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| "The Associate" |
| "It's a deadly game of blackmail And they're making him play Kyle McAvoy is one of the outstanding legal students of his generation he's good looking has a brilliant mind and a glittering future ahead of him But he has a secret from his past a secret that threatens to destroy his entire life One night that secret catches up with him in the form of a deeply compromising video of the incident that haunts him Kyle realises that he no longer owns his own future - that he must do as his blackmailers tell him or the video will be made public with all the unpleasant consequences What price do they demand for Kyle's secret? It is for Kyle to take a job in New York as an associate at the largest law firm in the world Kyle won't be working for this company but against it - passing on the secrets of it's biggest trial to date a dispute worth billions of dollars to the victor Full of twists and turns and reminiscent of The Firm The Associate is vintage John Grisham"
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| "The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde (Paperback, 2007)" |
| "WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY IRVINE WELSHDorian is a good-natured young man until he discovers the power of his own exceptional beauty As he gradually sinks deep into a frivolous glamorous world of selfish luxury he apparently remains physically unchanged by the stresses of his corrupt lifestyle and untouched by age But up in his attic hidden behind a curtain his portrait tells a different story"
Price: 4.99 |
| "Last Act In Palmyra : (Falco 6)" |
| "I was just a freelance hero doing his best in a hard world'The spirit of adventure calls Falco on a new spying mission for the Emperor Vespasian to the untamed East He's picking up extra fees from his old friend Thalia the snake dancer as he searches for Sophrona her lost water organist With the Chief Spy Anacrites paying his fare Falco knows anything can go wrong A dangerous brush with the Brother the sinister ruler of Nabataean Petra sends Falco and his girlfriend Helena on a fast camel-ride to Syria Here they join a travelling theatre group which keeps losing members in non-accidental drownings The bad acting and poor audiences are almost as bad as the desert and its scorpions - then as the killer hovers Falco tries to write a play"
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| "The Palace Of Dreams" |
| "Translated by Barbara Bray from the French version of the Albanian by Jusuf VrioniAt the heart of the Sultan's vast empire stands the mysterious Palace of Dreams Inside the dreams of every citizen are collected sorted and interpreted in order to identify the 'master-dreams' that will provide the clues to the Empire's destiny and that of its Monarch An entire nation's consciousness is thus meticulously laid bare and at the mercy of its government The Palace of Dreams is Kadare's macabre vision of tyranny and oppression and was banned upon publication in Albania in 1981"
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| "Ekaterinburg : The Last Days of the Romanovs" |
| "A vivid and compelling account of the final thirteen days of the Romanovs counting down to the last tense hours of their lives On 4 July 1918 a new commandant took control of a closely guarded house in the Russian town of Ekaterinburg His name was Yakov Yurovsky and his prisoners were the Imperial family the former Tsar Nicholas his wife Alexandra and their children Olga Tatiana Maria Anastasia and Alexey Thirteen days later at Yurovsky's command and on direct orders from Moscow the family was gunned down in a blaze of bullets in a basement room This is the story of those murders which ended 300 years of Romanov rule and began an era of state-orchestrated terror and brutal repression"
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| "Down To The Sea In Ships : Of Ageless Oceans and Modern Men" |
| "'Magnificent' Robert Macfarlane Winner of the Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the YearOur lives depend on shipping but it is a world which is largely hidden from us In every lonely corner of every sea through every night every day and every imaginable weather tiny crews of seafarers work the giant ships which keep landed life afloat These ordinary men live extraordinary lives subject to dangers and difficulties we can only imagine from hurricanes and pirates to years of confinement in hazardous if not hellish environments Horatio Clare joins two container ships on their epic voyages across the globe and experiences unforgettable journeys As the ships cross seas of history and incident seafarers unfold the stories of their lives and a beautiful and terrifying portrait of the oceans and their human subjects emerges 'Tremendous' The Times"
