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BOOK OF THE WEEK with Charlie Richards.
Dodger, Terry Prachett 978-0552563147 (Corgi) BD3.900 for Gulf Weekly Book Club members
DODGER is a sewer-scavenger living in the squalor of Dickensian London. Everyone who is nobody knows Dodger. Anyone who is anybody doesn’t. When he rescues
a young girl from a beating, suddenly everybody wants to know him and Dodger’s tale of skulduggery, dark plans and even darker deeds begins.
READ IT NOW IN PAPERBACK The Nowhere Emporium, Ross McKenzie 978-1782501251 (Kelpies) BD3.400 for Gulf Weekly Book Club members WHEN the mysterious Nowhere Emporium arrives in Glasgow, orphan Daniel Holmes stumbles upon it quite by accident. Before long, the ‘shop from nowhere’ - and its owner, Mr Silver - draw Daniel into a breathtaking world of magic and enchantment. Recruited as Mr Silver’s apprentice, Daniel learns the secrets of the Emporium’s vast labyrinth of passageways and rooms - rooms that contain wonders beyond anything Daniel has ever imagined. But, when Mr Silver disappears and a shadow from the past threatens everything, the Emporium and all its wonders begin to crumble. Can Daniel save his home and his new friends before the Nowhere Emporium is destroyed forever? Ross MacKenzie unleashes a riot of imagination, colour and fantasy in this astonishing adventure, perfect for fans of Philip Pullman, Cornelia Funke and Neil Gaiman.
MY FAVOURITE READ OF THE WEEK Feather Boy, Nicky Singer, ISBN 9780007332007 (Harper Collins) BD3.400 for Gulf Weekly Book Club members ROBERT Nobel, the school pariah, triumphs over his own fears and the school bully, in this extraordinary tale of self-empowerment, legend and death. Robert is a boy who can do anything, or so old Edith Sorrel at the nursing home tells him. Robert doesn’t think so, knowing as he does that he is the school geek. But something compels him to do what Edith asks, to visit old Chance House, where a boy once fell to his death from the top floor flat, to confront his fears and find some answers. Niker, the bully, thinks this is a great laugh. He challenges Robert to spend the night at Chance House with him, but there the balance of power changes and it is Robert who proves to be the stronger. Niker feels threatened by the change and when he finds out Robert’s secret obsession, to make the dying Edith Sorrel a coat of feathers like in the old legend of the Firebird, he knows just how to wrest his old power back. But just how important is the coat of feathers? Could it really save Edith’s life?
