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J. Courtney Sullivan • The Cliffs: Reese's Book Club: A novel
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John Yorke • Into The Woods: How Stories Work and Why We Tell Them
Sadiq Khan.
Gregory David Roberts • Shantaram: A Novel
Lieutenant Colonel Dudley Clarke, RA, the man who was to become the éminence grise of WW2 strategic deception, seemed a conventional enough colonel, with his left-parted hair brushed back from the widow’s peak, and his courteous manner. He liked to appear in rooms, or disappear from them, silently, and his pale oval face, with quick glances from un
... See moreNicholas Rankin • A Genius for Deception
Briefly Carleton considered the other man, of whom he’d made such a study he might have been appointed professor of Thomas Studies at the University of Essex. He knew, for example, that Thomas was a confirmed bachelor, as they say, never seen in the company of a beautiful young person or a stately older one; that he had about him the melancholy rel
... See moreSarah Perry • Enlightenment
Roy and the old couple, Harvey and Rita, were the only ones left. They brought Roy to New York when he was barely twenty-five and set him up running “errands” now and again for some heavy people in Brooklyn. As a rule, they didn’t trust him with anything too complicated, on account of they didn’t think Roy was all that bright. Outside of Albert, no
... See moreScott Frank • Shaker: A novel
Penny chuckled. “I’ll tell you a secret about Ash. His Christian name is George. He hates it.” He nodded. “George it is.”
Tessa Dare • The Wallflower Wager: Girl Meets Duke
Mr Smith, a sea-officer of the small, trim, brisk, round-headed, portwine kind, once shipmates with Stephen in the Lively and now second in the Goliath, rode by on a camel, with his legs folded negligently over the creature’s neck to the manner born: