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What do readers say about Fahrenheit 451?
a future without booksvery very jumpysinister and chillingloss of humanityNowadays firemen start fires. Fireman Guy Montag loves to rush to a fire and watch books burn up. The system was simple. Everyone understood it. Books were burning, along with the houses in which they were hidden. Then he met a seventeen-year old gir... Read more about Fahrenheit 451
It was a special pleasure to see things eaten, to see things blackened and changed. With the brass nozzle in his fists, with this great python spitting its venomous kerosene upon the world, the blood ...
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What do readers say about The Suspicions Of Mr. Whicher, Or, The Murder At Road Hil...?
mostly gripping and un-put-downablecut and driedsad and interestinga little victorian mysteryWINNER OF THE SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION
THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER
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'The finest documentary writing' John le Carré... Read more about The Suspicions Of Mr. Whicher, Or, The Murder At Road Hil...
In the early hours of Friday, 29 June 1860 Samuel and Mary Kent were asleep on the first floor of their detached three-storey Georgian house above the village of Road, five miles from Trowbridge. They...
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What do readers say about My Name is Mary Sutter?
civil war medicinegruesome, realistic and wonderfula superb midwifefantastic historical fictionA moving, New York Times bestselling novel about a young Civil War midwife who dreams of becoming a surgeon
Chosen by Good Housekeeping as a Top 10 Good Read
Mary Sutter's story continues in Winter Sisters, coming February 2018 from Viking
“Yes, I am Mary Sutter.” The young woman looked from the address she had inscribed that afternoon in her small, leather-bound notebook to the harried man in front of her, wondering how he could possib...
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What do readers say about The Yiddish Policemen's Union?
noir detective novelinteresting and visualnoir murder mysterydry and dullFor sixty years, Jewish refugees and their descendants have prospered in the Federal District of Sitka, a "temporary" safe haven created in the wake of revelations of the Holocaust and the shocking 1948 collapse of the fledgling state of Israel. Prou... Read more about The Yiddish Policemen's Union
Nine months Landsman's been flopping at the Hotel Zamenhof without any of his fellow residents managing to get themselves murdered. Now somebody has put a bullet in the brain of the occupant of 208, a...
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What do readers say about The Prestige?
multiple intertwined story lineswonderfully bifurcated storylinetrue science fictionrich and complexWinner of the World Fantasy Award
Inspiration for the movie directed by Christopher Nolan, starring Hugh Jackman and Christian Bale
In 1878, two young stage magicians clash in the dark during the course of a fraudulent séance. From this moment on, th... Read more about The Prestige
It began on a train, heading north through England, although I was soon to discover that the story had really begun more than a hundred years earlier. I had no sense of any of this at the time: I was ...
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What do readers say about The Broken Sword?
hideously dry and dulla tale of faeriemix'n'match various saga conventionsmore engaging readThis acclaimed fantasy classic of men, elves, and gods is at once breathtakingly exciting and heartbreakingly tragic.
Published the same year as The Fellowship of the Ring, Poul Anderson's novel The Broken Sword draws on similar Scandinavian and An... Read more about The Broken Sword
There was a man called Orm the Strong, a son of Ketil Asmundsson who was a great landsman in the north of Jutland. The folk of Ketil had dwelt in Himmerland as long as men remembered, and were mighty ...
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What do readers say about The Last Anniversary?
dry and dullstrong sense of australiasingle woman wanting moreenjoyable characters and storylineFrom Liane Moriarty, author of the #1 New York Times bestsellers Big Little Lies and Truly Madly Guilty, comes an unforgettable novel defined by her signature sharp wit, page-turning storyline, and lovable and eccentric characters.
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‘A marriage is hard work and sometimes it’s a bit of a bore. It’s like housework. It’s never finished. You’ve just got to grit your teeth and keep working away at it, day after day. Of course, the men...
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What do readers say about Somewhere in the Night?
visuality beats thematicsintelligent and beautifully writbrilliant and fascinating volumea film-noir movieIn elegant and engaging prose, Nicholas Christopher explains how elements like the play of light and shadow, the backdrop of the city's mysterious maze, and the hero's haunting voice-over come together to produce the mood we love in film classics lik... Read more about Somewhere in the Night
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What do readers say about Medicis Daughter?
saint bartholomew’s day massacrevery dry and dullnarrationhistorical fictionWinter, 1564. Beautiful young Princess Margot is summoned to the court of France, where nothing is what it seems and a wrong word can lead to ruin. Known across Europe as Madame la Serpente, Margot's intimidating mother, Queen Catherine de Médicis, i... Read more about Medicis Daughter
“It was also cold in Amboise,” I reply, trying to keep my voice cheerful while repressing an urge to kick Madame in the shins as she sits across from me in the coach. How can she think of the cold at ...
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What do readers say about I Like to Watch?
different tv showspersonal, ethnographic elementwell written essaysa series of essaysFrom The New Yorker's fiercely original, Pulitzer Prize-winning culture critic, a provocative collection of new and previously published essays arguing that we are what we watch.
"Emily Nussbaum is the perfect critic-smart, engaging, funny, generous,... Read more about I Like to Watch
What happens when your side wins the fight, the drunken cultural brawl that you’ve been caught up in for nearly two decades? And then the rules change, midway through? That’s the crisis that I’m curre...
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