Tag: #booklover
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The Counterfeit Candidate
by Brian Klein Berlin, 30 April, 1945As the Russian Army closes in on the war-torn City, Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun take their own lives. Their bodies are burned and buried in the Reich Chancellery garden, above the Führer’s bunker. Buenos Aires, 9 January, 2012Three audacious thieves carry out the biggest safe depository heist in…
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White King
by Juan Gomez-Jurado Antonia Scott has an unusually gifted forensic mind. She’s the lynchpin of a top-secret project, Red Queen, created to work across borders to solve the most devious and dangerous crimes, those that are beyond the skills of the regular police. But the Red Queen project is under attack on all fronts. Across…
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The Knight’s Pledge
by Scott Mariani THE THRILLING NEW INSTALMENT IN THE WILL BOWMAN SERIES, FROM THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER 1191. Will Bowman, now fully entangled in Richard Lionheart’s crusade, has reached the Holy Land. However, just as he and his crew are about to touch down in Acre, they are drawn into an intense battle at sea,…
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The Present
by Joseph Estevez ‘Do you ever wonder if the best days are behind you?’ Daniel Adelman had it all – friends, sports and holidays with family. Now everyone seems to be busy with marriage, work or have moved abroad, leaving him feeling lonely and ruminating on a better past. As he takes steps to spice…
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1984
by George Orwell The Thought Police, Doublethink, Newspeak, Big Brother – 1984 itself: these terms and concepts have moved from the world of fiction into our everyday lives. They are central to our thinking about freedom and its suppression; yet they were newly created by George Orwell in 1949 as he conjured his dystopian vision…
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The Full Moon Coffee Shop
by Mai Mochizuki THE #1 INTERNATIONALLY BESTSELLING HEALING SERIES FROM JAPAN Under a glittering full moon, a Kyoto coffee shop appears only where and when it’s needed. It’s run by talking cats serving delicious desserts and age-old astrological wisdom. This coffee shop attracts customers who have lost their way in life, from a failed video…
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Flesh
by David Szalay Fifteen-year-old István lives with his mother in a quiet apartment complex in Hungary. New to the town and shy, he is unfamiliar with the social rituals at school and soon becomes isolated, with his neighbour – a married woman close to his mother’s age – as his only companion. As these encounters…
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Wolf Hour
by Jo Nesbo This killer has a story. When a small-time crook is shot down in the streets of Minneapolis, all signs point to a lone wolf, a sniper who has vanished into thin air. To tell it, he needs to get caught. When the shooter strikes again, it’s maverick detective Bob Oz they call…
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Entry Island
by Peter May When Detective Sime Mackenzie is sent from Montreal to investigate a murder on the remote Entry Island, 850 miles from the Canadian mainland, he leaves behind him a life of sleeplessness and regret. FATE WILL FIND YOU…But what had initially seemed an open-and-shut case takes on a disturbing dimension when he meets…
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Sissinghurst-The Creation Of A Garden
Vita Sackville-West & Sarah Raven From 1946 to 1957, Vita Sackville-West, the poet, bestselling author of All Passion Spent and maker of Sissinghurst, wrote a weekly column in the Observer describing her life at Sissinghurst, showing her to be one of the most visionary horticulturalists of the twentieth-century. With wonderful additions by Sarah Raven, Vita Sackville-West’s Sissinghurst draws on this extraordinary…