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Brian Cleeve & alii - Die Füchsin - Eduard Kaiser - 1967
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Exit from Prague by Brian Cleeve, 1970. Paperback detail.
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What I mean is that if John knew all along that Paul had more shares, which he obviously did, as it was public knowledge in 1966, why would he suddenly feel betrayed about it in 1969? It didn’t happen, obviously, or at least not in the way it’s been reported. My guess is that the extra shares as exhibit 1: proof of Paul’s sneakiness was mudslinging from Yoko/Klein and John went along with it. It was all part of the character assassination designed to tear Paul down.
Forgive me if this sounds rude, I don’t mean to be, but it’s a little bit wild to me that you think John knew what his finances were just because it was in a magazine. By 66, he didn’t even know what day it was half the time, according to Maureen Cleeve’s interview that year. It seems pretty clear by all accounts that John had no idea what was going on financially and did not care to know, as long as he wasn’t near to broke. About starting Apple, Neil Aspinall said, “we didn’t have a single piece of paper. No contracts. The lawyers, the accountants and Brian, whoever, had that. Maybe the Beatles had been given copies of various contracts, I don’t know. I know that when Apple started I didn’t have a single piece of paper.”
Given the evidence (1. John never knew what his finances were, 2. John was incredibly gullible and susceptible to con men, and 3. his brain was often fried on drugs), doesn’t it seem much more plausible that he either did not know about or did not remember setting up the 100k shares for his wife and child? It doesn’t have to be John knowingly going along with character assassination. In fact it seems much more likely that Klein preyed on his extreme naïveté about finances, said something like “look at this 100k share difference, has Paul been buying up shares without telling you??” conveniently leaving out where that 100k actually was. And because John trusted Klein with finances, he took him at his word and “went mad, suspecting some plot”, as Paul said to Davies in 81.
I’ll elaborate on what I fully think happened later when I get home and have time to line up all my sources and everything.
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books - this is why ‘monthly” is a valuable interval
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White Nights - Ann Cleeves
Sawkill Girls - Claire Legrand
Lady in Red - Maire Claremont
Behind Closed Doors - Amanda Vickery (vg)
A Rope of Thorns - Gemma Files
Dreaming Darkly - Caitlin Kittredge
The Lady's Guide to Celestial Mechanics - Olivia Waite
Astray - Emma Donoghue
Heartthrobs - Carol Dyhouse
Nine Pints - Rose George
Daily Rituals - Mason Currey
Rereadings - Anne Fadiman ed
Rustication - Charles Palliser
What Makes This Book So Great - Jo Walton
Creatures of Will and Temper - Molly Tanzer
The Lost Man - Jane Harper
The Sins of Lord Lockwood - Meredith Duran
The Jade Temptress - Jeannie Lin
Hither Page - Cat Sebastian (hashtag soup feelings)
Paradise Lodge - Nina Stibbe
Medical Bondage - Deirdre Benia Cooper Owens
Flagrant Conduct - Dale Carpenter
Intimate Friends - Martha Vicinus
The Luminous Dead - Caitlin Starling
