Here at Windmill, we know that one of the best ways to discover new books is with book club - whether it’s an author you’d not heard of before, or a genre you normally don’t go for, these are the books that may open up huge and exciting new reading possibilities to you.

We are very excited to launch our new Windmill Books Facebook page, which will be your one-stop-shop for the titles we have picked out as future book club classics. Starting with Vaclav and Lena in June, you will find reading group guides, author articles, events, and, at the end of each month, a live chat with the author for you and your group to pose your questions to them. There will also be competitions and you’ll be able to keep up with the latest Windmill Books news.

Simply go to www.facebook.com/windmillbooks and hit the ‘Like’ button today!

Author of The Black Dahlia and LA Confidential, James Ellroy is one of the most celebrated novelists of recent times. We’re giving you the chance to discover the mad genius of the Demon Dog of American letters with this fantastic repackage set of his entire LA Quartet epic.

To win this fantastic prize, answer the following question:

Which book from the LA Quartet was made into a film starring Josh Hartnett?

Send your answers to windmill@randomhouse.co.uk, winners will be picked tomorrow (25th May). Good luck!

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Two of our titles, Disputed Land by Tim Pears and Forgetting Zoe by Ray Robinson, have been chosen for 2011’s Fiction Uncovered promotion.

From the Fiction Uncovered team:

Fiction Uncovered, the major new promotion to support the UK’s best fiction writers, announces its inaugural selection of eight titles today. The promotion, supported by Arts Council England and funded by the National Lottery, pledges to support those writers who deserve wider recognition.

To find out more about the promotion, click here.

It’s been five whole days since the weekend people. I know, brutal right? But never fear, the FRIDAY FEELING IS HERE!

I love my spidery friends, not in a keeping them in a tank and petting them way, but in a tolerant, live and let live, thanks for killing the flies way. For all the humans that disagree, young and old, show them this comic, and perhaps they’ll change their minds.

Getting all science in your face with this incredible ultra-high-definition photo of the night’s sky. Plus, this demonstration of nuclear fission using ping pong balls and mousetraps is fun and eductational. It’s funcational! Or how about the slightly less sciencey but no less cool slow motion gelatin cube.

One for fans of Back to the Future and flat-pack furniture, with Sci-Fi IKEA Manuals.

And finally, a musical painting…lovely.

Good weekends all, happy reading!

We are incredibly pleased to announce that Pulitzer Prize-winning author Anna Quindlen has been picked for Richard and Judy’s Summer Book Club.  The list was announced earlier today and the promotion will go live in store on Thursday.

Read the full story in the Bookseller.

 ‘Devastatingly well crafted … Written with relentless and dazzling brilliance, Quindlen grapples with the lancing pain and the swirls of disorientation experienced by anyone who has loved and lost’ - Daily Mail

‘A substantial, chewy, sink-your-teeth in story that starts off so ordinary and ends up so, well, extraordinary… The writing is so honest, the emotion so raw, and the pain so real that your heart breaks as if it’s happening to you rather than some fictitious creation. It is a heart wrenching read’ - Bookbag - full five-star review here

The Lathams seem to have it all: health, wealth and a vibrant family life. As Mary Beth Latham contemplates a life built around home, friends and community, she has every reason to feel fulfilled and content.

Then, for one of her sons, a process of unravelling begins. Mary Beth starts to focus on him, only to find that the comfortable life she has spent years carefully constructing is shattered in a single moment. Forced to confront her own demons, Mary Beth realises how the inconsequential moments we all share - and one shameful act she has hidden from everybody - may have contributed to her fate.

Every Last One is a mesmerising and devastating portrait of family life, and a testament to the power of a mother’s love and determination. It is Anna Quindlen’s finest work to date.

‘Every Last One is a breathtaking novel. Quindlen writes superbly about families, grief and betrayal. I was completely mesmerised by this book and Mary Beth and the Latham family will stay with me for a long time to come’ - Lisa Jewell

‘Every Last One, the eloquent sixth novel by former New York Times columnist Anna Quindlen, moves, in the turn of a page, from cosy, slow-burning American pastoral to the gripping stuff of nightmares‘ - Guardian

‘Engrossing . . . A spellbinding tale‘ - New York Times

THE FIRST BOOK

ON BIN LADEN TO BE

PUBLISHED SINCE HIS

DEATH

OUT NOW

William Heinemann has published the first book on Bin Laden since his death on 2nd May.

Beyond Bin Laden: The Future of Terror, a series of essays by leading political and military thinkers and edited by Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Jon Meacham, will be released as an eBook and an audio download on Tuesday 10th May, priced £2.99.

Buy now from the Kindle store. Also available through the Apple iBooks store.

Osama bin Laden was the most wanted man in modern history, and ushered in a new era of terrorism. It took a decade of blood and sacrifice, of determination and frustration, but finally, in a night-time raid at the end of a dirt road in Pakistan, the hunt for Bin Laden ended with a gunshot. It was a dramatic climax to a long and painful chapter.

But now what? The terrorist threat that has defined Western policy since the attacks of 9/11 did not die with Bin Laden in his walled compound near Islamabad. Radicals still wish us harm, and we must fight on. In this provocative collection of essays, a group of penetrating analysts and leaders look ahead to the world after Bin Laden-to the future of Al Qaeda, of Afghanistan, of Pakistan. They explore the political, military, and cultural implications of the post-Bin Laden war on terror.

From Richard N. Haass of the Council on Foreign Relations to former Secretary of State James A. Baker III, from historian and journalist Evan Thomas to former U.S. Army officer Andrew Exum, Beyond Bin Laden: The Future of Terror gives readers intelligent, deeply informed, and urgent glimpses of what comes next.

Today we’re giving you the chance to win three lovely paperbacks by the acclaimed author Tim Pears. A true master in his evocations of family life and the English countryside, this is a fantastic chance to discover the author about whom The Times said: ‘Early nineteenth-century France had Balzac, we have Pears to trace our fortunes and follies.’

We are giving three people the chance to win a set of Tim Pears paperbacks, and all you have to do is answer the following question:

What is the title of Tim Pears’ latest hardback book?

Email your answers to windmill@randomhouse.co.uk. Winners will be picked at 5pm today (Monday 9th May). Click here for the T&Cs.

But that’s not all! If you are lucky enough to be picked, we would like something from you. It’s a very small, but very valuable thing to us and our authors. Whichever of the three books you read first, please spend ten minutes writing a review of it and put it on your favourite online bookshop. We’re not asking you for positive, negative, or any other -ive reviews, just honest ones. Why? Because we care about our books, and we think after reading them, you will too.

Thanks all, and good luck!