Sizzling Books For Under £5

The dog days of summer are a perfect time to catch up on the books you've wanted to read but just haven't had the time. Find all the books on your reading list for under £5 - it's time to stock up!

Honeymoon

James Patterson

How does it feel to be desired by every man and envied by every woman? Wonderful. This is the life Nora Sinclair has dreamed about, the life she's worked hard for, the life she will never give up. Meet Nora Sinclair. When FBI agent John O'Hara first sees her, she seems perfect. She has the looks. The career. The clothes. The wit. The sophistication. The tantalizing sex appeal. The whole extraordinary package - and men fall in line to court her. She doesn't just attract men, she enthralls them. If you dare.

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The Lost Art of Keeping Secrets

Eva Rice

With mannered prose dripping in the charm of 1950s London, The Lost Art of Keeping Secrets centers around Penelope, the wide-eyed daughter of a legendary beauty, Talitha, who is unable to move beyond the loss of her charmed husband to the war. Penelope, with her mother and brother, struggles to maintain their vast and crumbling ancestral home-and the lifestyle to which they have grown accustomed-while postwar London spins toward the next decade's cultural revolution.

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The Historian

Elizabeth Kostova

Breathtakingly suspenseful and beautifully written, The Historian is the story of a young woman plunged into a labyrinth where the secrets of her family's past connect to an inconceivable evil: the dark fifteenth-century reign of Vlad the Impaler and a time-defying pact that may have kept his awful work alive through the ages. The search for the truth becomes an adventure of monumental proportions, taking us from monasteries and dusty libraries to the capitals of Eastern Europe - in a feat of storytelling so rich, so hypnotic, so exciting that it has enthralled readers around the world.

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All He Ever Wanted

Anita Shreve

All He Ever Wanted is the story of a man whose obsession with a young woman begins when he meets her fleetingly—as he helps her escape from a fire in a restaurant—and culminates in a marriage doomed by secrets and betrayal. Written with the intelligence and grace that are Anita Shreve's hallmarks, this gripping tale is peopled by unforgettable characters as real as the emotions that bring them together.

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Thrall's Tale

Judith Lindbergh

A vividly imagined chronicle of love, hatred, and revenge at a time when the Vikings were exploring to new worlds, Judith Lindbergh's spectacular debut novel takes its inspiration from Old Norse Sagas and creates the riveting story of a beautiful slave, her ill-begotten daughter, and their maligned but powerful mistress.

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Fleshmarket Alley

Ian Rankin

In the city's red-light district, men live out their sordid fantasies, and women with no other choice sell their bodies to make a buck. It's a neighborhood of lost inhibitions, forgotten scruples, and hopeless dreams. In its seediest clubs, refugees seeking asylum are subjected to the whims of the most ruthless characters in the crime world - men Rebus knows all too well.

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Kindness of Strangers

Katrina Kittle

Sarah Laden, a young widow and mother of two, struggles to keep her family together. Since the death of her husband, her high-school-age son, Nate, has developed a rebellious streak, constantly falling in and out of trouble. Her kindhearted younger son, Danny, though well behaved, struggles to pass his remedial classes. All the while, Sarah must make ends meet by running a catering business out of her home. But when a shocking and unbelievable revelation rips apart the family of her closest friend, Sarah finds herself welcoming yet another young boy into her already tumultuous life.

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The Camel Club

David Baldacci

It exists at the fringes of Washington, D.C., has no power, and consists solely of four eccentric and downtrodden members whom society has forgotten. Their simple goal is to find the "truth" behind their country's actions. One man leads this aging, ragtag crew. He has no known past and has taken the name "Oliver Stone." Day and night, Stone and his friends study wild conspiracy theories, current events, and the machinations of government, hoping to discover some truth that will hold America's leaders accountable to its citizens. Yet never in Stone's wildest nightmares could he imagine the conspiracy the Camel Club is about to uncover...

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Blindness

Jose Saramago

This celebrated New York Times bestseller now poised to reach an even wider audience in paperback is a book that is changing the way North Americans think about selling products and disseminating ideas. Widely hailed as an important work that offers not only a road map to business success but also a profoundly encouraging approach to solving social problems.

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Franny and Zooey

J.D. Salinger

The book I love best of JD Salinger's is Franny and Zooey, because, while it too examines the emotional and mental struggles of being human, it seems to focus more on the similarities of those struggles that exist in everyone. The children of the Glass family are grown now, but as children were in the spotlight as child prodigies, and have grown up feeling isolated and different because of their experiences as children. The Glass family has grown through difficult things, including the suicide of one of the siblings, Seymour, and the resulting pain and questions that accompany such a loss. Reviewed by Beth C. - AbeBooks

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