Night's Black Angels - Ronald Pearsall
The Politics of Narrative - Kenneth Graham
Indigenous Navigation and Voyaging in the Pacific - Nicholas Goetzfridt
Pornography - Mari Mikkola
Life in the English Country House - Mark Girouard
Country House Life - Jessica Gerard
The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins (classic beachread)
A Tree of Bones - Gemma Files
Battleborn - Claire Vaye Watkins
Marilou is Everywhere - Sarah Elaine Smith
When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities - Chen Chen
The Scientific Revolution in Victorian Medicine - AJ Youngson
Consider the Fork - Bee Wilson
You May Kiss the Duke - Charis Michaels
My One and Only Duke - Grace Burrowes
The Quick - Lauren Owen
Our Kind of Cruelty - Araminta Hall
I Am Still Alive - Kate Alice Marshall
Will's True Wish - Grace Burrowes (the wish is dogs)
The Trauma Cleaner - Sarah Krasnostein
Ghost Wall - Sarah Moss (vg)
At The Lightning Field - Laura Raicovich
Offshore - Penelope Fitzgerald
Felix Yz - Lisa Bunker
Amazons and Military Maids - Julie Wheelwright
A Debutante in Disguise - Eleanor Webster
A Little Light Mischief - Cat Sebastian
Sorcerer to the Crown - Zen Cho
Re-dressing America's Frontier Past - Peter Boag (peat bog)
Courting the Cat Whisperer - Wynter Daniels
In Miniature - Simon Garfield
Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls - T Kira Madden
The Science of Shakespeare - Dan Falk
A Twenty Minute Silence Followed by Applause - Shawn Wen
A Flag Worth Dying For - Tim Marshall
Ordinary Beast - Nicole Sealey (vg)
Combat-Ready Kitchen - Anastacia Marx de Salcedo
The Tradition of Female Transvestism in Early Modern Europe - Rudolf Dekker and Lotte van de Pol
Kiss Me Someone - Karen Shepard
Safari Honeymoon - Jesse Jacobs
A Memory Called Empire - Arkady Martine
Nine Continents - Xiaolu Guo
300 Arguments - Sarah Manguso
Grief Cottage - Gail Godwin
Red Bones - Ann Cleeves
Life Mask - Emma Donoghue
The Flame and the Flower - Kathleen Woodwiss
Brute - Emily Skaja
A Bride's Story 6 - Kaoku Moru trans William Flanagan
Skim - Mariko Tamaki and Jillian Tamaki
The Invention of Pornography - Lynn Hunt ed
Canned - Anna Zeide
Mostly Dead Things - Kristen Arnett
Free and Natural - Sarah Schrank
A Tree for Peter - Kate Seredy
In the Distance - Hernan Diaz (vg)
Mastering Fear - Rikke Schubart
Beyond Speech - Mari Mikkola ed
Portrait of a Woman in Silk - Zara Anishanslin
The Art of Living - FL Lucas
Pornographic Art and the Aesthetics of Pornography - Hane Maes ed
Elizabeth and Jacobean Poets - John F Danby
Family Fortunes - Leonore Davidoff and Catherine Hall
Silence of the Grave - Arnaldur Indridason trans Bernard Scudder
She Walks in Shadows - Silvia Moreno-Garcia ed
The Hallowed Ones - Laura Bickle
Making the Grade - William Fischel
The Joseph Johnson Letterbook - John Bugg ed
Manet Manette - Carol Armstrong
Like A Mule Bringing Ice Cream to the Sun - Sarah Ladipo Manyika
Regency House Styles - Trevor Yorke
Timekeepers - Simon Garfield
Patience and Sarah - Isabel Miller
The Warlow Experiment - Alix Nathan
Girls Who Score - Illy Goyanes
In Search of Time - Dan Falk
Skeleton Keys - Brian Switek
The Englishwoman's Bedroom - Elizabeth Dickson ed
Ghosts - Roger Clarke
Joseph Johnson - Gerald Tyson
Falling in Love with Statues - George Hersey
Necromanticism - Paul Westover (vg)
Essay on Sepulchers - William Godwin
