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Déjà Dead by Kathy Reichs.

 

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Her life is devoted to justice; for those she never even knew.

In the year since Temperance Brennan left behind a shaky marriage in North Carolina, work has often preempted her weekend plans to explore Quebec.

When a female corpse is discovered meticulously dismembered and stashed in trash bags.

Temperance detects an alarming pattern and she plunges into a harrowing search for a killer.

But her investigation is about to place those closest to her, her best friend and her own daughter in mortal danger..

 

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Jaysus, it's like the terraces at Upton Park! Never seen so many in a row! Lol!

Upton Park is no more; we traded it in for this

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Atonement by Ian McEwan.

 

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On the hottest day of the summer of 1935, thirteen year old Briony Tallis sees her sister Cecilia strip off her clothes and plunge into the fountain in the garden of their country house.

Watching her too is Robbie Turner who, like Cecilia, has recently come down from Cambridge.

By the end of that day, the lives of all three will have been changed for ever, as Briony commits a crime for which she will spend the rest of her life trying to atone.

 

 

Edited November 16, 2016 by Daveo

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Invisible Trade: High class sex for sale in Singapore

by Gerrie Lim.

 

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Welcome to the very real, largely hidden and often surreal world of high class sex for sale in Singapore, where the sexual desires of this tiny island run the gamut from simple missionary zeal to the cracking of the whip.

Never before have outsiders been offered such a fascinating look into the weird and wonderful, delightful and sometimes depraved world of five star, high class prostitutes that operate in Singapore's flourishing sex trade.

Featuring real stories of American models moonlighting as high class escorts in Asia, and American businessmen in search of exotic Eastern promise!

 

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The work of John Gartland

"Despite its comic turns, "Resurrection Room" is a modern horror story, frightening primarily because not a word of it feels far-fetched.
No other expat author in Thailand writes with such lyrical artistry, from the passing quip ("An SMS rustled in my pocket") to the provocatively conceptual (a restaurant where diners consume other people's sins and guilt). 
The effect is frequently hallucinogenic, as when a passed-out bargirl, slipping from the lap of a patron, dissolves into a fatally wounded US Marine sliding from a comrade's grip to the deck of a landing craft.
And all this is delivered to "the music of the rain; a cliche of an author waiting for an opus"."

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American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis.

 

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Patrick Bateman is twenty-six and works on Wall Street, he is handsome, sophisticated, charming and intelligent.

He is also a psychopath.

American Psycho is a bleak, bitter, black comedy about a world we all recognize but do not wish to face and it takes us on a head on collision with America's greatest dream and its worst nightmare.

 

‘A serious, clever and shatteringly effective piece of writing, for its savagely coherent picture of a society lethally addicted to blandness, it should be judged by the highest standards’

 

'That the book’s contents are shocking is downright undeniable, but just as Bonfire of the Vanities exposed the corruption and greed engendered in eighties politics and high living.

American Psycho examines the mindless preoccupations of the nineties preppy generation’

‘Ellis’s book is, ultimately and valuably, a black-hearted satire on the terrible power of money’

 

Edited November 16, 2016 by Daveo

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Police: by Jo Nesbo.

 

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The police urgently need Harry Hole.

 

A killer is stalking Oslo’s streets.

Police officers are being slain at the scenes of crimes they once investigated, but failed to solve.

The murders are brutal, the media reaction hysterical.

 

But this time, Harry can’t help anyone.

 

For years, detective Harry Hole has been at the centre of every major criminal investigation in Oslo.

His dedication to his job and his brilliant insights have saved the lives of countless people.

But now, with those he loves most facing terrible danger, Harry can’t protect anyone.

 

Least of all himself.

 

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After Many a Summer Dies the Swan by Aldous Huxley.

 

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A Hollywood millionaire with a terror of death, whose personal physician happens to be working on a theory of longevity these are the elements of Aldous Huxley's caustic and entertaining satire on man's Desire to live indefinitely.

With his customary wit and intellectual sophistication, Huxley pursues his characters in their quest for the eternal, finishing on a note of horror.

"This is Mr. Huxley's Hollywood novel, and you might expect it to be fantastic, extravagant, crazy and preposterous.

It is all that, and heaven and hell too, it is the kind of novel that he is particularly the master of, where the most extraordinary and fortuitous events are followed by contemplative little essays on the meaning of life.

The story is outrageously good, a highly sensational plot that will keep astonishing you to practically the final sentence, Mr. Huxley's elegant mockery, his cruel aptness of phrase, the revelations and the ingenious surprises he springs on the reader are those of a master craftsman; Mr. Huxley is at the top of his form.