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| "Cathedral by Raymond Carver (Paperback, 2009)" |
| "Raymond Carver said it was possible 'to write about commonplace things and objects using commonplace but precise language and endow these things - a chair a window curtain a fork a stone a woman's earring - with immense even startling power' Nowhere is this alchemy more striking than in the title story of Cathedral in which a blind man guides the hand of a sighted man as together they draw the cathedral the blind man can never see Many view this story and indeed this collection as a watershed in the maturing of Carver's work to a more confidently poetic style"
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| "The Ascent Of Rum Doodle by W. E. Bowman (Paperback, 2010)" |
| "WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY BILL BRYSONAn outrageously funny spoof about the ascent of a 40000-and-a-half-foot peak The Ascent of Rum Doodle has been a cult favourite since its publication in 1956 Led by the reliably under-insightful Binder a team of seven British men including Dr Prone (constantly ill); Jungle the route finder (constantly lost) Constant the diplomat (constantly arguing) and 3000 Yogistani porters set out to conquer the highest peak in the Himalayas"
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| "Slow Learner: Early Stories by Thomas Pynchon (Paperback, 1995)" |
| "Slow Learner is a compilation of early stories written between 1959 and 1964 before Pynchon achieved recognition as a prominent writer for his 1963 novel V and containing a revelatory essay on his early influences and writing The collection consists of five short stories 'The Small Rain' 'Lowlands' 'Entropy' 'Under the Rose' and 'The Secret Integration' as well as an introduction written by Pynchon himself for the 1984 publication The five stories were originally published individually in various literary magazines but in 1984 after Pynchon had achieved greater recognition Slow Learner was published to collect and copyright the stories into one volume The introduction also offers a rare insight into Pynchon's own views on his work and influences"
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| "Put On By Cunning: (A Wexford Case) by Ruth Rendell (Paperback, 2010)" |
| "The eleventh book to feature the classic crime-solving detective Chief Inspector Wexford Sir Manuel Camargue Kingsmarkham's very own celebrity flautist dies tragically on a snowy night His death is met with a ruling of misadventure and appears to be an open-and-shut-case However Wexford as the investigating officer has a few niggling doubts Nineteen years later Camargue's entrancing daughter Natalie now a considerable heiress suddenly reappears in Kingsmarkham When her fiance appeals to Wexford for help believing that Natalie is using a false identity the case of the Camargues is once more under investigation Events soon take a gruesome twist and the pressure is on for Wexford to discover Natalie's true identity and to solve the mystery of the Camargue family once and for all"
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| "The Client" |
| "An eleven-year-old has discovered a secret that not even an adult should know A US State Senator is dead and Mark Sway is the only one who knows where the body is hidden The FBI want him to tell them where it is at whatever cost to Mark and his family The killer wants him silenced forever Reggie Love has been practising law for less than five years Only she can save Mark from these twin threats Together they must take on the might of the State and the wiles of a cold-blooded killer"
Price: 8.49 |
| "Worst. Person. Ever." |
| "A razor-sharp portrait of a morally bankrupt and gleefully wicked modern man Worst Person Ever is Douglas Coupland's gloriously filthy side-splittingly funny and unforgettable novel Meet Raymond Gunt A decent chap who tries to do the right thing Or to put it another way the worst person ever a foul-mouthed misanthropic cameraman trailing creditors ex-wives and unhappy homeless people in his wake Men dislike him women flee from him Worst Person Ever is a deeply unworthy book about a dreadful human being with absolutely no redeeming social value Gunt in the words of the author is a living walking talking hot steaming pile of pure id He's a B-unit cameraman who enters an amusing downward failure spiral that takes him from London to Los Angeles and then on to an obscure island in the Pacific where a major American TV network is shooting a Survivor-style reality show Along the way Gunt suffers multiple comas and unjust imprisonment is forced to re-enact the Angry Dance' from the movie Billy Elliot and finds himself at the centre of a nuclear war We also meet Raymond's upwardly failing sidekick Neal as well as Raymond's ex-wife Fiona herself an atomic bomb of pain' Even though he really puts the anti' in anti-hero you may find Raymond Gunt an oddly likeable character"