Passions Between Women - Emma Donoghue
Women's Friendships - Susan Koppleman ed
Olivia - Dorothy Bussy
Mooncop - Tom Gauld
Persepolis - Marjane Satrapi trans Mattias Ripa
Star Wars Super Graphic - Tim Leong
Luisa Now and Then - Carole Maurel trans Mariko Tamaki and Nanette McGuiness
Daughters of the Lake - Wendy Webb
Rules for Vanishing - Kate Alice Marshall
The Outermost House - Henry Beston
Feminism and the Body - Londa Schiebinger ed
Winter in the Blood - James Welch
Capturing Sound - Mark Katz
The Table-Rappers - Ronald Pearsall
Black - Michel Pastoreau trans Jody Gladding
In These Times - Jenny Uglow
The Daylight Gate - Jeanette Winterson
The Grave Keepers - Elizabeth Byrne
Metropolitan Life - Fran Lebowitz
Life Among the Savages - Shirley Jackson
Social Studies - Fran Lebowitz
When My Brother Was an Aztec - Natalie Diaz
The Imaginary Corpse - Tyler Hayes
The Invention of the Restaurant - Rebecca Spang
Moll Cutpurse - Ellen Galford
Manchette's Fatale - Doug Headline
Hand-Drawn Jokes for Smart Attractive People - Matthew Diffee
In the Pines - Erik Kriek
Raising Demons - Shirley Jackson
Nightingale - Paisley Rekdal
Louis Riel - Chester Brown
Fantastic Metamorphoses - Marina Warner
Elektra - Derrick Puffett ed
Tenements, Towers, and Trash - Julia Wertz
Ghostland - Colin Dickey
Feminism and History - Joan Wallach Scott ed
The Hide and Seek Files - Caeia Marsh
Red Rosa - Kate Evans
A Banquet for Hungry Ghosts - Ying Chang Compestine
Death is Hard Work - Khaled Khalifah trans Lori Price
Civil War - Lucan trans Susan Braund
The Making of the Modern Body - Catherine Gallagher and Thomas Laqueur
Oculus - Sally Wen Mao
The Write Escape - Charish Reid
Freedom Hospital - Hamid Sulamin trans Francesa Barrie
The Lion of Rora - Christos Gage et al
Mauve - Simon Garfield
The Lake of Dead Languages - Carol Goodman
The Turn of the Screw - Henry James
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HUGE book clear out - over 150 books. Most names/authors below! They're in various conditions - some are pristine, others are a bit worn, but I will provide you with pictures of any specific book you want so that you can decide. Prices vary - I’ll tell you if you message/reply (in your currency) Some books are ex-library stock bought at sales, so they contain stamps and such.
Postage costs will be calculated for it to be sent via mail, this will be included in total cost.
PLEASE NOTE, IN UK PRICES, THESE BOOKS AVERAGE 50P FOR PAPERBACK, £1 FOR HARDBACK. WE ARE SELLING REALLY CHEAP TO RAISE FUNDS TO REPAIR OUR COOKER, AND UPDATE OTHER FURNITURE PIECES BEFORE WE MOVE. Some books will be priced separately.
Books below:
Alex Connor - Memory of Bones
Alice Sebold - Lucky
Anchee Min - Empress Orchid (Empress Orchid #1)
Andy Lane - Fire Storm (Young Sherlock Holmes #4)
Angie Sage - MAGYK (Septimus Heap)
Anthony Ryan - Blood Song (Raven's Shadow #1)
Ann Cleeves - Hidden Depths
Anne Pellowski - Winding Valley Farm
Arthur Golden - Memoirs of a Geisha
Beverly Barton - The Murder Game (Griffin Powell #8)
Bob Servant - Delete This At Your Peril: The Bob Servant Emails
Brandon Sanderson - The Alloy of Law (Mistborn #4)
Brian Freeman - Immoral
Carol Smith - Without Warning
Chris Carter - The Crucifix Killer (Robert Hunter #1)
Elizabeth Chadwick - Shadows and Strongholds
Eoin Colfer - The Supernaturalist
G.M. Berrow - Twilight Sparkle & the Crystal Heart Spell
