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Devil in a Blue Dress - 1 by Walter Mosley
Devil in a Blue Dress - 2
Devil in a Blue Dress - 3
Devil in a Blue Dress - 4
Devil in a Blue Dress - 5
******The time is 1948. The town is Los Angeles. The hero is Easy Rawlins, an out of work
black war veteran. The mortgage payment's coming due, so Easy accepts the assignment
of finding Daphne Monet, a blonde torch singer with a penchant for jazz and criminal black
consorts. In his search through a sleazy, fearful city, he is lucky to be under the protection
of the murderous Mouse who wants a piece of the action. Easy Rawlins is a fascinating creation
driving a plot that carries a fine and bitter sting. With this first novel, Walter Mosley made a
distinctly confident start to his career as a great and inspirational writer.
The Euphio Question by Kurt Vonnegut
******Stumbling on a way to manufacture happiness presents a group of scientists
with some intriguing moral and ethical dilemmas.
Lady into Fox 1.2 by David Garnett
Lady into Fox 2.2
******David Garnett's haunting 1922 debut novel, the story of a man, a woman, a fox,
and a love that could not be tamed.
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow 1.3 by Washington Irving
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow 2.3
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow 3.3
******An American classic.
Chain Gang - Picture This
******For three months Radio 7 listeners created a story, week by week. Here's the whole tale,
read by Rena Dipti Annobil.
B02-01-12 - Live and Let Die
B02-02-12 - Live and Let Die
B02-03-12 - Live and Let Die
B02-04-12 - Live and Let Die
B02-05-12 - Live and Let Die
B02-06-12 - Live and Let Die
B02-07-12 - Live and Let Die
B02-08-12 - Live and Let Die
B02-09-12 - Live and Let Die
B02-10-12 - Live and Let Die
B02-11-12 - Live and Let Die
B02-12-12 - Live and Let Die
******Bond is off to Harlem, the kingdom of Mr Big, black master of crime and voodoo baron. The trail
of terror, treachery and torture leads from New York's black underworld to the shark infested island
in the sun that Mr Big calls his own.
Ballet Shoes 01.10 by Noel Streatfeild
Ballet Shoes 02.10
Ballet Shoes 03.10
Ballet Shoes 04.10
Ballet Shoes 05.10
Ballet Shoes 06.10
Ballet Shoes 07.10
Ballet Shoes 08.10
Ballet Shoes 09.10
Ballet Shoes 10.10
******Pauline, Petrova and Posy are found as orphaned babies in different parts
of the world by eccentric fossil collector and explorer Gum. He adopts them,
takes them to his London home and leaves them in the care of his niece Sylvia
and the family Nurse. Then off he goes to continue his exploring, saying that
he'll be back in five years' time. When the three little girls are old enough,
they choose the surname Fossil for themselves and vow to make the name
famous. At first they lead privileged and sheltered lives. But when Gum fails
to return after five years, Sylvia's money begins to run out. First she is forced
to take in some boarders - an engaging and eclectic mix of characters - but then
she decides that the girls should go to acting school. This way they will be able
to earn some money before they grow up. Pauline adores the school, as she dreams
of becoming an actress. Petrova hates it, all she wants to do is learn about cars and
planes and engines. Posy loves it too - she is born to be a dancer and the school is
the perfect place for her.
Beggar's Banquet 1.5 by Ian Rankin Facing the Music 1.2
Beggar's Banquet 2.5 Facing the Music 2.2
Beggars Banquet 3.5 Herbert in Motion 1.2
Beggars Banquet 4.5 Herbert in Motion 2.2
Beggars Banquet 5.5 The Hanged Man
******Over the years, Ian Rankin has amassed an incredible portfolio of short stories.
Published in crime magazines, composed for events, broadcast on radio, they all share
the best qualities of his phenomenally popular Rebus novels. 10 years ago, A GOOD HANGING
Ian's first short story collection demonstrated this talent and now after nearly a decade at
the top of popular fiction, Ian is releasing a follow up. Ranging from the macabre ('The Hanged Man')
to the unfortunate ('The Only True Comedian') right back to the sinister ('Someone Got To Eddie')
they all bear the hallmark of great crime writing.
Book at Bedtime The Pleasure Seekers 01.10 by Tishani Doshi
Book at Bedtime The Pleasure Seekers 02.10
Book at Bedtime The Pleasure Seekers 03.10
Book at Bedtime The Pleasure Seekers 04.10
Book at Bedtime The Pleasure Seekers 05.10
Book at Bedtime The Pleasure Seekers 06.10
Book at Bedtime The Pleasure Seekers 07.10
Book at Bedtime The Pleasure Seekers 08.10
Book at Bedtime The Pleasure Seekers 09.10
Book at Bedtime The Pleasure Seekers 10.10
****** "This is a captivating, delightful novel. I was totally engaged by Tishani Doshi's
people and by their world, and the language often rises... to powerful metaphorical heights." Salman Rushdie
It all started in August 1968 when Babo, with curly hair and jhill mill teeth, became
the first member of the Patel family to leave Madras and fly on a plane all the way
to London to further his education. His father should have known there would
be trouble: on the morning of the departure he had his first and only dream, in
which strange ghosts threw poison-tipped arrows and all his family was lost.
