March Book Competition 2015

The Last Honey Trap

Louise Lee’s debut novel is endlessly entertaining. Florence Love is a character to die for.

Sometimes literally.

Meet Florence Love. Private Investigator. Beautiful, brilliant, intuitive. (Well, someone’s got to have self-belief.) She’s always on the ball and plays by the rules because she knows this game inside out. 

Rule one: Private Investigators follow cheating spouses. 

Rule two: Private Investigators need a sidekick to make them sushi. 

Rule three: Never fall for the Target.

But when the Target happens to be Scott ‘Scat’ Delaney, award-winning jazz superstar and sexiest man on the planet, the rule book goes out of the window. And speaking of windows, why does Florence get the feeling someone might, in fact, be watching her?

Louise Lee has a MA in Creative Writing and was once a geography teacher before taking the step to become a Private Investigator. The Last Honeytrap is the beginning of a series featuring the inimitable Florence Love.

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The Bletchley Girls

By Tessa Dunlop – This is the story of life at Bletchley Park beyond the celebrated code-breakers, the story of the girls behind Britain’s ability to consistently outsmart the enemy.

This is the story of life at Bletchley Park beyond the celebrated code-breakers, it’s the story of the girls behind Britain’s ability to consistently outsmart the enemy.

The woman of Bletchley Park have a unique story to tell. Although critical to the success of the project to break the German and Japanese codes in the Second World War, their contribution has been consistently undervalued. Based on extensive interviews conducted specifically for this book, Tessa Dunlop tells the story of fifteen women selected to work in Britain’s most secret WWII organisation.

Many were just school girls at the outbreak of war and the next six years would change their lives forever. Speaking vividly of their lives in the 1930s, we hear their voices (often for the first time) as they tell how life at ‘The Park’ was far removed from the

glamorous existence usually portrayed. Sworn to secrecy about their vital war work, they often found it hard adjust to the expectations of their immediate families and society as whole.

High-profile historian, Tessa Dunlop has a knack for storytelling, especially when it involves history.  She has presented several series and one-off documentaries for TV and radio and has written for almost all major UK newspapers.

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The Modi Effect

Lance Price

How did a ‘chai wallah’ who sold tea on trains as a boy become Prime Minister of India?

On May 16, 2014, Narendra Modi was declared the winner of the largest election ever conducted, having fought a campaign that was a masterclass in modern electioneering. Modi took part in more than 6,000 public events, but in such a vast country it was impossible to visit every town and village. The solution? A ‘virtual Modi’ – a life-size 3D hologram

beamed to parts he could not reach in person. Having been denied a visa to the United States and given the diplomatic cold shoulder by other nations because of his reputation as an extremist, Modi’s victory answered his critics with a resounding election win in the world’s biggest democracy.

Former BBC correspondent Lance Price has exclusive access to Prime Minister Modi and his advisors. 

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Girl Runner
 

By Carrie Snyder.  From acclaimed Canadian writer Carrie Snyder, Aganetha Smart’s story is singular, heartbreaking and gripping to the last page.

Aganetha Smart is a former Olympic athlete, once famous in the 1920s, who is now 104 and living in a nursing home, alone and forgotten by history until her quiet existence is disturbed by the arrival of two young strangers. Without revealing who they are, or what they may want from her, the visitors take Aganetha on an outing from the nursing home which stirs her memories of WWI, the Spanish flu epidemic, the optimism of the 1920s and sacrifices of the 1930s, as she wrestles with the confusion and displacement of the present.

Carrie Snyder is the author of two books of short fiction, Hair Hat and The Juliet Stories. 

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