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| "Riotous Assembly by Tom Sharpe (Paperback, 2002)" |
| "When Miss Hazelstone of Jacaranda Park kills her Zulu cook in a sensational crime passionel the gallant members of the South African police force are soon on the scene Kommandant van Heerden whose secret longing for the heart of an English gentleman leads to the most memorable transplant operation yet recorded; Luitenant Verkramp of the Security Branch ever active in the pursuit of Communist cells; Konstabel Els with his propensity for shooting first and not thinking later - and also for forcing himself upon African women in a manner legally reserved for male members of their own race In the course of the strange events which follow we encounter some very esoteric perversions when the Kommandant is held captive in Miss Hazelstone's remarkable rubber room; and some even more amazing perversions of justice when Miss Hazelstone's brother the Bishop of Barotseland is sentenced to be hanged on the ancient gallows in the local prison Not a 'political' novel in any previously imagined sense Riotous Assembly provided a completely fresh approach to the South African scene - an approach startling in its deadpan savagery and yet also outrageously funny"
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| "Lullaby by Chuck Palahniuk (Paperback, 2003)" |
| "Carl Streator is a reporter investigating Sudden Infant Death Syndrome for a soft-news feature After responding to several calls with paramedics he notices that all the dead children were read the same poem from the same library book the night before they died It's a 'culling song' - an ancient African spell for euthanizing sick or old people Researching it he meets a woman who killed her own child with it accidentally He himself accidentally killed his own wife and child with the same poem twenty years earlier Together the man and the woman must find and destroy all copies of this book and try not to kill every rude sonofabitch that gets in their way Lullaby is a comedydramatragedy In that order It may also be Chuck Palahniuk's best book yet"
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| "Staying On by Paul Scott (Paperback, 1999)" |
| "Tusker and Lily Smalley stayed on in India Given the chance to return 'home' when Tusker once a Colonel in the British Army retired they chose instead to remain in the small hill town of Pangkot with its eccentric inhabitants and archaic rituals left over from the days of the Empire Only the tyranny of their landlady the imposing Mrs Bhoolabhoy threatens to upset the quiet rhythm of their days Both funny and deeply moving Staying On is a unique engrossing portrait of the end of an empire and of a forty-year love affair"
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| "Vertigo by W. G. Sebald (Paperback, 2002)" |
| "Part fiction part travelogue the narrator of this compelling masterpiece pursues his solitary eccentric course from England to Italy and beyond succumbing to the vertiginous unreliability of memory itself What could possibly connect Stendhal's unrequited love the artistry of Pisanello a series of murders by a clandestine organisation a missing passport Casanova the suicide of a dinner companion stale apple cake the Great Fire of London a story by Kafka about a doomed huntsman and a closed-down pizzeria in Verona?"
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| "At Risk : (Liz Carlyle 1)" |
| "Former head of MI5 Stella Rimington brings the high-stakes world of intelligence to life in AT RISK - the first novel in her bestselling and much-loved series featuring MI5 Intelligence Officer Liz Carlyle For MI5 Intelligence Officer Liz Carlyle the nagging complications of her private life are quickly forgotten at Monday's Counter-Terrorist meeting An invisible may have entered mainland Britain An invisible' is a terrorist who is an ethnic native of the target country who can cross its borders unchecked and move about unnoticed - the ultimate nightmare For Liz this signals the start of an operation that will test her to the limit Who or what is the target? Where and who is the invisible? With each passing hour the danger increases But as she desperately sifts the incoming intelligence and analyses the reports from her agents she finally realises that it is her ability to get inside her enemy's head that is the only hope of averting disaster"
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| Straight |
| "From his days as a club face alongside Philip Sallon Marilyn and Steve Strange through the years of global pop superstardom with Culture Club his rebirth as a world-class DJ as a leading light of musical theatre with the award-winning Taboo a cutting edge photographer and a confrontational and acclaimed fashion designer one of the many things you can say about George is he's never stood still It's been one hell of a trip A decade and a half ago George was coming to terms with the fall-out from serious drug addiction the failure of his relationship with Jon Moss and the collapse of Culture ClubFor lesser men this would have been the end but for George it became the start of a period of remarkable reinvention Told with George's trademark biting wit brutal honesty and sparkling insight this book reveals the whole story reappraising his rise to stardom and all the madness that followedHe talks about his solo singing career his initiation into the dance music scene and his role as the driving force behind theatrical sensation TabooGeorge also discusses the achievement of the apparently impossible task of reuniting the famously fractious Culture Club It is only now many years on from the glittering glossy Eighties that George makes an insightful and often hilarious assessment of the impact of that extraordinary era"
