Women are being murdered and mutilated in Hammersmith, London.The killer is leaving messages in ancient languages, and DCI James Harte gets a cryptographer in from GCHQ to help him.The decrypted messages raise more questions than they answer, and further help is sought from a Priest and a Biblical scholar.Harte must overcome enforced counselling and the worst winter in London since the first Ice Age to find the psychopath before the secret of Solomon's Key is unleashed on the world. Views: 50
David Mamet is one of America's most celebrated playwrights. The author of plays, screenplays, poetry, essays, and children's books, he has won many awards, including the Pulitzer Prize for Glengarry Glen Ross.The Obie award-winning Sexual Perversity in Chicago is about two office workers, Danny and Bernie, on the make in the swinging singles scene of the early 1970s. Danny meets Deborah in a library and soon they are not only lovers but roommates, and their story quickly evolves into a modern romance in all its sticky details.The Duck Variations is a dialogue between two old men sitting on a park bench. The conversation turns to the mating habits of ducks, but soon begins to reveal their feelings about natural law, friendship, and death. New York magazine has called The Duck Variations a gorgeously written, wonderfully observant piece whose timing and atmosphere are close to flawless." Views: 50
In Gun Metal Heart by Dana Haynes, Daria Gibron, a freelance operative with a long and deadly history, has been slowly recovering from the injuries sustained from her last case. Hiding out in a town in rural Italy, she has been staying as far off the map as she can—until she's tracked down by an old colleague. Diego had been a bodyguard in Florence, protecting an engineer and her invention, when they were attacked by a highly trained paramilitary group. Diego alone escaped and the White Scorpions, a Serbian mercenary group known for their indiscriminate violence, are now after him. Well, after him and Daria, now that he's dragged her into the picture. At the same time, a small group of disgraced CIA agents have been waiting for their chance to exact revenge on the person they blame for their discharge—Daria Gibron. When they learn she's in contact with Diego, they get the okay from their former bosses to take her out. With several highly trained teams... Views: 50
In 1962, at the age of eleven, Carlos Eire was one of 14,000 children airlifted out of Cuba, his parents left behind. His life until then is the subject of Waiting for Snow in Havana, a wry, heartbreaking, intoxicatingly beautiful memoir of growing up in a privileged Havana household -- and of being exiled from his own childhood by the Cuban revolution.That childhood, until his world changes, is as joyous and troubled as any other -- but with exotic differences. Lizards roam the house and grounds. Fights aren't waged with snowballs but with breadfruit. The rich are outlandishly rich, like the eight-year-old son of a sugar baron who has a real miniature race car, or the neighbor with a private animal garden, complete with tiger. All this is bathed in sunlight and shades of turquoise and tangerine: the island of Cuba, says one of the stern monks at Carlos's school, might have been the original Paradise -- and it is tempting to believe.His father is a municipal judge an... Views: 50
Elaine’s sister is missing on the island of Jersey. After receiving a desperate letter from her, Lord Royce dispatches two agents to Jersey to learn what has happened. Lord Bertrand, Warden of the island, claims a thorough search was made. His wife suggests Aglise has run off with a lover. Elaine knows that’s not true. She’s determined to find her beloved sister. Views: 49
"The deadline was close and I knew now what London had sent me out here to do: define, infiltrate and destroy. And I couldn't do it just by standing in the way of the program Moscow was running. I'd have to get inside and blow it up from there." Across the black snowscape of Poland's capital, a city where winter is more than a season, falls the shadow of a British Intelligence operation designed to save detente from explosion-an operation that pivots on an agent callously thrown into the front line of the Cold War and caught in the crossfire. "Entertainment of the first rank." (The Guardian, London) Views: 49
Vintage Jack Lasenby tale set in Waharoa, the same town and Depression years as the setting for Old Drumble, and featuring some of the same characters. This time the protagonist is Maggie, a young girl being raised by her widowed father, with the help of the whole village. The whole of Waharoa is also banding together to beat the weather and bring in the harvest and build the haystack. Warm, witty, delightfully poignant story with fun, mischief, the burning down of a dunny, and ultimately a tragedy as seen through the eyes of a child. Views: 49
The stories assembled for this collection are set in the universe of Night’s Dawn trilogy. Now, they form a series of snapshot glimpses into the history of the Confederation leading up to the time of Joshua Calvert and Quinn Dexter. It wasn’t always so. Views: 49
Circle Of Danger…Maria: She hasn't told her friends about the strange glowing ring she found. It seems to be giving her powers--special abilities that let her enter a world she's been dying to experience. Here's a chance to learn what she's longing to know: how Micheal feels about her.Micheal: He's all alone on Earth and he's searching for a place to belong. He didn't count discovering someone to care about right in Roswell. Now he's falling for his best friend. But what he doesn't know, and Maria doesn't realize, is that she's drawing danger to them all… Views: 49
Rich girl, poor girl. Two girls from very different circumstances fight to overcome the obstacles life has thrown at them, and find they have more in common than they think.'The jewels shine bright, the glamour is completely envy-inducing, the labels are lustworthy and the sex scenes are guaranteed to make you blush.A brilliantly told old-school bonk-saga - hard to find nowadays.' 5 stars, Heat (No 1 in Heat's Top 5 books section)'This thrilling tale of money, deceit and love is indulgently escapist.' 5 stars, Closer'Outrageous Fortune is one of these books that takes you into the world of the characters and leaves you there until you reluctantly drag yourself away again, I loved every page! Fab!' 5/5, Chloe's Chicklit Reviews Views: 49