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| "LA Confidential : Classic Noir" |
| "Ellroy's back with the third of his LA Quartet! Christmas 1951 Los Angeles a city where the police are as crooked as the criminals Six prisoners are beaten senseless in their cells by cops crazed on alcohol For the three LAPD detectives involved it will expose the guilty secrets on which they have built their corrupt and violent careersThe novel takes these cops on a sprawling epic of brutal violence and the murderous seedy side of Hollywood One of the best (and longest) crime novels ever written it is the heart of Ellroy's four-novel masterpiece the LA Quartet and an example of crime writing at its most powerful"
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| "White Jazz" |
| "Best-selling crime fiction author James Ellroy returns with the fourth in his LA Quartet Los Angeles 1958 a city on the make A boom town at the edge of a new era ripe for plunder Lieutenant Dave Klein in turn a lawyer bagman slum landlord mob killer Klein stands at the centre of a complex web of plots where violence and death will intersect He's a slumlord a bagman an enforcer--a power in his own small corner of hell Then the Feds announce a full-out investigation into local police corruption and everything goes haywire Klein's been hung out as bait a bad cop to draw the heat and the heat's coming from all sides from local politicians from LAPD brass from racketeers and drug kingpins--all of them hell-bent on keeping their own secrets hidden For Klein forty-two and going on dead it's dues time"
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| "Rebels and Traitors by Lindsey Davis (Paperback, 2010)" |
| "Set against the terrible struggle of the English Civil War and the dark plots of the Commonwealth Rebels and Traitors tells of soldiers adventurers aristocrats and kings tradesmen politicians radicals and scavengers - and the hopes and dreams that carried them through one of the most turbulent eras of English history Men who never imagined fighting a war gladly risk their lives; women strive to keep families and businesses together through years of deprivation; innocents are caught up in bloodshed and terror After years of struggle Gideon Jukes and Juliana Lovell on opposite sides of the ParliamentarianRoyalist divide are brought together by fate on one of the significant dates of the struggles and its aftermath After adversity and loss their mutual attraction may one day bring the comfort and companionship for which they both have yearned through a disastrous war But a dark shadow lurks over them and even in peace the past is not far behind Rebels and Traitors is an absolute epic masterpiece poignant and convincing characterisation and razor-sharp historical realism"
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| "The Return of the Dancing Master by Henning Mankell (Paperback, 2009)" |
| "WINNER OF THE CWA GOLD DAGGER FOR SIDETRACKEDHerbert Molin a retired police officer is living alone in a remote cottage in the vast forests of northern Sweden He has two obsessions one is the tango and the other is a conviction that he is being hunted constantly pursued by 'demons' He has no close friends no close neighbours and by the time his body is eventually found Molin is almost unrecognisable Lindman a police officer on extended sick leave hears of the death of his former colleague and to take his mind off his own problems decides to involve himself in the case What he discovers to his horror and disbelief is a network of evil almost unimaginable in this remote district and one which seems impossible to link to Molin's death"
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| "Virals: (Virals 1) by Kathy Reichs (Paperback, 2011)" |
| "Fourteen-year-old Tory Brennan is as fascinated by bones and dead bodies as her famous aunt acclaimed forensic anthropologist Tempe Brennan However living on a secluded island off Charleston in South Carolina there is not much opportunity to put her knowledge to the test Until her and her ragbag group of technophile friends stumble across a shallow grave containing the remains of a girl who has been missing for over thirty years The question is did whoever was responsible for the girl's death have anything to do with the sick puppy they rescued from a secret laboratory on the same island? With the cold-case murder suddenly hot Tory realises that they are involved in something fatally dangerous But events take a turn for the bizarre when they escape some would-be attackers by using physical powers more akin to a dog than a human Could the puppy hold the key not only to the murder but also the strange changes that are taking place in their bodies?"
