Exuberance and dread, attachment and estrangement: in this novel, Jhumpa Lahiri stretches her themes to the limit. The woman at the center wavers between stasis and movement, between the need to belong and the refusal to form lasting ties. The city she calls home, an engaging backdrop to her days, acts as a confidant: the sidewalks around her house, parks, bridges, piazzas, streets, stores, coffee bars. We follow her to the pool she frequents and to the train station that sometimes leads her to her mother, mired in a desperate solitude after her father's untimely death. In addition to colleagues…
A highly original piece that is part of the 007 universe but from a different angle. Part cold war thriller, part crime mystery, an absolute gem with lots of humour.
Charming, drily humorous and intelligently crafted, Quantum of Menace, the first in a brand-new James Bond spin-off series, will appeal to Bond fans and readers of Murder Before Evensong, The Thursday Murder Club and Slow Horses.
'A thrilling addition to the 007 universe .... worthy of Fleming himself' THE EXPRESS
'Excellent. An entertaining mash-up of Fleming, Le Carre and the best of British detective fiction' CHARLIE HIGSON
Q is out of MI6 . . . . . . and in over his head
After Major Boothroyd (aka Q) is unexpectedly ousted from his role with British Intelligence developing technologies for…
It is a wonderful journey through history, but not dry or littered with dates - Hughes' enthusiasm shines through without being judgemental - and a real insight into how the bridge between West, Near East and Middle East became Instanbul today.
Istanbul has always been a place where stories and histories collide and crackle, where the idea is as potent as the historical fact. From the Qu'ran to Shakespeare, this city with three names - Byzantium, Constantinople, Istanbul - resonates as an idea and a place, and overspills its boundaries - real and imagined. Standing as the gateway between the East and West, it has served as the capital of the Roman, Byzantine, Latin and Ottoman Empires. For much of its history it was known simply as The City, but, as Bettany Hughes reveals, Istanbul is not just a city, but…
The Payout Game is a contemporary Irish crime thriller featuring Garda Inspector P.J. Crowe. A bookmaker, named Adam Gamble, turns up dead on the rocks of a lighthouse.
Crowe doesn't believe the official explanation, and his investigation takes him into a world of money, corruption and people who really don't want him asking questions.
