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Winterland by Alan Glynn

Winterland, By Alan Glynn

Pressure builds in the fair city

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Madame Verona Comes Down the Hill, By Dimitri Verhulst

Wednesday, 25 November 2009

Sombre tale hits the high spots

Rebels and Traitors, By Lindsey Davis

Tuesday, 24 November 2009

Epic proves a battle to get through

A Matter of Time, By Alex Capus

Monday, 23 November 2009

A war-torn farce worth waiting for

Contact! By Jan Morris

Sunday, 22 November 2009

A collection of glances at life passing by reveals a conversational travel writer hitting top form

Blood's a Rover, By James Ellroy

Sunday, 22 November 2009

A master crime novelist concludes his epic trilogy

He Knew He Was Right, By John & Mary Gribbin (Rated 4/ 5 )

Sunday, 22 November 2009

A life touched by chaos

The Girl Next Door, By Elizabeth Noble (Rated 2/ 5 )

Sunday, 22 November 2009

"Do not go where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail..." This advice from Ralph Waldo Emerson is used by Elizabeth Noble as the epigraph of her novel and she explores it in all sorts of unexpected ways.

The Lost Logo, By Stephen Brown (Rated 3/ 5 )

Sunday, 22 November 2009

"Stephen Brown and Dan Brown are similar in several significant respects," declares the autobiographical blurb in this hoot of a book. "They even share the same DNA (debatable narrative ability)."

The Paper Bridge: A Return to Budapest, By Monica Porter (Rated 4/ 5 )

Sunday, 22 November 2009

Paper is the great tool any writer must use to build bridges, and the bridges Monica Porter must build are many and complex. Chief among them is one between her chosen life in London and her cultural heritage from that historically beleaguered nation at the meeting point of east and west, Hungary.

Napoleon's Haemorrhoids, By Phil Mason (Rated 4/ 5 )

Sunday, 22 November 2009

The history of Europe might have turned out very differently had Napoleon not had an attack of haemorrhoids that intervened with his usual battlefield surveillance. How such seemingly tiny events can have large consequences is the subject matter of Phil Mason's entertaining book. Tiny paragraphs are organised under categories including history, politics, war, science, art, sport, crime and business.

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