Love & Louis XIV

Sponsored by: GRIFFIN BOOKSHOP features@algarveresident.com If your chosen beach reading is a bit more serious, then what could be better than the latest biography by Antonia Fraser? Love and Louis

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Olive Oil, Sauces, Starters and Mains

Sponsored by Griffin Bookshop features@algarveresident.com Olive Oil, Sauces, Starters and Mains, published by Ryland Peters and Small Olive oil is everyone’s favourite cooking ingredient – it’s delicious, versatile and healthy.

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Skullduggery Pleasant

Sponsored by: GRIFFIN BOOKSHOP features@algarveresident.com Skulduggery Pleasant by Derek Landy in paperback at 11 euros should hold fascinating appeal for ages nine to 12. Skulduggery Pleasant is a wise-cracking sharply-dressed

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Temptation

Sponsored by Griffin Bookshop features@algarveresident.com Douglas Kennedy’s book, Temptation, is set in Hollywood, which is a world he knows well. David Armitage is a middle-aged screenwriter, who spends years toiling

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The Reluctant Fundamentalist

Sponsored by: GRIFFIN BOOKSHOP features@algarveresident.com The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid (and my personal favourite to win) is in hardcover at 23.50 euros. At a café table in Lahore, a

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Through a Glass Darkly

Sponsored by Griffin Bookshop features@algarveresident.com Through a Glass Darkly by Donna Leon Donna Leon’s millions of fans will appreciate this new crime novel in her series featuring Commissario Brunetti and

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Bitter Sweets

Sponsored by Griffin Bookshop features@algarveresident.com Bitter Sweets by Roopa Farooki Finally, Bitter Sweets by Roopa Farooki is set in 1950s Bengal. Henna Rub, a precocious, wayward teenager, brings off a

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Friend of the Devil

Sponsored by: GRIFFIN BOOKSHOP features@algarveresident.com Friend of the Devil, is out in hardback at 23.50 euros. When Karen Drew is found sitting in her wheelchair staring out to sea with

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Master Pip

Sponsored by: GRIFFIN BOOKSHOP features@algarveresident.com Master Pip by Lloyd Jones is out in hardcover at 20 euros. English bookies unexpectedly put this novel as favourite to win the Booker Prize.

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On a Hoof and a Prayer

Sponsored by Griffin Bookshop features@algarveresident.com On a Hoof and a Prayer by Polly Evans Subtitled, Around Argentina at a Gallop, this is Polly Evans’ account of achieving her dream of

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