George R.R. Martin. - A Dance with Dragons: After the Feast (A Song of Ice & Fire #5.2)
Jack London - The Call of the Wild & White Fang
J.K. Rowling - The Casual Vacancy
James Joyce - Dubliners
Juliet Marillier - Daughter of the Forest (Sevenwaters #1)
Jo Nesbø - The Devil's Star (Harrry Hole #5)
Jodi Picoult - My Sister's Keeper
John Lutz - Serial
Jonas Jonasson - The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared (The Hundred-Year-Old Man #1)
Jordan Belfort - The Wolf of Wall Street
Jonathon Nasaw - The Girls He Adored
Julia Golding - The Gorgon's Gaze
Kathryn Stockett - The Help
Kazuo Ishiguro - Never Let Me Go
Kenneth Oppel - Dusk
Keri Arthur - Tempting Evil
Khaled Hosseini - The Kite Runner
L.J, Smith - The Forbidden Game (The Forbidden Game 1-3) - £2
Laurell K. Hamilton - Mistral's Kiss (Meredith Gentry #5)
Lindsey Davis - The Ides of April (Flavia Albia Mystery #1)
Linwood Barclay - Too Close to Home
Lisa Gardner - Say Goodbye
Louise Welsh - A Lovely Way To Burn
Lynda La Plante - Cold Shoulder
Mark Billingham - Scaredy Cat (Tom Thorne #2)
Mercedes Lackey - The Wizard of Karres
Michael Cordy - The Colour of Death
Nick Stone - King of Swords
Peter David - Fantastic Four
Philip K. Dick - Paycheck
Philip Pullman - The Tiger in the Well (Sally Lockhart #3)
R.J. Palacio - Wonder
Rebecca Chance - Killer Queens
Richard Yates - Revolutionary Road
Robert Louis Stevenson - The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde & Other Stories.
Robyn Young - Brethren (Brethren Trilogy #1)
Rudyard Kipling - Just So Stories (Wordsworth Collection)
Scott Frost - Never Fear (Alex Delilo #2)
Simon Kernick - Relentless (Tina Boyd #2)
Steve Voake - The Dreamwalker's Child
Susan Abulhawa - Mornings in Jenin
Ted Eliott; Terry Rossio - Pirates of the Carribean - The Adventure So Far
Tony DiTerlizzi - The Field Guide (The Spiderwick Chronicles #1)
Tracy Chevalier - The Last Runaway
Vittoria Bowles - Get Started In Italian
William Jefferies - Bloody River Blues (John Bellam #2)
ALISON WEIR
Innocent Traitor
The Captive Queen
The Lady Elizabeth
ANTHONY HOROWITZ -
Nightrise (The Power of Five #3)
Point Blanc (Alex Rider #2)
CECILIA AHERN
If You Could See Me Now
P.S, I Love You
The Time of My Life
CARLOS RUIZ ZAFON
The Shadow of the Wind (The Cemetery of Forgotten Books #1)
The Angel's Game (The Cemetery of Forgotten Books #2)
DAN BROWN
Angels and Demons (Robert Langdon #1)
The Da Vinci Code (Robert Langdon #2)
The Lost Symbol (Robert Langdon #3)
Inferno (Robert Langdon #4)
Deception Point
Digital Fortress
CHRISTOPHER PAOLINI
Eragon (Inheritance #1)
Eldest (Inheritance #2)
Brisingr (Inheritance #3)
HARLAN COBEN
Tell No One (Standalone) / Back Spin (Myron Bolitar #4) (2-in-1)
One False Move (Myron Bolitar #5)
The Final Detail (Myron Bolitar #6)
Gone For Good
JOE ABERCROMBIE
The First Law Trilogy Box Set (Current eBay price £14, selling for £10)
JEFFERY DEAVER
Shallow Graves (A Location Scout Series)
The Bone Collector (Lincoln Rhyme #1)
The Coffin Dancer (Lincoln Rhyme #2)
The Cold Moon (Lincoln Rhyme #7)
Twisted (The Collective Stories of Jefferey Deaver)
KARIN SLAUGHTER
A Faint Cold Fear
Fallen (Will Trent #5)
Indelible (Grant County #4)
Skin Privilege (Grant County #6)
KATE MOSSE
Labyrinth (Languedoc Trilogy #1)
Sepulchre (Languedoc Trilogy #2)
LAUREN KATE
Torment (Fallen #2)
Passion (Fallen #3)
MICHAEL WHITE
Michael White
