exciting new releases

My summer starts in under three weeks and I can't wait to read read read, 24/7. I've got a stack of classics already on the agenda but here are a few up-coming releases I cat wait to stick my teeth into. 

Emma Healey's Elizabeth is Missing

Emma Healey is a 28 year old author who grew up in London. Before becoming an author she worked in libraries,bookshops and galleries. Elizabeth is Missing is her first novel. 

 Elizabeth is Missing by Emma Healey was featured in Marie Claire's '9 New Books You Should Definitely Consider Reading This  Spring' and was described as 'springs hottest release', not to mention Healey featuring in the London Evening Standards 'Londoners to watch in 2014' article back in January. 

Elizabeth is Missing is about Maud who despite an array of notes can hardly remember everyday things - her memory isn't what it used to be. Maud's best friend Elizabeth has gone missing and Maud can't recall where she would be. 

This debut mystery novel narrated by an 80-something year old woman who's losing her memory created a buzz of excitement at the London book fair in 2013 and I'm more than buzzing to read it when it's released on June 5th. 

Stephen King's Mr. Mercedes

Stephen King is a contemporary American author who has sold more than 350 millions copies of his horror, fantasy and science fiction novels. 

Mr. Mercedes is a suspense thriller featuring a retired homicide detective who receives a letter from a man claiming to be the perpetrator of a case that still leaves detective Hodges restless at night.

Release date: June 3rd.  

I'm looking forward to reading this as Stephen King's novels have always been well acclaimed. 

Anthony Doerr's All the Light We Cannot See

A young girl called Marie-Laure goes blind at a young age. When she turns twelve the Nazis occupy Paris so Marie-Laure and her father flee to stay with a reclusive great-uncle who lives in Saint-Malo, by the sea. 

In a mining town in Germany, Werner is an orphan who has a special gift for fixing radios. This same talent wins him a place in the Hitler Youth tracking the resistance. Werner travels into Saint-Malo where his and Marie-Laure's lives cross paths. 

This book has actually already been realeased but I haven't had the chance to read it yet, I am very very very excited to get my hands on it as All the Light We Cannot See sounds like it's right up my street. In fact it sounds so far up my street it might just be on my front doorstep knocking away!

I'll be doing reviews on all these books later on in the summer once I've read them all, so watch this space !!!

The Book Thief by Markus Zusak

The Book Thief by Markus Zusak is a book narrated by Death and set in 1939 Nazi Germany. It follows Liesel Meminger's life as she learns to read with the help of her foster father and finds a love for books. 

'A beautifully balanced piece of storytelling, this is a novel of breathtaking scope, masterfully told' GUARDIAN

'A moving work which will make many eyes brim' INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY

'Briliant and hugely ambitious' NEW YORK TIMES

The characters within The Book Thief were as real to me as night and day and I related to them more than anyone I've ever met. Max Vandenburg's eternal gratefulness and peace presents him as a victim turned hero who helped Liesel to get through the daily struggles many German people were facing at the time. 

The character of Rudy was so naïve and innocent it reminded me of my younger brother and his freedom was refreshing to read about. 

The book's structure kept me guessing but also revealed enough to me that I never got bored. I would read this book into the late hours of the night and as I felt the end coming, a huge sense of melancholy that is familiar when you come to the end of a brilliant book overwhelmed me. 

If you've read my blog or my twitter before you'd know that I just love love love historical books and The Book Thief pressed all my buttons!! An impressively written book that I would strongly recommend to anyone even slightly interested in World War Two. 

Overall this book made me laugh and cry and kept me turning the pages right until the final page. The Book Thief is an exceptional piece of literature that I'm sure is well on it's way to being a classic. 

~happy reading~