This month sees a couple of new releases from authors who have had previous titles that were big hits with book clubs, will start with those and give you a leg up on suggestions for your club's next read.

Cleave has gone with a very contemporary setting for this latest: the leadup to the 2012 Olympic Games in London. Gold is the story of two elite athletes, who also happen to be good friends, who must compete for the last spot on the UK's Olympic cycling team. In an early review, Publisher's Weekly has said "From start to finish, this is a truly Olympic-level literary achievement."

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ans of crime fiction will want to make note of a later June release, Brenner and God (M) by Wolf Haas (June 26) is the first appearance in English of a series that Amazon proclaims is "one of the most wildly popular detective series in Europe". Described as a darkly funny, hardboiled detective novel, it introduces Simon Brenner, a Viennese ex-cop, now working as a chauffeur. The action starts when the two year old child in his care is kidnapped and Brenner investigates her disappearance. European police mysteries have a way of working into the North American psyche, time will tell if Haas is to be the next Mankell or Rankin.


I couldn't pick just one more title for this month's post so here in quick succession are three more for you to consider:



The Neruda Case (M) by Roberto Ampuero (June 28): Another international bestseller appearing for the first time in English. This one is a Chilean novel of political intrigue and Pablo Neruda.
The Family Album (M) by Kerry Kelly (June 11): A Canadian novel "a humorous look at the creation and reconstruction of family and the lingering hold of the people we keep close and those we try to let go" (publisher)
The Forrests (M) by Emily Perkins (June 5): A literary novel of an American family living in New Zealand, Whitehots describes it as a novel that "speaks of family and time, dysfunction, ageing, loneliness, lethargy, heat, youth, and how there is always something inaccessible and secret, lying just out of reach."
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