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| "An Infamous Army" |
| "The Battle of Waterloo A heart-racing tale of adventure love and fate against the backdrop of one of the most decisive battles in history by one of the greatest and best-selling romantic novelists of all time In 1815 beneath the aegis of the Army of Occupation Brussels is the gayest town in Europe And the widow Lady Barbara Childe renowned for being as outrageous as she is beautiful is at the centre of all that is fashionable and light-hearted When she meets Charles Audley dashing aide-de-camp to the great Duke of Wellington himself her joie de vivre knows no bounds - until the eve of the fateful Battle of Waterloo Georgette Heyer was the creator - greatest practitioner - of the Regency romance and An Infamous Army shows why she has won the hearts of a whole new audience with her sweeping historical fiction"
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| "Charity Girl" |
| "When Fate and a chivalrous impulse combine to saddle Viscount Desford with a friendless homeless waif named Cherry Steane to whom else should he turn in such a scrape but his old childhood playmate Henrietta Silverdale? For all they refused to oblige their parents by marrying they have always been the best of friends But as Desford pursues Cherry's lickpenny grandfather and reprobate father around unfashionable watering places and the seedier fringes of society Hetta is forced to wonder whether he might not at last have fallen in love Without the timely intervention of his scapegrace brother Simon and Hetta's worthy suitor Gary Nethercott Desford is in danger of making a rare mess of his affairs Charity Girl is a wonderful romantic novel by the queen of the Regency romance and one of the most popular historical novelists of all time"
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| "The Bell" |
| "WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY A S BYATTDora Greenfield erring wife returns to live with her husband in a a lay community encamped outside Imber Abbey home to a mysterious enclosed order of nuns Watched over by its devout director and the discreet authority of the wise old Abbess Imber Court is a haven for lost souls seeking tranquility But then the lost Abbey bell legendary symbol of religion and magic is rediscovered and hidden truths and desires are forced into the light"
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| "Absalom, Absalom!" |
| "Quentin Compson and Shreve his Harvard room-mate are obsessed by the tragic rise and fall of Thomas Sutpen As a poor white boy Sutpen was turned away from a plantation owner's mansion by a negro butler From then on he was determined to force his way into the upper echelons of Southern society His relentless will ensures his ambitions are soon realised; land marriage children But in after the chaos of Civil War secrets from his own past threaten to destroy everything he has worked for"
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| "The End Of The Affair by Graham Greene (Paperback, 2004)" |
| "WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY MONICA ALIThe love affair between Maurice Bendrix and Sarah flourishing in the turbulent times of the London Blitz ends when she suddenly and without explanation breaks it off After a chance meeting rekindles his love and jealousy two years later Bendrix hires a private detective to follow Sarah and slowly his love for her turns into an obsession"
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| "The Road Home by Rose Tremain (Paperback, 2008)" |
| "From the author of The Gustav SonataLev is on his way from Eastern Europe to Britain seeking work Behind him loom the figures of his dead wife his beloved young daugher and his outrageous friend Rudi who - dreaming of the wealthy West - lives largely for his battered Chevrolet Ahead of Lev lies the deep strangeness of the British their hostile streets their clannish pubs their obsession with celebrity London holds out the alluring possibility of friendship sex money and a new career and if Lev is lucky a new sense of belonging Over a million Rose Tremain books soldA writer of exceptional talent Tremain is a writer who understands every emotion' Independent IThere are few writers out there with the dexterity or emotional intelligence to rival that of the great Rose Tremain' Irish TimesTremain has the painterly genius of an Old Master and she uses it to stunning effect' The TimesRose Tremain is one of the very finest British novelists' Salman RushdieTremain is a writer of exemplary vision and particularity The fictional world is rendered with extraordinary vividness' Marcel Theroux Guardian"
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| "Grotesque by Natsuo Kirino (Paperback, 2008)" |
| "Two prostitutes are murdered in Tokyo Twenty years previously both women were educated at the same elite school for young ladies and had seemingly promising futures ahead of them But in a world of dark desire and vicious ambition for both women prostitution meant power Grotesque is a masterful and haunting thriller a chilling exploration of women's secret lives in modern day Japan"
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| Penhallow |
| "The death of Adam Penhallow on the eve of his birthday seems at first to be by natural causes He was elderly after all But Penhallow wasn't well liked He had ruled over his estate with an iron will and a sharp tongue He had played one relative off against another He was so bad tempered and mean that both his servants and his family hated him It soon transpires that far from being a peaceful death Penhallow was in fact murdered Poisoned With his family gathered to celebrate his birthday and servants that both feared and despised him there are more than a dozen prime suspects But which one of them turned hatred into murder?"
