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Thai Culture & Society by Roger Welty;

 

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Jerusalem: The Biography by Simon Sebag Montefiore.

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Jerusalem is the universal city, the capital of two peoples, the shrine of three faiths; it is the prize of empires, the site of Judgement Day and the battlefield of today's clash of civilizations. 
From King David to Barack Obama, from the birth of Judaism, Christianity and Islam to the Israel-Palestine conflict, this is the epic history of 3,000 years of faith, slaughter, fanaticism and coexistence.

How did this small, remote town become the Holy City, the 'centre of the world' and now the key to peace in the Middle East? 
In a gripping narrative, Simon Sebag Montefiore reveals this ever changing city in its many incarnations, bringing every epoch and character blazingly to life. 
Jerusalem's biography is told through the wars, love affairs and revelations of the men and women kings, empresses, prophets, poets, saints, conquerors and whores, who created, destroyed, chronicled and believed in Jerusalem.

Drawing on new archives, current scholarship, his own family papers and a lifetime's study, Montefiore illuminates the essence of sanctity and mysticism, identity and empire in a unique chronicle of the city that many believe will be the setting for the Apocalypse. 
This is how Jerusalem became Jerusalem, and the only city that exists twice - in heaven and on earth.

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Long Walk To Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela.

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The Exodus Quest by Will Adams

 

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Facts collide with fiction in the pulse pounding sequel to the highly praised The Alexander Cipher, featuring archaeologist Daniel Knox.

 

THE EXODUS QUEST

 

On the trail of the lost Dead Sea Scrolls, archaeologist Daniel Knox stumbles upon a theft in progress at an ancient temple near Alexandria.

Then a senior Egyptian archaeologist is violently killed, and the finger of suspicion points at Knox himself.

To add to his mounting worries, his partner Gaille Bonnard is kidnapped while showing a television crew around the ruins of Amarna.

She manages to smuggle out a message, pleading with Knox to rescue her, but he's locked in a police cell on suspicion of murder hundreds of miles away.

His only hope of clearing his name and saving Gaille is to crack one of the greatest unsolved mysteries of the ancient world, before it's too late.

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The Real Deal: My Story from Brick Lane to Dragons' Den

by James Caan.

 

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After dropping out of school at just sixteen, James Caan started his business life in a broom cupboard with no qualifications and two pieces of fatherly wisdom: 'observe the masses and do the opposite' and 'always look for opportunities where both parties benefit'.

Armed with this advice, natural charm and the Yellow Pages, he built a market-leading business with a turnover of £130 million and swiftly became one of Britain's most successful entrepreneurs.

 

From Caan's childhood as a Pakistani immigrant to the phenomenal success of his first company and beyond, The Real Deal traces both his financial and personal achievements.

It offers a frank account of what success at thirty really signifies and brings us right up to the present, including his impact on Dragons' Den and what his charity work, from saving a hospital in London to building a school in Lahore, means to him. Ultimately, it is a story of learning what money is really worth, told by one the country's most insightful businessmen.

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The 39 Steps to a Rich Future by Paul Banfield.

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H h h H by Laurent Binet.

 

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Two men have been enlisted to kill the head of the Gestapo. This is Operation Anthropoid, Prague, 1942: two Czechoslovakian parachutists sent on a daring mission by London to assassinate Reinhard Heydrich, chief of the Nazi secret services, 'the hangman of Prague', 'the blond beast', 'the most dangerous man in the Third Reich'.

His boss is Heinrich Himmler but everyone in the SS says 'Himmler's brain is called Heydrich', which in German spells HHhH.

 

HHhH is a panorama of the Third Reich told through the life of one outstandingly brutal man, a story of unbearable heroism and loyalty, revenge and betrayal.

It is a moving and shattering work of fiction.

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Fugitive Nights by Joseph Wambaugh.

 

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For some, it's the pleasure capitol of the world.

For others, it's a city of last chances, a paradise on the edge of the desert.

For soon to be ex cop Lynn Cutter, sweating out a disability pension, it could become a point of no return.

As a rule, Cutter wouldn't give a private investigator the time of day, but Breda Burrows is the exception to every rule.

Sultry, blue eyed, long legged, and tough as nails.

Breda can be very convincing, and she's convinced Cutter to be her guide through the glittering netherworld of Palm Springs, an explosive mix of silicone, Geritol, old money, and murder.

 

The trail begins with the monied socialite wife of a philandering husband.

