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| "Fatherland by Robert Harris (Paperback, 2009)" |
| "Fatherland is set in an alternative world where Hitler has won the Second World War It is April 1964 and one week before Hitler&39;s 75th birthday Xavier March a detective of the Kriminalpolizei is called out to investigate the discovery of a dead body in a lake near Berlin&39;s most prestigious suburb As March discovers the identity of the body he uncovers signs of a conspiracy that could go to the very top of the German Reich And with the Gestapo just one step behind March together with an American journalist is caught up in a race to discover and reveal the truth - a truth that has already killed a truth that could topple governments a truth that will change history"
Price: 7.99 |
| "Pompeii by Robert Harris (Paperback, 2009)" |
| "A sweltering week in late August Where better to enjoy the last days of summer than on the beautiful Bay of Naples? But even as Rome's richest citizens relax in their villas around Pompeii and Herculaneum there are ominous warnings that something is going wrong Wells and springs are failing a man has disappeared and now the greatest aqueduct in the world - the mighty Aqua Augusta - has suddenly ceased to flow Through the eyes of four characters - a young engineer an adolescent girl a corrupt millionaire and an elderly scientist - Robert Harris brilliantly recreates a luxurious world on the brink of destruction"
Price: 7.99 |
| "The House Of The Spirits by Isabel Allende (Paperback, 2011)" |
| "As a girl Clara del Valle can read fortunes make objects move as if they had lives of their own and predict the future Following the mysterious death of her sister Rosa the Beautiful Clara is mute for nine years When she breaks her silence it is to announce that she will be married soon to the stern and volatile landowner Esteban Trueba Set in an unnamed Latin American country over three generations The House of the Spirits is a magnificent epic of a proud and passionate family secret loves and violent revolution"
Price: 7.99 |
| "Catch-22: 50th Anniversary Edition by Joseph Heller (Paperback, 2011)" |
| "Explosive subversive wild and funny 50 years on the novel's strength is undiminished Reading Joseph Heller's classic satire is nothing less than a rite of passage Set in the closing months of World War II this is the story of a bombardier named Yossarian who is frantic and furious because thousands of people he has never met are trying to kill him His real problem is not the enemy - it is his own army which keeps increasing the number of missions the men must fly to complete their service If Yossarian makes any attempts to excuse himself from the perilous missions then he is caught in Catch-22 if he flies he is crazy and doesn't have to; but if he doesn't want to he must be sane and has to That's some catch"
Price: 8.49 |
| "The Heart Of A Dog by Mikhail Bulgakov (Paperback, 2009)" |
| "WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY ANDREY KURKOVA rich successful Moscow professor befriends a stray dog and attempts a scientific first by transplanting into it the testicles and pituitary gland of a recently deceased man A distinctly worryingly human animal is now on the loose and the professor's hitherto respectable life becomes a nightmare beyond endurance An absurd and superbly comic story this classic novel can also be read as a fierce parable of the Russian Revolution"
Price: 5.99 |
| "Pied Piper by Nevil Shute Norway (Paperback, 2009)" |
| "As recommended on BBC4's A Good Read - 'A very good writersimple elegant and readablea fantastic story' Jonathan CoeWITH AN INTRODUCTION BY JOHN BOYNEJohn Howard is determined to brighten up his old age by taking a fishing trip to France However during his stay the Nazis invade and he is forced to try to escape back to England with the two small children of some friends who are forced to stay behind in order to help the Allied war effort As the conflict grows closer the roads become impassable and Howard also comes across five more children who need his help He ends up leading this motley group of youngsters through the French countryside constantly beset by danger yet heroically protecting his charges Nevil Shute Norway was born on 17 January 1899 in Ealing London After attending the Dragon School and Shrewsbury School he studied Engineering Science at Balliol College Oxford He worked as an aeronautical engineer and published his first novel Marazan in 1926 In 1931 he married Frances Mary Heaton and they went on to have two daughters During the Second World War he joined the Royal Navy Volunteer Reserve where he worked on developing secret weapons After the war he continued to write and settled in Australia where he lived until his death on 12 January 1960 His most celebrated novels include Pied Piper (1942) No Highway (1948) A Town Like Alice (1950) and On the Beach (1957)"