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| "Blood River : A Journey to Africa's Broken Heart" |
| "When Daily Telegraph correspondent Tim Butcher was sent to cover Africa in 2000 he quickly became obsessed with the idea of recreating HM Stanley's famous expedition - but travelling alone Despite warnings that his plan was 'suicidal' Butcher set out for the Congo's eastern border with just a rucksack and a few thousand dollars hidden in his boots Making his way in an assortment of vessels including a motorbike and a dugout canoe helped along by a cast of characters from UN aid workers to a campaigning pygmy he followed in the footsteps of the great Victorian adventurers Butcher's journey was a remarkable feat but the story of the Congo told expertly and vividly in this book is more remarkable still"
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| "Dublin 4" |
| "A society hostess entertains her husband's mistress to dinner; a country girl savours the delights of city life; a student faces the dilemma of unmarried pregnancy; and a drink-ridden photographer tries to relaunch a shattered career This vintage collection of stories from the bestselling author of Light a Penny Candle and Circle of Friends is Maeve Binchy at her best - her trademark warmth wit and compassion are unmistakeable"
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| "New York" |
| "Edward Rutherfurd tells the story of this great city as no other author could - from the epic empty grandeur of the New World to the skyscrapers of the City that Never Sleeps from the intimate detail of lives long forgotten to those lived today at breakneck speed The novel begins with a tiny Indian fishing village and the Dutch traders who first carved out their hopes amidst the splendour of the wilderness The British settlers and merchants followed with their aristocratic governors and unpopular taxation which led to rebellion war the burning of the city and the birth of the American Nation Yet a country that had already rent itself asunder once did so again over slavery As the country fought its bloody Civil War the city was torn apart by deadly riots Hopes and dreams greed and corruption - they have always been the companions of freedom and opportunity in the city's teeming streets As the immigrant ships berthed next to Ellis Island in the shadow of the Statue of Liberty they poured more and more Germans Irish Italians and Jews into the churning ethnic mix of the city Deals were struck politicians corrupted men bought or assassinated heiresses wooed fortunes were speculated on Wall Street and men became rich beyond the dreams of avarice The heady seesaw of wealth and poverty was seen in the Roaring Twenties and the Great Crash the city's future symbolised by its buildings which literally touched the sky the Empire State the Chrysler Building the Twin Towers Rutherfurd tells this irresistible story through a cast of fictional and true characters whose fates interweave in the rise and fall fall and rise of the city's fortunes It is the story of how in four centuries New York became the envy of the world And in telling the story through the lens of New York Rutherfurd brings the story of America itself to unforgettable life in this epic masterpiece"
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| "Maximum Ride: The Final Warning" |
| "Max Fang Iggy Gasman Nudge and Angel are six extraordinary avian hybrids The result of a cruel Biotech experiment which manipulated their DNA and turned them into recombinant life forms with wings This flock has endured a turbulent upbringing and they have been continually faced with evil Evading capture on a daily basis they have endured torture and been pushed to the very brink of sanity Hunted all their lives they've had to fight life-threatening and belief-defying battles pitting their strength against the fearsome force of their shadowy enemies But as their predators evolved their unique ability to fly is no longer enough to save them With their genes mutating to astonishing affect the flock establishes a new set of skills to unleash as they strive for survival But just as they struggle to get to grips with these physical changes emotionally they face new challenges too life on the fringe of society can be a lonely existence Driven to the wastelands of Antartica each day brings a new threat for the flock Danger is never far away and while fighting to save their own skin they have a new mission to undertake - one with devastating global consequences"
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| "Sushi and Beyond : What the Japanese Know About Cooking" |
