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Fiction : -
A gripping courtroom drama combining psychological suspense and political intrigue from the pen of ex-barrister-turned-crime novelist Simon Tolkien, grandson of J R R Tolkien.
Detective Joel Solomon and Vampire Federation agent Alexandra Bishop are lovers split by a terrible rift: Joel can't forgive that she made him a vampire. Yet when Gabriel Stone makes a deal with a blood thirsty serial killer to retrieve the cross, the estranged couple and their rag-tag allies become the only hope in a race against pure evil. The terrifying new book in the Vampire Federation series.
No fan of crime fiction, American fiction or even just great fiction should be without a copy this Christmas. Featuring wenty of the year's standout crime short stories handpicked by one of the world's best thriller writers, Best American Mystery Stories 2011 showcases not only the very best of the crime genre, but the best of American writing full stop. Within its pages, literary legends rub shoulders with the hottest new talent. Contributors in the past have included Lee Child, James Lee Burke, Jeffery Deaver, Michael Connelly, Alice Munro and Joyce Carol Oates.
Inspector Kari Vaara of Helsinki is thrown into a case that sees a beautiful young woman murdered in an apparent sadomasochistic attack... But his investigation leads to him coming up against a wall of silence that implicates the very highest levels of power...
It's a searing hot day in the middle of a Namibian summer, and a white man is watering the garden of his luxurious villa while his daughter plays nearby. The peaceful scene is shattered by the single shot that kills Van Zyl and sets in motion a breath-taking political thriller that clocks up 5 murders. The principal characters are real, and some are still living, all of which adds an extra frisson to this fascinating story... |
Non Fiction : -
The first engaging and authoritative biography of Rahul Gandhi. Two
young journalists, Jatin Gandhi and Veenu Sandhu, trace the evolution of
the Rahul brand and explore the fascinating relationship between
modernity and dynasty in this incisive political biography.
On 10 June 1991, eleven-year-old Jaycee Dugard was abducted from a
school bus stop within sight of her home in Tahoe, California. It was
the last her family and friends saw of her for over eighteen years. On
26 August 2009, Dugard, her daughters, and Phillip Craig Garrido
appeared in the office of her kidnapper's parole officer in California.
Their unusual behaviour sparked an investigation that led to the
positive identification of Jaycee Lee Dugard, living in a tent behind
Garrido's home....
Harvard University Professor Yochai Benkler draws on cutting-edge
findings from neuroscience, economics, sociology, evolutionary biology,
political science, and a wealth of real world examples to debunk this
long-held myth and reveal how we can harness the power of human
cooperation to improve business processes, design smarter technology,
reform our economic systems, maximize volunteer contributions to
science, reduce crime, improve the efficacy of civic movements, and
more.
Civil Lines went to bed in 2001 and rose nearly a decade later in an
unrecognisable world. Rip Van Winkle slept twice as long but woke up
less disoriented: time moves faster in googleworld than it did in the
Catskills in the late eighteenth century. The best explanation for the
elephantine gestation of Civil Lines 6 is the truth, in the words of the
editors themselves: unsure of their editorial judgement, they waited
for the submissions to pass the test of time. And this is a collection
of the pieces that survived. |
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