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| "Requiem for a Wren by Nevil Shute Norway (Paperback, 2009)" |
| "The mysterious death of a young woman on an Australian farm reveals a heartrending story of doomed wartime romance Alan Duncan returns to his family home in Australia after the war and several years of study in England But his homecoming is marred by the mysterious suicide of his parents' quiet and reliable parlour-maid A search through her belongings in search of clues leads to heartbreaking revelations about the woman's identity the death of Alan's brother Bill and above all the disappearance of his brother's fiancee Janet Nevil Shute Norway was born on 17 January 1899 in Ealing London After attending the Dragon School and Shrewsbury School he studied Engineering Science at Balliol College Oxford He worked as an aeronautical engineer and published his first novel Marazan in 1926 In 1931 he married Frances Mary Heaton and they went on to have two daughters During the Second World War he joined the Royal Navy Volunteer Reserve where he worked on developing secret weapons After the war he continued to write and settled in Australia where he lived until his death on 12 January 1960 His most celebrated novels include Pied Piper (1942) No Highway (1948) A Town Like Alice (1950) and On the Beach (1957)"
Price: 6.49 |
| "On The Beach by Nevil Shute Norway (Paperback, 2009)" |
| "After the war is over a radioactive cloud begins to sweep southwards on the winds gradually poisoning everything in its path An American submarine captain is among the survivors left sheltering in Australia preparing with the locals for the inevitable Despite his memories of his wife he becomes close to a young woman struggling to accept the harsh realities of their situation Then a faint Morse code signal is picked up transmitting from the United States and the submarine must set sail through the bleak ocean to search for signs of life On the Beach is Nevil Shute's most powerful novel Both gripping and intensely moving its impact is unforgettable"
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| "A Town Like Alice by Nevil Shute Norway (Paperback, 2009)" |
| "WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY ERIC LOMAXJean Paget is just twenty years old and working in Malaya when the Japanese invasion begins When she is captured she joins a group of other European women and children whom the Japanese force to march for miles through the jungle - an experience that leads to the deaths of many Due to her courageous spirit and ability to speak Malay Jean takes on the role of leader of the sorry gaggle of prisoners and many end up owing their lives to her indomitable spirit While on the march the group run into some Australian prisoners one of whom Joe Harman helps them steal some food and is horrifically punished by the Japanese as a result After the war Jean tracks Joe down in Australia and together they begin to dream of surmounting the past and transforming his one-horse outback town into a thriving community like Alice Springs"
Price: 7.49 |
| "What We Talk About When We Talk About Love by Raymond Carver (Paperback, 2009)" |
| "This powerful collection of stories set in the mid-West among the lonely men and women who drink fish and play cards to ease the passing of time was the first by Raymond Carver to be published in the UK With its spare colloquial narration and razor-sharp sense of how people really communicate the collection was to become one of the most influential literary works of the 1980s"
Price: 7.34 |
| "All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque (Paperback, 1996)" |