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| "Teach Us to Sit Still : A Sceptic's Search for Health and Healing" |
| "Bedevilled by a crippling condition which nobody could explain or relieve he confronts hard truths about the relationship between the mind and the body the hectic modern world and his life as a writer Teach Us To Sit Still is the visceral thought-provoking and improbably entertaining story of Tim Parks' quest to overcome ill health"
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| "Kisscut : (Grant County series 2)" |
| "The second Grant County novel from the No 1 Bestseller When a teenage quarrel in the small town of Heartsdale explodes into a deadly shoot-out Sara Linton - paediatrician and medical examiner - finds herself entangled in a horrific tragedy And what seems at first to be a terrible but individual catastrophe proves to have wider implications when the autopsy reveals evidence of long-term abuse and ritualistic self-mutilation Sara and police chief Jeffrey Tolliver start to investigate but the children surrounding the victim close ranks The families turn their backs Then a young girl is abducted and it becomes clear that the first death is linked to an even more brutal crime And unless Sara and Jeffrey can uncover the deadly secrets the children hide it's going to happen again"
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| "Indelible : (Grant County series 4)" |
| "The fourth Grant County novel from the No 1 Bestseller When medical examiner Sara Linton and police chief Jeffrey Tolliver take a trip away from the small town of Heartsdale it should be a straightforward weekend at the beach But they decide to take a detour via Jeffrey's hometown and things go violently wrong when Jeffrey's best friend Robert shoots dead an intruder who breaks into his home Jeffrey and Sara are first on the scene and Jeffrey's keen to clear his friend's name but for Sara things aren't so simple And when Jeffrey appears to change the crime scene Sara no longer knows who to trust Twelve years later Sara and Jeffrey are caught up in a shockingly brutal attack which threatens to destroy both their lives But they're not random victims They've been targeted And it seems the past is catching up with both of them"
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| "Changing Places" |
| "When Philip Swallow and Professor Morris Zapp participate in their universities' Anglo-American exchange scheme the Fates play a hand and each academic finds himself enmeshed in the life of his counterpart on the opposite side of the Atlantic Nobody is immune to the exchange students colleagues even wives are swapped as events spiral out of control And soon both sundrenched Euphoric State university and rain-kissed university of Rummidge are a hotbed of intrigue lawlessness and broken vows"
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| "Bare Bones : (Temperance Brennan 6)" |
| "The gripping Temperance Brennan novel from world-class forensic anthropologist Kathy Reichs the international no 1 bestselling crime thriller writer and the inspiration behind the hit TV series Bones During one of the hottest summers on record Dr Temperance Brennan is haunted by a string of horrifying events First the bones of a newborn baby are discovered in a wood stove The mother is nowhere to be found Next a plane flies into a rock face The dead pilot and passenger are burned beyond recognition and covered in an unknown substance And then a store of bones is found in a remote corner of the county What has happened and who will be the next victim? The answers lie hidden deep within the bones - but Tempe must find them in time to stop further disaster"
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| "The Day of the Jackal" |
| "One of the most celebrated thrillers ever written The Day of the Jackal is the electrifying story of the struggle to catch a killer before it's too late It is 1963 and an anonymous Englishman has been hired by the Operations Chief of the OAS to murder General de Galle A failed attempt in the previous year means the target will be nearly impossible to get to But this latest plot involves a lethal weapon an assassin of legendary talent Known only as The Jackal this remorseless and deadly killer must be stopped but how do you track a man who exists in name alone?"
