APRIL BOOK OF THE MONTH - vote for one of these Unsung Hero/Heroines and pick our next bookclub winner

[TillyBookClub]

We have a chocolate box assortment of little known gems, especially selected for Easter, that have all been nominated by Mumsnetters. Check out the bigger-than-usual selection here - and pick your favourite to be our April Book of the Month...

Hi all - just to say that you can buy it here - enjoy!

Yay! Had a copy already - but will have to get my skates on to finish it AND everything else I already have on the go by the bookclub date...

testing name change - sorry to butt in

this is such a fabulous book, am going to reread (has been a few years)
also a best seller in Canada for a v long time btw (cdn author)

Just wanted to say - I love, love ,love Gaudy Night - if you haven't read it - and have time - do go for it! The winner of the poll looks very good - think I'm going to get that!

Second that, NorthernLurker. Great book. Murder Must Advertise is pretty terrific too. I'm trying to be disciplined about not re-reading stuff at the moment but you can't beat a good murder mystery...

(sorry for hijack)

The Nine Tailors ais a great read too and so atmospheric

Read "fall on your knees" a few years ago and it still sticks in my memory - quite harrowing in parts....

Thirded re Gaudy Night.. Didnt vote for it cos I've read it about 10 times, but Dorothy L Sayers is soo worth reading, particularly the books with Harriet Vine. The background is that DLS wrote a series of novels featuring Lord Peter Wimsey, and sort of fell for him in the process, so wrote in a strongminded crime novelist character for him to fall in love with.. They are wonderful books..

As we all know that should have been Harriet Vane..

I was just remembering how harrowing it can be too - especially when the parts about the father. Not going to give anything away but can't imagine how I'll feel now that I have children of my own. But I can't wait to read it again.

On the blackwell/amazon switch that squonk brought up, it was really a better company to deal with I think. In fact, I noticed that they can deliver my copy of Fall on Your Knees in 2 days whereas amazon were quoting 6-10 days. But its just a suggestion really, and everyone free to borrow/swap/steal a copy from wherever.

I rather fancied all of April's books, they're fast becoming my summer holiday reading list. And I might save Dorothy Sayers for middle-of-night breastfeeding sessions - do we think murder mystery is a good idea at 3am?

Tilly, know what you mean about crime novels in darkness - but Dorothy Sayers at 3am is fine imho!

Good - don't want to find myself staring at the door till dawn, wondering if I can hear creaking on the staircase.

Had forgotten quite how massive a book Fall on Your Knees is, lucky we've got a fair bit of time until our discussion night to get through it all... Am hugely enjoying re-reading it, I'd forgotten so many details.

It's my first time reading it and I've gone through about 350 pages today (two train journeys is my main excuse.... let's draw a veil over everything that has not been done this evening....)

Looking forward to my first MN book cub discussion already.

Just finished Fall on Your Knees!!
What an amazing book-really looking forward to discussing in a few wks. Glad I joined this book club-not sure if I ever would have read it otherwise!

Blimey, good going, Arti - I'm still in the first half... Very glad you liked it, I remember evangelising about to it to everyone first time I read it, and coulnd't get it out of my head for months.

See you on 29th...