: 4 stars Synopsis: Towner Whitney, the self-confessed unreliable narrator of The Lace Reader, hails from a family of Salem women who can read the future...

May Book Club

Tuesday 5th May 2009

This month's reads were: Mr Toppit Twilight Revolutionary Road The Book Thief The Bolter Mr Toppit by Charles Elton SheerLuxe Rating: 3 stars Synopsis: When The Hayseed Chronicles, an obscure series of children's books, become world-famous, millions of readers debate the significance of that enigmatic last line and the shadowy figure of Mr Toppit who dominates...

April Book Club

Wednesday 8th April 2009

This month's reads were: Sashenka White Tiger One Fifth Avenue The Wilderness Pharmakon Sashenka by Simon Montefiore SheerLuxe Rating: 4 stars **** Synopsis: Winter, 1916: In St Petersburg, Russia on the brink of revolution. Beautiful and headstrong, Sashenka Zeitlin is just sixteen. As her mother parties with Rasputin and her dissolute friends, Sashenka slips into the frozen...

March Book Club

Tuesday 10th March 2009

This month's reads were: Dreams From My Father Before I Die The Weight of a Mustard Seed Things I Want My Daughter To Know The Girl Who Played With Fire Dreams From My Father by Barack Obama SheerLuxe Rating: 5 stars ***** Synopsis: In his best-selling memoir, Barack Obama, as the son of a black...

February Book Club

Monday 9th February 2009

This month's reads were: The Gift The Night Climbers The 19th Wife Cost The Gift by Cecilia Ahern SheerLuxe Rating: 5 stars ***** Synopsis: Lou Suffern always had two places to be at the same time, two things to be doing, and his mind was always somewhere else. Then he meets Gabe, a homeless man,...

January Book Club

Monday 26th January 2009

This month's reads were: Past Imperfect Novel About My Wife Chasing Harry Winston A Mercy Past Imperfect by Julian Fellowes SheerLuxe Rating: 3 stars *** Synopsis: A social satire, Past Imperfect follows the quest of the hugely wealthy and dying Damien Baxter, to find an heir on whom to bestow his £500 million fortune. He...

December Book Club

Wednesday 10th December 2008

This month's reads were: The Stepmother’s Diary The Suspicions of Mr Whitcher The Model Wife The Duchess The Stepmother’s Diary by Fay Weldon SheerLuxe Rating: 3 stars *** Synopsis: The stepmother is so often portrayed as an evil figure. In The Stepmother’s Diary, Weldon subverts this notion through her account of new wife Sappho and...

November Book Club

Saturday 1st November 2008

This month's reads were: Child C: Surviving A Foster Mother's Reign of Terror Miss Pettigrew Lives For A Day Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search For Everything The Other Queen Child C: Surviving A Foster Mother's Reign of Terror by Christopher Spry SheerLuxe Rating: 4 stars **** Synopsis: Child C is the heartbreaking real-life account...

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