The Bookworm has been working very hard to strengthen its relationships with overseas publishers in order to bring in more and more hot titles.Our range has grown exponentially and we think you’ll approve – just look at the breadth of our book sections.

Bestselling & New Arrivals

	The Enchantress of Florence Salman Rushdie		The Rest is Noise Alex Ross
	Out of Mao’s Shadow Philip Pan		Beijing Portrait of a City Compiled by Alexandra Pearson and Lucy Cavender
	The Age of the Warrior Robert Fisk		The Hakawati Rabih Alameddine

Online Ordering Facility

If we don’t yet stock the book you’re looking for, we can order it for you. Simply email us with the title, author, publisher and ISBN and we’ll let you know when it’s in.

Gifts and Deluxe Stationery

Never one to rest on its laurels, The Bookworm has extended its shop beyond merely books. With our cards, notebooks, diaries, calendars, maps, guidebooks, phrasebooks, magazines and even jewellery, shopping for those year-round birthday presents has never been easier. We’ll even gift-wrap those special purchases for you.

Book Club Picks

With so many good reads out there, selecting a good range of titles for your book club can be daunting, so we’ve done it for you and here are our suggestions.

	Empress Orchid Anchee Min		Freakonomics Malcolm Gladwell
	The Jane Austen Book Club Karen Joy Fowler		Reading Lolita in Tehran Azar Nafisi

Your Top 10 Reads

This list was submitted by Michael Gericke.

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	Middlesex Jeffrey Eugenides A superbly written story about the Greek family’s adaption to America and some gloomy secrets resulting in a terribly confused daughter that wants to be a son…		The Lost Horizon James Hilton This is the ultimate Tibet novel about the Shangri-La everyone wants to find for him or herself. Those who cannot feel the magic of this book must have serious problems…
	A Prayer for Owen Meany John Irving A classic tale of a miraculous person. Read it and you have the feeling as if you would know him by heart.		Snow Falling on Cedars David Guterson An intelligent piece about recent US history and a masterpiece about inter-cultural feelings and its limitations.
	Olympia Anita Shreive A tragic love story that plays in a time when women did not really have a chance to live as they liked.

Reviews

THE INHERITANCE OF LOSS By Kiran Desai *Winner of the Booker Prize for Fiction 2006 This stunning second novel from Desai (Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard) is set in mid-1980s India, on the cusp of the Nepalese movement for an independent state. Jemubhai Popatlal, a retired Cambridge-educated judge, lives in Kalimpong, at the foot of the Himalayas, with his orphaned granddaughter, Sai, and his cook. The makeshift family’s neighbors include a coterie of Anglophiles who might be savvy readers of V.S. Naipaul but who are, perhaps, less aware of how fragile their own social standing is—at least until a surge of unrest disturbs the region. Jemubhai, with his hunting rifles and English biscuits, becomes an obvious target. Besides threatening their very lives, the revolution also stymies the fledgling romance between 16-year-old Sai and her Nepalese tutor, Gyan. The cook’s son, Biju, meanwhile, lives miserably as an illegal alien in New York. All of these characters struggle with their cultural identity and the forces of modernization while trying to maintain their emotional connection to one another. In this alternately comical and contemplative novel, Desai deftly shuttles between first and third worlds, illuminating the pain of exile, the ambiguities of post-colonialism and the blinding desire for a "better life," when one person’s wealth means another’s poverty.

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