 

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Notes of a Dirty Old Man, by Charles Bukowski.

 

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"People come to my door, too many of them really and knock to tell me Notes of a Dirty Old Man turns them on.

A bum off the road brings in a gypsy and his wife and we talk, drink half the night.

A long distance operator from Newburgh, N.Y. sends me money. She wants me to give up drinking beer and to eat well.

I hear from a madman who calls himself 'King Arthur' and lives on Vine Street in Hollywood and wants to help me write my column.

A doctor comes to my door: 'I read your column and think I can help you.

I used to be a psychiatrist.' I send him away. . ."

 

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The Closed Circle: An Interpretation of the Arabs

by David Pryce-Jones.

 

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This important book explains how Arabs are closed in a circle defined by tribal, religious, and cultural traditions.

David Pryce-Jones examines the tribal forces which, he believes, drive the Arabs in their dealings with each other and with the West. In the postwar world, he argues, the Arabs reverted to age old tribal and kinship structures, a closed circle from which they have been unable to escape, and in which violence is systemic.

A healthy corrective, a thought-provoking study.

 

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Dance Dance Dance, by Haruki Murakami.

 

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In this propulsive novel, one of the most idiosyncratically brilliant writers at work in any language fuses science fiction, the hard broiled thriller, and white hot satire into a new element of the literary periodic table.

 

As he searches for a mysteriously vanished girlfriend, Haruki Murakami's protagonist plunges into a wind tunnel of sexual violence and metaphysical dread in which he collides with call girls; plays chaperone to a lovely teenaged psychic and receives cryptic instructions from a shabby but oracular Sheep Man.

Dance Dance Dance is a tense, poignant and often hilarious ride through the cultural Cuisinart that is contemporary Japan, a place where everything that is not up for sale is up for grabs.

 

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Resurrectionist by James McGee.

 

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Hawkwood, the Regency James Bond, returns in this gripping, action packed sequel to the bestselling 'Ratcatcher'.

Matthew Hawkwood.

Soldier, spy, lover, a man as dangerous as the criminals he hunts. The tough Bow Street Runner is back where he's not wanted, in the most forbidding places London has to offer, its graveyards and the rank, sinister halls of Bedlam, the country's most notorious lunatic asylum.

There are missing bodies all around dead and alive.

'Resurrection men' serve the demands of the city's surgeons by stealing corpses and creating a few of their own along the way.

Far more worrying is the escape from Bedlam of a very unusual inmate, one Colonel Titus Xavier Hyde, an obsessive, gifted surgeon whose insanity is only matched by his dark intelligence. And this twisted genius has a point to prove.

Which will mean plenty more work for the gravediggers...

 

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Birds of Prey by Wilbur Smith.

 

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It is 1667 and the Dutch and the English are at war.

Sir Francis Courtney and his son Henry 'Hal' Courtney, in their fighting caravel Lady Edwina, are on patrol off the Agulhas Cape of Southern Africa, lying in wait for one of the galleons of the Dutch East India Company returning from the Orient laden with treasure to fall into their net.

 

It is the beginning of the quest that will sweep them from the new settlement of Good Hope at the southern tip of Africa to the Great Horn of Ethiopia far to the north.

The bloody capture of the Dutch merchantman, and three valuable hostages, launches Hal into a perilous adventure which only the bravest will survive.

 

Along the way Hal will encounter many enemies.

A dangerous mutineer, sworn to extract to revenge.

A fellow Knight Templar, now his father's betrayer.

And the most dangerous adversary on the African continent, the Dutch swordsman Schreuder.

 

His spirit will also be tested by love. For the rich and pampered Dutch heiress, Katinka.

For the beautiful slave girl, Sukeena. And for a woman whose unstinting courage will outshine them all...

 

From the dungeons of Good Hope to the uncharted wilderness of the Dark Continent and then to the fatal narrows of the Red Sea, Hal's faith will lead him to his destiny.

To the defense of the final Christian stronghold in Africa. The kingdom of Prester John, historic guardian of the priceless Holy Grail...

 

Birds of Prey is a Courtney Family Adventure from bestselling author Wilbur Smith.

 

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Paris Trout by Pete Dexter.

 

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Paris Trout is a white storekeeper and moneylender in the sleepy little town of Cotton Point, Georgia. One hot summer day in the 1950s he breaks the law with devastating results and the small town gets involved deeper and deeper into violence and madness.

By the author of "Brotherly Love".

 

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The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood.