Michael White
NANCY HADDOCK
La Vida Vampire (Oldest City Vampire #1)
Last Vampire Standing (Oldest City Vampire #2)
P.J. TRACY
Play to Kill (Twin Cities #5)
Want To Play? (Monkeewrench #1)
ROBERT MUCHAMORE
Black Friday (Cherub 2, #3)
Man vs. Beast (Cherub #6)
The Sleepwalker (Cherub #9)
SHERRILYN KENYON
Kiss of the Night (Dark-Hunter #5)
Devil May Cry (Dark-Hunter #11)
SIMON BECKETT
Written in Bone (David Hunter #2)
Whispers of the Dead (David Hunter #3)
STIEG LARSSON
The Girl Who Played With Fire (Millennium Trilogy #2) - £1
The Girl Who Kicked The Hornet's Nest (Millennium Trilogy #3) - £1
SUSANNA GREGORY
A Plague on Both Your Houses (Matthew Bartholomew #1)
Murder on High Holborn (Thomas Chaloner #9)
VICTORIA HOLT
The King of the Castle
The Secret Woman
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“Pancake” by Jaded ft. Ashnikko | Choreography by Brian Friedman & Lia Kim
ft. dancers: Group 1: Lukas McFarlane, Didde-Mie Likke, Ricky Jinks, Tom Freyerson, Dreya Mac, Jal Joshua, Brian Friedman | Group 2: Dean Lee, Lili Hodge, Megan Westpfel, Robyn Laud, Angel Wharmby, Hannah Cleeve, Natalie Lennie | Group 3: Ainsley Ricketts, Matt Antonucci, Philip Birchall, Kash Poweel Kalifa Burton & more | Group 4: Select male dancers | Group 5: Select female dancers
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exit from prague by Pete's Paperbacks Title: Exit From Prague. Author: Brian Cleeve. Publisher: Corgi Books. Date: 1970. Artist: Arnaldo Putzu. https://flic.kr/p/2ktxFUn
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Books Owned But Unread
Fiction:
Joe Hill - The Fireman
Patricia Highsmith - The Talented Mr Ripley
Emma Cline - Girls
Kirsty Logan - The Gracekeepers
Seth Patrick - Lost Souls
Slyvain Neuval - Waking Gods
Mark Z. Danielewski - The Familiar Vol 1
Graeme Macrae Burnet - His Bloody Project
Austin Wright - Tony & Susan
Patricia Highsmith - Carol
Darcie Wilder - Literally Show Me A Healthy Person
Tracy Chevalier - New Boy
Andy Weir - Artemis
Michelle Paver - Dark Matter
Robert Daws - The Posisoned Rock
Laura Lam - False Hearts
Italo Calvino - If On A Winter’s Night A Traveler
Megan Bradbury - Everyone Is Watching
Sunil Yapa - Your Heart Is A Muscle the Size of A Fist
George R.R. Martin - A Clash of Kings
Sarah Moss - The Tidal Zone
Matthew Blakstad - Lucky Ghost
Toni Morrison - Tar Baby
Jeff Vandermeer - Annihilation
Colson Whitehead - Zone One
Kathy Reichs - Death Du Jour
Ann Cleeves - The Crow Trap
Ward Moore - Bring the Jubilee
Lisa McInerney - The Glorious Heresies
Chuck Palahniuk - Haunted
Michael Crichton - State of Fear
Neil Gaiman - How the Marguis Got His Coat Back
Agatha Christie - The Double Clue
James Patterson - NYPD Red 2
Maud Pember Reeves - Round About A Pound A Week
Paul Torday - Salmon Fishing In the Yemen
Jonathan Safran Foer - Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
Daniel H Wilson - Robopocalypse
Yann Martel - Life of Pi
David Wong - John Dies At the End
Lauren Weisberger - The Devil Wears Prada
James Joyce - A Portrait of the Artist As A Young Man
John Ajvide Lindquist - Let the Right One In
Gregory Maguire - Wicked
Richard Yates - Revolutionary Road
Paul Beatty - The Sellout
Jane Shemilt - Daughter
Jane Isaac - The Truth Will Out
Karin Slaughter - Genesis
S.K. Tremayne - The Fire Child
Isaac Marion - The Burning World
Adrien Bosc - Constellation
Laura Power - Air-Born
