Book Club

BOOK OF THE WEEK with Linda Jennings. Nantucket Sisters, Nancy Thayer, ISBN 9781472215987   (Headline) BD5 for Gulf Weekly Book Club members

AN irresistible touching summer read from the New York Times bestselling author, Nancy Thayer.

When Maggie and Emily first meet as young girls on a Nantucket beach they immediately become friends, spending many happy summers together. Now in their twenties, Maggie and Emily remain close; Emily has almost finished her studies and Maggie is pursuing her dream of being a writer.

However, when the charismatic Cameron Chadwick bursts onto the scene, their lives are upended in ways they never could have imagined. As Maggie and Emily both fall under the spell of the charming newcomer, their friendship soon feels a long way from the idyllic, care-free days of their childhood and life-altering decisions must be made.

At the heart of it all, both women must struggle to face the choices they make, the secrets they keep, and the futures they dream of.

Can their friendship survive the tests that lie ahead and can they find love without losing each other?

* Read it now in paperback
The Sixth Extinction, James Rollins, ISBN 9781409156451  (Orion) BD4.500 for Gulf Weekly Book Club members

THIS is a gripping, high-concept adventure thriller in the Sigma Force series. Fans of Dan Brown and Michael Crichton are sure to enjoy this novel and should read on …
A remote military research station in Utah sends out a frantic distress call, ending with a chilling final command: Kill us all!

Personnel from the neighbouring base rush in to discover everyone already dead – and not just the scientists, but every living thing for 50 square miles has been annihilated. The land is entirely sterile – and the blight is spreading.

To halt the inevitable, Commander Gray Pierce and Sigma must unravel a threat that rises out of the distant past, to a time when Antarctica was green and all life on Earth balanced upon the blade of a knife.

Following clues from an ancient map rescued from the lost Library of Alexandria, Sigma will discover the truth about an ancient continent, about a new form of death buried under miles of ice.

From millennia-old secrets out of the frozen past to mysteries buried deep in the darkest jungles of today, Sigma will face its greatest challenge to date: stopping the coming extinction of mankind. But is it already too late?

James Rollins is the author of seven thrillers in the bestselling Sigma Force series, six individual adventure thrillers and wrote the blockbuster movie ‘novelisation’ for Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.

* My favourite read-of-the-week
Closer Than You Think, ISBN 9780755389988  (Headline) BD4.500 for Gulf Weekly Book Club members

DEACON Novak has returned home. The FBI Agent knows moving to Cincinnati’s Major Crime Enforcement Squad will be tough, but the greater challenge will be saving his brother from becoming someone Deacon needs to arrest.
 
Faith Corcoran has escaped her old life. Providing therapy to victims of sexual assault was rewarding, but her work with the offenders has jeopardised her safety. This is her chance to begin anew in the empty old house her grandmother left her.
 
But Faith doesn’t know that a killer has made the house his playground and now she’s about to disturb his fun.

With a murderer stalking her, Faith will have to put her trust in Deacon if she’s going to survive. Because this killer is closer than she thinks ...

Karen Rose was introduced to suspense and horror at the tender age of eight when she accidentally read Poe’s The Pit and The Pendulum and was afraid to go to sleep for years. She now enjoys writing books that make other people afraid to go to sleep.

This is the first novel in a brand new mini-series which showcases her writing at its tantalising and thrilling best.