| "His account of their foodie family road trip establishes Booth as the next Bill Bryson' New York Times Japan is the pre-eminent food nation on earth The creativity of the Japanese their dedication and ingenuity not to mention courage in the face of dishes such as cod sperm and octopus ice cream is only now beginning to be fully appreciated in the sushi-saturated West as are the remarkable health benefits of the traditional Japanese diet Food and travel writer Michael Booth sets of to take the culinary pulse of contemporary Japan and he and his young family travel the length of the country - from bear-infested beer-loving Hokkaido to snake-infested seaweed-loving Okinawa What do the Japanese know about food? Perhaps more than anyone else on earth judging by this fascinating and funny journey through an extraordinary food-obsessed country Winner of the Guild of Food Writers Kate Whiteman Award for the best book on food and travel"
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| "Real World" |
| "In a suburb on the outskirts of Tokyo four teenage girls drift through a hot smoggy August and tedious summer school classes There's dependable Toshi; brainy Terauchi; Yuzan grief-stricken and confused; and Kirarin whose late nights and reckless behaviour remain a secret from those around her Then Toshi's next-door neighbour is found brutally murdered and the girls suspect Worm the neighbour's son and a high school misfit But when he disappears (taking Toshi's bike and cell phone with him) the four girls become irresistibly drawn into a treacherous vortex of brutality and seduction which rises from within themselves as well as the world around them"
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| "Archangel by Robert Harris (Paperback, 2009)" |
| "When historian Fluke Kelso learns of the existence of a secret notebook belonging to Josef Stalin he is determined to track it down whatever the consequences From the violent political intrigue and decadence of modern Moscow he heads north - to the vast forests surrounding the White Sea port of Archangel and a terrifying encounter with Russia's unburied past"
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| "The Godfather by Mario Puzo (Paperback, 2009)" |
| "Tyrant blackmailer racketeer murderer - his influence reaches every level of American society Meet Don Corleone a friendly man a just man areasonable man The deadliest lord of the Cosa Nostra The Godfather A modern masterpieceThe Godfather is a searing portrayal of the 1940s criminal underworld It is also the intimate story of the Corleone family at once drawn together and ripped apart by its unique position at the core of the American Mafia Still shocking forty years after it was first published this compelling tale of blackmail murder and family values is a true classic"
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| "Will You Please Be Quiet, Please? by Raymond Carver (Paperback, 2009)" |
| "With this his first collection Carver breathed new life into the short story In the pared-down style that has since become his hallmark Carver showed how humour and tragedy dwell in the hearts of ordinary people and won a readership that grew with every subsequent brilliant collection of stories poems and essays that appeared in the last eleven years of his life"
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| "Iza's Ballad by Magda Szabo (Paperback, 2015)" |
| "When Ettie's husband dies her daughter Iza insists that her mother give up the family house in the countryside and move to Budapest Displaced from her community and her home Ettie tries to find her place in this new life but can't seem to get it right She irritates the maid hangs food outside the window because she mistrusts the fridge and in her naivety and loneliness invites a prostitute in for tea Iza's Ballad is the story of a woman who loses her life's companion and a mother trying to get close to a daughter whom she has never truly known It is about the meeting of the old-fashioned and the modern worlds and the beliefs we construct over a lifetime"
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| "The Twelve by Stuart Neville (Paperback, 2010)" |
| "Sooner or later everybody pays Gerry Fegan a former paramilitary contract killer is haunted by the ghosts of the 12 people he has slaughtered Every night on the point of losing his mind he drowns their screams in drink His solution is to kill those who engineered their deaths From the greedy politicians to the corrupt security forces the street thugs to the complacent bystanders who let it happen all are called to account But when Fegan's vendetta threatens to derail a hard-won truce and destabilise the government old comrades and enemies alike want him dead Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Best Thriller"
