The Pretender by David Belbin (Five Leaves Publications)
by Patrick O'Connor
IF you fancy your hand at creative writing, this book could be just for you.
A blurb on the jacket describes it as a 'literary thriller' and the author runs an MA course in Creative Writing at Nottingham Trent University so should have plenty of first hand knowledge of the world of books.
Besotted by Joe Treasure (Picador)
by Patrick O'Connor
TWIN brothers Michael and Kieran, live in Cheltenham, but at the beginning of this book they are visiting their grandparents in County Cork in Ireland in 1982.
Like so many people (myself included) of Irish descent, they sometimes struggled to know whether to call themselves English or Irish.
A Revolution Of The Sun by Tim Pears (Windmill)
by Patrick O'Connor
SOMETIMES multi-strand novels can become too complex, too difficult to follow, to the extent that the reader is constantly flicking back through the pages to remember who's who.
A Revolution Of The Sun examines a full year in forensic detail, starting on January 1, 1997, through the eyes of a host of unconnected people – such as a pregnant woman, an amnesiac, a Conservative MP, a long distance lorry driver, a father and his young son who suffers from cerebral palsy and most intriguing of all, a female cat burglar.
The Man Who Forget His Wife by John O'Farrell (Doubleday)
by Patrick O'Connor
VAUGHAN'S 'bizarre reawakening' occurs on a London underground station.
He has lost his memory and ends up in hospital when he lingers for several days before somebody (his best friend Gary) turns up to identify him.
Sacred & Profane by Marcelle Bernstein (Bantam Books)
by Patrick O'Connor
IN the stifling heat of a Latin American country, a nun collapses and cries out words no-one can understand.
Meanwhile thousands of miles away in a London prison, another woman awakes panic-stricken in her cell.
A Scientific Romance by Ronald Wright (Anchor)
WHAT if....?
What if H.G.Wells' time machine really existed and someone discovered how to use it?