Book reviewers are needed for the Gazette website, www.thisisthelakedistrict.co.uk and Ottakars Kendal New Authors, New Reviewers project.

Ottakars will provide free copies of their latest new authors' works. Reviewers can register with the Gazette Web Editor for the title of their liking, read it, and write a review of it. Based on reviews, Ottakars will select and distribute these new works.

Selected reviews will be put on www.thisisthelakedistrict.co.uk and will appear with their name on it and be placed with the title in Ottakars.

"We still have some titles in our first group of books up for grabs," says Kate Whiteside, Web Editor. "Check on our web site in Leisure New Authors for list of the titles available. It's on a first come, first served basis."

The project will run several times throughout the year, with the next run expected in the autumn for the Christmas titles.

Email your name, address and contact info kate.whiteside@kendal.newsquest.co.uk to be put on the reviewers list. Identify the title you would like to review. The book is yours to keep. The deadline for this round of reviews is Monday, August 9.

If you have any questions contact Kate at 01539 710183 or 01229 588634.

1. Away from You by Melanie Finn, Penguin Books, 224 pages, 3 copies. (All out for review).

True life story, based on author's grandmother. "When Ellie's father dies she has to return to Kenya after twenty-five years to wind up his affairs. She becomes embroiled in trying to discover the secret at the heart of his life and her parents' marriage in 1960's Kenya"

2. Deafening by Francis Itani, Hodder & Stroughton, 432 pages, 3 copies.

Set on the eve of the Great War, a first novel about a deaf child sent to a special school, where she meets a hearing man and together they create a new emotional vocabulary. They marry, war breaks out, they are separated.

3. Miracles of Santo Fico by D.L. Smith, Time Warner Trade Publishing,384 pages, 3 copies.

Santa Fico, an isolated Tuscan village set next to the sea and high on mountain cliffs, is the backdrop to this Italian CHOCOLAT'. Seldom visited by outsiders, the village is set upon by a British tourist bus. Father Elio uses this opportunity to regain financial and faith losses.

Using an old legend, he teams up with the locals to bring about a few miracles'. "Funny, charming"

4. Piano Teacher, by Lynn York, Headline, 288 pages, 6 copies.

"A delicious, witty and original tale of life, love and murder in the mountains of North Carolina for readers" A widowed music teacher finds her home life turned upside down with the intrusion of her broken-hearted, pregnant daughter, clueless son-in-law, confused granddaughter and daughter's lover. A recipe formurder and mayhem?

5. Pinocchio Syndrome, by David Zeman, Harper-Collins, 752 pages, 4 copies.

"An international thriller of political intrigue, personal betrayal and cutting-edge scienceAmerica is in turmoilvicious struggle for leadershipvice president is struck down by a new living death disease breaking out across the globe.

6. Soldiers of Salamis, by Cercas Javier, Bloomsbury, 224 pages, 3 copies.

"In the final moments of the Spanish Civil War, fifty prominent Nationalist prisoners are executed. One unknown soldier escapes and becomes a hero. Or is he who he says he is? Secrets? Lies? The truth