But off Babo went, and now here he is, in a flat off the Finchley Road, untraditionally
making love to a cream-skinned girl from Wales, Sian Jones, who he fell head over
heels for as soon as he saw the twirl of red ribbon in her hair. Ba-ba-boom, ba-ba-boom,
ba-ba-boom-boom-boom. Theirs is a mixed-up love in a topsy-turvy world, and their two
families will never be the same again. Meet the Patel-Joneses: Babo, Sian, Mayuri and Bean,
in their little house with orange and black gates next-door to the Punjab Women's Association.
As the twentieth century creaks and croaks its way along - somewhere out there Jim Morrison
commits suicide; Charles and Diana get hitched; Indira Gandhi is assassinated by her own
bodyguards; cable TV arrives in India - these four navigate their way through the uncharted
territory of a 'hybrid' family: the hustle and bustle of Babo's relatives, the faraway phone-line
crackle of Sian's, the eternal wisdom and soft bosom of great-grandmother Ba, the perils of first love,
lost innocence and old age, and the big question: what do you do with the space your loved ones
leave behind? In this tender, lyrical and uplifting debut, Tishani Doshi, a prizewinning poet, effortlessly
captures the quirks and calamities of one unusual clan in a story of identity, family, belonging and
all-transcending love.
Book at Bedtime The Story of a Marriage 01.10 by Andrew Sean Greer
Book at Bedtime The Story of a Marriage 02.10
Book at Bedtime The Story of a Marriage 03.10
Book at Bedtime The Story of a Marriage 04.10
Book at Bedtime The Story of a Marriage 05.10
Book at Bedtime The Story of a Marriage 06.10
Book at Bedtime The Story of a Marriage 07.10
Book at Bedtime The Story of a Marriage 08.10
Book at Bedtime The Story of a Marriage 09.10
Book at Bedtime The Story of a Marriage 10.10
******From the bestselling author of The Confessions of Max Tivoli, a love story full of
secrets and astonishments set in 1950s San Francisco “We think we know the ones
we love.” So Pearlie Cook begins her indirect and devastating exploration of the mystery
at the heart of every relationship, how we can ever truly know another person.
It is 1953 and Pearlie, a dutiful housewife, finds herself living in the Sunset district of
San Francisco, caring not only for her husband's fragile health but also for her son,
who is afflicted with polio. Then, one Saturday morning, a stranger appears on her
doorstep and everything changes. All the certainties by which Pearlie has lived are
thrown into doubt. Does she know her husband at all? And what does the stranger
want in return for his offer of $100,000? For six months in 1953, young Pearlie Cook
struggles to understand the world around her, most especially her husband, Holland.
Pearlie's story is a meditation not only on love but also on the effects of war—with one
war just over and another one in Korea coming to a close. Set in a climate of fear and
repression—political, sexual, and racial—The Story of a Marriage portrays three people
trapped by the confines of their era, and the desperate measures they are prepared to take
to escape it. Lyrical and surprising, The Story of a Marriage looks back at a period that we
tend to misremember as one of innocence and simplicity. Like Ford Madox Ford's The Good Soldier,
Andrew Sean Greer's novel is a narrative tour de force that confirms him as “one of the most talented
writers around” (Michael Chabon).
Book of the Week A Mountain of Crumbs 1.5 by Elena Gorokhova
Book of the Week A Mountain of Crumbs 2.5
Book of the Week A Mountain of Crumbs 3.5
Book of the Week A Mountain of Crumbs 4.5
Book of the Week A Mountain of Crumbs 5.5
******Growing up during the cold war in Leningrad, Ellen gets in trouble for not following the rules,
and her wry, present-tense narrative, both comic and anguished, is not about political intrigues
but about the daily detail of her struggle at home and at school. Of course, the government
parallels are always there. As her overbearing, protective mother explains, the official rules
are simple: “they lie to us, we know they’re lying, they know we know . . .” Within the very specific
context of the cold war Soviet Union, Gorokhova effectively dramatizes universal teen conflicts.
Are duty and personal happiness always mutually exclusive? Or can it be true what Ellen’s aunt says:
you can be useful and still care for the beauty of your nails. Eventually Ellen marries an American
to get out, and looking back now from her home in New Jersey, her dual perspective is at the heart
of the drama, ironic but never cold or simple. There is no word for privacy in Russian,
but there is one for isolation. --Hazel Rochman
Book of the Week Scott-land The Man Who Invented a Nation 1.5
Book of the Week Scott-land The Man Who Invented a Nation 2.5
Book of the Week Scott-land The Man Who Invented a Nation 3.5
Book of the Week Scott-land The Man Who Invented a Nation Episode 4 08-19-10
Book of the Week Scott-land The Man Who Invented a Nation Episode 5 08-20-10
******His name and image are everywhere - from Bank of Scotland fivers to the monument
in Edinburgh's city centre - yet who reads Walter Scott these days? Stuart Kelly explores
the enigma of Scott and the disparity between his influence and his status, his current
standing and his cultural legacy in a voyage around Scotland. Born in Edinburgh, the
ninth child of a lawyer, Scott trained as a lawyer. After the phenomenal success of his
novel 'Waverley' (1814) he produced a string of novels, such as 'Rob Roy', 'Guy Mannering',
'Ivanhoe', 'Old Mortality' and 'The Talisman'. Scott's writing strongly influenced, among others,
Emily Bronte and Alexandre Dumas, although Mark Twain loathed it; he named a sinking boat,
The Walter Scot in 'The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn'. Scott's management of his financial
affairs left much to be desired and he was an extravagant spender on his house in Abbotsford
and historical artefacts. He found himself in debt in 1826 to the tune of GBP100,000 and
attempted to write himself out of it. By the time of his death in 1832 he had cleared GBP70,000.