| "One by one the boys begin to fall In 1914 a room full of German schoolboys fresh-faced and idealistic are goaded by their schoolmaster to troop off to the 'glorious war' With the fire and patriotism of youth they sign up What follows is the moving story of a young 'unknown soldier' experiencing the horror and disillusionment of life in the trenches"
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| "Silence Of The Lambs: (Hannibal Lecter) by Thomas Harris (Paperback, 2009)" |
| "An FBI traineeA psychopath locked up for unspeakable crimes And a serial killer getting ever closer to his latest victim FBI rookie Clarice Starling turns to Dr Hannibal Lecter monster cannibal held in a hospital for the criminally insane for insight into the deadly madman she must find As Dr Lecter invites her into the darkest chambers of his mind he forces her to confront her own childhood demons as the price of understanding an unspeakable tuition he exacts to teach her how the monster thinks And time is running out"
Price: 7.99 |
| "Hannibal: (Hannibal Lecter) by Thomas Harris (Paperback, 2009)" |
| "Seven years have passed since Dr Hannibal Lecter escaped from custody Seven years since FBI Special Agent Clarice Starling interviewed him in a maximum security hospital for the criminally insane The doctor is still at large but Starling has never forgotten her encounters with Dr Lecter and the metallic rasp of his seldom-used voice still sounds in her dreams 'Quite simply a compelling and brilliant thriller' Mirror'Addictive on every level' Express'Better than Red Dragon and Silence of the Lambs' Stephen King"
Price: 7.99 |
| "Hannibal Rising: (Hannibal Lecter) by Thomas Harris (Paperback, 2009)" |
| "Hannibal Lecter emerges from the nightmare of the Eastern Front a boy in the snow mute with a chain around his neck He seems utterly alone but he has brought his demons with him Hannibal's uncle a noted painter finds him in a Soviet orphanage and brings him to France where Hannibal will live with his uncle and his uncle's beautiful and exotic wife Lady Murasaki Lady Murasaki helps Hannibal to healWith her help he flourishes becoming the youngest person ever admitted to medical school in France But Hannibal's demons visit him and torment himWhen he is old enough he visits them in turn He discovers he has gifts beyond the academic and in that epiphany Hannibal Lecter becomes death's prodigy"
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| "Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon (Paperback, 1995)" |
| "Tyrone Slothrop a GI in London in 1944 has a big problem Whenever he gets an erection a Blitz bomb hits Slothrop gets excited and then as Thomas Pynchon puts it in his sibilant opening sentence &39;a screaming comes across the sky&39; heralding an angel of death a V-2 rocket Soon Tyrone is on the run from legions of bizarre enemies through the phantasmagoric horrors of Germany Gravity&39;s Rainbow is never a single story but a proliferation of characters - Pirate Prentice Teddy Bloat Tantivy Mucker-Maffick Saure Bummer and more - and events that tantalize the reader with suggestions of vast patterns only just past our comprehension It is a blizzard of references to science history high culture and the lowest of jokes and among the most important novels of our time Winner of the National Book Award"
Price: 8.99 |
| "About Face: (Brunetti 18) by Donna Leon (Paperback, 2010)" |
| "At a dinner party given by his parents-in-law Commissario Brunetti meets Franca Marinello the wife of a prosperous Venetian businessman He's charmed - perhaps too charmed suggests his wife Paola - by her love of Virgil and Cicero but shocked by her appearance A few days later Brunetti is visited by Carabinieri Maggior Filippo Guarino from the nearby city of Marghera As part of a wider investigation into Mafia takeovers of businesses in the region Guarino wants information about the owner of a trucking company who was found murdered in his office He believes the man's death is connected to the illegal transportation of refuse - and more sinister material - in his company's trucks No stranger to mutual suspicion and competition between rival Italian police departments Brunetti is nevertheless puzzled by the younger man's behaviour Eventually Guarino agrees to email a photo of his suspect but by the time the photograph arrives he himself is dead Was he killed because he got too close? And how is it that Franca Marinello is involved?"