Laura Power - Earth-Bound
Keith DeCandido - House of Cards
Wayne Simmons - Flu
Harper Lee - Go Set A Watchman
Dean Koontz - The City
Charlotte Bronte - Jane Eyre
Ali Smith - The Accidental
John Burnside - Glister
Lauren Owen - The Quick
Tom McCarthy - Satin Island
Dave Eggers - The Circle
Donna Tartt - The Secret History
Robert Harris - The Ghost
Michel Faber - The Fire Gospel
Michel Faber - The Book of Strange New Things
James Patterson - Pop Goes the Weasel
Jeff Lindsay - Dexter’s Final Cut
Gaston Leroux - The Phantom of the Opera
Banana Yoshimoto - Kitchen
Sinclair Lewis - It Can’t Happen Here
Kurt Vonnegut - Cat’s Cradle
Joseph Heller - Catch 22
Mark Twain - The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Bram Stoker - Dracula
Cory Doctorow - Makers
YA/Children's Fiction:
A.S. King - Still Life With Tornado
Patrick Ness - More Than This
Andrew Smith - Stand Off
Andrew Smith - The Alex Crow
Johan Harstad - 172 Hours on the Moon
Ernest Cline - Ready Player One
Tommy Wallach - We All Looked Up
Karen Thompson Walker - The Age of Miracles
Tess Sharpe - Far From You
Leila Sales - This Song Will Save Your Life
Darragh McManus - Shiver the Whole Night Through
Rachel Cohn & David Levithan - Nick & Norah’s Infinite Playlist
Laura Lam - Pantomime
Laura Lam - Shadowplay
Cassandra Clare - The Bane Chronicles
Cassandra Clare - Tales From the Shadowhunter Academy
Cassandra Clare - The Shadowhunters Codex
Cassandra Clare - Lady Midnight
Cassandra Clare - Lord of Shadows
Andrew Smith - 100 Sideways Miles
Karen Nesbitt - Subject To Change
Anna Day - The Fandom
Brendan Reichs - Nemesis
Chinelo Okparanta - Under the Udala Trees
Nina LaCour - We Are Okay
Sarah Alexander - The Art of Not Breathing
Liz Kessler - Read Me Like A Book
Lisa Williamson - The Art of Being Normal
Laurie Halse Anderson - Wintergirls
Marie Lu - Legend
Eve Ainsworth - 7 Days
Lesley Walton - The Strange & Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender
Malinda Lo - Ash
Larry Duplechan - Blackbird
Makina Lucier - A Death Struck Year
James Patterson - Witch & Wizard
Jandy Nelson - I’ll Give You the Sun
Nick Burd - The Vast Fields of Ordinary
Libba Bray - Beauty Queens
Jack Cheng - See You In the Cosmos
Jennifer Niven - Holding Up the Universe
Becky Albertalli - The Upside of Unrequieted
Lauren Oliver - Replica
Ken Catran - Deepwater Black
Will McIntosh - Burning Midnight
Tahereh Mafi - Shatter Me
Libba Bray - The Diviners
Emily M Danforth - The Miseducation of Cameron Post
Carolyn Jess-Cooke - The Boy Who Could See Demons
Bali Rai - Killing Honour
Gayle Forman - If I Stay
Andre Aciman - Call Me By Your Name
E. Lockhart - We Were Liars
Katie Coyle - Vivian Versus the Apocalypse
Leah Thomas - Because You’ll Never Meet Me
David Arnold - Mosquitoland
Laure Eve - The Graces
Lisa Heathfield - Paper Butterflies
Ransom Riggs - Hollow City
Em Bailey - Shift
Francesca Haig - The Map of Bones
Rainbow Rowell - Carry On
Bryony Pearce - Phoenix Rising
Lou Morgan - Sleepless
Graham Marks - Bad Bones
Jess Vallence - Birdy
Teri Terry - Slated
Non-Fiction:
Brian Cox - Human Universe
D’Arcy Jenish - The NHL: A Centennial History
Greg Oliver - Don’t Call Me Goon
Andrew Hodges - Alan Turing: The Enigma
Susan Cain - Quiet: The Power of Introverts
Carl Sagan - Cosmos
Rebecca Skloot - The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Brian Cox - E = mc“?
