Summer Reading

Have you checked out the brilliant 3 for 2 offer in our book sections in Dubai? We’ve got this fantastic offer on the very best of new releases and bestselling paperbacks.

I picked up my three summer books: number one was Carte Blanche by Jeffery Deaver (his James Bond novel). I can’t put it down. I particularly liked Bond’s visit to Dubai! It’s really captured the nature and style of an Ian Fleming original, but it’s thoroughly modern and really skillfully written. Bond is up against a really creepy villain, and the mixture of guesswork and deduction involved in spying is really carefully crafted. It’s my first Deaver novel, as I’m not much of a fan of crime, but I do love anything to do with James Bond. I have seen Deaver speak twice, once at EAFL 2010 and once more at a Middle Eastern launch party for Carte Blanche in January 2011, and he’s a very gifted and entertaining speaker and very clear that what he writes is not literature, merely “entertainments”. Well, there are a lot less literary authors out there, and, on the basis of Carte Blanche, few as genuinely entertaining. Check this one out.

 I also picked up Terry Pratchett’s latest Discworld novel Snuff and The Map of Time by Felix J. Palma, which has some really positive reviews coming in.

There are so many different kinds of books in the offer, from Romance to Adventure, Literary to Comedy, and we’ve also thrown in a few for the kids too, so there’s something for everyone in our book section right now…