Price: 6.49 |
| "The Magicians: (Book 1) by Lev Grossman (Paperback, 2009)" |
| "NOW A MAJOR TV SERIES In a secret world of forbidden knowledge power comes at a terrible price Quentin Coldwater's life is changed forever by an apparently chance encounter when he turns up for his entrance interview to Princeton he finds his interviewer dead - but a strange envelope bearing Quentin's name leads him down a very different path to any he'd ever imagined The envelope and the mysterious manuscript it contains leads to a secret world of obsession and privilege a world of freedom and power and for a while it's a world that seems to answer all Quentin's desires But the idyll cannot last - and when it's finally shattered Quentin is drawn into something darker and far more dangerous than anything he could ever have expected"
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| "The Best Man To Die: (A Wexford Case) by Ruth Rendell (Paperback, 2009)" |
| "The fourth book to feature the classic crime-solving detective Chief Inspector Wexford Nothing is ever quite what it seems A man and his daughter lie dead after a car accident Strangely no other car was involved and no cause has been found Wexford's only option is to wait and hope that the one surviving victim - the mother Mrs Fanshawe - regains consciousness But when she finally awakens six weeks later Wexford's attention has already been distracted by a new and very violent case Walking by the canal that same morning Wexford discovered the bloody body of Charlie Hatton The two cases are obviously unrelated although something is bothering Wexford and he can't work out why or what But just as he begins to wonder whether there could in fact be a connection the unexpected occurs the Fanshawe daughter believed to be killed in the accident appears at her mother's beside very much alive"
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| "The Pure In Heart: Simon Serrailler Book 2 by Susan Hill (Paperback, 2009)" |
| "A little boy is snatched at the gate of his home while he waits for his lift to school An ex-con struggling to go straight finds himself drawn back into a criminal ring A young woman hovers between life and death Detective Chief Inspector Simon Serrailler is called in to investigate But with dead-ends mounting up and time running out has he taken on a case so complex it threatens to defeat him?'Not all great novelists can write crime crime fiction but when one like Susan Hill does it the result is stunning' Ruth Rendell"
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| "The Risk of Darkness: Simon Serrailler Book 3 by Susan Hill (Paperback, 2009)" |
| "Children are vanishing The village of Lafferton is shattered There are no witnesses and no leads - just a kidnapper at large Then Detective Chief Inspector Simon Serrailler receives a call a child has been snatched in Yorkshire Has the abductor struck again? And will they find this child alive?'Not all great novelists can write crime fiction but when one like Susan Hill does the result is stunning' Ruth Rendell"
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| "A Sea Of Troubles: (Brunetti 10) by Donna Leon (Paperback, 2009)" |
| "The murder of two clam fishermen off the island of Pellestrina south of the Lido on the Venetian lagoon draws Commissario Brunetti into the close-knit community of the island bound together by a code of loyalty and a suspicion of outsiders worthy of the Mafia When the boss' secretary Signorina Elettra volunteers to visit the island where she has relatives Brunetti finds himself torn between his duty to solve the murders concerns for Elettra's safety and his not entirely straightforward feelings for her"
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| "Friends In High Places: (Brunetti 9) by Donna Leon (Paperback, 2009)" |
| "When Commissario Guido Brunetti is visited by a young bureaucrat investigating the lack of official approval for the building of his apartment years earlier his first reaction like any other Venetian is to think of whom he knows who might bring pressure to bear on the relevant government department But when the bureaucrat rings Brunetti at work clearly scared and is then found dead after a fall from scaffolding something is obviously going on that has implications greater than the fate of Brunetti's apartment"
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| "Suffer the Little Children: (Brunetti 16) by Donna Leon (Paperback, 2009)" |
| "When Commissario Brunetti is summoned to the hospital bedside of a senior paediatrician whose skull has been brutally fractured he is confronted with more questions than answers Three men have burst into the doctor's apartment in the middle of the night attacked him and took his 18-month-old son - but why? As he investigates Brunetti finds infertility desperation and babies for sale Meanwhile Inspector Vianello uncovers a scam between pharmacists and doctors in the city And certain information about one's neighbours can lead to all kinds of corruption and all sorts of pain Donna Leon's new novel is as subtle and gripping as ever set in a beautifully realised Venice seething with small-town malice"
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| "A Noble Radiance: (Brunetti 7) by Donna Leon (Paperback, 2009)" |
