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MacLean's Booksellers is an independent bookseller in Newcastle, with shops at Hamilton and Toronto. MacLean's was established in 1997, and is owned and managed by Amanda and Max Shirley.
All of us at MacLean’s are passionate about books and love to share that passion with our customers. If you need help selecting something to read, we are always willing to recommend our favourite titles to you, so please contact us at one of our shops.
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Fiction Recommendations |  Jasper Jones by Craig Silvey
Charlie Bucktin is startled by an urgent knock on the window of his sleep-out. His visitor is Jasper Jones, an outcast in the mining town of Corrigan. Jasper takes Charlie to his secret glade in the bush, and it's here that Charlie bears witness to Jasper's horrible discovery.
|  Mr Rosenblum's List by Natasha Solomons
Jack Rosenblum is five foot three and a half inches of sheer tenacity. Through study and application he intends to become a Very English Gentleman. Jack is compiling a list, a comprehensive guide to the manners, customs and habits of his new home. And he never speaks German, apart from the occasional curse.
|  Major Pettigrew's Last Stand by Helen Simonson
Major Ernest Pettigrew (retired) leads a quiet life in the small rural English village of Edgecombe St Mary where he values the proper things that Englishmen have treasured for generations - honour, duty, decorum and a properly brewed cup of tea. The Major takes pleasure in his well-organised and rational life until he finds that his patronising son, and the kind yet interfering ladies of the village seem to have their own plans for him. It's his brother's death, though, that sparks an unexpected friendship with Mrs Jasmina Ali, the Pakistani shopkeeper from the village. Drawn together by their shared love of literature and the loss of their respective spouses, the Major and Mrs Ali soon find their friendship blossoming into something more. But although the Major was actually born in Lahore, and Mrs Ali was born in Cambridge, village society insists on embracing him as the quintessential local and her as a permanent foreigner. Major Pettigrew finds himself contending with irate relatives, an outraged village and a mad old woman armed with a knitting needle, before he comes to understand his own heart.
|  The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
Forty years ago, Harriet Vanger disappeared from a family gathering on the island owned and inhabited by the powerful Vanger clan. Her body was never found, yet her uncle is convinced it was murder - and that the killer is a member of his own tightly knit but dysfunctional family. He employs disgraced financial journalist Mikael Blomkvist and the tattooed, truculent computer hacker Lisbeth Salander to investigate. When the pair link Harriet's disappearance to a number of grotesque murders from forty years ago, they begin to unravel a dark and appalling family history. But the Vangers are a secretive clan, and Blomkvist and Salander are about to find out just how far they are prepared to go to protect themselves.
|  Solar by Ian McEwan
Ranging from the Arctic Circle to the deserts of New Mexico, "Solar" is a serious and darkly satirical novel, showing human frailty struggling with the most pressing and complex problem of our time. A story of one man's greed and self-deception, it is a profound and stylish new work from one of the world's great writers.
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Non Fiction Recommendations |  Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert
Elizabeth Gilbert is in her thirties, she has a husband, a house, and they're trying for a baby - she doesn't want any of it. A bitter divorce and a turbulent love affair later, she emerges battered and bewildered and realises it is time to pursue her own journey in search of three things she has been missing: pleasure, devotion and balance.
|  A Pressure Cooker Saved My Life by Juanita Phillips
When Juanita Phillips stumbled on an old pressure cooker in an op shop, it changed her life. The pressure cooker helped her solve one of the biggest problems - preparing daily healthy meals - but that was just the beginning. She and her husband decided to transform their chaotic life in other ways too, and where it led them was surprising.
|  Lunch in Paris by Elizabeth Bard
Part love story, part wine splattered cook book, a delicious fish out of water story for any woman who has ever suspected that lunch in Paris could change her life.
|  Really Wild Tea Cosies by
An easy-to-follow book featuring 20 wild knitted tea cosies. It also provides instructions on how to make ten knitted and crocheted decorations, such as flowers, leaves and fruit, which can be used to embellish your tea cosy, or worn on a lapel or scarf. It includes original creations suitable for various skill levels.
|  The Brain That Changes Itself by Norman Doidge
A new discovery called neuroplasticity is overthrowing the centuries-old notion that the adult human brain is fixed and unchanging. It is, instead, able to change its own structure and function, even into old age. We see a woman born with half a brain that rewired itself to work as a whole; we find that our thoughts can switch our genes on and off.
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Award Winners
Nominated and winning books of all the major
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Children's & Young Adult Recommendations
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A Giraffe in the Bath
Eric
The Whisperer
Diary of a Wimpy Kid
Beautiful Malice
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