The wife doesn't care about her husband's infidelity, but she does want to know why he's made a secret deposit, at a sperm bank.

What Cutter wants to know is the identity of the strange, violent man hubby is meeting in the desert, a man known only as the fugitive.

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The Bangkok Asset: A Royal Thai Detective Novel,

by John Burdett.

 

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Royal Thai Police Detective Sonchai Jitpleecheep is called to investigate a crime scene in Bangkok, which quickly reveals itself to be anything but typical.

For one thing, the victim has been beheaded in a bizarre manner, and for another, a message was left in blood.

Then Sonchai is summoned to a river in the middle of the night to observe a spectacle that violates everything he holds dear as a Thai, as a Buddhist, and as a human being.

A trail of breadcrumbs has been carefully laid out for him, but by whom?

Sonchai’s search for answers takes him deep into the Cambodian Jungle, where he faces a conspiracy that may implicate the American CIA and the Chinese military and discovers exactly how far a government will go to protect its worst Secrets.

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A Riot of Our Own: Night and Day with the Clash

by Johnny Green & Garry Barker.

 

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The audience were going wild before the gig and ripping out the seats.

Seats stopped people from dancing, and The Clash didn't want to perform to people sitting on their arses and admiring their musicianship.

We were even running a little sweepstake on how much damage would be caused.

 

I reckon they'll trash them all up to row G.

 

No, look at that bloke go.

They'll easily reach J.

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The Sea, The Sea, by Iris Murdoch.

 

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When Charles Arrowby retires from his glittering career in the London theatre, he buys a remote house on the rocks by the sea.

He hopes to escape from his tumultuous love affairs but unexpectedly bumps into his childhood sweetheart and sets his heart on destroying her marriage.

His equilibrium is further disturbed when his friends all decide to come and keep him company and Charles finds his seaside idyll severely threatened by his obsessions.

 

In the Classic's section at Canterbury Tales Bookshop.

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Europe at Midnight by Dave Hutchinson.

 

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In a fractured Europe, new nations are springing up everywhere, some literally overnight.

For an intelligence officer like Jim it's a nightmare.

Every week or so a friendly power spawns a new and unknown national entity which may or may not be friendly to England's interests.

It's hard to keep on top of it all.

But things are about to get worse for Jim.

A stabbing on a London bus pitches him into a world where his intelligence service is preparing for war with another universe, and a man has appeared who may hold the key to unlocking Europe's most jealously guarded secret..

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Fever Dream by Douglas Preston.

 

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Yesterday, Special Agent Pendergast still mourned the loss of his beloved wife, Helen, who died in a tragic accident in Africa twelve years ago.

Today, he discovers she was murdered.

Tomorrow, he will learn her most guarded Secrets, leaving him to wonder: Who was the woman I married?

Why was she murdered?

And, above all . . . Who murdered her?

FEVER DREAM Revenge is not sweet: It is essential.

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Murder so Cold by Patricia Springer; True crime @ Canterbury Tales Bookshop / Book exchange / Guesthouse / Cafe, Pattaya, Thailand...

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The White Lioness: Kurt Wallander by Henning Mankell.

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The Redbreast: Harry Hole #3 by Jo Nesbo. 

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The Memoirs of Aga Khan: World Enough and Time Hardcover – 1954
by Aga Khan III & W. Somerset Maugham.

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Lennox (Lennox #1) by Craig Russell

 

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First novel in the Lennox series, featuring a shady investigator on the tough streets of 1950's Glasgow.

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Insider by Piers Morgan

 

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Piers Morgan was made editor of the "News of the World, " the UK's biggest-selling Sunday newspaper at the record-breaking age of 28.

The decade that followed was one of the most tumultuous in modern times.

In a world of indiscreet dinners, private meetings and gossipy lunches, Piers Morgan found himself in the thick of it.

His diaries from this remarkable period reveal astonishing and hilarious encounters with an endless list of celebrities and politicians alike.

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Golden Bones: An Extraordinary Journey from Hell in Cambodia to a New Life in America, by Sichan Siv

 

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While the United States battled the Communists of North Vietnam in the 1960's and 70's, the neighbouring country of Cambodia was attacked from within by dictator Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge.

The Khmer Rouge imprisoned, enslaved, and murdered the educated and intellectual members of the population, resulting in the harrowing "killing fields" rice paddies where the harvest yielded nothing but millions of skulls.

 

Young Sichan Siv, a target since he was a university graduate, was told by his mother to run and "never give up hope?" Captured and put to work in a slave labor camp, Siv knew it was only a matter of time before he would be worked to death, or killed.