 

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The Blind Assassin opens with these simple, resonant words: "Ten days after the war ended, my sister Laura drove a car off a bridge." They are spoken by Iris, whose terse account of her sister's death in 1945 is followed by an inquest report proclaiming the death accidental.

But just as the reader expects to settle into Laura's story, Atwood introduces a novel within a novel.

Entitled The Blind Assassin, it is a science fiction story told by two unnamed lovers who meet in dingy backstreet rooms.

When we return to Iris, it is through a 1947 newspaper article announcing the discovery of a sailboat carrying the dead body of her husband, a distinguished industrialist.

Brilliantly weaving together such seemingly disparate elements, Atwood creates a world of astonishing vision and unforgettable impact.

 

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Shotgun and Standover The Story of the Painters and Dockers

by James Morton, Russell Robinson.

 

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Few names in Australian criminal history are as redolent as the Painters and Dockers.

They were a union gone to the bad, from their outset in the early years of the 20th Century, they attracted more than their fair share of shady waterfront characters and by the 1960's, '70's and '80's they had become a fully fledged criminal fraternity of some of the most violent and dangerous men in Australia.

Standover, smuggling, gambling, prostitution and drugs were the daily trade of the Painters and Dockers, whilst arguments and old scores were more often than not settled with the lethal blast of a sawn off shotgun.

 

From famous criminals of the past such as Squizzy Tailor, through the recent gangland wars in Melbourne, the story of the Painters and Dockers touches almost every part of our violent and bloody underworld history.

Their members and associates are a rollcall of some of Australia's most brutal and violent offenders: Brian and Les Kane, Ray Bennett, Billy Longley and the Moran family among many others.

 

Written by James Morton, author of the bestselling Gangland Australia and Russell Robinson, Shotgun and Standover brilliantly tells the story of the Painters and Dockers in a definitive work of true crime.

 

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The Talisman (The Talisman #1) by Stephen King & Peter Straub.

 

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On a brisk autumn day, a twelve year old boy stands on the shores of the gray Atlantic, near a silent amusement park and a fading ocean resort called the Alhambra.

The past has driven Jack Sawyer here: his father is gone, his mother is dying and the world no longer makes sense.

But for Jack everything is about to change, for he has been chosen to make a journey back across America and into another realm.

 

One of the most influential and heralded works of fantasy ever written, The Talisman is an extraordinary novel of loyalty, awakening, terror, and mystery.

Jack Sawyer, on a desperate quest to save his mother's life, must search for a prize across an epic landscape of innocents and monsters, of incredible dangers and even more incredible truths. The prize is essential, but the journey means even more.

Let the quest begin. .

In the Horror / Fantasy section @ Canterbury Tales Bookshop.

 

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Leonard Cohen; In every style of Passion, by Jim Devlin.

 

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"This biography is a comprehensive guide to Cohen's work, a complete guide to his songs and the performances, both on record and on stage.

Tracing Cohen's path from Montreal to New York via Greece and his Zen retreat in California, it analyses 118 songs, 18 tours, and scores of television and radio appearances and press interviews.

Detailed appendices offer a full discography, bibliography and concert listing.

Cohen expert Jim Devlin, who has published and edited the Leonard Cohen Newsletter for the last ten years, offers a detailed and fascinating look at the work of this always alternative artist."

 

In the Biography section @ Canterbury Tales Bookshop.

 

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That Close; by Suggs.

 

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Suggs is one of pop music’s most enduring and likeable figures. Written with the assured style and wit of a natural raconteur, this hugely entertaining and insightful autobiography takes you from his colourful early life on a North London council estate.

Through the heady early days of Punk and 2-Tone, to the eighties, where Madness became the biggest selling singles band of the decade. Along the way he tells you what it’s like to go globetrotting with your best mates, to sign away your entire song rights ‘in perpetuity’ and cause an earthquake in Finsbury Park.

 

Nightmare in Bangkok. by Andy Botts,

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Nightmare In Bangkok is a non-fiction account of an intuitive criminal who dreamt his fate. 
Born and raised in Hawaii, Andy began his criminal lifestyle as a professional thief.
After over a decade of close calls, escapes, crime sprees and Hawaiian prisons, he was arrested for drug trafficking in Bangkok, Thailand. 
The penalty was execution by gunshot to the head, the characters all all real, and everything is factual; verifiable by court documents, government files, newspaper articles, witnesses and photos. 
This is not a how to book, neither is it intended to glamorize crime and drug abuse. 
The message is that everything happens for a reason, and the worst happens for the best. There is no luck.
In the huge True Crime section@ Canterbury Tales Bookshop.