Book of the Week Walking Home 1.5 by Lynn Schooler
Book of the Week Walking Home 2.5
Book of the Week Walking Home 3.5
Book of the Week Walking Home 4.5
Book of the Week Walking Home 5.5
******Alaskan Schooler, a prizewinning wildlife photographer and author, reclaims the state’s
true wilderness aesthetic in his chronicle of a solo trip along the southeast coastal region.
He infuses his personal story with astute observations about the area’s history, from a
Russian landing in the mid-eighteenth century to the impact of the greatest recorded
tsunami ever (over 1,700 feet) in Lituya Bay in 1958. Their relevance to his own travels is
clear as he reflects upon those who suffered years before, friends in Juneau, and his own
deteriorating marriage. A frightening episode with a disturbed bear will remind readers that
this is no programmed nature special. Instead, Schooler shares his hiking experiences in a
style reminiscent of Richard Nelson and Barry Lopez. It is in the artful blend of the intimate
and the historical that Schooler’s prose truly sings, and his resistance to hyperbole should
appeal to fans of natural history. Schooler is the real deal and he proves it
on every gorgeous page. --Colleen Mondor
Book of the Week We are a Muslim, Please 1.5 by Zaiba Malik
Book of the Week We are a Muslim, Please 2.5
Book of the Week We are a Muslim, Please 3.5
Book of the Week We are a Muslim, Please 4.5
Book of the Week We are a Muslim, Please 5.5
******For Zaiba Malik, growing up in Bradford in the '70s and '80s certainly has its moments -
staying up all night during Ramadan with her father; watching mad Mr Aziz searching for his
goat during Eid; dancing along to Top of the Pops (so long as no-one's watching). And,
of course, there's her mother - whether she's writing another ingratiating letter to the Queen
or referring to Tom Jones as 'Thumb Jone'. But Zaiba's story is also one of anxiety and
seemingly irreconcilable opposites. Growing up she is constantly torn between two identities:
'British' and 'Muslim'. Alienated at school and confused at home, the racism she encounters
as a child mirrors the horrors she experiences at the hands of Bangladeshi interrogators as a
journalist years later. Five years after the 7/7 attacks galvanized debates about Muslim-British
identity, We Are A Muslim, Please is a stirring and enchanting memoir. We see, through Zaiba's
childhood eyes, the poignancy of growing up in a world whose prejudices, contradictions and
ambiguities are at once distressing and utterly captivating.
Catch Me If You Can 1.5
Catch Me If You Can 2.5
Catch Me If You Can 3.5
Catch Me If You Can 4.5
Catch Me If You Can 5.5
******When this true-crime story first appeared in 1980, it made the New York Times bestseller list
within weeks. Two decades later, it's being rereleased in conjunction with a film version produced
by DreamWorks. In the space of five years, Frank Abagnale passed $2.5 million in fraudulent
checks in every state and 26 foreign countries. He did it by pioneering implausible and brazen
scams, such as impersonating a Pan Am pilot (puddle jumping around the world in the cockpit,
even taking over the controls). He also played the role of a pediatrician and faked his way into
the position of temporary resident supervisor at a hospital in Georgia. Posing as a lawyer, he
conned his way into a position in a state attorney general's office, and he taught a semester of
college-level sociology with a purloined degree from Columbia University.
Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde Part 1 by Robert Louis Stevenson
Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde Part 2
Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde Part 3
Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde Part 4
Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde Part 5
******Born of a nightmare and "produced in white-hot haste", this classic story has had
a cultural impact out of all proportion to its size. Here is arguably Stevenson's most famous
work in small format once again, to be read and re-read with amazement, terror and delight.
Family Money 01.10 by Nina Bawden
Family Money 02.10
Family Money 03.10
Family Money 04.10
Family Money 05.10
Family Money 06.10
Family Money 07.10
Family Money 08.10
Family Money 09.10
Family Money 10.10
******Fanny Pye¹s London house, bought for a song many years earlier, is now worth
a small fortune. When she intervenes in a street brawl and is hospitalized, her children
tactfully suggest that she move to the suburbs, coincidentally releasing some useful
³family money.² Fanny has different views about inheritance and property; at any rate,
she is more concerned that she cannot remember the events of that night and the death
of a stranger. Then, as her amnesia clears, she is overwhelmed by a terrible sense of danger...
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