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EDITOR'S CHOICES: AUGUST FICTION The Bookseller's fiction editor, Alice O'Keeffe reveals her favourite books that are published this month. The Paying Guests by Sarah Waters: The latest from the author who has achieved the holy grail of vast sales and huge critical acclaim (twice shortlisted for the Man Booker) – plus four novels adapted for television. After three Victorian novels (Affinity, Tipping the Velvet, Fingersmith) and two set in the 1940s (The Little Stranger, The Night Watch) Waters now turns to the 1920s, and a villa in the genteel surrounds of Champion Hill, Camberwell, where 26-year-old spinster Frances and widowed mother must take in lodgers to make ends meet. Modern couple Lillian and Len Barber, of the “clerk” class, will shake things up in a way no one could ever have predicted. I’ll stop there for fear of spoilers but this is a totally absorbing story from a novelist at the top of her game. READ MORE >

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HACK ATTACK by Nick Davies On 8th July 2009, the Guardian newspaper posted a story on its website written by investigative journalist Nick Davies. It was an explosive piece that claimed phone-hacking and other illegal surveillance techniques were routinely used by News International journalists. Davies also alleged that, for reasons unknown, Scotland Yard had mysteriously failed to act on clear evidence of wrongdoing. So began an extraordinary five-year battle - spearheaded by Davies and his editor at the Guardian, Alan Rusbridger - to disclose the true extent of the criminality which pervaded Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp empire, and the complicity of various individuals and institutions throughout the British establishment who allowed this illegality to go unchallenged.This book is the story of that battle.   MORE >