Stacey Schiff - The Witches
Julian Sayarer - Interstate
404 Ink - Nasty Women
Lynn Povich - The Good Girls Revolt
Michael Finkel - The Stranger In the Woods
Kent Russell - I Am Sorry To Think That I Have Raised A Timid Son
Luke Harding - Snowden
Mary Roach - Stiff
Yuval Noah Harari - Homo Deus
Bill Bryson - The Lost Continent
Naomi Klein - No Is Not Enough
Dave Cullen - Columbine
Ian Nathan - Inside the Magic: The Making of Fantastic Beasts
Bob McCabe - Harry Potter Page To Screen
Adharanand Finn - Running With the Kenyans
Aurellien Ferenczi - Masters of Cinema: Tim Burton
Steven Levitt & Stephen Dubner - Think Like A Freak
Olivia Lang - The Lonely City
Michelle Tea - The Chelsea Whistle
Simon Singh - Big Bang
Tristan Taormino - The Feminist Porn Book
Kurt Vonnegut - A Man Without A Country
Nick Frost - Truths, Half Truths & Little White Lies
Russell Brand - Revolution
Robert M Pirsig - Zen & the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
Francis Spufford - The Child That Books Built
Dominic Hibberd - Wilfred Owen
George Vecsey - Baseball
Richard Wiseman - Paranormality
Neil Gaiman - Adventures In the Dream Trade
Nicola Field - Over the Rainbow
Jaclyn Friedman & Jessica Valenti - Yes Means Yes
Elizabeth Kolbert - The Sixth Extinction
Eddie Izzard - Dress To Kill
Stephen Smith - Underground London
Plays/Poetry/Short Story Collections:
Tom Hanks - Uncommon Type
Joe Hill - Strange Weather
Dean Atta - I Am Nobody’s N*****
Amerlle - Because You Love To Hate Me
Roxanne Gay - Difficult Women
Mark Gatiss - Queers: Eight Monologues
Graphic Novels/Manga:
Tsugumi Ohba - Death Note Vol 6
Tsugumi Ohba - Death Note Vol 7
Tsugumi Ohba - Death Note Vol 8
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BookLovers of Bath: Books Added This Week!
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Tyorkin & The Stove Makers ~ Alexander Tvardovsky is added to my Literature catalogue.
Girl’s Own Crafts & Hobbies ~ Ruby Evans is added to my Crafts, Hobbies & Pastimes catalogue.
1938: A World Vanishing ~ Brian Cleeve is added to my Social History catalogue.
Man Environment Energy: The Future ~ VARIOUS is added to my Ecology catalogue.
