Flip through the latest issue of Gulf Weekly.
BOOK OF THE WEEK with Linda Jennings. Grandpa’s Great Escape, David Walliams, ISBN 9780007494019 (Harper Collins) BD7.300 for Gulf Weekly Book Club members
This is the hotly-anticipated next best-seller from number one author David Walliams. Jack’s Grandpa …
Since his debut children’s book published in 2008, Gansta Granny, David Walliams has taken the literary world by storm and is the biggest British children’s author to debut this century being favourably compared to Roald Dahl.
Read it now in paperback
After The Crash, Michel Bussi, ISBN 9781780227320 (Orion) BD4.500 for Gulf Weekly Book Club members On the night of December 22, 1980, a plane crashes on the Franco-Swiss border and is engulfed in flames – 168 out of 169 passengers are killed instantly.
The miraculous sole survivor is a three-month-old baby girl. Two families, one rich, the other poor, step forward to claim her, sparking an investigation that will last for almost two decades. Is she Lyse-Rose or Emilie?
Eighteen years later, having failed to discover the truth, private detective Crédule Grand-Duc plans to take his own life, but not before placing an account of his investigation in the girl’s hands. But, as he sits at his desk about to pull the trigger, he uncovers a secret that changes everything – then is killed before he can breathe a word of it to anyone.
Translated from the French, this crime novel is a brilliant page-turner of a book by a well-established writer in his home country who bears comparison to Steig Larsson and is receiving rave reviews.
My favourite read of the week
The Ice Twins, S.K. Tremayne, ISBN 9780007459223 (Harper Collins) BD4.500 for Gulf Weekly Book Club members
One of Sarah’s daughters died. But can she be sure which one?
This is a terrifying psychological thriller perfect for fans of The Girl On The Train.
A year after one of their identical twin daughters, Lydia, dies in an accident, Angus and Sarah Moorcraft move to the tiny Scottish island Angus inherited from his grandmother, hoping to put together the pieces of their shattered lives.
But when their surviving daughter, Kirstie, claims they have mistaken her identity – that she, in fact, is Lydia – their world comes crashing down once again.
As winter encroaches, Angus is forced to travel away from the island for work, Sarah is feeling isolated, and Kirstie (or is it Lydia?) is growing more disturbed.
When a violent storm leaves Sarah and her daughter stranded, Sarah finds herself tortured by the past – what really happened on that fateful day one of her daughters died?
