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Great Book: The Game

Title The Game Author:  Neil Strauss Paperback Publisher: Canongate Books Ltd (6 Dec 2007) Language English ISBN-10: 184767237X ISBN-13: 978-1847672377 Product Dimensions: 17.5 x 11.2 x 4.1 cm Product Description "The Game" recounts the incredible adventures of an everyday man who transforms himself from a shy, awkward writer into the quick-witted, smooth-talking Style, a character [...]

My Book Recommendation: Apartment 16

Title: Apartment 16 Author: Adam Nevill Paperback: 449 pages Publisher: Pan (7 May 2010) Language English ISBN-10: 0330514962 ISBN-13: 978-0330514965 Product Dimensions: 19.6 x 13 x 2.6 cm Product Description Some doors are better left closed . . . In Barrington House, an upmarket block in London, there is an empty apartment. No one goes [...]

Great Book: Gangster Girl

Title: Gangster Girl  Author: Dreda Say Mitchell Paperback: 416 pages Publisher: Hodder Paperbacks (5 Aug 2010) ISBN-10: 0340993200 ISBN-13: 978-0340993200 Product Dimensions: 19.6 x 13 x 2.8 cm Product Description Daisy Sullivan's father was one of London's most infamous gangsters. Haunted by his violent death she vows to live a respectable life. That is until [...]

My Book Recommendation: The Number Mysteries

Title: The Number Mysteries: A Mathematical Odyssey Through Everyday Life Author: Marcus Du Sautoy Hardcover: 320 pages Publisher: Fourth Estate (8 July 2010) Language English ISBN-10: 0007278624 ISBN-13: 978-0007278626 Product Dimensions: 20.6 x 13.2 x 3.6 cm Product Description From the most famous mathematician in Britain comes the ultimate handikit to mathematics. From hopscotch to [...]

Great Book: C by Tom Mc Carthy

Title: C Author: Tom McCarthy Hardcover: 320 pages Publisher: Jonathan Cape (5 Aug 2010) ISBN-10: 0224090208 ISBN-13: 978-0224090209 Product Dimensions: 23.6 x 16 x 3.8 cm Product Description C follows the short, intense life of Serge Carrefax, a man who – as his name suggests – surges into the electric modernity of the early twentieth [...]

My Book Recommendation: The Bro Code

Title: The Bro Code Authors: Barney Stinson and Matt Kuhn Paperback: 192 pages Publisher: Pocket Books (1 Oct 2009) ISBN-10: 1847399304 ISBN-13: 978-1847399304 Product Dimensions: 20.6 x 13.8 x 1.8 cm Product Description THE BRO CODE provides men with all the rules they need to know in order to become a "bro" and behave properly [...]

New Title: Horns

Title: Horns Author: Joe Hill Hardcover: 448 pages Publisher: Gollancz; UK First Edition; 1st printing. edition (16 Mar 2010) ISBN-10: 0575079169 ISBN-13: 978-0575079168 Product Dimensions: 23.4 x 16.2 x 4 cm Product Description Ignatius Perrish spent the night drunk and doing terrible things. He woke up the next morning with one hell of a hangover, [...]

Great Book: The Fry Chronicles

Title: The Fry Chronicles Author: Stephen Fry Hardcover: 448 pages Publisher: Michael Joseph (13 Sep 2010) ISBN-10: 0718154835 ISBN-13: 978-0718154837 Product Dimensions: 23.6 x 16 x 4.3 cm Product Description Thirteen years ago, Moab is my Washpot, Stephen Fry's autobiography of his early years, was published to rave reviews and was a huge bestseller. In [...]

My Book Recommendation: Freedom

Title: Freedom Author: Jonathan Franzen Hardcover: 570 pages Publisher: Fourth Estate (23 Sep 2010) ISBN-10: 0007269757 ISBN-13: 978-0007269754 Product Dimensions: 23.8 x 16.2 x 4.6 cm Product Description The new novel from the author of The Corrections. Patty and Walter Berglund were the new pioneers of old St. Paul – the gentrifiers, the hands-on parents, [...]

New Title: The Small Hand

Title: The Small Hand Author: Susan Hill Hardcover: 176 pages Publisher: Profile Books (2 Sep 2010) ISBN-10: 1846682363 ISBN-13: 978-1846682360 Product Dimensions: 17.8 x 11.2 x 2.2 cm Product Description Returning home from a visit to a client late one summer's evening, antiquarian bookseller Adam Snow takes a wrong turning and stumbles across the derelict [...]