With a daring escape from a logging truck and a desperate run for freedom through the Jungle, including falling into a dreaded pungi pit, Siv finally came upon a colorfully dressed farmer who said, "Welcome to Thailand."

 

He spent months teaching English in a refugee camp in Thailand while regaining his strength, eventually Siv was allowed entry into the United States.

Upon his arrival in the U.S., Siv kept striving.

Eventually rising to become a U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, Siv returned with great trepidation to the killing fields of Cambodia in 1992 as a senior representative of the U.S. government.

It was an emotionally overwhelming visit.

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The Trouser People: A Story of Burma in the Shadow of the Empire, by Andrew Marshall

 

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Andrew Marshall has written an unforgettable adventure story, the wry account of two journeys into the untraveled heart of Burma.

Part travelogue, part history, part reportage, The Trouser People recounts the story of George Scott, the eccentric British explorer, photographer, adventurer, and later Colonial Administrator of Burma, who introduced the Empire's best game (soccer!) to Burmese natives and to the forbidden Wa state of headhunters, who were similarly enthusiastic about it. The second, contrasting journey is Marshall's own, taking the same dangerous path one hundred years later in a country now devastated by colonial incompetence, war, and totalitarianism.

Wonderfully observed, mordantly funny, and skillfully recounted, this is journalistic travel writing at its best.

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Papillon by Henri Charrière

 

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Henri Charrière, called "Papillon," for the butterfly tattoo on his chest, was convicted in Paris in 1931 of a murder he did not commit.

Sentenced to life imprisonment in the penal colony of French Guiana, he became obsessed with one goal: escape.

After planning and executing a series of treacherous yet failed attempts over many years, he was eventually sent to the notorious prison, Devil's Island, a place from which no one had ever escaped . . . until Papillon.

His flight to freedom remains one of the most incredible feats of human cunning, will, and endurance ever undertaken.

 

Charrière's astonishing autobiography, Papillon, was published in France to instant acclaim in 1968, more than twenty years after his final escape.

Since then, it has become a treasured classic, the gripping, shocking, ultimately uplifting odyssey of an innocent man who would not be defeated.

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Brother One Cell: An American Coming of Age in South Korea's Prisons by Cullen Thomas

 

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A gripping 1st person account of one young American's life changing years in a South Korean prison.

At age 23, Cullen Thomas was, like most middle class kids his age, looking for something meaningful and exciting to do before settling into the 9 to 5 routine.

Possessed of a youthful, romantic view of the world, he set off for adventure in Asia and a job teaching English in Seoul, South Korea.

But he got more than he ever bargained for when an ill advised stunt led to a drug smuggling arrest and a three and a half year prison sentence.

Brother One Cell is Cullen's memoir of that time, the harrowing and unusual story of a good kid forced to grow up in very unusual circumstances.

 

One of only a handful of foreign inmates, Cullen shared a cell block with human traffickers, jewel smugglers, murderers, and thieves.

Fortunately for him, the strict Confucian social mores that dominated the prison made it almost a safe place, different from the brutal, lawless setting most would imagine.

In the relative calm of this environment Cullen would learn invaluable life lessons and come out of the experience a wise and grounded adult.

With its gritty descriptions of life behind the concrete walls, colorful depictions of his fellow inmates, and acute insights about Korean society, Brother One Cell is part gritty prison story, part cautionary tale, and part insightful travelogue into the places most people never see.

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Apache Dawn by Damien Lewis

 

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The Apache attack helicopter is one of the world's most awesome weapons systems.

Deployed for the first time in Afghanistan, it has already passed into legend.

The only thing more incredible than the Apache itself are the pilots that fly her.

For the first time, "Apache Dawn "tells their story and their baptism of fire in the unforgiving battle of Helmand Province. Their call sign was "Ugly" and there was no better word for the grueling 100 day deployment they endured.

Day after day, four of England's Army Air Corps' finest pilots flew right into the heart of battle, testing their aircraft to the very limit.

"Apache Dawn "takes the reader with them on a series of unrelenting and brutally intense combat missions, from daring, edge of the seat rescues to dramatic close air support in the white heat of battle.

Damien Lewis has been given unprecedented access to these heroic aircrews and to the men on the ground whose lives they saved.

It is an astounding story of bravery, skill and resilience in the face of unbelievable odds.

And it is the story of the Apache itself the ultimate fighting machine.