Cancel all plans … it’s Book Club night

Seventeen year old Samuel “Sooleyman”,comes from a village in South Sudan, a war torn country where one third of the population is a refugee.

His great love is basketball and his prodigious leap and lightning speed make him an exceptional player. He has been noticed by a coach taking a youth team to the United States. If he gets through the tournament, Samuel’s life will change and he must leave his family behind, at least at the beginning.

As American success beckons, devastating news reaches Samuel from home. Caught between his dream and the nightmare unfolding thousands of miles away, ‘Sooley’, as he’s nicknamed by his classmates, must make hard choices about his future.

This quiet, dedicated boy must do what no other player has achieved, become a legend in twelve short months.

Sooley is typical John Grisham … and fans won’t be disappointed.  Hodder Stoughton, available from Exclusive Books

Helen has it all. Daniel is the perfect husband. Rory is the perfect brother. Serena is the perfect sister in law. And Rachel? Rachel is the perfect nightmare.

When Helen, finally pregnant after years of tragedy, attends her first antenatal class, she is expecting her loving architect husband to arrive soon after, along with her confident, charming brother Rory and his pregnant wife, the effortlessly beautiful Serena.

What she is not expecting is Rachel. Extroverted, brash, unsettling single mother-to-be Rachel, who just wants to be Helen’s friend. Who just wants to get know Helen and her friends and her family. Who just wants to know everything about them. Every little secret!

Greenwich Park by Katherine Faulkner could well be our book of the month. You won’t put this one down.  Bloomsbury, available from Exclusive Books.