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| "The Tell-Tale Brain : Unlocking the Mystery of Human Nature" |
| "John aged sixty suffered a stroke and recovered fully except in one respect although he can see perfectly he can no longer recognise faces even his own reflection in a mirror Whenever Francesca touches a particular texture she experiences a vivid emotion denim extreme sadness; wax embarrassment; orange peel shock Jimmie whose left arm was recently amputated can still feel it - and it's itchy Our brains are the most enchanting and complex things in the known universe - but what happens when they go wrong? Dr V S Ramachandran 'the Sherlock Holmes of brain science' and one of the world's leading neuroscientists has spent a lifetime working with patients who suffer from rare and baffling brain conditions In The Tell-Tale Brain he tells their stories and explores what they reveal about the greatest mystery of them all how our minds work and what makes each of us so uniquely human"
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| "Fractured: (Will Trent Series Book 2) by Karin Slaughter (Paperback, 2009)" |
| "The second Will Trent novel from the No 1 Bestseller When Atlanta housewife Abigail Campano comes home unexpectedly one afternoon she walks into a nightmare A broken window a bloody footprint on the stairs and most devastating of all the horrifying sight of her teenage daughter lying dead on the landing a man standing over her with a bloody knife The struggle which follows changes Abigail's life forever When the local police make a misjudgement which not only threatens the investigation but places a young girl's life in danger the case is handed over to Special Agent Will Trent of the Criminal Apprehension Team - paired with detective Faith Mitchell a woman who resents him from their first meeting But in the relentless heat of a Georgia summer Will and Faith realise that they must work together to find the brutal killer who has targeted one of Atlanta's wealthiest most privileged communities - before it's too late"
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| "Alex Cross's Trial: (Alex Cross 15) by James Patterson (Paperback, 2010)" |
| "From his grandmother Alex Cross has heard the story of his great-uncle Abraham and his struggles for survival in the era of the Ku Klux Klan Now Alex passes the family tale along to his own children in a novel he's written - a novel called Trial As a lawyer in early-twentieth-century Washington DC Ben Corbett represents the toughest cases Fighting against oppression and racism he risks his family and his life in the process When President Theodore Roosevelt asks Ben to return to his hometown to investigate rumours of the resurgence of the Ku Klux Klan there he cannot refuse Arriving in Eudora Mississippi Ben meets the wise Abraham Cross and his beautiful daughter Moody Ben enlists their help and the two Crosses introduce him to the hidden side of the idyllic Southern town Lynchings have become commonplace and residents of the town's black quarter live in constant fear Ben aims to break the reign of terror - but the truth of who is really behind it could break his heart Written in the fearless voice of Detective Alex Cross Alex Cross's Trial is a gripping story of murder love and above all bravery"
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| "Angels in My Hair" |
| "Angels In My Hair is the autobiography of a modern day mystic an Irish woman with powers of the saints of old When she was a child people thought Lorna was 'retarded' because she did not seem to be focusing on the world around her Instead Lorna was seeing angels and spirits As Lorna tells the story of her life the reader meets as she did the creatures from the spirit worlds who also inhabit our own - mostly angels of an astonishing beauty and variety - including the prophet Elijah and an Archangel but also the spirits of people who have died This remarkable document is the testimony of a woman who sees things beyond the range of our everyday experience"
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| "The Man In The Queue" |
| "Outside a London theatre a throng of people wait expectantly for the last performance of a popular musical But as the doors open at last something spoils all thought of entertainment a man in the queue is found murdered by the deadly thrust of a stiletto"
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