| "Commissario Brunetti is faced with another dark mystery In a small village at the foot of the Italian Dolomites the gardens of a deserted farmhouse have lain untouched for decades But the new owner keen for renovations to begin is summoned urgently to the house when his workmen disturb a macabre grave Wild animals have done their grisly work and the human corpse is badly decomposed Then a valuable signet ring is found close by providing the first vital clue It leads Commissario Guido Brunetti right to the heart of aristocratic Venice to a family still grieving for its abducted son"
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| "The Franchise Affair by Josephine Tey (Paperback, 2009)" |
| "Marion Sharpe and her mother seem an unlikely duo to be found on the wrong side of the law Quiet and ordinary they have led a peaceful and unremarkable life at their country home The Franchise Unremarkable that is until the police turn up with a demure young woman on their doorstep Not only does Betty Kane accuse them of kidnap and abuse she can back up her claim with a detailed description of the attic room in which she was kept right down to the crack in its round window But there's something about Betty Kane's story that doesn't quite add up Inspector Alan Grant of Scotland Yard is stumped And it takes Robert Blair local solicitor turned amateur detective to solve the mystery that lies at the heart of The Franchise Affair"
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| "Brat Farrar by Josephine Tey (Paperback, 2009)" |
| "A stranger enters the inner sanctum of the Ashby family posing as Patrick Ashby the heir to the family's sizeable fortune The stranger Brat Farrar has been carefully coached on Patrick's mannerisms appearance and every significant detail of Patrick's early life up to his thirteenth year when he disappeared and was thought to have drowned himself It seems as if Brat is going to pull off this most incredible deception until old secrets emerge that threaten to jeopardise the imposter's plan and his very life"
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| "A Painted House by John Grisham (Paperback, 2011)" |
| "The hill people and the Mexicans arrived on the same day It was a Wednesday early in September 1952 The Cardinals were five games behind the Dodgers with two weeks to go and the season looked hopeless The cotton however was waist high to my father almost over my head and he and my grandfather could be heard before supper whispering words that were seldom heard It could be a good crop Thus begins the new novel from John Grisham a story inspired by his own childhood in rural Arkansas The narrator is a seven year old farm boy named Luke Chandler who lives in the cotton fields with his parents and grandparents in a little house that's never been painted The Chandlers farm eighty acres that they rent not own and when the cotton is ready they hire a truckload of Mexicans and a family from the Ozarks to help harvest it For six weeks they pick cotton battling the heat the rain the fatigue and sometimes each other As the weeks pass Luke sees and hears things no seven year old could possibly be prepared for and finds himself keeping secrets that not only threaten the crop but will change the lives of the Chandlers forever A Painted House is a moving story of one boy's journey from innocence to experience"
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| "The Broker" |
| "In his final hours in the Oval Office the outgoing President grants a full pardon to Joel Backman a notorious Washington power broker who has spent the last six years hidden away in a federal prison It's a controversial move but what no one else knows is that the presidential pardon comes as a result of enormous pressure from the CIA They claim that Backman may have obtained secrets that would compromise the world's most sophisticated satellite surveillance system Backman is quietly smuggled out of the country in a military cargo plane; he is given a new name a new identity and a new home in Italy Eventually once he has settled into his new life the CIA will leak his whereabouts to the Israelis the Russians the Chinese and the Saudis Then the CIA will do what it does best sit back and watch The question is not whether Backman will survive - there's no chance of that The question the CIA needs answered is who will kill him?"
Price: 7.99 |
| "The Last Juror" |
| "In 1970 The Ford County Times one of Mississipi's more colourful weekly newspapers went bankrupt To the surprise and dismay of many ownership was assumed by 23-year-old college drop-out Willie Traynor The future of the paper looked grim until a young mother was brutally raped and murdered by a member of the notorious Padgitt family Traynor reported all the gruesome details and his newspaper began to prosper The murderer Danny Padgitt was tried before a packed courtroom in Clanton Mississippi The trial came to a startling dramatic end when the defendant threatened revenge against the jurors if they convicted him Nevertheless they found him guilty and he was sentenced to life in prison But in Mississippi in 1970 'life' didn't necessarily mean 'life' and nine years later Danny Padgitt managed to get himself paroled He returned to Ford County and the retribution began"
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| "The Pelican Brief" |
| "Two Supreme Court Justices are dead Their murders remain unsolved Darby Shaw a brilliant and beautiful New Orleans legal student draws up a speculative legal brief which links the deaths and uncovers an astonishing presidential conspiracy When her boyfriend is atomised in a car bomb it becomes clear that somebody is intent on silencing Darby for good Somebody who will stop at nothing to preserve the secrets of the Pelican Brief"
Price: 7.99 |