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Great Birthday Wishes to Authors Born November 22 #BirthdayGift #MerryBirthDay #HappyNewYear #HappyBirthAnniversary #BirthAnniversaryGreetings #BirthAnniversaryGreetings #BirthdayMemories #Birthday #HBDToYou #HBD #HappyBirthdayDear #GreetingsOnYourBirthday Paola Alberdi Marjane Satrapi Marly Youmans George Eliot (1819-1880) Jason Starr Harry Edwards Endre Ady (1877-1919) Michael Arndt Andre Gide (1869-1951) Kristine Agabaian Nati Vozza Thomas Beer (1889-1940) Kate Seargent Brian Cleeve (1921-2003) #PaolaAlberdi #MarjaneSatrapi #MarlyYoumans #GeorgeEliot (1819-1880) #JasonStarr #HarryEdwards #EndreAdy (1877-1919) #MichaelArndt #AndreGide (1869-1951) #KristineAgabaian #NatiVozza #ThomasBeer (1889-1940) #KateSeargent #BrianCleeve (1921-2003)
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CWA Anthology of Short Stories - Mystery Tour - Edited by Martin Edwards (Orenda Books)
I don’t read a lot of short stories. Not because I don’t like them, more that I enjoy immersing myself in a longer narrative that will give me hours of reading pleasure. However, I have read two lots of short story anthologies recently and I have enjoyed them both immensely. The first was Reader, I Married Him, a collection of short stories with some connection (some barely recognisable) to the Charlotte Bronte classic, Jane Eyre. The most recent anthology was the the CWA Anthology of Short Stories – Mystery Tour. What struck me about both collections is the diversity of stories that have emerged by the various authors when given the same theme. This review is for the latter collection. The authors of the CWA Anthology of Short Stories – Mystery Tour were given the theme of travel to write a short crime/mystery story.
There wasn’t a single story I didn’t enjoy in this anthology, which is testament to whoever selected the stories to put in it. All the stories are very different but each is intriguing and engaging, with different angles on the theme of the collection. Of course, the authors are all members of the Crime Writers Association, so there is an expectation that the writing will be quality crime fiction, but there are no disappointments at all in this collection, each story individual but with a shared sense of trepidation for the reader as each story commences and surprise at the conclusion (or lack thereof).
Although I enjoyed all of the stories, I had a few favourites in the collection. The Queen of Mystery by Ann Cleeves gets the anthology off to a brilliant start with an unusual turn of events. Her first person narrative gives off no clues as to how the story will pan out. Return to the Lake by Anna Mazzola is heart-rending, as is You’ll Be Dead By Dawn by C.L.Taylor, a wonderful achievement for such short narratives.
The Last Supper by Carol Ann Davis made me smile, a gem of a crime story with the ability to amuse. Similarly, Ed James’s contribution Travel Is Dangerous with his wonderful DS Scott Cullen character, a character I have come to know and love from James’s series, also provides some comedy in the dynamic between Cullen and his nemesis and former boss DS Brian Bain, alongside a great mystery story.
I liked the sense of vindication in High Flyer by Chris Simms, Wife on Tour by Julia Crouch and The Repentance Wood by Martin Edwards, highlighting the lengths people might go to when they have felt diminished by those around them.
Three On A Trail by Michael Stanley adds a little extra to the standard mystery (though I’m not going to say what that is). Having loved the recent Dectective Kubu novels released by Orenda Books, I’m already a fan of the writing duo that it was no surprise to enjoy this gripping short story. I also enjoyed the short, but sweet contribution by another Orenda stalwart, Ragnar Jonasson, whose letter from a traveller to his mother combines intrigue and the beautiful Icelandic landscape to provide a chilling mystery.
If I had to pick one favourite, however, it would have to be No Way Back from J.M.Hewitt. This story was particularly memorable and hard-hitting, shocking and beautifully written, to fully encompass the theme of travel with a frighteningly murderous plot. There’s not a lot I can say about it without giving too much away, other than to say it is a fantastic short story. I have J.M. Hewitt’s novel, Exclusion Zone, on my kindle and will definitely be boosting it up my extensive TBR list, having enjoyed this story so much.
Overall, I have thoroughly enjoyed reading this collection of stories which provides the reader with myriad stories that gives short, sharp bursts of mystery-filled tales. Whilst I enjoy a more lengthy, character-building, plot-twisting narrative, what these authors have managed to achieve in such a short amount of words is nothing short of genius. What I have also found is that it will give you a taster by authors who you may not have previously read to entice you into reading their longer works. The compilation of the stories is perfectly balanced between totally shocking stories, amusing mysteries, and good old-fashioned detective tales. I look forward to reading more short story anthologies in the future.
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