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| "The Green Road Into The Trees" |
| "WINNER OF THE 2014 THWAITES WAINWRIGHT PRIZEIn the past Hugh Thomson has written acclaimed books about Peru Mexico and the Indian Himalaya Now he returns to the most exotic and foreign country of them all - his own Walking right across England along ancient trackways and green grass roads Hugh explores the way the country was and the way it is today the legends literature and natural world that define us and the undercurrent of regret running throughout our history; what he calls the unicorn disappearing into the trees' From coast-to-coast and through the heart of the countryside he shows how olderforgotten cultures like the Celts Saxons and Vikings lie much closer to the surface than we may think It is a journey enriched and partly told by the characters he meets along the way By taking it Hugh casts unexpected light - and humour - on the way we live now"
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| "Fatherland by Robert Harris (Paperback, 2012)" |
| "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"
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| "Peter Duck by Arthur Ransome (Paperback, 2012)" |
| "Why do they call him Black Jake? Is it because of his hair?' Titty asked Because of his heart' said Peter DuckThe Swallows and Amazons as well as Captain Flint and the ancient able seaman Peter Duck set sail on the Wild Cat bound for the Channel But they are shadowed by the Viper manned by none other than Black Jake - a beastly pirate with a dark plan Can the children race ahead and uncover the buried treasure before the pirate? Can they survive storms earthquakes crabs and even a waterspout and make it home?BACKSTORY Find out if you would be a good sailor aboard the Wild Cat and learn all about the real location that inspired the author"
Price: 6.99 |
| "Winter Holiday by Arthur Ransome (Paperback, 2012)" |
| "'You know what it's like Dark at teatime and sleeping indoors nothing ever happens in the winter holidays'Or so Nancy thinks Then the lake ices over completely and the Swallows and Amazons along with Dick and Dorothea - the D's' - plan a race to find the North Pole How will they reach it if they can't sail? By sledges of course! But when a blizzard blows up and there is a mix up about signals the D's disappear into the Arctic night Disaster looms Can the Swallows and Amazons save their friends? BACKSTORY Crack the Swallows and Amazons' code and learn all about the real Arctic exploration that inspired this book"
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| "NYPD Red 2" |
| "NYPD Red - the task force attacking the most extreme crimes in America's most extreme city -hunts a killer who is on an impossible mission A vigilante serial killer is on the loose in New York City tracking down and murdering people whose crimes have not been punished The number of victims grows and many New Yorkers secretly applaud the idea of justice won at any price NYPD Red Detective Zach Jordan and his partner Kylie MacDonald are put on the case when a woman of vast wealth and even greater connections disappears Zach and Kylie have to find what's really behind this murderer's rampage while political and personal secrets of the highest order hang in the balance But Kylie has been acting strange recently - and Zach knows whatever she's hiding could threaten the biggest case of their careers"
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| "How To Be A Heroine : Or, what I've learned from reading too much" |
| "Cathy Earnshaw or Jane Eyre?Petrova or Posy?Scarlett or Melanie?Lace or Valley of the Dolls?On a pilgrimage to Wuthering Heights Samantha Ellis found herself arguing with her best friend about which heroine was best Jane Eyre or Cathy Earnshaw She was all for wild passionate Cathy; but her friend found Cathy silly a snob while courageous Jane makes her own way And that's when Samantha realised that all her life she'd been trying to be Cathy when she should have been trying to be Jane So she decided to look again at her heroines - the girls women books that had shaped her ideas of the world and how to live Some of them stood up to the scrutiny (she will always love Lizzy Bennet); some of them most decidedly did not (turns out Katy Carr from What Katy Did isn't a carefree rebel she's a drip) There were revelations (the real heroine of Gone with the Wind? It's Melanie) joyous reunions (Anne of Green Gables) poignant memories (Sylvia Plath) and tearful goodbyes (Lucy Honeychurch) And then there was Jilly Cooper How To Be A Heroine is Samantha's funny touching inspiring exploration of the role of heroines and our favourite books in all our lives - and how they change over time for better or worse just as we do"
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| "For Your Eyes Only" |
| "From a View to A Kill For Your Eyes Only Quantum of Solace Risico The Hildebrand RarityPrivate armies private wars How much energy they siphoned off from the common cause how much fire they directed away from the common enemy!'Five stories Five missions Five glimpses into the mind of a spy From Jamaican estates to brooding French forests Bond is tested to his limits by the world's most dangerous men and the dark secrets they keep"
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