Make room on the sofa….
Richard and Judy. Tesco’s has a Book Club.
Tesco Book Club - Tesco.com
Our first ever Book Club selection is Innocent Traitor by Alison Weir – available now in store and online.
As a Book Club title, each month’s selection will have some fantastic bonus content in the book and even more great material will be available exclusively on this site. This month’s extras include a Q and A with Alison Weir plus details on our July selection so please bookmark www.tesco.com/bookclub to avoid missing out!
The world and his wife now has a Book Club so what makes Tesco’s one different? The only thing that I can think of is the amount of eyes that are going to fall upon that Month’s Selected Title, which will greatly increasing the chances of that title selling trolley loads.
This month’s selection is Innocent Traitor by Alison Weir. Somewhat surprisingly it’s a debut novel - though the author is not a complete unknown - she has written historical non-fiction previously and seemingly quite successfully - on Amazon she’s described as ‘our pre-eminent popular historian’. That’s told me.
Innocent Traitor really doesn’t sound like my cup of tea:
Lady Jane Grey was born into times of extreme danger. Child of a scheming father and a ruthless mother, for whom she was merely a pawn in a dynastic power game with the highest stakes, she lived a live in thrall to political machinations and lethal religious fervour. Jane’s astonishing and essentially tragic story was played out during one of the most momentous periods of English history. As a great-niece of Henry VIII, and the cousin of Edward VI, Mary I and Elizabeth I, she grew up realize that she could never throw off the chains of her destiny. Her honesty, intelligence and strength of character carry the reader through all the vicious twists of Tudor power politics, to her nine-day reign and its unbearably poignant conclusion.
I have a feeling that the people that love her historical non-fiction are going to enjoy her re-telling of this story.
Next month’s selection BTW is also a by female writer in the guise of Kate Atkinson’s follow-up to Case Histories, One Good Turn. I’ll have to read Case Histories first.
